The best indie games in 2026

In the catalog: 1044 games
Top rated: How to Fish
Last listed: today

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31. Crypt of the NecroDancer
DELIVER BEATDOWNS TO THE BEAT!
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat!
Great SoundtrackRhythmDungeon Crawler
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32. Streets of Rage 4
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and…
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street…
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and…
FightingBeat Em UpLocal Multiplayer
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33. Awesomenauts
Use your power, show your might!
Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game!
Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action.
MobaPlatformerLocal Co-op
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34. In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure
Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this…
Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this stylized multiplayer…
Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this stylized multiplayer co-op adventure.
Escape RoomColorfulPuzzle
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35. Mini Airways - ATC simulator
Mini Airways is a real-time management game where you play the role of…
Mini Airways is a real-time management game with an air traffic control theme.
Mini Airways is a real-time management game where you play the role of an air traffic controller.
TransportationMinimalistTime Management
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36. Hyper Light Drifter
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and…
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Great SoundtrackAtmosphericDifficult
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37. Nuclear Throne
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter.
DifficultBullet HellRoguelike
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38. Orcs Must Die! 2
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must…
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever…
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before!
Tower DefenseThird PersonStrategy
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39. Scam Line
Scam Line is a 4–8 player social deception game where your party will…
Scam Line — a party game for 4–8 players Only One Will Win You are locked in a room.
Scam Line is a 4–8 player social deception game where your party will face different challenges. Become a liar, a manipulator, a cheater, or find your own path to victory
DarkFunnyPvP
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40. Ghost Janitors
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4…
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job?
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters.
SupernaturalPsychological HorrorExploration
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41. Overcooked
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four…
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players.
CookingLocal MultiplayerLocal Co-op
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42. Spelunky
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a…
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new…
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play.
DifficultRoguelikePlatformer
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43. Fear Therapy
Warning: The game contains high level horror elements and sudden scares.
Warning: The game contains high level horror elements and sudden scares.
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late!
ViolentPsychological HorrorHorror
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44. Dummynation
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a…
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay…
You are given unlimited power over a country, with a single promise to fulfill: world domination. How you manage to achieve it is up to you.
Grand StrategyEconomyMilitary
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45. Orebound
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world!
DwarvesResource ManagementBuilding
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46. Prodeus
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern…
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and…
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology.
Boomer ShooterGoreRetro
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47. Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and…
"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?)…
"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!
Dating SimMultiple EndingsLgbtq
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48. FISH
"Killer Fish!!"
"Killer Fish!!"
FISH is a Platformer Run & Gun Shooter where you play as an armed FISH violently exploring through multiple levels.
Shoot Em UpPlatformerFunny
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49. SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom…
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation…
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods.
Top Down ShooterDifficultRoguelite
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50. Infernax
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his…
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it…
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic.
MetroidvaniaRetroPixel Graphics
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51. Pikuniku
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes…
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but…
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems.
CutePuzzleCasual
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52. Aragami
Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead…
You are Aragami , a vengeful spirit with the power to control the shadows .
Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows.
NinjaStealthAdventure
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53. Cleaning Up The Puzzle Gallery
Synopsis When's the worst time to be the janitor of a puzzle gallery?
Synopsis When's the worst time to be the janitor of a puzzle gallery?
Cleaning Up The Puzzle Gallery is a cozy first-person organization simulator about cleaning up 5000+ puzzle pieces scattered across a gallery of ~200 famous paintings.
OrganizingCozyRelaxing
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54. Let's Minesweeper
This is an online Minesweeper game that allows worldwide players to…
This is an online Minesweeper game that allows worldwide players to play simultaneously!
This is an online Minesweeper game that allows worldwide players to play simultaneously! Across 48 million tiles, each game has over 10 million mines.
LogicPuzzleFunny
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55. Spellmasons
Spellmasons is a magical, tactical roguelike where you customize your…
Spellmasons is a magical, tactical roguelike where you customize your spells.
Spellmasons is a magical, tactical roguelike where you customize your spells.
Gun CustomizationTurn BasedTactical
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56. Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
You and your friend are trapped in a mystical world.
You and your friend are trapped in a mystical world.
You and your friend are trapped in a mystical world. As time ebbs away you must solve increasingly complex puzzles to escape.
PuzzleCasualAdventure
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57. Party Hard
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Villain ProtagonistStealthViolent
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58. Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which…
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their…
A few hundred condemned criminals were being shipped to the Auriga system on board the prison hulk “Success”.
Tower DefenseSci FiRoguelike
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59. Chained Wheels
Two Vehicles. One Chain. Zero room for mistake.
Two Vehicles. One Chain. Zero room for mistake.
Embark on a chaotic co-op drive in Chained Wheels, where two vehicles are chained together and every move turns into a shared adventure or a DISASTER.
DrivingDifficultPhysics
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60. Fraymakers
What is Fraymakers?
What is Fraymakers?
Fraymakers is the ultimate customizable platform fighting game, featuring a cast of some of indie gaming's biggest icons.
Fighting2D FighterCharacter Customization
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