Aground
Early Access 4 months Single Player AdventureOne of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival? Read on...
Back for an 9th time, welcome to the 2018 Indie of the Year Awards, a celebration of the years finest indie games chosen by you and us. For the next 4 weeks it is up to you to vote for your favorite indie games so that they may make the top 100 which will be announced on the 11th of December.
Last year saw popular MMO Foxhole take the throne for the players choice Indie of the Year, followed by the huge run and gun hit Cuphead with the immersive team-oriented shooter Day of Infamy to round out the top 3. If you want to see the full players choice and editor's choice from 2017, look no further.
2018 has been a huge year for indie games, from the abundance of awesome titles to hit our Steam libraries, to the inability to avoid the phrase 'Battle Royale' no matter where you looked. Whilst Battle Royale games often begin with 100 players, the Indie of the Year awards will begin with thousands - to ensure your favourite indie's make it into the coveted top 100 you need to do your duty and smash that vote button harder than ever. Help hard working game developers feel the love and soon we will announce the 2018 Chicken Dinner Winner Indie of the Year. Good luck everyone!
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Top 100 of 2018
Released Games
Adventure
CardLife
Early Access 2 months Single, Multiplayer & Co-Op AdventureCardLife is an online multiplayer survival game set in a cardboard Science Fantasy world - think Dragons, Mechs, Magic, Lasers & Dinosaurs. CardLife is also super mod-friendly! Read on...
Celeste
Released 1 year Single Player AdventureCeleste is a platformer about climbing a mountain, from the creators of TowerFall. Explore a sprawling mountain with over 600 levels bursting with secrets, across 8 unique chapters. Read on...
Dead Dungeon
Released 1 month Single Player AdventureA hardcore 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions. Read on...
Eco - Global Survival Game
Early Access 11 months Multiplayer & Co-op AdventureA global survival game where you must collaborate to build a civilization within a wilderness simulation. Propose and vote on laws to make decisions as a group, and much more. Read on...
Escape the Grid VR
Early Access 6 months Single Player AdventureImmerse yourself in a pleasing environment that lets you experience the thrill of extreme sports through climbing, leaping and dashing in a dynamic setting. Read on...
FAR: Lone Sails
Released 7 months Single Player AdventureIn a unique vehicle you travel across a dried-out ocean following the tracks of a once thriving civilization through an array of roadblocks and through hazardous weather. Read on...
NeonCode
Released 1 month Single Player AdventureNeonCode is a one hour long cyberpunk-retrowave adventure game. It was inspired by classics such as the Blade Runner-movies, Miami Vice, Grim Fandango and the games of Telltale. Read on...
Omensight
Released 7 months Single Player AdventureYou are the Harbinger, a mythical warrior who only appears in times of crisis. The land of Urralia is torn by war. But there is worse: as night falls, you witness the destruction of the world. Read on...
Sally Face
Released 1 month Single Player AdventureDelve into a dark adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face and a mysterious past. Little do they know what misfortune still awaits... Read on...
First Person Shooter
Expansive Civilian Warfare
Released 1 year Multiplayer First Person ShooterA standalone game that is built off the W3D engine (version that C&C Renegade used). Based off of the late Roleplay 2, our team has taken C&C Renegade to a whole new level! Read on...
Jetball
Early Access 1 year Multiplayer & Co-op First Person ShooterA jetpack game featuring balls and goals. Score goals against your opponents in first or third person. Inspired by Tribes. Jetting and skiing (aka bunnyhopping) is the way it should be.. Read on...
MOTHERGUNSHIP
Released 5 months Single Player First Person ShooterMOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Take the fight to the enemy! Read on...
Red Alert: A Path Beyond
Released 3 years Multiplayer First Person ShooterRemember 1996's Command & Conquer: Red Alert? Now, enter the fray as a single combatant on the battlefield, fighting alongside the Allies or the Soviets for global supremacy in this mod that adheres to the classic world created by Westwood Studios. Read on...
