Top 10 Best Indie Games

Love the story. For some reason I really like chara and frisk and sans even though there are other characters. Although it may just be because I love the fanart, especially Chara's. Also love the aus and the songs based around it. Actually haven't played it, just watched some gameplay. But even the regular stuff is good. It's not actually overrated. I think it's slightly underrated. The fandom isn't too bad. The haters are actually worse in my opinion. Overall a amazing game.

This game is a masterpiece. The story is amazing, the gameplay and the characters are great, it's full of creativity and the soundtrack is awesome. One of the things I should mentioned that in some cases, you don't play the game, it's the game playing with you, and in a good and effective way... I cannot really say any flaws aside from the purposeful ones in the genocide route and a tiny part of the fandom. (khm, fanon shipping) Overall, great game and it deserves to be #1.

Undertale has beautiful music, gorgeous colors, and the idea behind it all is absolutely BRILLIANT! The characters are hilarious, such as Sans and Papyrus, and the game animations and movements are the best things in a video game I've ever seen since Nintendo. Undertale has amazing graphics, the soundtrack is IMPOSSIBLE to stop listening to, and the plot is definitely a great one. Undertale deserves this spot!

Creativity makes an indie game. That is the phrase Undertale has lived up to and will always live up to in the history of this genre. It's hard to make a game POPULAR, but it's legendary to make it so special, so UNIQUE, that nobody can ever successfully recreate it. Minecraft? Fun, but overrated (and bootlegged to the point where it's hard to call it "original"). Five Nights at Freddy's? A much-needed breath of fresh air of horror into the indie world, but then FNAF World came out. Why, Scott... With all these different indie developers trying to successfully imitate the most successful real-world gaming titles of the 80s and 90s (Axiom Verge-Metroid, Super Meat Boy-Mario, The Binding of Isaac-Half Zelda, Half generic dungeon crawler, etc.), it's refreshing to see one person create a title that took the beloved elements of an emotional RPG gem (Earthbound, for those who didn't know) and combine it with their own witty, creative style to make something... Beautiful.

It's amazing, creative and unique! Also, the DLCs are fantastic! I just really enjoyed this game and it's a great refreshing game for Castlevania and Mega Man fans. Also the graphics are quite good for an indie game.

An NES game on steroids, combining the glory of old game design with the fluidity that today's games are known to have.

The standard for what an indie game should be. Still going strong and getting new content after 3 years

Screw Undertale, Shovel Knight is the best!

This is the most epically-stupid game I have ever played, which is what makes it so great. It's a most inspiring adventure with an awesome soundtrack and replay value, chock-full of poop jokes and silly moments. Castle Crashers does NOT take itself seriously in the slightest, and yet emerges as one of the greatest things ever produced by Newgrounds.

This game was my childhood, boys. I laughed my ass off playing Castle Crashers and it's definitely something worth checking out.

This game has a uniquely fun mechanic to it. I like how the setup for this game is like a cross between a 2D platform and a top-down view; a unique perspective in itself.

Oooohhhh the nostalgia when seeing this. I remember deeming this my absolute favorite game when I was young. I don't know why, but something about it really appealed to my young self.

Loved this game as a kid

This game is so much more unique to any other game out there (except for its successor Inside). I like and appreciate all these other indie games, but this one is so much more different than what I've known, so it really stands out from the others, along with Inside.

Love this game. The art style is so beautiful... It has a chilling atmosphere at some times, and a calming one at others. That and the puzzle sections are well thought out and engaging, without being hair-pulling-ly rage quit difficult.
Love it, should be in... Well, at LEAST the top 5.

This is an amazing game to experience. I wish that it was much more popular, so more people could experience what a deep and unique game this is.

Limbo, created by Playdead is a true masterpiece. The art style is fantastic, very disturbing yet beautiful. One of the best indie games of all time.

Hollow Knight was made by two people, basically.

It doesn't innovate or bring new astonishing things to the table, but everything it does, it touches perfection. Being as it is, I can assume that this is the best Metroidvania eve made without a doubt, and deserves to be on the top 5 list.

My top 5 would be:

1 - Minecraft
2 - Braid
3 - Limbo
4 - Hollow Knight
5 - Amnesia: the dark descent

In what universe does Guacamelee make the top 5, while Hollow Knight doesn't even make the top 30? Apparently this one. This game encompasses everything there is to love about a Metroidvania, from the intense bosses to the greatly rewarding sense of exploration.

Maybe its not phenomenal, but everything in this game is still very original. The graphics are unique-looking, and the fantastical story is pretty good. Team Cherry has some great story-tellers.

This game makes Cuphead look like a joke. Plus, the fanbase for this game is a thousand times less rabid than Cuphead's fanbase.

This is much more than just another game, this game is an experience. A unique, thought-provoking experience that is waiting to be had by anyone and everyone.

