TOP 100 INDIE GAMES OF ALL-TIME
This is a list of the top 100 indie games of all-time in no particular order. Think of it as the hall of fame for indie games. Because everyone has different tastes for different genres, it’s hard to accurately rank a top 100.
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1: The Binding of Isaac
What type of game is The Binding of Isaac?: The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy rogue-like elements. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is considered the best version to play.
2: Braid
What type of game is Braid?: Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways.
3: Super Meat Boy
What type of game is Super Meat Boy?: Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who’s trying to save his girlfriend.
4: Cuphead
What type of game is Cuphead?: Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game that is heavily focused on boss battles.
5: LIMBO
What type of game is LIMBO?: LIMBO is a 2D side-scroller, incorporating a physics system that governs environmental objects and the player’s character.
6: INSIDE
What type of game is INSIDE?: INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles.
7: Stardew Valley
What type of game is Stardew Valley?: Stardew Valley is a farming simulation game primarily inspired by the Harvest Moon video game series.
8: Stray
What type of game is Stray?: Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed, neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity.
9: Minecraft
What type of game is Minecraft?: Minecraft is a sandbox game in which players create and break apart various kinds of blocks in three-dimensional worlds.
10: Rocket League
What type of game is Rocket League?: Rocket League is a high-powered, arcade-style vehicular soccer game.
11: Hollow Knight
What type of game is Hollow Knight?: Hollow Knight is a classically styled 2D action adventure set across a vast interconnected world.
12: Furi
What type of game is Furi?: It is an ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
13: Terraria
What type of game is Terraria?: Terraria is a unique gaming experience where both the journey and the destination are completely in the player’s control.
14: Hades
What type of game is Hades?: Hades is a god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler that combines the best aspects of Supergiant’s critically acclaimed games.
15: Don’t Starve
What type of game is Don’t Starve?: Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Don’t Starve Together is if you’re looking for a co-op experience.
16: Firewatch
What type of game is Firewatch?: Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in 1989 in the Wyoming wilderness.
17: Bastion
What type of game is Bastion?: Bastion is an action role-playing experience that redefines storytelling in games, with a reactive narrator who marks your every move.
18: Enter the Gungeon
What type of game is Enter the Gungeon?: Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits.
19: FEZ
What type of game is FEZ?: FEZ is a two-dimensional puzzle platform game set in a three-dimensional world.
20: Shovel Knight
What type of game is Shovel Knight?: Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro style.
21: Undertale
What type of game is Undertale?: Undertale is an RPG in where you control a human who falls underground into a world of monsters.
22: Owlboy
What type of game is Owlboy?: Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds!
23: Subnautica
What type of game is Subnautica?: Subnautica is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean planet.
24: Celeste
What type of game is Celeste?: Celeste is a narrative-driven, single-player adventure, with a charming cast of characters and a touching story of self-discovery.
25: OUTLAST
What type of game is OUTLAST?: OUTLAST is a first-person survival horror game that takes place in an insane asylum.
26: Cave Story
What type of game is Cave Story?: Cave Story is a run, jump, shoot, fly action-adventure, reminiscent of classic 8-bit and 16-bit games.
27: Dead Cells
What type of game is Dead Cells?: Dead Cells is a rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired action-platformer.
28: Ori and the Blind Forest
What type of game is Ori and the Blind Forest?: Ori and the Blind Forest tells a tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer.
29: Disco Elysium
What type of game is Disco Elysium?: Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking role playing game where you play as a detective with a unique skill system.
30: Runner2
What type of game is Runner2?: Runner2 is a rhythm-music platforming game and the direct sequel to Bit.Trip Runner.
31: Thumper
What type of game is Thumper?: Thumper is a rhythm game with blistering speed and brutal
32: FAR: Lone Sails
What type of game is FAR: Lone Sails?: FAR: Lone Sails is a vehicle adventure game where you travel across a dried-out ocean.
33: DUSK
What type of game is DUSK?: DUSK is a first-person shooter inspired by Doom, Quake, Blood Heretic, Redneck Rampage and all your ’90s favourites.
34: Teslagrad
What type of game is Teslagrad?: Teslagrad is a side-scrolling puzzle-platform game where you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments.
35: Yoku’s Island Express
What type of game is Yoku’s Island Express?: Yoku’s Island Express is a platforming pinball adventure where you use a unique blend of pinball mechanics in an open world.
36: Splosion Man
What type of game is Splosion Man?: Splosion Man is a 2.5D action platformer. Its sequel, Ms. Splosion Man, is controversially the better of the two games.