Tiberian Sun Reborn
Released 5 years Multiplayer First Person ShooterA total conversion which aims to turn the FPS C&C Renegade into Tiberian Sun with a bit of Firestorm thrown in. Read on...
World of Padman
Released 11 years Multiplayer First Person ShooterFrom the earliest PadMaps came the mod PadWorld, and now from that distinguished provenance comes the next colourful evolution, the World of Padman. Read on...
Tactical Shooter
Foxhole
Early Access 1 year Multiplayer Tactical ShooterFoxhole is a massively multiplayer game where you will work with hundreds of players to shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Read on...
Renegade X
Released 4 years Single & Multiplayer Tactical ShooterRenegade X is a tactical First and Third Person Shooter with Real Time Strategy elements, set in the Command & Conquer universe. It is a high quality award-winning free indie game being created on the Unreal Development Kit Read on...
Squad
Early Access 3 years Multiplayer Tactical ShooterSquad is an in development tactical multiplayer shooter with a heavy focus on teamwork, communication and realism. The game will allow players to fully experience the rigors of modern day combat. Read on...
Racing
Antigraviator
Released 7 months Single & Multiplayer RacingIn the year 2210, new terraforming capabilities paired with scientific breakthroughs in the field of antigravity have given birth to a new spectacle: the Antigraviator intergalactic tournament. Read on...
GRIP: Combat Racing
Released 1 month Single & Co-op RacingInspired by the Rollcage games of 1999 and 2000, GRIP is a new IP for a new generation. A return to the hardcore combat racer, bristling with heavy weapons and ferocious speed. Read on...
Role Playing
Dark Harvest
Early Access 2 months Single Player Role PlayingDark Harvest is a top down action RPG using the Paragon Assets. An evil has woken up and is destroying the world, you need to save the world. Read on...
Dead in Vinland
Released 8 months Single Player Role PlayingExiled on a faraway, unknown land, lead Eirik and his family on their quest to survive. Manage their physical and mental health, organize your camp and deal with other human beings. Read on...
Edge Of Eternity
Released 1 month Single Player Role PlayingEdge of Eternity is an indie tribute inspired by the great JRPG traditions of turn-based combat and character progression and the success of western RPG elements. Read on...
Flashing Lights: Police - Fire - EMS
Early Access 7 months Single, Multiplayer & Co-Op Role PlayingFlashing Lights is an emergency services simulator with both single player and online multiplayer. Choose to enrol with the police, emergency medical services or fire department and climb the ranks of each role to unlock new missions and rewards. Read on...
Immortal Darkness: Curse of the Pale King
Released 2 months Single Player Role PlayingImmortal Darkness: Curse of the Pale King is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler, with challenging real-time tactical combat, a wide variety of powerful spells, and a dark and brooding dungeon. Read on...
LostHero
Early Access 1 month Single & Co-op Role PlayingLost Hero is a dark fantasy action RPG game inspired by Dark Souls series. As an outcast hero, the player has to fight numerous creatures of the medieval/sci-fi world. Read on...
My Time At Portia
Early Access 11 months Single Player Role PlayingMy Time At Portia is a simulation RPG that takes place in a post-apocalypse setting. Humans are few and relics from the past are everywhere. You're trying to start a new life.. Read on...
Tower of Time
Released 8 months Single Player Role PlayingA new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Read on...
Trulion Online
Early Access 4 months Multiplayer Role PlayingTrulion Online, is an ambitious venture that has gameplay elements inspired by old school games like Zelda and Suikoden. Read on...
Real Time Strategy
Driftland: The Magic Revival
Early Access 1 year Single Player Real Time StrategyAfter a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Faced with the destruction of their entire civilization... Read on...
King of the World
Released 1 year Single & Multiplayer Real Time StrategyKing of the World is the gameplay from RISK in a Real-time strategy setting. Fight up to 12 players against each other while scheming, backstabbing, making shallow alliances or simply conquer to become the last man standing. Read on...
