Best Indie Games — page 47
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 6.8
- Top score
- 6.8
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1105FarlandersFarlanders is a colony sim that quietly reveals itself as a spatial puzzle game, and it's far better at the second job than the first — brilliant when...6.8Mixed
- 1106Tin HeartsRogue Sun has built one of the most tactile, gorgeously imagined puzzle boxes in years — a Victorian workshop where you engineer the path instead of c...6.8Mixed
- 1107Blue WednesdayBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...6.8Mixed
- 1108PeripeteiaPeripeteia is a genuinely brilliant immersive sim buried under a mountain of Early Access friction, and at $18.74 it's a hard recommendation for most ...6.8Mixed
- 1109Bleak Sword DXBleak Sword DX is a dark fantasy brawler built from pixel-art dioramas and timing windows, and at $9.99 its craft is real — but late chapters that lea...6.8Mixed
- 1110I Am DeadA gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory whose inventive slicing mechanic is undercut by shallow puzzles and fiddly collectible...6.8Mixed
- 1111Mothmen 1966A gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — but its thin mechanics, padded minigame...6.8Mixed
- 1112The Bookwalker: Thief of TalesA genuinely inventive premise — a cursed novelist who burgles legendary loot from inside books — carried by gorgeous ink-and-charcoal art and sharp wr...6.8Mixed
- 1113OstranautsA staggeringly deep Newtonian salvage simulator wrapped in noir despair and buried under one of the most hostile interfaces in modern PC gaming — a de...6.8Mixed
- 1114Book of TravelsA breathtaking experiment in "living painting" aesthetics that prioritizes atmosphere over action, but its glacial pace, opaque systems, and abandoned...6.8Mixed
- 1115A Void HopeGorgeous and melancholy, A Void Hope nails a haunting mood and a superb Waveshaper score, but thin combat, shallow puzzles and a very short runtime ma...6.8Mixed
- 1116WattamWattam is a defiant, Technicolor shrug at the self-seriousness of modern gaming, but its charm can't fully offset a thin set of mechanics and a runtim...6.8Mixed
- 1117Harold HalibutA visually staggering achievement in digital stop-motion that too often forgets to be a game, trading mechanical depth for a meditative, clay-sculpted...6.8Mixed
- 1118Blue Prince"Blue Prince" is a genuinely ingenious puzzle adventure whose brilliant room-selection mechanic and environmental storytelling are undercut by punishi...6.8Mixed
- 1119Out There: Ω EditionOut There: Ω Edition is a bleak, well-written survival roguelike whose blunt randomness, opaque endgame and thin onboarding make it hard to recommend ...6.7Mixed
- 1120DujanahDujanah is lumpy, slow and awkward in ways that will lose most players, and its strengths — a handmade look and real empathy — don't fully offset the ...6.7Mixed
- 1121Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating SimSquiddershins' kaiju courtship romp is a genuinely novel twist on the dating sim — witty, gorgeous, and endearingly weird — but a shallow quiz loop an...6.7Mixed
- 1122Golf With Your FriendsBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...6.7Mixed
- 1123Snake PassSnake Pass is a 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, but a flawed camera, a brief campaign, and controls that filter out a large s...6.7Mixed
- 1124Neon AbyssNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...6.7Mixed
- 1125SapiensSapiens is an ambitious prehistoric colony sim with a genuinely distinctive core, but a punishing learning curve, clunky UI, and Early Access rough ...6.7Mixed
- 1126My Lovely EmpressMy Lovely Empress is an ambitious empire management sim with a genuinely distinctive premise and striking ink-brush art, but a steep learning curve,...6.7Mixed
- 1127ExanimaExanima's physics-driven combat is genuinely unlike anything else in the genre, but its punishing learning curve, unwieldy controls, and protracted Ea...6.7Mixed
- 1128Simpler TimesSimpler Times aims to be an interactive meditation, trading traditional gameplay for a poignant exploration of memory and transience. It's a delib...6.7Mixed
