Best Indie games on PC
Games associated with independent developers or publishers span many styles, including survival crafting, sandbox play, simulation, action, and platforming.
- Wide range of gameplay styles
Related: Multiplayer, Open World, Survival, Open World Survival Craft
4,353 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Seraph's Last Stand
2D bullet-hell roguelike with wave-by-wave upgrades and item combinations
94% positive
4,347 reviews
Fantasy Map Simulator
Sandbox world simulator where fantasy nations rise, fight, and fall
89% positive
4,346 reviews
Spacebase DF-9
Space colony management sim with asteroid mining and alien settlers
18% positive
4,341 reviews
Grey Goo
Sci-fi real-time strategy with base building and a mobile faction
68% positive
4,335 reviews
Of Guards And Thieves
Top-down multiplayer stealth shooter pits guards against elusive thieves
85% positive
Free
Shelter 2
Single-player survival adventure about raising lynx cubs in a changing tundra
85% positive
4,319 reviews
Ropuka's Idle Island
Desktop idle game about a frog tending its island garden
95% positive
4,309 reviews
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Musical adventure about outwitting police and restoring Moominvalley's nature
97% positive
4,305 reviews
Spellcaster University
Magic school management sim with card-based building and student outcomes
83% positive
4,304 reviews
8BitMMO
Free-to-play 2D sandbox MMO built around player-made towns and exploration
60% positive
Free
Daymare: 1998
Third-person survival horror with scarce ammo and shifting perspectives
69% positive
4,293 reviews
Dig or Die
2D survival crafting with nightly monster raids and building physics
90% positive
4,290 reviews
Serial Cleaner
Top-down stealth game cleaning crime scenes while evading police
84% positive
4,285 reviews
Cubic Castles
Online voxel sandbox with shared building and platforming challenges
74% positive
Free
Return to Shironagasu Island
Horror mystery visual novel about murders on an isolated island
94% positive
4,277 reviews
Ballads of Hongye: REBORN
Relaxed city builder centered on shaping traditional Chinese landscapes
85% positive
4,275 reviews
American Arcadia
Story-driven puzzle platformer about escaping a deadly reality show
94% positive
4,275 reviews
Professional Fishing
Free-to-play fishing simulation with changing weather and online tournaments
76% positive
Free
EmergeNYC
Open-world emergency response simulation with fire trucks and randomized fires
63% positive
4,246 reviews
X-Morph: Defense
Tower defense and top-down shooting from the invaders' side
91% positive
4,241 reviews
Spin Rhythm XD
Electronic rhythm game with spinning controls and color-matched beats
97% positive
4,238 reviews
Dealer's Life 2
Pawn shop simulation about haggling over goods and growing a business
85% positive
4,237 reviews
The Plucky Squire
Storybook action-adventure with puzzles across 2D pages and 3D spaces
85% positive
4,234 reviews
Thimbleweed Park™
Point-and-click mystery with five playable characters in a strange town
93% positive
4,233 reviews