Best Indie Games — page 48
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 6.6
- Top score
- 6.7
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1129AstroneerAstroneer's captivating art style and inventive terrain-sculpting are undermined by a repetitive late-game loop, fiddly inventory management, and a la...6.7Mixed
- 1130Potion Craft: Alchemist SimulatorPotion Craft: Alchemist Simulator nails the feel of brewing — its tactile alchemy and manuscript art are genuinely charming — but a repetitive loop ...6.7Mixed
- 1131StarboundStarbound's procedurally generated galaxy is vast and charming, but repetitive combat, thin survival mechanics, and a main quest that fights the sandb...6.7Mixed
- 1132PowerWash SimulatorPowerWash Simulator turns mundane labor into a digital meditation, and its core loop is genuinely satisfying — but the repetition wears thin, the Swit...6.7Mixed
- 1133Am I NimaAm I Nima has one of the boldest dialogue mechanics in recent horror — every reply is something you craft yourself, and every word is evidence. But ...6.6Mixed
- 1134Haven ParkHaven Park is charming and well-made but very short and shallow, and it leans heavily on A Short Hike without matching it. At $3.59 it's a pleasant ...6.6Mixed
- 1135Islands: Non-PlacesISLANDS: Non-Places turns parking lots, lobbies and terminals into small, eerie rituals, and its art and sound are genuinely distinctive. But it is ...6.6Mixed
- 1136The White DoorThe White Door proves Rusty Lake's surrealism can work in a slower, more structured form, but it's short, gentle, and repeats itself more than it shou...6.6Mixed
- 1137InkulinatiFor all its wit and genuinely distinctive art, Inkulinati is hard to recommend to most people: Journey mode repeats too soon, the difficulty rarely ...6.6Mixed
- 1138Forgive Me FatherA gorgeous, mean-spirited boomer shooter that weaponizes its own art style — and then runs out of ideas about two hours before the credits. Hard to re...6.6Mixed
- 1139SumireSumire's watercolor art and writing on grief land hard, but imprecise quest timing, invisible walls, and loose 3D movement undercut a game whose whole...6.6Mixed
- 1140Where Cards FallA gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they rarely earn the "puz...6.6Mixed
- 1141HavenHaven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but sh...6.6Mixed
- 1142Deliver Us The MoonA gorgeous sci-fi mystery with real atmosphere, but puzzles that rarely fight back and timed sequences that mistake frustration for suspense hold it b...6.6Mixed
- 1143Murder by NumbersA clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling with a sharp buddy-comedy script and a standout soundtrack—but the two halves i...6.6Mixed
- 1144Lucifer Within UsKitfox Games built one of the smartest deduction systems the genre has seen in years—then built only three murders to use it on. What's here is sharp,...6.6Mixed
- 1145SiltSilt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but floaty ...6.6Mixed
- 1146IXIONIXION is an atmospheric survival-builder with real ambition, wrapped around a punishing systems knot that will break most players before the second ch...6.6Mixed
- 1147Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze DetectiveA gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the Where's Waldo era whose maze puzzles barely qualify as puzzles. Beautiful to look at and genuinely relaxin...6.6Mixed
- 1148Endzone - A World ApartA grueling, system-heavy survival builder that treats civilization as a fragile variable in a hostile environmental equation. Its atmospheric tension ...6.6Mixed
- 1149Scanner SombreA haunting, visually striking experiment in sensory deprivation that turns exploration into an act of creation — but its brevity and thin narrative ma...6.6Mixed
- 1150EvolandEvoland is a genuinely clever meta-commentary on the RPG genre, but its thin narrative, shallow mechanics, and short runtime make it hard to recomme...6.6Mixed
- 1151Bramble: The Mountain KingBramble: The Mountain King casts a haunting spell with its visual storytelling and brutal Nordic folklore, but clunky controls and punishing, repetiti...6.6Mixed
- 1152LoddlenautLoddlenaut is a charming, well-intentioned cleaning game whose meditative loop eventually wears thin. Its loddle-raising and upgrade systems are g...6.6Mixed
