Best Indie Games
1,568 Indie games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Distance
Released: Sep 18, 2018
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Racing, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Distance is a survival racing game that combines the intense action of arcade racing with the exploration of an atmospheric world.
Praetorians
Released: Feb 28, 2003
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Your destiny awaits you on the battlefield.
Look Outside
Released: Mar 21, 2025
Critic rating: 84.1 / 100 • 23 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Explore the warped interior of the apartment building you are stuck in.
Mini Motorways
Released: Sep 19, 2019
Critic rating: 85.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city.
The Swapper
Released: May 30, 2013
Critic rating: 88.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
The Swapper is a short puzzle platformer where you must complete every puzzle and collect 124 orbs, in groups of 3 and 9 later on, to complete the game.
Deltarune
Released: Jun 4, 2025
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100 • 91 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Music, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE!
Super Time Force Ultra
Released: Aug 25, 2014
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100 • 29 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Super Time Force Ultra is an action-packed platformer with a time-travelling twist!
Yoku's Island Express
Released: May 29, 2018
Critic rating: 84.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Pinball, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Yoku’s Island Express is an open world/metroidvania-style pinball adventure, Seamlessly blending platform navigation with pinball mechanics across a large open world.
Transistor
Released: May 20, 2014
Critic rating: 85.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Transistor is an action role-playing game presented from an isometric perspective.
Figment
Released: Sep 22, 2017
Critic rating: 88.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Music, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A musical action-adventure set in the recesses of the human mind...
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Released: Oct 13, 2023
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100 • 39 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
In The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, you follow the story of Andrew and Ashley, siblings who have been quarantined in their house for months and are slowly starving to death.
Rogue Legacy 2
Released: Apr 28, 2022
Critic rating: 90.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, 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
Rogue Legacy is back!
Inscryption
Released: Oct 19, 2021
Critic rating: 82.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie.
Super Meat Boy
Released: Oct 20, 2010
Critic rating: 85.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which players control Meat Boy, a small, dark red, cube-shaped character who must rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the scientist Dr.
Impostor Factory
Released: Sep 30, 2021
Critic rating: 83.8 / 100 • 37 votes
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon.
Sunless Skies
Released: Jan 31, 2019
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
SAIL THE STARS.
The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb
Released: May 28, 2012
Critic rating: 83.8 / 100 • 43 votes
Genres: Shooter, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb is an official DLC expansion to The Binding of Isaac, which adds new Items, Rooms, Enemies, Bosses, and more.
Pyre
Released: Jul 25, 2017
Critic rating: 86.1 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
A party-based RPG/visual novel/sports game hybrid wherein the player, dubbed the Reader for their literacy by the group of scavengers who discovers them, is sent in exile to a lawless wasteland called the Downside and has to lead their ever-growing party of misfits to locations wherein many similar parties compete in Rites in order to attain freedom and be absolved of their crimes.
Mini Royale
Released: Mar 27, 2025
Critic rating: 83.8 / 100 • 48 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Multiplayer, Battle Royale
In Mini Royale, up to 50 toy soldiers fight for victory.
Huntdown
Released: May 12, 2020
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Challenge yourself in this hard-boiled arcade shooter.
Arise: A Simple Story
Released: Dec 3, 2019
Critic rating: 85.7 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Set out on an emotional journey through the bittersweet lives of two people where memories come alive and time bends to your will.
Linelight
Released: Jan 30, 2017
Critic rating: 90.4 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest
Game modes: Single player
Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.
Pony Island
Released: Jan 4, 2016
Critic rating: 92.0 / 100
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise.
Castle Crashers Remastered
Released: Sep 9, 2015
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this Remastered edition of the popular 2D arcade adventure Castle Crashers!
Supraland: Six Inches Under
Released: Jan 14, 2022
Critic rating: 83.7 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Supraland Six Inches Under has exploration, puzzles, and combat!