Maelstrom
Early Access 8 months MMO Real Time StrategyGrim fantasy combined with thunderous naval combat in a vibrant, monster-saturated world! Captain an Orc, Dwarf or Human warship and sail the turbulent Abyssal Ocean. Read on...
The Protectors
Released 7 years Single & Multiplayer Real Time StrategyThe Protectors is a stand-alone mod of the game Warlords Battlecry 3. It is an improved RTS/RPG game with new campaigns, quests, terrain, units, items, heroes and more. Read on...
They Are Billions
Early Access 1 year Single Player Real Time StrategyThey Are Billions is a strategy game in a distant future about building and managing human colonies after a zombie apocalypse destroyed almost all of human kind. Read on...
Turn Based Strategy
Laws of Civilization | Political simulation
Released 1 month Single Player Turn Based StrategyLaws of Civilization is a turn-based political simulation game for mobile platforms. The player takes control of a party to run for election and get the most seats as possible in parliament. Read on...
Platformer
Tasukete Tako-San : Save me Mr Tako
Released 2 months Single Player PlatformerYou play Mr Tako, a small octopus that can move, jump, and spit ink . Spitting ink onto an enemy will paralyze them, allowing you to use their body as a block. Read on...
Realistic Sim
Parkasaurus
Released 3 months Single Player Realistic SimChallenge yourself to plan, design and construct fabulous exhibits that maximize both the happiness of their Dinos, and the park guests’ satisfaction and willingness to spend money! Read on...
Futuristic Sim
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Early Access 3 years Single, Multiplayer & Co-Op Futuristic SimEmpyrion is a 3D open world, space survival adventure in which you can fly across space and land on planets. Build, explore, fight and survive in a hostile galaxy full of hidden dangers. Read on...
Meeple Station
Released 2 days Single & Co-op Futuristic SimEver wanted to build your own space station? Trade goods and care for the inhabitants? Explore distant galaxies and take on daring missions while trying to keep your meeple alive! Read on...
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
Released 3 months Single Player Futuristic SimNimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor is a procedurally generated action simulation game. Build space drones out of hundreds of different parts and explore a fully destructible galaxy. Read on...
Virtual Life
Equilinox
Released 1 month Single Player Virtual LifeEquilinox is a nature sandbox game in which you transform a barren landscape into a diverse, dynamic, evolving ecosystem of plants and animals. Shape the world to your liking! Read on...
Puzzle
Black The Fall
Released 1 year Single Player PuzzleAn atmospheric game set-up in a communist dystopian era. Playing as Black, an obedient factory worker, you get one chance to outsmart the oppressive system. Read on...
Shift Quantum
Released 7 months Single Player PuzzleGreetings subject 32763. Welcome to Shift Quantum, the latest version of our immersive experimentation system. SHIFT the world, twist your environment and bend your mind. Read on...
The Subject
Released 1 month Single Player PuzzleYou have been purchased. The Subject is a Sci-Fi horror game from DarkStone Digital. Play as a prisoner sold off to a deep-space testing facility. Read on...
Educational
Mondrian - Plastic Reality
Early Access 1 year Single Player EducationalMondrian's back, and he's taking his friends for a spin through the Plastic Reality. This sequel to Mondrian - Abstraction in Beauty brings new playable characters, new game modes and more. Read on...
Point and Click
War Clicks
Released 2 years Single & Multiplayer Point and ClickWarClicks game introduces new mechanics to incremental games. Game has some special elements that add new elements of variety compared to other clicking games and is surely unique in that look. Read on...
Roguelike
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Released 23 years Single Player RoguelikeADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, with downloads in the millions and many more every day. ADOM was the first roguelike to add a true role-playing experience to the roguelike genre. Read on...
