The best independent games on PC (2025)

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2025 has so far been amazing in independent games and we are in the middle of the year. This makes it complex to choose the best when independent programmers honored us Banger PO Banger.

We highly recommend Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the fogBut only after the game Lilies Ender: Silent KnightsSo he is not on this list. You can expect that many other independent gems will be released this year and the next, but we looked at our favorite from winter 2024 to the summer of 2025, let’s get to the best independent games that you can play on PC.

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Recent independent games on the PC that we can’t stop playing

10 dead pigeons

Photo Duonix Studios/Mark Byram II/Sean-Michael Millard

Date of issue: December 13, 2024
Price: $ 24.99

Surreal adventure, it is complex to sum up properly 10 dead pigeons No rage. This very unique horror is full of comedy moments and an amazing atmosphere that will certainly remain with you. Yes, you may never really understand what is going on, but you will delight with its history, characters and strangeness that you will want to see the game to the bitter end. The strange story focused on the father’s regret, there is nothing like 10 dead pigeons experience.

Blue prince

Camping at Blue Prince
Photo through the dumpombie

Date of issue: April 10, 2025
Price: USD 29.99

Reaching room 46 is not so straightforward when RNG actively works against you. Three doors welcome you at the entrance to the estate, but can you find the way and discover the secrets of a great uncle? Get ready for the best Rogualite Puzzle game, which is cozy, but ominous that it will certainly keep COG in your brain forever. Playback is done through the roof. Blue prince He keeps your hooks in you after putting on and put in your ego, because nothing matters that he will not know what can hide in the 46th room of 45-room property.

Deltarune

Crossing a busy street in Deltarune
Photo Toby Fox

Date of issue: June 4, 2025
Price: $ 24.99

Deltarune It grows from strength to strength thanks to unforgettable characters, dialogue and legendary soundtrack. What at first looks like a flat, pixel world is alive in a subtle but satisfying design of art and character. Everything stands out, because every pixel is intentionally placed to do Deltarune Sometimes entertaining, unforgettable and poignant. This episodic RPG is nostalgic both in terms of what it looks and plays, but is able to transform into a fantasy field like no other. While the plot and species are basic on paper, its performance allows you to decide what hero you want to be, what makes him ordinary RPG.

Detective Duck: The Ghost of Glamping

Duck detective sitting at the desk
Photo through Happy Breccoli Games

Date of issue: May 22, 2025
Price: 9.99 USD

Who wants cosplay as Sherlock Holmes when you can be Duck detective? Lovely witty, this low mysterious game will bring a smile on your face and sultry up your heart. From time to time, we all need a cozy game – a place to visit and end after a long day of work. With an iconic acting voice, a charming cardboard cutout of art and jazz music, Duck detective This is a bizarre mysterious adventure that does not take himself too seriously and you should not. Meet the suspects, build your case and solve the mystery, and at the same time revolves as a divorced (and very masculine) duck.

HompiFipher

Mr Scarletetella's back in Hompishipher
Photo by eight wood games

Date of issue: November 1, 2024
Price: USD 13.99

If you’ve ever wanted to get to linguistics, that’s where to start. This tame horror is a visual novel with an accent. HompiFipher He places you in a completely foreign country, where there are entities to greet you or kill you. You won’t know what the result will be until you make a choice, but if you have when you can’t say what someone is saying? This adventure at a point and click asks you to decipher invented language, promising playback, terrifying and (sometimes) affable characters, with various paths to travel down, when you try to understand the maze in which you were imprisoned, and the inhabitants in which it is located.

Karma: The Dark World

Daniel standing in front of a giant pillar with two huge hands on both sides in a room resembling the abyss surrounded by water
Photo of Pollard Studio LLC

Date of issue: March 27, 2025
Price: $ 24.99

Examination of the minds of criminals, diving head for their memories, Karma: The Dark World This is a film independent horror inspired by Orwell 1984. Although this is not particularly terrifying, his story is really unforgettable. Yes, it takes some time to really understand what is going on. But when he strikes, he really hits. I left this game when I applauded while the loans were going on. Karma A game like an interactive film created by Minds as complicated as overdue and great David Lynch. Although he does nothing special in its game, because it is mainly a walking SIM card, there is so much to unpack in its mental history.

Look outside

Sam looks at the window in horror
Photo of Francis Coulombe

Date of issue: March 21, 2025
Price: 7.99 USD

Can you survive an unearthly epidemic in which the neighbors surrounding you on both sides transformed into cosmic creatures, wanting to make you one of them? To endure 15 days and know that you can never – all costs –Look outside. Perfectly capturing Lovecraftian aesthetics, Look outside It combines elements of horror and survival to create a terrifyingly claustrophobic experience with an amazing art project. Terror is waiting for your threshold, but you have to go outside in a great unknown if you want to do it.

I’m sorry we’re closed

Michelle holds a firearm in sorry that we are closed
Fashionable games by fashion

Date of issue: November 14, 2024
Price: $ 24.99

You can play the most survived horror you can play I’m sorry we’re closed It requires attention in brilliant neon lights. Game of learning, as it is really to love, this brown world is growing size and color because of the colorful cast, fantastic dialogue and nostalgic fight. Gives many prospects, set camera corners and characteristic gameplay mechanics I’m sorry we’re closed Strong identity. Transferred to another kingdom in order to reject the progress of the demon, I’m sorry we’re closed I feel like a return to the classics Silent Hill AND Resident Evilbut with Rockstar accent.

Changes

Beautiful kinematic landscape shot
Photo by 11 -bit studies

Date of issue: June 13, 2025
Price: 34.99 USD

It is straightforward to disperses stunning science fiction landscapes ChangesBut the reason you should push is a unique approach to survival and strategy, because you need to manage the happiness of your little colony and keep morale, raising the moral question whether the creation of clones yourself can be ethical. All born from the same memories, each change receives their function, all for the name of survival. The final game on resource management, mining is only one part ChangesAnd pales compared to the decisions that you need to make for yourself and your changes (clones), which ultimately change who they are as people.

North walk

The boy from the pot, looking at Soulfisher by the fire
Photo through moonhood

Date of issue: May 8, 2025
Price: $ 39.99

It is so lovely North walk When he records mental obstacles, we must overcome to achieve inevitable delicate in something that seems to be endless darkness. Standing out with your great art project, North walk This is a passion project made of clay. Bring your little flame and change the lives of those you meet along the way, while overcoming the darkness around you. We all travel along the path, and sometimes he takes all our lives all our lives to see the delicate. But there is always such hope for a better day – because you never know what it can bring tomorrow.

What were your favorite independent games from 2025? Do you think that everyone can be claimers to Gota, or do we all think about the same? Certainly one specific game will be winned – and it is Clear unclear: Expedition 33.


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