Best Indie Games — page 53
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 5.9
- Top score
- 6.0
Scores for this page’s rows
- 1249LakeGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...6.0Mixed
- 1250Sixty FourSixty Four delivers a hypnotic opening act — arguably the best the incremental genre has produced in years — then quietly reveals that the automation ...6.0Mixed
- 1251FeistFeist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, frequently mad...6.0Mixed
- 1252Islands of InsightIslands of Insight is one of the most ambitious puzzle collections ever assembled—a vast library of brain-teasers wrapped in a gorgeous meditative wor...6.0Mixed
- 1253MaquetteMaquette is a brilliant conceptual experiment that often trips over its own feet, offering a hauntingly beautiful narrative trapped inside a clunky ph...6.0Mixed
- 1254Bo: Path of the Teal LotusBo: Path of the Teal Lotus is a visually striking Metroidvania with genuinely fluid movement, but a lethargic narrative, shallow combat, and impre...6.0Mixed
- 1255Twelve MinutesTwelve Minutes pairs an ambitious time-loop premise with stellar voice acting, but its rigid, trial-and-heavy design too often turns deduction into te...6.0Mixed
- 1256SchimSchim presents a singularly captivating premise and striking visual design, but its brief runtime, deliberately meditative pace, and sparse checkpoi...6.0Mixed
- 1257Never Grave: The Witch and the CurseNever Grave's cursed-hat possession system is a genuinely clever hook, but the game built around it is too thin to recommend to most people. The villa...5.9Mixed
- 1258RiverbondHard to recommend for most people: Riverbond's combat repeats long before its short campaign ends, it's too easy to challenge anyone experienced, and ...5.9Mixed
- 1259AestikAestik pairs striking hand-drawn art with a moral-choice system few metroidvanias attempt, then undercuts both with poor signposting and a late game t...5.9Mixed
- 1260Shape of the WorldHard to recommend for most people: Shape of the World is a gorgeous, pressure-free walk through a world that grows around you, but there is very littl...5.9Mixed
- 1261MosaicMosaic looks like one of the sharpest satires of office life and smartphone compulsion in games, and its mood is its best asset. But it is thin as a g...5.9Mixed
- 1262El Hijo - A Wild West TaleEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...5.9Mixed
- 1263Sneak ThiefSneak Thief has real ideas — dual-approach heists, procedural objectives, a bundled remake — but dated AI, difficulty spikes, and Early Access roughne...5.9Mixed
- 1264Night CallNight Call has a strong setting, a striking look and a cast of strangers worth listening to, but the investigation holding it together is thin, repeti...5.9Mixed
- 1265Moonglow BayMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...5.9Mixed
- 1266Rue ValleyRue Valley has the bones of a great psychological RPG — a razor-sharp 47-minute time loop, a genuinely clever character-building system, and art worth...5.9Mixed
- 1267The SwindleThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...5.9Mixed
- 1268Pendragoninkle built a genuinely new machine here — a tactics game where every move is a sentence in a story that never stops rewriting itself. But the combat ...5.9Mixed
- 1269TuncheTunche is a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler with a killer four-player couch mode, but its roguelite scaffolding is thin, enemy variety runs out fast, and ...5.9Mixed
- 1270SethianSethian dares players to actually learn an alien language instead of pretending to, and that gamble is genuinely original—right up until a rigid par...5.9Mixed
- 1271Elasto ManiaElasto Mania Remastered preserves a cult physics classic with admirable fidelity, but its refusal to accommodate newcomers, dated presentation, and po...5.9Mixed
- 1272Nour: Play With Your FoodNour: Play With Your Food is a visually striking toy box that runs out of ideas almost as soon as it starts. Gorgeous rendering and clever hardware tr...5.9Mixed