Cogmind
Early Access 1 year Single Player RoguelikeExperience sci-fi tactical combat and exploration in a procedural world that combines traditional roguelikes with an immersive modern interface like no other. Read on...
Gerty
Early Access 1 month Single & Co-op RoguelikeCarve your own path in a new rogue-lite that focuses on challenging combat in fully destructible terrains. Dive into the deep tunnels of a mining colony.. Read on...
Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
Released 11 months Single Player RoguelikeRogue Empire is a innovative Roguelike game with a rich twisted story and infinite replayability. It will spawn a huge world with a growing number of races and classes to play. Read on...
Wizard of Legend
Released 7 months Single & Co-op RoguelikeA rogue-like 2D action adventure game where your goal is to become the strongest wizard of all! Choose a mastery, collect other spells, and defeat everyone who stands in your path to become the Wizard of Legend! Read on...
WOODPUNK
Released 1 month Single & Co-op RoguelikeWOODPUNK is a fast-paced action game, set in the Middle Ages but using futuristic weaponry and tools. The player can fight against well over a hundred enemies onscreen at a time. Read on...
Hack 'n' Slash
Book of Demons
Early Access 2 years Single Player Hack 'n' SlashHack & slash distilled to its purest form. Devilishly charming and fun as hell. Slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral and save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself. Read on...
MOBA
War to the Core
Early Access 1 month Single & Multiplayer MOBAAn action tactical MOBA-RTS hybrid game where you control massive spaceships flying in low orbit and battle for dominance over the planet by employing a unique arsenal of weapons.. Read on...
Upcoming Games
Adventure
Arafinn - Return to Nangrim
TBD Single Player AdventureArafinn - Return to Nangrim is a first-person adventure game with survival and RPG elements. The lands of Arafinn are afflicted by a smoldering conflict that outlasts hundreds of generations. Read on...
Exile Online
TBD MMO AdventureExile Online will be a cyberpunk MMO set in the far future as mankind stuggles to survive political and social strife in a never ending world of plot and subterfuge. Read on...
Harvest Hands
TBD Single Player AdventureHarvest Hands is a first person fantasy farming game. You play the Apprentice Farmer as they learn the ropes of managing their very own farm. Farm, craft and explore! Read on...
Pine
TBD Single Player AdventurePine is a game that adapts to you. Using advanced AI, the game recognizes your patterns and style of play, and its creatures and world react, evolve and adapt to you specifically. Read on...
The Forgotten City
TBD Single Player AdventureThe Forgotten City is a time travel murder mystery set in a mythological city. Deep underground in an ancient Roman city, twenty-six trapped explorers lay dead... Read on...
Those Who Remain
TBD Single Player AdventureA psychological thriller and stand up to a mysterious darkness that is a dreadly thread to everyone. Uncover the unknown dark secret by making your choices and survive by staying in the light. Read on...
First Person Shooter
False Front
TBD Multiplayer First Person ShooterFalse Front is a cartoony first-person shooter set in a world where warfare is not only seen as a sport, but also broadcast on television and seen live by an audience with thousands of people. Read on...
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Coming 2019 Multiplayer & Co-op First Person ShooterWith an emphasis on teamwork, Unboxed is a co-op shooter where players assume the role of Action Figures defending a Fortress against relentless waves of enemies. Read on...
Lost Squad
TBD Single & Co-op First Person ShooterLost Squad - is Source Engine based game about what happened to Barney Calhoun after Half-Life 2: Episode One events and why he was not in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Cause it is an unofficial mod and we have our own plot it is not called Blue Shift 2. Read on...
Lost Story: The Last Days of Earth
TBD Single Player First Person ShooterThe story takes place in a world that is not yet destroyed by the Seven Hour War apocalypse. People have not yet known the terrifying future of the Earth, the future that shall bring only death and destruction. Read on...
PROXIMA ROYALE
TBD Multiplayer First Person ShooterPROXIMA ROYALE is a competitive Sci-Fi Multiplayer Shooter set on the exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. Experience strategic and action-packed multiplayer battles. Read on...
