Best Indie Games — page 43
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.1
- Top score
- 7.1
- Free
- 1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1009PinstripeFor all its flaws, Pinstripe earns its keep as a short, lovely and upsetting story about a father's guilt. Most of its value sits in the art, the musi...7.1Good
- 1010HindsightHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...7.1Good
- 1011Kainga: Seeds of CivilizationErik Rempen's solo-developed roguelite village-builder compresses the grand strategy epic into 30–90 minute runs, and lands more often than it stumble...7.1Good
- 1012Jenny LeClue – DetectivúMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...7.1Good
- 1013Circuit SuperstarsCircuit Superstars looks like a coffee-table toy and is built to drive like a proper racing sim, and that gap is the whole point — a deep handling mod...7.1Good
- 1014No Umbrellas AllowedA second-hand shop sim with the soul of a noir novel — its appraise-haggle-resell loop is one of the tensest economies in the genre, and it's kneecapp...7.1Good
- 1015AgroundFor a crafting RPG that keeps quietly changing genres — survival scavenging to dragon husbandry to orbital logistics — Aground earns its payoffs throu...7.1Good
- 1016Them's Fightin' HerdsA serious 2D fighter with a thorough teaching suite and dependable rollback netcode, wrapped in a cartoon barnyard that hides its depth. The small ros...7.1Good
- 1017DicefolkDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...7.1Good
- 1018Kaze and the Wild MasksPixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...7.1Good
- 1019CRYPTARKAlientrap built a twin-stick shooter for people who'd rather solve a problem than out-twitch one — a smart heist game wearing a bullet-hell costume. I...7.1Good
- 1020Sokobond ExpressA wordless, immaculately taught puzzle game that fuses two Draknek classics into a smart, well-crafted whole — solid, but brief and uneven enough that...7.1Good
- 1021Cursed to GolfChuhai Labs built a sharp 2D physics puzzler and then bolted a punishing roguelike to its ankle. The golf is excellent; the structure around it is the...7.1Good
- 1022GoNNERGoNNER is a harsh, focused roguelike platformer that turns your gun's kickback into your movement system and refuses to explain a single thing about i...7.1Good
- 1023GourdletsGourdlets strips the city-builder down to its purest pleasure — arranging a tiny world and watching it live — and its desktop-toy mode is a genuinely ...7.1Good
- 1024Kill It With FireCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...7.1Good
- 1025OthercideOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...7.1Good
- 1026Shady Part of MeA clever light-and-shadow puzzle game with striking watercolor art and a mechanic worth learning. The puzzles thin out before the credits and the ther...7.1Good
- 1027TunnetA small, strange, quietly clever puzzle game that treats network engineering as a legitimate power fantasy — and mostly gets away with it. A modest pr...7.1Good
- 1028SOPA: Tale of the Stolen PotatoStudioBando's SOPA: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a warm, funny, hand-crafted adventure that earns its emotional payoff in under five hours. It stumble...7.1Good
- 1029Headliner: NoviNewsHeadliner: NoviNews is a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and its brevity is both its sharpest design decision and its most legi...7.1Good
- 1030Turnip Boy Commits Tax EvasionSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...7.1Good
- 1031Behind the Frame: The Finest ScenerySilver Lining Studio's painted vignette is an emotionally efficient game — it earns its ending honestly, and the ending lands. Go in knowing you're bu...7.1Good
- 1032ChuchelCHUCHEL is barely a game and mostly a delight — a brief Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away; if you ...7.1Good
