Best Indie Games
1,568 Indie games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Transformice
Released: May 1, 2010
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100 • 42 votes
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Transformice is a multiplayer game, where you are a small mouse out to get a cheese and bring the cheese back to the hole.
Tribes of Midgard
Released: Jul 27, 2021
Critic rating: 77.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Giants are coming!
Alien Hominid
Released: May 21, 2004
Critic rating: 66.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Indie
Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative, Split screen
They've got your spaceship and you will blow up anything in your path to get it back.
Heavenly Bodies
Released: Dec 7, 2021
Critic rating: 68.9 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically-simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
Scorn
Released: Oct 14, 2022
Critic rating: 63.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
Draugen
Released: May 29, 2019
Critic rating: 71.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Draugen is a first-person psychological horror adventure, set amongst the deep fjords and towering mountains of Norway’s awe-inspiring west coast.
KinitoPet
Released: Jan 9, 2024
Critic rating: 68.9 / 100 • 28 votes
Genres: Simulator, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
KinitoPet is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant.
Pummel Party
Released: Sep 20, 2018
Critic rating: 68.9 / 100 • 68 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Indie, Arcade, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pummel Party is a 4-player online and local-multiplayer party game.
Mount & Blade
Released: Sep 30, 2008
Critic rating: 65.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Mount & Blade is an immersive medieval action/tactics game taking place in a fictitious land named Calradia.
DC Universe Online
Released: Jan 11, 2011
Critic rating: 73.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
DC Universe Online is a free-to-play superhero / supervillian MMORPG that lets players create their own unique tights-wearing hero or villain and roam the streets of places like Gotham City and Metropolis fighting or creating crime.
A Story About My Uncle
Released: May 28, 2014
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100
Rating: EC
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
A Story About My Uncle is a non-violent First-Person platform adventure game built in the Unreal Engine.
Rain World
Released: Mar 28, 2017
Critic rating: 62.1 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Rain World is a survival platformer set in an abandoned industrial environment ravaged by a shattered ecosystem.
Conarium
Released: Jun 6, 2017
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature.
Q.U.B.E.
Released: Dec 17, 2011
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Simulator, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Q.U.B.E.
Party Hard
Released: Aug 25, 2015
Critic rating: 68.9 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Fighting, Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Party Hard is a tactical game about stopping parties.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Released: Sep 20, 2013
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows), Wii U
Game modes: Single player
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
Commander Keen in Keen Dreams
Released: Dec 31, 1991
Critic rating: 58.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Trapped in a land where giant vegetables rule the day, you must fight your way through an army of vicious broccoli beasts, savage asparagus warriors and a bushel of other leafy green nasties before battling the fiercest spud of all, King Boobus Tuber.
Five Nights at Freddy's
Released: Aug 8, 2014
Critic rating: 71.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see!
Death's Gambit
Released: Aug 13, 2018
Critic rating: 67.1 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Death's Gambit is a challenging Action-RPG where you explore an alien medieval planet filled with beasts, knights, and horrors.
Hard Reset
Released: Sep 13, 2011
Critic rating: 69.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
In the only remaining human city of Bezoar, Major Fletcher, an Army Combat Veteran and soldier of the CLN, is dragged into a conflict between two of mankind's greatest enemies.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
Released: Jul 20, 2017
Critic rating: 71.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads.
Star Control: Origins
Released: Sep 20, 2018
Critic rating: 69.8 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Star Control: Origins is a science fiction action-adventure game that combines planetary exploration, diplomacy with alien races, and one-on-one ship-to-ship space battles.
Deepest Sword
Released: Apr 26, 2021
Critic rating: 68.5 / 100 • 21 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing.
Refunct
Released: Oct 16, 2015
Critic rating: 68.5 / 100 • 50 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Refunct is a peaceful, short first-person platformer about restoring a vibrant world.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Released: Feb 28, 2018
Critic rating: 70.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.