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58 indie games in this list, released 2011–2026, from developers such as Fumi Games, HAMMER95, DeadToast Entertainment. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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By Fumi Games · Poland
Set in a 1930s world populated by anthropomorphic mice, Mouse: P.I. for Hire casts players as private investigator Jack Pepper, voiced by Troy Baker, as he digs into a mysterious case around the fictional town of Mouseburg. The action plays out as a first-person shooter. Polish studio Fumi Games developed it and PlaySide Studios published it in April 2026, and it earned generally favourable reviews along with a Metacritic score of 80.
By HAMMER95 · Brazil
Built for one player, Mullet MadJack is a first-person shooter that mixes in roguelite structure, keeping the focus on action-driven runs. It was developed by Hammer95 Studios in Brazil and published by Epopeia Games, launching on Windows in May 2024. Versions for current and previous-generation Xbox consoles followed in March 2025 as part of Xbox Game Pass, and a Nintendo Switch release arrived in April 2026.
By DeadToast Entertainment · Sweden
My Friend Pedro is a run and gun action game built around shooting through its levels. It grew out of an earlier Flash game, MFP: My Friend Pedro, released in 2014 by Adult Swim Games. Swedish developer DeadToast Entertainment built the full version, which Devolver Digital published for Windows and Nintendo Switch in June 2019, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 ports following. It holds a Metacritic score of 81.
By Buckshot Software · Poland
A first-person shooter from Polish studio Buckshot Software, Project Warlock was released in 2018 and published by Gaming Company. Its most remarkable story is its creator: Jakub Cislo built the game at the age of 18 while still attending high school. The game holds a Metacritic score of 78, and it was followed by Project Warlock II, which entered early access in 2022 and saw a full release in 2025.
By Consumer Softproducts · Finland
Psycho Patrol R is a first-person shooter by Ville Kallio of Consumer Softproducts, a studio in Finland, which entered Steam early access on March 23, 2025. Set in a satirical cyberpunk take on early 21st-century Europe in which Wilhelm Reich's ideas are scientifically proven, it casts the player as a member of an elite, mech-equipped police task force. The job is to investigate and eliminate psychohazards that threaten public minds and state security.
By Nimble Giant Entertainment · Argentina
Quantum League is a competitive online first-person shooter from Argentina's Nimble Giant Entertainment, released on Windows in 2021. Matches take place inside a repeating time loop, so each round you fight alongside recordings of your own earlier and later actions. Games are played as one-on-one or two-on-two duels, which rewards planning where your past selves will stand. Steam tags it as action, sports and strategy.
By SteelRaven7 · Sweden
Ravenfield is a single-player first-person shooter rendered in a low-poly visual style. It was created by Swedish programmer Johan Hassel, who publishes under the name SteelRaven7, and it launched as an early access title on 18 May 2017 for Windows, macOS and Linux. The available facts cover its genre and simple look rather than detailed mechanics, so it is best approached as a straightforward solo shooter from a one-person developer.
By Accidently Awesome · Austria
Roto Force is a twin-stick shooter, the kind of action game where one control moves your character and another aims your fire. It was developed by Accidently Awesome, a studio from Austria, and published by PID Games and East2West Games. The game was released in 2023 for both mobile devices and personal computers, including Windows, macOS and Linux.
By Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, Swag Soft Holdings Pte Ltd · Singapore
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.
By Crackshell, Croteam · Sweden
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is a twin-stick shooter that takes the Serious Sam series into a top-down format, with one to four players fighting enemy waves across Egypt, Greece and the Moon. Weapons are found in levels, and stars earned by exploring or gaining experience buy character upgrades. Deathmatch and survival modes support up to twelve players. Swedish studio Crackshell made it with approval from Croteam, and Devolver Digital published it in 2017.
By Croteam · Croatia
Released in 2011, Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person shooter from Croatia-based indie studio Croteam, published by Devolver Digital and running on Serious Engine 3.5. A prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, it is set in 22nd-century Egypt as Mental invades Earth. It offers 16-player online play plus a four-player split-screen co-op campaign, and it later arrived on OS X and Linux.
By Croteam · Croatia
Serious Sam 4 is a first-person shooter from Croatian studio Croteam, published by Devolver Digital and released in 2020. It belongs to the long-running Serious Sam series and is set before the events of Serious Sam 3: BFE, continuing the franchise's first-person gunplay. The project was first revealed in 2018 as Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass, runs on Croteam's Serious Engine, and later received a standalone expansion called Siberian Mayhem.
