Loren The Amazon Princess blends a visual novel with fantasy role-playing, pairing story-driven scenes with RPG systems. It was created by Winter Wolves, an independent studio in Italy, using the Ren'Py engine, and first released on April 30, 2012 before its Steam launch in 2014. An expansion, The Castle Of N'mar, came later in 2012, and a 2014 spin-off in the Tales of Aravorn line carried the subtitle Seasons of the Wolf.
Lost in Play is a point-and-click adventure about siblings Gal and Toto, whose make-believe game turns their home and neighbourhood into a fantastical world. With no readable dialogue, it tells its story through cartoon visuals, and players move between loosely linked scenes solving puzzles and minigames with clues and gathered items. Israeli studio Happy Juice Games made it as its debut in 2022, and it earned IndieCade's 2022 Developer Choice Award.
Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling action game from Altari Games in South Korea, released in 2021 and published by DANGEN Entertainment. It blends metroidvania-style exploration with survival elements. The player controls a young girl who wakes up with no memories in an unfamiliar land, then explores its dark, hostile spaces, fights grotesque monsters and takes on powerful bosses.
Love Esquire mixes a visual novel, a dating sim and RPG elements in a comedic fantasy tale. Instead of a hero, the player controls a humble squire with only a few months to win someone's heart before being sent off to war, which gives the romance a ticking clock. It was developed and published by Yangyang Mobile, a studio based in the Philippines, and released in October 2019 for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Lovely Planet 2: April Skies combines first-person shooting with platforming, following on from the original Lovely Planet from 2014. Levels mix gunplay with jumping as you move through stages. It was developed by Quicktequila, an indie developer from India, and published by tinyBuild, arriving on Windows, macOS and Linux in June 2019. Critics gave it mixed reviews, and it holds a Metacritic score of 69 on its store listing.
Lucius is a 2012 horror adventure from Finnish studio Shiver Games, released for Microsoft Windows. Players control Lucius, a six-year-old boy who is the son of Lucifer, using telekinesis and mind control to arrange fatal accidents for the residents of Dante Manor one by one. The game led to two sequels, Lucius II: The Prophecy in 2015 and Lucius III in 2018, extending the story of its unsettling young protagonist.
Movie Games Lunarium, a Polish developer, made Lust for Darkness as an erotic horror adventure first released in 2018 for Windows and macOS. Its story draws on the imagery of Giger and Beksiński as well as the writing of Lovecraft. Console versions for Switch and PlayStation 4 followed via publisher SimFabric in 2019 and 2020, and a sequel, Lust from Beyond, arrived in 2021.
Following on from Lust for Darkness, Lust from Beyond is a 2021 erotic horror game from Polish developer Movie Games Lunarium, published by Movie Games. Like its predecessor, it tells a sexually charged horror story shaped by the art of Beksiński and Giger and the fiction of Lovecraft. On Steam it is listed as an action-adventure title for Windows, and it continues the same unsettling world.
Luxuria Superbia is an abstract game in which players stroke and stimulate colourful, flower-like tunnels, using the controls as a metaphor for sexual arousal. Critics valued its unusual concept, design and touch input, while some felt the levels lacked variety or reasons to finish them. Made by Belgian studio Tale of Tales and released in 2013, it received the Independent Games Festival's Nuovo Award, was an IndieCade finalist, and has drawn academic attention.
Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior is an action game from Sand Door Studio, a developer in France, published under Quantic Dream's Spotlight label. You control a warrior who can battle alongside copies of herself recorded from earlier attempts, layering past runs into each encounter. Its Steam tags add a strategy element to that loop. The game was released in February 2024.
Machinarium is a puzzle-driven point-and-click adventure from Czech studio Amanita Design, released in October 2009. Players progress by interacting with the hand-crafted scenes and solving puzzles, in the tradition of graphic adventure games with an art-game sensibility. Originally built in Adobe Flash, it received a Definitive Version in 2017 that moved to a DirectX engine with full-screen support, and it has reached many platforms from iPad to PlayStation Vita.
