8 indie games in this list, released 2018–2026, from developers such as Suncrash, Clover Bite, We Create Stuff. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a survival city-builder in which your city flies, travelling between procedurally generated maps. Players build and automate production and defend the settlement across a quirky post-apocalyptic world filled with nightmares, odd science, and dreams. It comes from Suncrash, an Israeli studio, was co-published with Gamirror Games, and was released on Windows in May 2024, with Steam also tagging it as an RPG.
GRIME is a Metroidvania with role-playing systems and a soulsvania streak, built around exploring an interconnected world and fighting through it. It comes from Clover Bite, an independent developer in Israel, and was published by Akupara Games. The game first arrived in August 2021 on Windows and Google Stadia before reaching PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch in later years. Critics were broadly positive, and a follow-up, Grime II, was announced in 2023.
GRIME II is a surreal action-adventure metroidvania in which you play a being that steals the forms of others. Tendrils made of hands let you absorb enemies and then summon moulds shaped like them, while you explore a strange, lived-in world with an obsession for art. It is developed by Clover Bite, a studio from Israel, published by Kwalee, and arrived on Windows in March 2026.
In Sound Mind is a psychological horror game from We Create Stuff, a studio based in Israel, released on Windows in September 2021. Steam lists it under action and indie, and it belongs to the horror tradition of unsettling atmosphere and dread rather than straightforward combat. Its store publisher is Black Lantern Collective, and it holds a Metacritic score of 75. The available facts say little about its specific mechanics, so treat it as a horror title first and foremost.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation is a colony management game where a small band of survivors sets up a base in a remote valley while demons overrun the world. Players scavenge, craft, and construct, perform occult rituals, and fight in tactical combat to keep the colony alive. Israeli indie company Suncrash developed and published it, first in Early Access in 2016 and fully in 2018, with a Metacritic score of 72.
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.
Of Bird and Cage presents a metal album as a story-driven game roughly two hours long, letting players experience the music in an unusual interactive form. Its store listing names guest performers including Ron Thal, Rob van der Loo, and Ruud Jolie. Developed and published by Capricia Productions, a studio from Israel, it was released on Windows in May 2021 and is tagged on Steam as an action game.
Piposh is an episodic point-and-click comedy adventure that reboots a series Israeli studio Guillotine originally produced between 1999 and 2003. Players follow the misadventures of Hezi Piposh, a failed actor chasing a lead role in a film, exploring locations, picking up items, and talking with characters to move the story on. Initially planned in several parts, it was completed as a single release in 2021.