Best Indie Games — page 45
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.0
- Top score
- 7.1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1057EverythingDavid OReilly's Everything is an ambitious, often fascinating meditation on interconnectedness that challenges the very notion of interactive ente...7.1Good
- 1058ObservationObservation is an unconventional sci-fi thriller that flips the script by casting the player as a disembodied AI. Its narrative and atmosphere are its...7.1Good
- 1059Donut CountyDonut County is a minimalist physics puzzler with more charm and wit than actual challenge. It's a confident, short-form experience that's less of a g...7.1Good
- 1060PAPERHEADPAPERHEAD combines a boomer shooter's momentum, a horror game's patience, and a pencil that redraws the map. The pitch is sharp and the prologue earne...7.0Good
- 1061TOEM 2TOEM 2 is a sharper, roomier version of a beloved cozy game, and it rarely takes a risk to get there. A beautiful, clever, pressure-free photo adventu...7.0Good
- 1062UplinkFew hacking games make being hunted feel this tense, and Uplink's trace timer remains its sharpest weapon. The interface looks its age and the contrac...7.0Good
- 1063Frog Detective 1: The Haunted IslandShort, warm and very funny, Frog Detective 1 cares more about timing than puzzles. It lasts about an hour, has no real challenge and doesn't pretend...7.0Good
- 1064LightmatterLightmatter turns one lethal rule — that shadows kill — into a tight, inventive puzzle campaign, and David Bateson's venomous CEO keeps it funny. It i...7.0Good
- 1065SagebrushA short, carefully researched walk through the ruins of a doomsday cult that earns its discomfort honestly. Expect about two hours of reading and list...7.0Good
- 1066LorettaA short, controlled noir thriller that uses its branching choices to implicate the player in a marriage's collapse. The puzzles can be obtuse and a si...7.0Good
- 1067Tooth and TailPocketwatch Games cuts real-time strategy down to its essentials and gets a sharp, tense 10-minute war out of what's left. The design is sharp and oft...7.0Good
- 1068Rain on Your ParadeRain on Your Parade bottles guilt-free mischief into a paper-thin cloud. It's short, occasionally uneven, and frequently funny — a schadenfreude simul...7.0Good
- 1069The WreckFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...7.0Good
- 1070Octodad: Dadliest CatchYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...7.0Good
- 1071Knights and BikesWarm, funny and hand-painted, Knights and Bikes tells a sincere story about grief under a kids-on-bikes treasure hunt. The combat is thin and never ge...7.0Good
- 1072KineKine is a smart, charming 3D puzzle game with a jazz soundtrack that asks more of players than its cute look suggests. Its three-robot movement system...7.0Good
- 1073Creature in the WellFlight School Studio welded a pinball table to a dungeon crawler, and the weld holds. The idea is strong, the art is better, and the game runs out of ...7.0Good
- 1074The Witch's House MVFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...7.0Good
- 1075Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon ManagerA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...7.0Good
- 1076EldritchMinor Key Games compressed the immersive-sim rulebook into a blocky, short-form roguelike built for speed and precision — and then ran out of monsters...7.0Good
- 1077Slice of SeaMateusz Skutnik hand-inked every frame of this melancholy point-and-click, and it shows in the best and worst ways — a gorgeous, unhurried adventure t...7.0Good
- 1078Torment: Tides of NumenerainXile built one of the best-written RPGs of its era, then bolted on a combat system that undermines it. If you read games the way you read novels, th...7.0Good
- 1079Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad SweetsA charming three-button rhythm game with a strong original soundtrack and a joke-a-minute script that runs out of road right when it gets going. Worth...7.0Good
- 1080Mind Over MagnetMark Brown spent a decade telling developers how to design games; Mind Over Magnet is his proof he was listening to himself. A short, well-taught ...7.0Good
