Best Indie Games — page 44
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
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1033Varney LakeVarney Lake is a lean, carefully composed slice of vampire pulp that shows interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more novella...7.1Good
- 1034Mr. Sun's HatboxA roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, Mr. Sun's Hatbox is an inventive physics sandbox on Steam and Switch—if you can su...7.1Good
- 1035MegaquariumA brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — rewarding for a good stretch, but a little too ...7.1Good
- 1036AfterimageAfterimage is a strikingly beautiful Metroidvania with design that doesn't always keep pace with its art. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, mechanic...7.1Good
- 1037Supermarket SimulatorA tactile store-running sim with a smart pricing economy and a loop built for flow. It holds up on Steam, but the late game thins out and the ad-suppo...7.1Good
- 1038Moonstone IslandA clever mash-up of Stardew Valley comfort and Slay the Spire tactics that mostly makes the fusion work—provided you play it with a controller, ac...7.1Good
- 1039Iris and the GiantLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...7.1Good
- 1040Weird WestWolfEye's occult western is one of the more reactive RPG sandboxes in recent memory, built by people who understand that consequence is a mechanic, no...7.1Good
- 1041EcoEco is one of the most intellectually ambitious survival games ever built — a genuinely simulated planet wrapped in player-written law — and it demand...7.1Good
- 1042Beacon PinesBeacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick works more often than not — but a short runtime and a critical path ...7.1Good
- 1043BallionaireBallionaire welds Peggle's physics to Balatro's escalating math and produces something genuinely new — an "autobonker" where you build the machine and...7.1Good
- 1044Fall GuysA gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back by a cosmetics store that treats your wa...7.1Good
- 1045KinitoPETKinitoPET weaponizes 2000s nostalgia into a short, genuinely unnerving stretch of psychological horror, using real desktop-takeover trickery that most...7.1Good
- 1046MiasmataA hauntingly original survival game built around a cartography system so demanding that it exposes the crutches every other game in the genre leans on...7.1Good
- 1047BeholderA morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — oppressive, ambitious, and at times so punishing it forgets to l...7.1Good
- 1048AlisaAlisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...7.1Good
- 1049Knock on the Coffin LidA story-drunk roguelike that welds a genuine RPG loot system onto Slay the Spire's bones—ambitious, atmospheric, and occasionally buried under its own...7.1Good
- 105020 Minutes Till DawnBy reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, 20 Minutes Till Dawn pushes the horde-survival genre away from passive automati...7.1Good
- 1051Penumbra: OvertureFrictional Games' debut is a study in atmospheric claustrophobia that pioneered tactile physics-based horror, though its awkward combat and rough edge...7.1Good
- 1052HauntiiHauntii is a gorgeous, melancholic adventure that turns environmental possession into a playground of quiet curiosity, though its twin-stick combat ...7.1Good
- 1053Still Wakes the DeepA strong exercise in environmental storytelling and blue-collar dread that proves psychological vulnerability can be more terrifying than any shotgun ...7.1Good
- 1054The Exit 8KOTAKE CREATE's The Exit 8 puts the unsettling power of observation and liminal space to sharp use, delivering a tightly-wound psychological horror ...7.1Good
- 1055Duck Detective: Secret SalamiDuck Detective: Secret Salami is a charming, witty "duck noir" mystery with sharp writing and a distinctive art style. It's a solid, compact experie...7.1Good
- 1056Forgotton AnneForgotton Anne pairs striking hand-drawn animation and a live orchestral score with a moral story that lingers, but the platforming in between is slow...7.1Good