Resistance and Liberation
TBD Multiplayer First Person ShooterResistance and Liberation is an engaging and authentic World War 2 multiplayer FPS experience that puts you in the boots of the soldiers fighting in Normandy in 1944. Read on...
Splitgate: Arena Warfare
Coming Apr 2019 Multiplayer First Person ShooterSplitgate is a fast-paced sci-fi multiplayer shooter that combines the strategic elements of portals with the explosive gameplay of a first person shooter. Read on...
Synther
TBD Single Player First Person ShooterSynther is an FPP simulation game with adventure-like, detective elements set in a futuristic, open world - featuring innovative, Commodore 64-like graphics. Read on...
Trepang2
TBD Single Player First Person ShooterYou are hunted by a group of elite black ops soldiers. Use your superhuman abilities to survive. Become invisible and ambush your enemies. Activate slow motion to dodge bullets and perform impossibly badass combat maneuvers. Read on...
Vanguard: Normandy 1944
Coming Feb 2019 Multiplayer First Person ShooterTraction Wars is a Tactical Teamwork Game set during the Second World War. We aim to create a realistic and historically accurate environment for players to immerse themselves. For information about the first release please see below. Read on...
Tactical Shooter
Battle for Dune: War of Assassins
TBD Multiplayer Tactical ShooterSet in the Dune universe, this mod turns Emperor: Battle For Dune into a First/Third Person Shooter. The Emperor is dead. The Guild has taken over the Spice flow on Arrakis until someone else claims it, three Houses remain after the long fighting on Arrak Read on...
Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising
TBD Multiplayer Tactical ShooterJoin the fray of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 firsthand in Apocalypse Rising, a mod that finds you in the boots of an Allied G.I. or a Soviet Conscript in the heat of battle, fighting among all of the units and buildings from the original game. Read on...
Role Playing
Between the Stars
TBD Single Player Role PlayingBetween the Stars is a roguelike game where you play as a captain of a military spaceship to get to the capital of the Republic to defend it from the attack of the outer worlds. Read on...
INTERSTELLAR PRIME
Coming Q4 2019 Single Player Role PlayingINTERSTELLAR PRIME is a unique new space RPG genre that combines 3rd person RPG, real-time strategy, and space simulation in ONE seamless gameplay. Read on...
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
TBD Single & Multiplayer Role PlayingMount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a sandbox action-RPG strategy hybrid will take players on a journey into a fictional world of up-close and personal medieval combat on a huge scale, bigger, bloodier and more intense than ever before. Read on...
Wellspring: Altar of Roots
Coming 2020 Single Player Role PlayingBevontule is an upcoming tactical turn-based RPG that layers innovative mechanics atop classic role-playing elements, while presenting a compelling, deep and mature storyline spanning thousands of years. Read on...
Real Time Strategy
0 A.D. Empires Ascendant
TBD Single & Multiplayer Real Time Strategy0 A.D. is a new real-time strategy currently undergoing development by Wildfire Games. Featuring a ground-breaking new game engine custom built to suit our environment, 0 A.D. strives to preserve historical accuracy combined with engaging gameplay. Read on...
Arisen
TBD Single Player Real Time StrategyNeolithic survival real-time strategy. Based back in the stone age era. Player has to take care of the tribe. Build a save place for generations to come and lead the tribe through all dangers. Read on...
Cepheus Protocol
TBD Single Player Real Time StrategyA lethal virus has infected Treasure Island, San Francisco and it is up to Captain Winter, a U.S. Army soldier working with the Center for Epidemic Research and Control to stop it spreading. Read on...
Foundation
TBD Single Player Real Time StrategyFoundation is a grid-less, sprawling medieval city building simulation with a heavy focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management. Read on...
King under the Mountain
TBD Single Player Real Time StrategyKing under the Mountain is a simulation-based strategy/management game where you design, build and run a settlement in a fantasy world. Read on...
