Best Indie Games — page 46
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 6.9
- Top score
- 7.0
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1081Offworld Trading CompanyOffworld Trading Company is a strategy game with a genuinely new idea — an RTS where the market is the battlefield — and it executes that idea with pr...7.0Good
- 1082Cross BlitzTako Boy Studios built a sharp tactical card engine and shipped it inside a campaign that stops mid-sentence. Cross Blitz is a solid buy at $22.99...7.0Good
- 1083ParatopicParatopic is a confidently edited horror anthology — a roughly 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most big-budget thril...7.0Good
- 1084Happy GameAmanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a brief nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it's the ki...7.0Good
- 1085The Big ConA charming, big-hearted throwback that leans on comedy and warmth more than mechanics — short, funny, and touching, so long as expectations don't incl...7.0Good
- 1086IkenfellHappy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar, wrapped in a warm, sharply written cast. The boss diffic...7.0Good
- 1087Neo CabA sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...7.0Good
- 1088StationeersStationeers is an uncompromising exercise in systems engineering that treats space survival as a thermodynamic equation, and its depth is real — but a...7.0Good
- 1089WytchwoodWytchwood wraps a dark, Grimm-inspired fairy tale inside a gorgeous paper-cutout aesthetic. Its hypnotic crafting loop is satisfying in short bursts, ...7.0Good
- 1090Dream TacticsDream Tactics reimagines the GBA-era tactical RPG with inventive card mechanics, delivering a deep and visually charming experience that occasionall...7.0Good
- 1091GALAK-Z: The DimensionalGALAK-Z's inertial flight model remains one of the best 2D space combat has seen, but Rogue Mode's permadeath and a shallow procedural generator make ...6.9Mixed
- 1092UnderheroUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...6.9Mixed
- 1093Kaiju WarsKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...6.9Mixed
- 1094Nine Noir LivesA two-person studio hand-painted a small city's worth of cat-noir and then had the nerve to add a fourth verb to the LucasArts playbook — and lick e...6.9Mixed
- 1095Death's Gambit: AfterlifeWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...6.9Mixed
- 1096Road 96Road 96's shuffled-scene structure is a genuinely novel idea, and its cast is unforgettable — but featherweight mechanics, repetitive runs, and a toot...6.9Mixed
- 1097The Jackbox Party PackThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...6.9Mixed
- 1098Dungeons & Degenerate GamblersA genuinely inventive blackjack roguelike that mutates a 400-year-old card game into a combo engine with real teeth — but its variance, uneven card po...6.9Mixed
- 1099Chroma SquadA wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, but held back by...6.9Mixed
- 1100ANNO: MutationemANNO: Mutationem is a striking 2D/3D hybrid undermined by a convoluted, disjointed narrative. The combat and art direction earn real praise, but the s...6.9Mixed
- 1101Shadows of DoubtShadows of Doubt is a breathtakingly ambitious detective simulation that offers moments of investigative freedom unlike anything else. But its brillia...6.9Mixed
- 1102The Magus CircleThe Magus Circle has one of the freshest ideas the survivors-like genre has seen — drawing sigils to cast — but launch instability, frame drops in cro...6.8Mixed
- 1103Gibbon: Beyond the TreesBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...6.8Mixed
- 1104SonoritySonority makes music itself the level design rather than the soundtrack — a genuinely novel idea undermined by a control scheme that fights its own be...6.8Mixed