Machineers is an episodic puzzle adventure from Lohika Games, a developer based in Denmark, in which players rebuild twelve whimsical machines from gears, belts, wires and other mechanical components. The player is Zola, a newly hired intern at Hayden's Repair Shop in Tivoli Town. Episode 1 first came out in October 2014 and Episode 2 followed in April 2015, and the first episode is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Mad Father is a survival horror game that blends role-playing and puzzle elements, following Aya, an 11-year-old who sneaks into her father's hidden laboratory to learn the terrible truth behind his research. Japanese developer Sen created it, with the original release arriving in December 2012 and a light novel adaptation in 2014. Built with Wolf RPG Editor, it reached Steam in September 2016 through Playism.
MADiSON is a first-person horror game built around a cursed instant camera. Players follow Luca, a teenager who receives the camera for his sixteenth birthday, and use it to work through puzzles while piecing together the dark story behind it. Developed by the Argentine studio Bloodious Games, it began as a 2016 project with an early demo in 2017 and launched in July 2022, drawing praise for its puzzle quality and carefully balanced tension.
Mars First Logistics is a transport simulation about building your own rovers and other vehicles to carry odd cargo across the surface of Mars. Set in a science fiction future, your deliveries help support the colonization of the planet, and the game can be played solo or cooperatively with up to three players. It was developed by Shape Shop, a studio based in Melbourne, Australia, and left early access for a full release in September 2025.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game created by Czech developer Jan Zelený. The aim is to build a railroad empire across procedurally generated maps, switching into a schematic construction mode to plan and lay out the network. Its rules borrow ideas from board games, adding a tabletop flavour to the logistics of expansion, and it has been playable through early access since October 2017.
M.A.S.S. Builder, short for Mechanical Assault Skeleton Suit Builder, is a mech combat game from the Thai studio Vermillion Digital, published by Sekai Project. Players design and customize their own combat suits, then lead the defense against an alien invasion intent on wiping out humanity. The fighting mixes role-playing progression with hack-and-slash melee and third-person shooting.
Mikołaj Kamiński, an independent creator from Poland who works under the name Sos Sosowski, made McPixel, a comedic puzzle game first released in 2012. Kamiński handled publishing himself, bringing it to Steam in September 2012 for Windows and Mac. Steam files it under action and adventure alongside its indie tag, and it holds a Metacritic score of 76.
Medieval Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game from Czech developer Keen Software House. It takes place on an unnamed, waterless Earth-like planetoid whose terrain players can explore, mine, reshape and deform as they work. Blending action, simulation and strategy elements according to its store genres, it entered Steam early access in February 2015 and reached its full release in March 2020.
Merchant of the Skies is a simulation game that mixes the building-up of a tycoon title with the numbers of an economic sim. Its Steam tags also point to strategy and role-playing elements alongside the trading focus. It was created by Latvian developer Coldwild Games, which published it together with AbsoDev, and it came out in 2020. The available sources do not go further into its systems, but it sits firmly in the business management side of indie games.
من تطوير Action Square(STUDIO HG) · كوريا الجنوبية
Metallic Child is an action roguelite viewed from an isometric perspective, built around fast combat and repeated runs. It comes from Studio HG, a one-person South Korean outfit credited on Steam as Action Square (STUDIO HG), with HIKE handling publishing. The game reached Windows through Steam and Nintendo Switch in September 2021. Beyond its action and roguelike labels, the available facts say little about its structure, so expect a compact run-based brawler rather than a sprawling adventure.
من تطوير Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel · الولايات المتحدة
Mewgenics combines cat breeding with tactical roguelike combat: players raise cats that take on character classes, then send them on adventures resolved through tactical battles on procedurally generated grids. The project began at Team Meat in 2012, stalled for years and was cancelled, then Edmund McMillen reacquired it and finished it with Tyler Glaiel. The American duo released it on Windows in February 2026, and it sold over a million copies in its first week.
In Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk, an unnamed woman heads to a nearby shop to buy a bag of milk while struggling with severe trauma, and the player acts as the voice inside her head, sharing her inner monologue. This psychological horror visual novel was made by Russian developer Nikita Kryukov using Ren'Py and released on Steam in August 2020, with a sequel following in 2021.
A direct sequel to its 2020 predecessor, Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk continues the story of the same unnamed heroine, exploring her unsettling dreams through themes of isolation, trauma and depression. This psychological horror visual novel was developed and published by Russian indie creator Nikita Kryukov using Ren'Py, and it arrived on Steam and itch.io in December 2021.