Best Indie Games — page 41

The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.

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1,285
Average score
7.2
Top score
7.2
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  1. 961Golf Club WastelandAdventure game$9.99Golf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...7.2Good
  2. 962The Banished VaultStrategy game$24.99A gorgeous, merciless logistics puzzle dressed as a gothic space requiem — a confident, demanding strategy design that asks a lot before it gives anyt...7.2Good
  3. 963Contradiction: Spot the Liar!Adventure game$12.99A cult FMV oddity that solved the detective game's oldest problem — how to make deduction feel like deduction — and then shipped it wrapped in a men...7.2Good
  4. 964Backfirewall_Adventure game$14.99Backfirewall_ turns a forced OS update into a short tragicomedy about obsolescence, and it mostly lands both the jokes and the gut-punch. It's brief, ...7.2Good
  5. 965Cosmic Star HeroineRPG game$14.99Cosmic Star Heroine is what happens when veteran genre nerds strip the 16-bit RPG down to its best ideas and throw out much of the rest. The combat sy...7.2Good
  6. 966Cyber ShadowAction game$19.99Cyber Shadow is a carefully built NES-style ninja platformer from a solo developer, with superb sprite work and a sharp difficulty curve — and a check...7.2Good
  1. 967Time FliesAdventure game$7.49A hand-drawn housefly sim that turns a system setting into an existential gut-punch — Time Flies is a sharp two hours of indie design, and its bre...7.2Good
  2. 968OlijaAction game$14.99Skeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...7.2Good
  3. 969HollowbodyAdventure game$16.99One person built a survival horror game with more atmosphere than most studio productions, then declined to take a single real risk with it. Hollowb...7.2Good
  4. 970Everdeep AuroraAdventure game$19.99Nautilus Games has built a descent platformer that strips out combat, quest logs, and objective markers, then dares players to enjoy the disorientatio...7.2Good
  5. 971TangledeepRPG game$7.49Tangledeep is a mechanically dense, unusually welcoming roguelike that lowers the genre's barriers without gutting its depth. Its flaws — weak onboard...7.2Good
  6. 972Fell Seal: Arbiter's MarkRPG game$29.996 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely strong — but the story it's b...7.2Good
  7. 973Athena CrisisStrategy gameFreeSolid, systems-first grid tactics with one genuinely fresh idea — Invasions — held back by a short campaign, exploitable AI, and a cramped mobile inte...7.2Good
  8. 974ObductionAdventure game$29.99Obduction is the truest heir to Myst anyone has made — Cyan included — a gorgeous, cerebral puzzle box that respects your intelligence to a degree tha...7.2Good
  9. 975Grow HomeAdventure game$7.99Grow Home is a short, charming experiment built around one genuinely novel idea: independent-hand climbing. It's thin in places and ends just as its m...7.2Good
  10. 976Ghost of a TaleAction game$19.99A near-solo passion project from SeithCG, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in a lovingly detailed world of anthropomorphic medieval intri...7.2Good
  11. 977Star RenegadesAction game$24.99A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...7.2Good
  12. 978RökiAdventure game$19.99Röki is a hand-painted Nordic fairy tale that trades combat for compassion, and it works more often than not — held back by pacing that occasionally m...7.2Good
  13. 979Tenderfoot TacticsAdventure game$14.99A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Ambitious and uncompromising in equal me...7.2Good
  14. 980Chained TogetherAdventure game$4.99A brutally simple idea executed with enough physics-driven cruelty to make it work — Chained Together turns cooperation into comedy and comedy into ca...7.2Good
  15. 981EastwardAction game$24.99Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — a solid, flawed adv...7.2Good
  16. 982Pocket CitySimulation game$2.99Pocket City is a modest, principled city-builder—a paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and never reaches for your wallet....7.2Good
  17. 983Death TrashAction game$19.99A grotesque, ambitious post-apocalyptic RPG that channels classic Fallout's "talk or fight your way through anything" freedom into hand-painted pixel ...7.2Good
  18. 984Teleglitch: Die More EditionAction game$12.99A savage, claustrophobic roguelite that treats survival as a personal insult—Teleglitch is a strikingly atmospheric horror shooter built out of pixels...7.2Good