🎮 Best Indie Games of 2025-2026

🎨 #1 9.7

Hades

Indie · 2020

You escape the underworld, die, try again, and the story advances with each death. The roguelike that hooked everyone.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch

🎨 #2 9.6

Hollow Knight

Indie · 2017

A metroidvania made by three people that puts hundred-strong studios to shame. Hallownest is melancholic, vast and gorgeous.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #3 9.4

Balatro

Indie · 2024

Poker fused with roguelike that ate 2024. You start a quick run and suddenly three hours have passed.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch Móvil

🎨 #4 9.2

Inside

Indie · 2016

A boy moves through a monochrome dystopian world without a single word of explanation. Playdead perfects the Limbo formula.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #5 9.0

Cuphead

Indie · 2017

Hand-drawn like a 1930s cartoon and tough as nails. Every boss is a work of art that crushes you.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #6 9.0

Dead Cells

Indie · 2018

A lightning-fast action roguelite where dying just means starting again stronger. Razor-sharp, addictive combat.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #7 9.0

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Indie · 2025

The most awaited indie sequel. Hornet stars in a metroidvania that promises to top an already legendary game.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch

🎨 #8 9.0

Vampire Survivors

Indie · 2022

Survive hordes by only moving while weapons fire themselves. For two euros it steals weeks of your life.

PC Xbox Móvil Switch

🎨 #9 9.0

Slay the Spire

Indie · 2019

You climb a tower building a card deck that changes every run. The game that practically invented the roguelike deckbuilder.

PC PS4 Xbox One Switch Móvil

🎨 #10 9.0

Inscryption

Indie · 2021

It starts as a sinister card game and morphs into something best left unspoiled. A box of surprises with meta-narrative.

PC PS4 PS5 Switch

🎨 #11 8.8

Limbo

Indie · 2010

A boy searches for his sister in a black-and-white forest full of deadly traps. The indie that proved the power of atmosphere.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #12 8.8

Dave the Diver

Indie · 2023

By day you dive and fish, by night you run a sushi bar. A wild genre mashup that shouldn't work but absolutely does.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch

🎨 #13 8.6

Overcooked! 2

Indie · 2018

Cooking as a team and ending up yelling at your partner. The most fun friendship-destroyer there is.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🎨 #14 8.6

Cult of the Lamb

Indie · 2022

Run your own cult of adorable critters while clearing dungeons. Cute and sinister in equal measure.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch

🎨 #15 8.6

Gris

Indie · 2018

A young woman moves through the stages of grief in a watercolor canvas that slowly regains its color. More emotional experience than challenge.

PS4 PC Switch

🎨 #16 8.6

Hotline Miami

Indie · 2012

Ultra-violent killing sprees to a synthwave beat in a neon 1980s Miami. Fast, brutal and unmistakably stylish.

PC PS4 Switch

🎨 #17 8.6

Risk of Rain 2

Indie · 2020

A 3D action roguelike where the longer you take, the stronger enemies get. Stack items until you become a god.

PC PS4 Xbox One Switch

🎨 #18 8.6

Dredge

Indie · 2023

You fish by day and flee cosmic horror by night across an unsettling archipelago. Lovecraftian dread with a rod in hand.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch

🎨 #19 8.4

Enter the Gungeon

Indie · 2016

A bullet-hell dungeon crawler where everything, even the bullets, shoots more bullets. Hundreds of absurd guns and deaths galore.

PC PS4 Xbox One Switch

🎨 #20 8.2

Among Us

Indie · 2018

Find the impostor before it kills everyone. It exploded mid-pandemic and turned lying to friends into a sport.

PC Móvil Switch