Platformer
Etherborn
Coming 2019 Single Player PlatformerEtherborn is an exploration platformer set in a strange and exotic world where the laws of physics behave in a completely different way than in ours. Read on...
Guardian Of Lore
Coming 2020 Single Player PlatformerIn Guardian of Lore every level is a Native American Myth based story, that you must save from a mysterious force that is trying to destroy it. Read on...
Leaden Sky
TBD Single Player PlatformerLeaden Sky is an upcoming side scrolling run n' gun shooter, with an emphasis on brutal gore mechanics, and visceral, horrifying action! Read on...
Fighting
Griefhelm
TBD Single, Multiplayer & Co-Op FightingGriefhelm is a 2D Sidescroller dueling game with direction-based combat. A mix of Nidhogg and Mount & blade. The game will feature couch-play as well as online play. Read on...
Realistic Sim
Session
TBD Single & Multiplayer Realistic SimEmbrace skateboarding like never before with our unique dual stick controls and video creation tools. Skate, film, share and repeat! Read on...
Combat Sim
Infinity: Battlescape
TBD Multiplayer Combat SimInfinity: Battlescape is a multiplayer space sim spanning a single true to scale star system filled with dozens of planets and moons. Hundreds of players spanning up to 3 powerful corporations of the Starfold Confederacy will fight to win control. Read on...
Futuristic Sim
Starmancer
TBD Single Player Futuristic SimStarmancer is a Dwarf Fortress inspired space station building game. After a catastrophe on Earth, humanity launches the Starmancer Initiative in a desperate attempt to seek refuge. Read on...
Third Person Shooter
KITSUNETSUKI project
TBD Multiplayer Third Person Shooterkitsune.ONE team are creating the multiplayer-focused arena third-person shooter (TPS) game - but with no classes, leveling, health regen, cover systems and more. Read on...
My Friend Pedro: Blood Bullets Bananas
TBD Single Player Third Person ShooterMy Friend Pedro: Blood Bullets Bananas' is a violent ballet about friendship and imagination where players strategically bounce bullets off frying pans. Read on...
Road To Eden
Coming Feb 2019 Multiplayer & Co-op Third Person ShooterEarth is invaded by unknown beings, ninety percent of the population vanished without a trace, humanity last resort is project Eden, a base of operation from where we are fighting back. Read on...
Arcade
Cold.Shell
TBD Single Player ArcadeFuture, one of Earth's colonies. There was a war your home country lost. Occupation forces don't care about people - crime and decadence are everywhere. Read on...
Tiny Tanks
TBD Single & Multiplayer ArcadeTiny Tanks is an 8 player multiplayer game with toy tanks that blow each other up in a completely destructible arena. With hundreds of game modes and modifier combinations.. Read on...
Point and Click
3 Minutes to Midnight
Coming Q2 2019 Single Player Point and ClickSomewhere in New Mexico, an explosion shatters the night. Plucky teenager Betty Anderson wakes with a jolt. Where is she? Who is she? Read on...
Murder Mystery Machine
TBD Single Player Point and ClickMurder Mystery Machine is an upcoming detective game for PC where you solve procedurally-generated mysteries. Read on...
Roguelike
Caiam Piter and the Mushroom Kingdom
TBD Single Player RoguelikeCaiam Piter and the Mushroom Kingdom is an exploration based 2D RPG dungeon crawler game where you take the role of a mystical mushroom with the important mission of survive.. Read on...
Turn Based Tactics
Alder's Blood
TBD Single Player Turn Based TacticsSwamped in a mixture of blood and mud, Alder's Blood will be a turn-based tactical strategy game, where the nature is ruled by pure madness. Read on...
4X
Interstellar Space: Genesis
TBD Single Player 4XInterstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game where you are the emperor of a space faring civilization. Read on...
Ymir
TBD MMO 4XYmir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age. Read on...