By Croteam VR · Croatia
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is a 2017 virtual reality first-person shooter from Croteam VR, a specialised division that Croatian studio Croteam set up to explore VR development. Alone or with a second player, you hold off waves of enemies and bosses across five themed planets, dual-wielding weapons within a limited play space as foes close in from a 180-degree arc. Devolver Digital published it after an early access period.
By Digital Reality · Hungary
Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot 'em up in 2.5D, where movement is locked to two axes while the world around it is rendered in full 3D. Time is the central factor, feeding into a distinctive time-based mechanic alongside elaborate boss battles, and its diesel punk setting is populated by anthropomorphic characters. Hungarian studio Digital Reality co-developed it with Grasshopper Manufacture, and it holds a Metacritic score of 77.
By Double Dash Studios · Brazil
Sky Racket mixes block-breaking with shoot 'em up action in bright cartoon worlds, a blend its creators call a Shmup Breaker. It began in 2015 as RacketBoy during Indie Vs Gamers, a 72-hour jam hosted by Game Jolt, and was later shown at PAX East 2019. Brazilian independent developer Double Dash Studios released it for Windows, macOS and Linux in October 2019.
By Offworld · Canada
Squad is a tactical first-person shooter centred on military realism, built by Canadian indie developer Offworld Industries in Unreal Engine 4. Players join large-scale battles between military and paramilitary factions on expansive maps, with the design aiming to capture realistic modern combat. It is seen as a spiritual follow-up to the Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2, and it left Steam Early Access for a full release in 2020.
By Lapovich Team · Belarus
State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem is a casual action game that combines bullet hell shooting with reckless driving through a town in chaos, with aliens attacking from above. Steam categorizes it as action, casual and indie. The Belarusian developer Lapovich Team made and self-published it, releasing it in March 2017 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Beyond that premise, few further gameplay details are verified.
By Locomalito, Gryzor87, Abylight · Spain
Super Hydorah is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up in which the pilot of a lone space fighter, the Delta Lance, battles the alien Meroptians to save humanity. It imitates the look of 16- and 32-bit era games and adds a CRT screen effect. Created in Spain by Locomalito, with Abylight Studios publishing it in September 2017, it expands the developer's earlier freeware Hydorah; critics liked its visuals and music but found its difficulty harsh.
By SUPERHOT Team · Poland
A 2020 follow-up to Superhot, Mind Control Delete keeps the series in first-person shooter territory while layering roguelike elements onto the mechanics of the 2016 original. It was developed and self-published by Superhot Team, an independent studio based in Poland, and released on Steam for Windows, macOS and Linux. The game carries a Metacritic score of 78 and is tagged on Steam as an indie action title.
By Flow Fire Games · Germany
Synthetik: Legion Rising is a top-down shooter with roguelike structure, set in an alternate version of the 1980s where hostile artificial intelligence endangers humanity. Runs push you through fights against machine enemies with the risk and repetition typical of roguelikes. The game was made in GameMaker by Flow Fire Games, an independent studio in Berlin, Germany, and launched on Steam in March 2018 as Synthetik before a free expansion renamed it.
By quicktequila · India
Tamashika is a first-person shooter from the Indian studio Quicktequila, published by EDGLRD, a US creative-tech company that filmmaker Harmony Korine started in 2023. Store tags list it simply as an action game, and its brief Steam blurb frames the experience around keeping your mind focused in one place. It launched in April 2026 across Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and both the Xbox One and Series X/S consoles.
By DO MY BEST · Russia
The Final Station is a side-scrolling shooter that layers train simulation and exploration on top of its combat. It was developed by the Russian studio Do My Best Games, and brought to Steam by publisher tinyBuild in late August 2016. Critics praised its originality and world-building while pointing to its linear structure, and a DLC called The Only Traitor followed in 2017 with a new lead character whose story runs alongside the main one.
By Carlsen Games · Denmark
THOTH, an abstract shoot 'em up, comes from Carlsen Games in Denmark, released for Windows and Mac in 2016 under the Double Fine Presents label. It was created by Jeppe Carlsen, who had served as lead gameplay designer on Playdead's Limbo and Inside. In keeping with its genre, play revolves around shooting and evading enemies, all presented in a stripped-back, abstract visual style that suits its minimal approach.
By Puppygames · United Kingdom
Titan Attacks! is a fixed shooter in the arcade tradition, where the player's craft slides along the bottom of the screen and fires upward at descending waves of alien invaders. Critics liked its art style and moreish flow but noted a limited amount of content. It was developed and self-published by Puppy Games, a studio in the United Kingdom, first appearing in 2006, and it was followed by Revenge of the Titans in 2010.