2025 has been amazing so far for indie games, and we’re only halfway into the year. This makes it ridiculously difficult to pick the very best when indie developers have graced us with banger after banger.
We highly recommend ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, but only after playing ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, so it’s not on this list. You can expect many more indie gems to release this year and the next, but we’ve taken a look at our favorites from Winter 2024 to Summer 2025. So, let’s get into the best indie games you can play on PC.
Recent indie games on PC that we can’t stop playing
10 Dead Doves
Release date: Dec. 13, 2024
Price: $24.99
A surreal adventure, it’s hard to appropriately summarize 10 Dead Doves without sounding mad. This highly unique horror is full of comedic moments and eerie atmosphere that’ll surely stay with you. Yes, you may never truly understand what exactly is going on, but you’ll be entranced by its story, characters, and bizarreness that you’ll want to see the game through to the bitter end. A strange story centered around a father’s regret, there’s nothing quite like the 10 Dead Doves experience.
Blue Prince
Release date: April 10, 2025
Price: $29.99
Reaching Room 46 isn’t so simple when RNG is actively working against you. Three doors greet you at the estate entrance, but can you find your way and uncover your great uncle’s secrets? Brace yourself for the ultimate roguelite puzzle game that is cozy yet ominous, and is sure to keep the cogs in your brain forever turning. Replayability is through the roof. Blue Prince keeps its hooks in you by its premise alone, and it’ll burrow into your ego, for nothing matters outside of finding out what could possibly be hiding inside the 46th room of a 45-room estate.
DELTARUNE
Release date: June 4, 2025
Price: $24.99
DELTARUNE grows from strength to strength with its unforgettable characters, dialogue, and legendary soundtrack. What initially looks like a flat, pixelated world is vibrant in its subtle yet satisfying art and character design. Everything stands out, for every pixel is purposely placed to make DELTARUNE entertaining, memorable, and poignant at times. This episodic RPG is nostalgic both in how it looks and plays, yet it is able to transform itself into a fantasy realm like no other. While the plot and genre are basic on paper, its execution lets you decide what kind of hero you want to be, making it no ordinary RPG.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Release date: May 22, 2025
Price: $9.99
Who wants to cosplay as Sherlock Holmes when you could be a Duck Detective? Charmingly witty, this short mystery game will put a smile on your face and warm your heart. We all need a cozy game once in a while—a place to visit and wind down to after a long day’s work. With iconic voice acting, cute cardboard cutout art design, and jazzy music, Duck Detective is a quirky mystery adventure that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and you shouldn’t either. Meet suspects, build your case, and solve the mystery, all while waddling around as a divorced (and very masculine-sounding) duck.
Homicipher
Release date: Nov. 1, 2024
Price: $13.99
If you ever wanted to get into linguistics, then here is where to begin. This tame horror game is a visual novel with a twist. Homicipher places you in a completely foreign land, where entities are there to either greet or kill you. You won’t know what the outcome will be until you make a choice, but how are you supposed to when you can’t tell what anyone’s saying? This point-and-click adventure asks you to decipher a made-up language, promising replayability, creepy and (at times) friendly characters, with various pathways to travel down as you try to make sense of the labyrinth you’re entrapped in, and the residents it houses.
KARMA: The Dark World
Release date: Mar. 27, 2025
Price: $24.99
Investigating the minds of criminals by diving head-first into their memories, KARMA: The Dark World is a cinematic indie horror experience inspired by Orwell’s 1984. While it isn’t particularly scary, its story is truly unforgettable. Yes, it takes a while to truly understand what is going on. But when it hits, it really hits. I left this game feeling content as I applauded while the credits rolled. KARMA plays like an interactive film created by minds as complex as the late and great David Lynch. Although it doesn’t do anything special in its gameplay as it’s mostly a walking sim, there is so much to unpack in its mind-bending story.
Look Outside
Release date: Mar. 21, 2025
Price: $7.99
Can you survive an otherworldly epidemic where neighbors surrounding you on both sides have transformed into cosmic creatures, looking to make you one of them? Endure 15 days and know that you must never—at all costs—Look Outside. Perfectly capturing the Lovecraftian aesthetic, Look Outside blends turn-based horror and survival elements to create a terrifyingly claustrophobic experience with awesome art design. Terror awaits at your doorstep, but you must step outside into the great unknown if you want to make it out alive.
Sorry We’re Closed
Release date: Nov. 14, 2024
Price: $24.99
The most in-your-face survival horror you can play, Sorry We’re Closed demands your attention in its bright neon lights. A game about learning what it’s like to truly love, this grungy world grows in size and color because of its vibrant cast, fantastic dialogue, and nostalgic combat. Multiple perspectives, fixed camera angles, and signature gameplay mechanics give Sorry We’re Closed a strong identity. Transported to another realm for rejecting a demon’s advances, Sorry We’re Closed feels like a throwback to classic Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but with a rockstar twist.
The Alters
Release date: June 13, 2025
Price: $34.99
It’s easy to get distracted by the stunning sci-fi landscapes of The Alters, but the reason to press on is for its unique take on survival and strategy, as you need to manage your tiny colony’s happiness and keep morale up, raising the moral question on whether creating clones of yourself can ever be ethical. All born from the same memories, each Alter is given their function, all for the name of survival. The ultimate game about managing resources, mining is just one part of The Alters, and it pales in comparison to the decisions you need to make for yourself and your alters (clones), which ultimately shift who they are as people.
The Midnight Walk
Release date: May 8, 2025
Price: $39.99
There’s so much beauty in The Midnight Walk as it captures the mental hurdles we must overcome in order to reach the inevitable light in what feels like never-ending darkness. Standing out for its gorgeous art design, The Midnight Walk is a passion project handcrafted from clay. Bring your little flame and change the lives of those you meet along the way, all while overcoming the darkness that surrounds you. We all travel along this path alone, and sometimes it takes an entire lifetime to see the light. But there’s always that hope to hold on for a better day—for you never know what tomorrow might bring.
What have been your favorite indie games of 2025 so far? Do you think any could possibly be GOTY contenders, or are we all thinking the same thing? Surely one particular game will be crowned victorious—and that’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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