37: Supraland
What type of game is Supraland?: Supraland is a First-Person Metroidvania Puzzle game inspired by Zelda, Metroid and Portal.
38: Downwell
What type of game is Downwell?: Downwell is a scrolling shooter and platform game with elements of a roguelike.
39: Unpacking
What type of game is Unpacking?: Unpacking is a puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxed and fitting them into a new home.
40: Papetura
What type of game is Papetura?: Papetura is a handcrafted puzzle adventure game made with an incredible atmospheric soundtrack.
41: ABZÛ
What type of game is ABZÛ?: ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving.
42: TUNIC
What type of game is TUNIC?: TUNIC is an action-adventure game inspired by The Legend of Zelda.
43: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
What type of game is Turnip Boy?: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an action adventure where you avoid paying taxes, solve puzzle, harvest crops and battle enemies.
44: Untitled Good Game
What type of game is Untitled Good Game?: Untitled Goose Game is a puzzle stealth game where you are a good on the loose in an unsuspecting village.
45: A Short Hike
What type of game is A Short Hike?: A Short Hike is an adventure game that lets you take control of Claire the bird to explore a lush island paradise.
46: SteamWorld Dig
What type of game is SteamWorld Dig?: SteamWorld Dig is a platform mining adventure with Metroidvania influences. Its sequel, SteamWorld Dig 2, is considered better than its predecessor.
47: TOEM
What type of game is TOEM?: TOEM is a hand-drawn adventure, where you take photos with your camera to solve puzzles and help people.
48: Chicory: A Colourful Tale
What type of game is Chicory: A Colourful Tale?: Chicory: A Colourful Tale is a charming adventure where you take control of a dog, get a paintbrush and colour your world back in.
49: People Playground
What type of game is People Playground?: In People Playground you shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporize, or crush rag dolls in a large open space.
50: World of Goo
What type of game is World of Goo?: World of Goo is an award winning physics based puzzle/construction game.
51: Slay the Spire
What type of game is Slay the Spire?: Slay the Spire is a roguelike deck-building game where you craft unique decks, encounter bizarre creatures and discover relics of power.
52: Factorio
What type of game is Factorio?: In Factorio you will mine resources, research technologies, build infrastructure, automate production, and fight enemies.
53: Lonely Mountains: Downhill
What type of game is Lonely Mountains: Downhill?: Lonely Mountains: Downhill is a third-person biking game, where the player tries to complete courses on different mountains.
54: Journey
What type of game is Journey?: Journey is an adventure game where you explore a mysterious world, soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
55: Little Nightmares
What type of game is Little Nightmares?: Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure that will confront you with your childhood fears! Its sequel, Little Nightmares 2, is widely considered better than its predecessor.
56: Unravel
What type of game is Unravel?: Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Its sequel, Unravel Two, introduces cooperative play.
57: Axiom Verge
What type of game is Axiom Verge?: Axiom Verge is a metroidvania where you play as a failed scientist who dies in an accident, only to awaken in a mysterious, alien world.
58: Kaze and the Wild Masks
What type of game is Kaze and the Wild Masks?: Kaze and the Wild Masks is a 2D action platformer that heavily draws inspiration from the Donkey Kong Country trilogy on the SNES.
59: Thomas Was Alone
What type of game is Thomas Was Alone?: Thomas Was Alone is a minimalist 2D puzzle platformer about friendship, jumping, floating and anti-gravity.
60: Fall Guys
What type of game is Fall Guys?: Fall Guys is a platform battle royale game that involves up to 60 players who compete against each other in a series of mini-games.
61: Night in the Woods
What type of game is Night in the Woods?: Night in the Woods is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet.
62: Haiku, the Robot
What type of game is Haiku, the Robot?: Haiku, the Robot is an adventure-exploration game set in a vast interconnected world full of corrupt robots and machinery.
63: Fly’N
What type of game is Fly’N?: Fly’N is a unique puzzle-platforming game that has fallen into obscurity.
64: OneShot
What type of game is OneShot?: OneShot is a surreal top down puzzle/adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities.
65: Monument Valley
What type of game is Monument Valley?: In Monument Valley you will manipulate impossible architecture and guide a silent princess through a stunningly beautiful world.
66: Slime Rancher
What type of game is Slime Rancher?: Slime Rancher is a charming, first-person, sandbox experience. Slime Rancher 2 is as good, if not better than its predecessor.
67: Cult of the Lamb
What type of game is Cult of the Lamb?: Cult of the Lamb is a rogue-like adventure where you embark on a quest to explore and discover the secrets of four mysterious regions.
