Best Indie Games — page 42
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.2
- Top score
- 7.2
Scores for this page’s rows
- 985Aviary AttorneyA courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and mostly makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the Ace Attorney ...7.2Good
- 986MoonlighterDigital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough craft and charm that its...7.2Good
- 987Crayon Physics DeluxeA charming sandbox that turns doodles into working physics, undercut by an engine so permissive it lets players cheat past its own cleverness. A solid...7.2Good
- 988RoguebookRoguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...7.2Good
- 989Going MedievalFoxy Voxel takes the RimWorld formula, drags it into three dimensions, and builds something that rewards architects as much as tacticians. The vertica...7.2Good
- 990Demon TurfDemon Turp... Demon Turf, Fabraz's 3D platformer, delivers a strong take on momentum-driven platforming and striking visual style, though its clunky, ...7.2Good
- 991Terra NilA genuinely inventive "reverse" strategy game that proves tearing things down can be as satisfying as building up, even if the appeal fades before the...7.2Good
- 992Wayward StrandGhost Pattern's airborne hospital drama swaps high-stakes action for radical empathy, delivering a solid but stubbornly slow-burn narrative experiment...7.2Good
- 993Lobotomy CorporationA brutal, lore-rich descent into bureaucratic horror that rewards clinical observation as much as it punishes a single moment of complacency. A distin...7.2Good
- 994The InvincibleA hauntingly beautiful adaptation of Stanisław Lem's hard sci-fi that prioritizes atmosphere and existential dread over mechanical complexity. Solid b...7.2Good
- 995Telling LiesAn ambitious, prestige-tier expansion of the FMV genre that proves more data isn't always better for the detective's soul, though its mechanical stubb...7.2Good
- 996DordogneDordogne is a visually striking, deeply personal narrative journey whose watercolor aesthetic evokes genuine nostalgia, but its minimal gameplay ask...7.2Good
- 997The Shrouded IsleKitfox Games' "The Shrouded Isle" is a grim, uncompromising cult management simulator that dares players to navigate true moral decay. It's a solid, s...7.2Good
- 998My Friend PedroMy Friend Pedro turns every gunfight into a small, slow-motion routine you plan as you go, and the shooting at the center of it is strong enough to ca...7.2Good
- 999F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow TorchF.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a mechanically dense Metroidvania with a striking dieselpunk world and a combat system built to reward mastery, bu...7.2Good
- 1000Nine SolsRed Candle Games delivers a visually striking, mechanically demanding 2D action-platformer with a distinct "Taopunk" identity, but its ambitions are t...7.2Good
- 1001CarrionCarrion delivers a satisfying power fantasy, putting you in the sinewy tentacles of the monster. Its core loop is a strong piece of visceral design, b...7.2Good
- 1002My Time at PortiaMy Time at Portia blends a deep, commission-based crafting system with charming community-building, carving out an industrial-strength alternative to ...7.2Good
- 1003Love Eternalbrlka's debut is a ruthless, striking gravity-flip platformer wrapped in a story that reaches further than it can always grasp, and at $7.99 that over...7.1Good
- 1004Gunman CliveShort, disciplined and handsome, Gunman Clive is a budget run-and-gun that does a few specific things well and stops before developing any of them. We...7.1Good
- 1005Kraken Academy!!Happy Broccoli Games built a sharp, funny time-loop mystery on top of a cast odd enough to carry it. It is short and its objectives are sometimes mudd...7.1Good
- 1006Fading AfternoonSolo developer yeo has made a 2D Yakuza about running out of time, and it earns its mood. Its combat and its terminal-illness clock work together we...7.1Good
- 1007Starseed PilgrimStarseed Pilgrim is a bold design experiment from the 2013 indie boom: a seed-planting puzzle-platformer whose hidden rules and generative music add u...7.1Good
- 1008Oxenfree II: Lost SignalsOxenfree II: Lost Signals has sharp writing, a strong adult lead and a soundtrack that gets under your skin, but it sticks too closely to the origin...7.1Good