I wish everyone could experience this game. It is a one-of-a-kind experience playing that many are missing out on unfortunately.

So maybe it doesn't really appeal to people now that it is stretched to 8+ games, but think back to the time this first came out; it was a revolutionary indie game. Sometimes great games will get to popular for their own good.

This game is more clever than an A level in Further Maths. Trust me.

Never played the games, but with lore and fan base, its pretty huge.

This game... Is a lore sandwich...

The games feels for the most the same but varies at times in good ways and somewhat different from time to time and has some unique yet sort of but still predictable story lines. Although 10 out of 10 if you ask me.

I'd put these individually, but all three (soon-to-be-four) games in this series are just all so great, and it'd be tough to pick just one! Can't wait for Half-Genie Hero to come out soon! Wayforward, you've done it again!

I love the Shantae games! They're so underrated and need some more love!

I bought this game and I'm most certainly not dissapointed. There's not ONE thing I can complain about the game, unlike fnaf, undertale, or even Minecraft. The bosses are creative and fun, the animation is fantastic, the gameplay is fluid and polished, and the the game itself is challenging but fair.

Also, why is Undertale number 1? Sure, the story and characters are great, but everything else is mediocre and the fanbase is so toxic that even the creator hates it. Cuphead is better than Undertale.

What I admire the most about this game is the sheer dedication and passion that went into making this. It took about 4 years to make this, and it was done in the exact way that 20s cartoons were made. That is some admirable hard work put into this game.

Not only are Undertale and Minecraft indie games I like, but also this too.

Best here hands down

The world in this game is so fascinating. I really like the style and lore of Don't Starve and find myself very interested in the story of it.

This game is fun

So many indie games try to implement a unique mechanic that you've never seen before that completely changes up gameplay. Super meat boy doesn't give you the ability to turn back time, or to jump to an intersecting 2d plane. It doesn't have a turn based combat system mixed with bullet hell. All you do is jump from platform to platform and try not to die. I would personally find this boring if it weren't for the incredible controls and hard as nails, yet fair, platforming. It's a total blast.

Even an Atheist will start with the name of god and and thank God after finishing each stage, Light, Catchy, Extrm hard and Awesome Environment.

Super Meat Boy is personally one of my favorite games of all time with its perfect amounts of difficulty and humor all leading up to the fact that you can unlock and play with characters from other Indie games.

I think what I love the most about this game is how the creators made modding it available to the fans, so many community-made, Amnesia-modded games came out as a result. Its great when the creators interact with their fans.

A chilling game, with corridors, monsters, and sanity, a new addition to the horror gaming industry. You have only 1 weapon, Stealth.

Here's a creepy one. I never played it, but it was so scary, I couldn't finish watching the YouTube video. Perfect one.

It was played by Frank Underwood in House of Cards. You know it's something else when it's shown being played by a major character on a big hit show.

I love this game, it's so clever with its different endings, and hidden endings. It's my favourite indie game by far

Hilarious yet dark game... depending on which of the EIGHTEEN endings you get!

One of the best video games period.

I adore this game. It's all about trying harder every time no matter how cruel the world is. The art style is pure black humor and the gameplay fit it. What I really like about this game that is is a pure EVIL but really fair -the game get harder every time you earn an achievement but also in this way you will get more loot.

A Zelda ripoff, but a good one. It was originally made as an unsophisticated flash game for fun in not a lot of time

A sad game, a brutal game, a gory game, a naked game, a great game.

Jesus Christ. Like a horror game but, not. So many bosses and items

Challenging and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Unlike one of the other games on this list.

*Cough* Undertale. *Cough*

Look, I get it. CS is overrated like hell. But it is still probably my fifth favorite indie game (right behind Undertale, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight and Super Meat Boy) regardless.

Stupid kids will just say it's a ripoff of undertale. Sad, cave story is one of my favorite games!

Better then undertale. Hands down.

Literally the game that started the whole indie game craze we have today

An enjoyable story with a very original and interesting idea along with funny, likable characters and a fantastic soundtrack

At begining:

Yay, anime battles, this game is hilarious!

At middle-Beginning:

Ohh, that's sad... Well back to work eh?!

At End-of-middle:

Oh God, what's going on? '
Wait a minute, are they going to... No!

At a certain cutscene (with a song so beautiful I bought it - I listen to Metal):
*through sobs of complete destraughtness*, why?!
No! Huh huh huh huh... *cries for another half an hour*

End:

WOW! ONE OF MY FAVOzuRziztES ever!

I'm buying that song.

This game is very emotional. But, I don't mean just sad. it deals with a mix of emotions, from happy, distressed, to sad, and satisfied.

Far better than I expected, made me shed a few tears.

Simply amazing game. I never get tired of it.