68: Valheim
What type of game is Valheim?: Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology.
69: The Long Dark
What type of game is The Long Dark?: The Long Dark is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves.
70: Human Fall Flat
What type of game is Human Fall Flat?: Human Fall Flat is a funny, lighthearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online.
71: Castle Crashers
What type of game is Castle Crashers?: Castle Crashers is a 2D side scrolling hack-and-slash game where you can play with up to four friends locally or online.
72: Satisfactory
What type of game is Satisfactory?: Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat.
73: Rust
What type of game is Rust?: Rust is a first-person multiplayer-only survival game where everything wants you to die — the wildlife, the environment and other inhabitants.
74: Beat Saber
What type of game is Beat Saber?: Beat Saber is a virtual reality game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you.
75: Risk of Rain
What type of game is Risk of Rain?: Risk of Rain is a roguelike third-person shooter that takes place on a chaotic alien planet. Its sequel, Risk of Rain 2, is considered better by many.
76: Among Us
What type of game is Among Us?: Among Us is an online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players which takes place… in space!
77: Kerbal Space Program
What type of game is Kerbal Space Program?: Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game where you build spacecraft, fly them, and try to conquer space.
78: Inscryption
What type of game is Inscryption?: Inscryption is a card-based odyssey that blends deckbuilding rogulikes, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror together.
79: Deep Rock Galactic
What type of game is Deep Rock Galactic?: Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring destructible environments, procedurally generated caves, and endless hordes of aliens.
80: Amnesia
What type of game is Amnesia?: Amnesia is a first person survival horror about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare.
81: Alien Hominid
What type of game is Alien Hominid?: Alien Hominid is a run and gun side-scrolling shooter similar to games such as Metal Slug.
82: BattleBlock Theater
What type of game is BattleBlock Theater?: BattleBlock Theater is a comedy platformer where you jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater.
83: FTL: Faster Than Light
What type of game is FTL: Faster Than Light?: FTL: Faster Than Light is a real-time strategy spaceship simulation where you take your crew through a randomly generated galaxy.
84: Hotline Miami
What type of game is Hotline Miami?: Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
85: Transistor
What type of game is Transistor?: Transistor is a sci-fi action RPG where you wield an extraordinary weapon of unkown origin as you fight through a stunning futuristic city.
86: Plants vs. Zombies
What type of game is Plants vs. Zombies?: Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defence game where zombies invade your home and the only defence is your arsenal of plants!
87: Loop Hero
What type of game is Loop Hero?: Loop Hero is an endless RPG where you use a deck of cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop.
88: Peggle
What type of game is Peggle?: Peggle is a casual puzzle game where you aim and shoot a ball to clear the orange pegs.
89: Doki Doki Literature Club!
What type of game is Doki Doki Literature Club!?: Doki Doki Literature Club! is a visual novel game that turns a dating sim into a brutal high school psychological horror.
90: DOOM
What type of game is DOOM?: DOOM is a first-person shooter where you play as a space marine, fighting your way through hordes of invading demons from hell.
91: Bejeweled
What type of game is Bejeweled?: Bejeweled is a tile-matching puzzle game that involves lining up three or more multi-colored gems to clear them from the game board.
92: Rain World
What type of game is Rain World?: Rain World is a survival platformer where you sneak, climb, and pounce your way through an ever-changing ecosystem of predators and prey.
93: Gone Home
What type of game is Gone Home?: Gone Home is an interactive exploration simulator where you explore every detail of a seemingly normal home to discover the story of the people who live there.
94: Pathologic 2
What type of game is Pathologic 2?: Pathologic 2 is a gruelling yet rewarding survival horror-adventure. It is considered as a remake of its predecessor, Pathologic.
95: The Stanley Parable
What type of game is The Stanley Parable?: The Stanley Parable is an experimental narrative-driven first-person game. It is an exploration of choice, freedom, storytelling and reality.
96: The Forest
What type of game is The Forest?: The Forest is a first-person survival horror simulator where you build, explore and survive against a society of cannibalistic mutants.
97: What Remains of Edith Finch
What type of game is What Remains of Edith Finch?: What Remains of Edith Finch is a walking simulator where you try to figure out why you’re the last one in your family left alive.
98: GRIS
What type of game is GRIS?: GRIS is a platform-adventure where you explore a meticulously designed world with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score.
99: Phasmophobia
What type of game is Phasmophobia?: Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror where you and your team use ghost hunting equipment to gather evidence.
100: Tetris
What type of game is Tetris?: Tetris is a puzzle game where you complete lines by moving differently shaped pieces, which descend onto the playing field.