Best Indie Games — page 51
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 6.2
- Top score
- 6.3
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1201DeadlinkDeadlink's first-person gunplay is genuinely excellent, but a roguelite structure that runs out of ideas well before it runs out of grind holds it bac...6.3Mixed
- 1202Afterlove EPA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...6.3Mixed
- 1203Songs of SilenceChimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence pairs genuinely arresting Art Nouveau art and a Hitoshi Sakimoto score with one legitimately fresh combat i...6.3Mixed
- 1204REKAREKA has one genuinely great idea — a chicken-legged cottage that walks the world with you and slowly becomes a scrapbook of everywhere you've been — ...6.3Mixed
- 1205Paradise MarshA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...6.3Mixed
- 1206Knuckle SandwichKnuckle Sandwich is an RPG where every fight is a different game, and it's one of the most inventive things on Steam — right up until invention curdle...6.3Mixed
- 1207En Garde!En Garde! has genuinely excellent parry-riposte combat and sharper comic timing than most games ten times its size — but the campaign ends just as the...6.3Mixed
- 1208Lost EmberLost Ember is a handsome, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth....6.3Mixed
- 1209Aeterna NoctisAeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania whose 16-region ambition often outruns its pacing. Its inventive trave...6.3Mixed
- 1210Cozy GroveCozy Grove is a genuinely charming life-sim with real emotional depth, but its hard daily content limits and repetitive core tasks make it a tough s...6.3Mixed
- 1211Wild BastardsWild Bastards attempts a compelling fusion of roguelike strategy and tactical FPS, with genuine strategic depth and character, but repetitive combat a...6.3Mixed
- 1212The Bloodline"The Bloodline" is an ambitious open-world fantasy RPG in Early Access whose scope and freedom are genuinely impressive, but its unpolished systems, r...6.3Mixed
- 1213Khaldun: Text Based StrategyHard to recommend for most strategy players right now. Khaldun's asabiyyah system is a sharp answer to the late-game snowball, but hidden rules, revol...6.2Mixed
- 1214REMATCHSloclap built a genuinely novel football game around a brilliant idea — being one player who can't see the whole pitch — then shipped it into a solo q...6.2Mixed
- 1215Please, Fix The RoadA solo-developed puzzler with a genuinely distinct idea — rebuilding the world itself rather than just placing tiles — undermined by an uneven difficu...6.2Mixed
- 1216Garden StoryPicogram's grape-shaped action-RPG is warm, beautifully drawn, and structurally at war with itself — a stamina meter and a day timer that punish the e...6.2Mixed
- 1217Titan SoulsAcid Nerve stripped the action game down to a single arrow and a single hit point, and what's left is a genuinely original boss-design experiment — on...6.2Mixed
- 1218Ironclad TacticsZachtronics took the tactics genre's most sacred cow — the turn — and shot it, replacing move-by-move deliberation with simultaneous resolution that p...6.2Mixed
- 1219Haiku, the RobotA handsome, carefully tuned metroidvania that borrows its blueprint wholesale and never quite finds an argument of its own. The art and boss fights ar...6.2Mixed
- 1220SiphoSipho is a gorgeously weird creature-construction toy wrapped in a survival game that doesn't come close to matching the joy of the workshop. The buil...6.2Mixed
- 1221Graveyard KeeperGraveyard Keeper's dark humor and deep, interconnected systems are genuinely compelling, but opaque mechanics, a punishing grind, and a poorly support...6.2Mixed
- 1222Massive ChaliceMassive Chalice fuses XCOM's turn-based combat with generational bloodline management, and the concept alone earns it attention. But uneven pacing...6.2Mixed
- 1223EastshadeEastshade's vision of a peaceful, painterly adventure is genuinely refreshing, but restrictive exploration, uneven pacing, and technical shortcomings ...6.2Mixed
- 1224GNOGGNOG is a gorgeous piece of interactive design whose puzzles are too trivial to sustain it. As a game it feels shallow and over almost as soon as it s...6.2Mixed
