9 indie games in this list, released 2014–2024, from developers such as The Gentlebros, AtomicTorch Studio, aliasBLACK. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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Cat Quest II is an action role-playing game from The Gentlebros, a studio based in Singapore, released in 2019 as a follow-up to the original Cat Quest. Players guide two rulers, a feline monarch and a canine monarch, who team up to win back their thrones from oppressive rule. The fantasy world is full of magic, monsters to fight and loot to gather, and the adventure can be played alone or cooperatively with a friend controlling the second hero.
Cat Quest III is the third entry in The Gentlebros' Cat Quest series, an action role-playing game released in 2024 and published by Kepler Interactive. This time the hero is a feline privateer roaming a 2.5D open world overrun by rat pirates, sailing a ship between islands in search of treasure while a Pirate King gives chase. The Gentlebros are a development studio based in Singapore.
CryoFall is a multiplayer science-fiction survival game from AtomicTorch Studio, a Singapore-based developer, with its full Steam release arriving in April 2021 through publisher Daedalic Entertainment. Players establish a colony on an abandoned planet far in the future, staying alive while working through technology, farming, trade, industry and cybernetics. Its Steam tags span RPG, simulation and strategy alongside massively multiplayer play.
Glyphica: Typing Survival turns keyboard skill into a weapon: enemies pour into a minimalist arena and are cut down by typing quickly and accurately. It mixes roguelite runs, bullet hell shooting and horde survival, with a chosen weapon loadout shaping each attempt. The game comes from aliasBLACK, an independent studio in Singapore, and launched on Steam in early access in October 2024 with Squeaky Wheel publishing.
Sairento VR is a virtual reality action game that combines first-person shooting with free-flowing close combat. Players move acrobatically with triple jumps, wall runs and power slides, slow down time in mid-air and switch between katanas, firearms, bows and throwing glaives, upgrading their kit as they progress. It was made by the Singapore-based studios Mixed Realms and Swag Soft and launched for PC VR headsets in February 2018.
Toribash is a free-to-play fighting game viewed from a third-person perspective, where fights unfold turn by turn rather than in real time. Nabi Studios, a developer from Singapore, created it, with Nicalis as publisher, first on Windows in 2006, with OS X and Linux versions arriving in May 2014. A Wii port came out in 2010, and a sequel, Toribash Next, launched in January 2024.
VoidExpanse is a science-fiction space game from AtomicTorch Studio, a developer based in Singapore, released in 2015 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Players pilot a ship through a large universe, mining asteroids, trading, taking on missions and upgrading both their vessel and their character. Fast combat against hostile aliens and mercenaries is part of the loop, and the game draws on RPG, simulation and strategy elements.
Cat Quest is a light action RPG from the Singapore studio The Gentlebros, set in an open world full of cats, puns and loot. You explore the map, take on quests and fight with a mix of melee attacks and magic, all at a brisk pace that suits short sessions. It was well received by critics and is an easy RPG to recommend to newcomers.
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter Metroidvania in which you swing across the map with a grappling hook. You play Fern, who wakes in a wasteland of aging machinery and forgotten creatures called Fae, and sets out to recover the stolen pieces of an entity known as Titania. Its grapple movement gives familiar exploration a fast, acrobatic feel.