Best Indie Games — page 52
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 6.1
- Top score
- 6.1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1225VirginiaVirginia borrows film editing more confidently than almost any game before it, but hands the player almost nothing to do and trusts its cuts more than...6.1Mixed
- 1226PaperbarkPaperbark is a hand-painted, hour-long portrait of the Australian bush that gets its mood almost exactly right — and offers almost nothing to actually...6.1Mixed
- 1227Minute of IslandsMinute of Islands pairs gorgeous hand-drawn art with a moving fable about duty and sacrifice, but its puzzles and platforming ask so little that the m...6.1Mixed
- 1228RustlerRustler is a funny medieval take on the top-down GTA formula, but clunky combat, mission-breaking bugs, and a short campaign make it hard to recomme...6.1Mixed
- 1229Ancient EnemyHard to recommend at full price. Ancient Enemy turns golf solitaire into a genuinely tactical combat system, then runs out of ideas well before the cr...6.1Mixed
- 1230TrüberbrookTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...6.1Mixed
- 1231Mika and the Witch's MountainMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...6.1Mixed
- 1232Jotun: Valhalla EditionThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...6.1Mixed
- 1233Airborne KingdomAirborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...6.1Mixed
- 1234Where the Water Tastes Like WineA landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights the player — the writing and voice work are among the best the...6.1Mixed
- 1235A Bird StoryA Bird Story is less a game than a short silent film you hold a controller for—beautifully made, but so thin on interactivity that it's hard to reco...6.1Mixed
- 1236Dear EstherA gorgeous, mournful tone poem that gutted the rulebook of what a "game" could be—and left a decade of imitators in its wake. But strip away the histo...6.1Mixed
- 1237KynseedKynseed's generational life-sim concept is genuinely ambitious and often charming, but its sprawling design, clunky interfaces, and inconsistent polis...6.1Mixed
- 1238FRACTERA striking monochrome puzzler whose light-and-shadow mechanics are sharper than the story wrapped around them. At $6.99 it's a handsome curiosity, but...6.1Mixed
- 1239Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted SeasOceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas is a polished but derivative Zelda homage that plays it safe at nearly every turn. Charming and accessible, yet t...6.1Mixed
- 1240CASSETTE BOYCASSETTE BOY's one brilliant rule — if you can't see it, it doesn't exist — is dragged down by stiff combat, thin RPG systems and uneven dungeons....6.0Mixed
- 1241Bokida: Heartfelt ReunionHard to recommend for most people: Bokida's build-and-sculpt puzzle tool is a genuinely clever idea, but a world that's hard to read, a story that sta...6.0Mixed
- 1242TharsisTharsis has a genuinely original central idea — your crew are the dice — wrapped around a difficulty curve so pitiless it will drive off most of its...6.0Mixed
- 1243GunheadHard to recommend for most shooter fans: Gunhead's subsystem-priority heist design is genuinely clever, but flat art, a thin fiction, and a procedural...6.0Mixed
- 1244Gestalt: Steam & CinderGestalt: Steam & Cinder buries a genuinely gorgeous steampunk Metroidvania under an avalanche of exposition and an ending that mistakes a cliffhanger ...6.0Mixed
- 1245Iron DangerIron Danger's rewind-driven "heartbeat" combat is one of the more original tactical ideas in years — a real-time strategy game rebuilt as a puzzle box...6.0Mixed
- 1246Rebel Galaxy OutlawDouble Damage built the most convincing space-western dive bar ever put in a video game, then wrapped it in a mission generator that runs dry early. T...6.0Mixed
- 1247VoidwroughtVoidwrought is a well-made, gorgeous Metroidvania that never escapes the shadow of the game it so clearly adores, and its own ideas are too underdevel...6.0Mixed
- 1248PupperazziSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...6.0Mixed
