926 indie games in this list, released 2010–2026, from developers such as Videocult, Rake in Grass, SteelRaven7. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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Rain World is a survival platformer starring a slugcat, a nimble creature somewhere between cat and slug, searching for its lost family in the ruins of an ancient industrial civilization. Players scavenge food, hurl debris at predators and race to hibernation rooms before lethal rains fall, inside an ecosystem whose creatures act on their own. Independent American studio Videocult, a two-person team, developed it, and it launched on Windows in March 2017 through Akupara Games.
Rampage Knights is a roguelike from Czech developer Rake in Grass, released in 2015. Its Steam listing places it across the action, adventure and RPG genres, combining direct combat with role-playing elements inside a roguelike structure. The game came out for Windows in September 2015, with Rake in Grass handling both development and publishing, and it holds a Metacritic score of 80.
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.
Ravenous Devils is a darkly comic horror cooking simulation set in Victorian London in the 19th century. Players manage a tailor shop and a pub run by Percival and Hildred: he kills his customers and sends the bodies down a trap door, and she turns them into meat dishes for diners upstairs. Its style and story borrow heavily from Sweeney Todd. Bad Vices Games of Italy both developed and published it in Unreal Engine 4, releasing it in April 2022.
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a role-playing game about Recette, a girl who must run an item shop from her home, guided by a fairy named Tear, to clear her missing father's large debt before a deadline. Play alternates between haggling with customers over prices and joining adventurers in randomly generated dungeons to find stock. Made by Japanese dōjin maker EasyGameStation, it was the first independent Japanese game released on Steam.
Redcon - Strike Commander, styled REDCON, is a 2016 real-time strategy game from Czech developer Hexage. It draws its inspiration from Cannon Fodder, the third segment of the Japanese anime film Memories. Released for Windows in April 2016, it is listed under the strategy and simulation genres, and Hexage both developed and published it.
Released in 2018, Remothered: Tormented Fathers is a survival horror game conceived, written and directed by Italian artist Chris Darril and developed by Stormind Games in Italy. It pays tribute to the Japanese Clock Tower series. Rosemary Reed comes to the Felton mansion to look into the years-old disappearance of the family's daughter Celeste, and once owner Richard sees through her, a night of pursuit begins. It was generally well reviewed, and a sequel, Broken Porcelain, followed in 2020.
Replaced is a 2.5D action platformer with pixel art, set in an alternate-history 1980s America with a cyberpunk atmosphere. The story centres on R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence trapped inside a human body, through a cinematic story that mixes exploration with tense action sequences. It was developed by Sad Cat Studios, based in Cyprus, published by Coatsink and Thunderful, and released in April 2026 on Windows and Xbox Series X/S.
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is a relaxed job simulation about running a small repair business. Players take in broken gadgets and work through fixing a range of devices, with the setting placed in Japan during the mid-2000s. It was developed by Mandragora, a studio from Turkey, and published by tinyBuild. The game launched in August 2026 on Windows and Mac, offering a calm, hands-on take on the workshop sim.
Retail Hell puts the player behind the counter of a convenience store in purgatory, working a shift that never seems to end. Serving dead customers means keeping shelves stocked, paying taxes and holding off monstrous creatures, while the mystery of the endless shift slowly unfolds. It comes from LEAP Game Studios in Peru, is published by Midnighters and Gamirror Games, and released on Windows in 2026.
Return of the Obra Dinn is a first-person mystery puzzle game set in 1807, when a merchant vessel lost for five years drifts back to the English coast with no known survivors. Sent by the East India Company, the player uses a pocket watch that recreates each death to work out the fate of all sixty people aboard. Created by Japan-based developer Lucas Pope, it won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and uses a 1-bit monochrome art style.
Reventure is a comedic action-adventure that sends players to save a princess from the Dark Lord while poking fun at role-playing games, especially The Legend of Zelda. Its open world reacts to what the player does, and those choices can lead to any one of 100 different endings. Spanish studio Pixelatto released it in June 2019 as an expanded take on its Ludum Dare jam entry Lonk's Greedy Adventure, and critics singled out its humor.
Rezrog is a turn-based dungeon crawler inspired by tabletop games, in which a party of adventurers sets out to bring peace back to the land. Players upgrade their skills and look for enemy weaknesses to exploit tactically as they push deeper into dangerous dungeons. It was made by Soaphog, a studio from Latvia, published by Kasedo Games, and released in May 2017 on Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a Metacritic score of 70.
RimWorld is a science fiction construction and management simulation in which AI storytellers steer events, so each colony becomes a generated narrative rather than a pure test of skill. It was designed by Canadian developer Tynan Sylvester, with Ludeon Studios as publisher, and began as a Kickstarter-backed early access project in 2013 under the name Eclipse Colony. Version 1.0 arrived in October 2018, and console editions followed in 2022.
By Leonard Menchiari, IV Productions, Ivan Venturi Productions · Italy
RIOT: Civil Unrest is a real-time strategy game that recreates riots drawn from actual events, letting the player take the side of either the police or the protesters. Director Leonard Menchiari, formerly an editor and cinematographer at Valve, lived through riots himself and made the game to tell those stories. Developed in Italy with IV Productions, it was funded on Indiegogo in 2014, entered early access in 2017 and fully released in 2019.
Rise of Industry is a business tycoon game in which players construct and run an industrial empire, working to expand it during the early decades of the 20th century. It was created by Dapper Penguin Studios, an independent team from Spain, and published by Kasedo Games. After an early access period that began in February 2018, it reached full release in May 2019, and a sequel, Rise of Industry 2, arrived in 2025.
Rivals of Aether is a competitive platform fighter that critics commended for the depth of its gameplay. It was created by Dan Fornace, released through Aether Studios in the United States, built in GameMaker, and arrived on Windows in March 2017. The game grew into a wider series set in the shared Aether fantasy world, including a dating sim, a deck-building game, a roguelike, a comic series and a full sequel, Rivals of Aether II, in October 2024.
Roboquest is a roguelite first-person shooter from RyseUp Studios, an indie developer from France, built in Unreal Engine 4. It combines first-person gunfights with the run-based structure of the roguelite format. It spent time in Steam early access from 2020 before its full launch on PC and Xbox in November 2023. PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions followed in May 2025.
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break combines competitive tower defense with racing and fast arcade action, delivered with a strongly absurdist comic tone. It continues from Rock of Ages and Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder, and this entry adds tools that let players design and share their own levels. Chilean studio ACE Team developed it on Unreal Engine 4 with Giant Monkey Robot, and it launched in July 2020 on Windows and consoles.
Rolling Line recreates the hobby of model railways as a sandbox with a low-poly visual style. Players lay out track and scenery, explore existing layouts and share their creations online, playing solo or with others on a flat screen or in virtual reality with support for a wide range of headsets. It was developed and self-published by Gaugepunk Games from New Zealand and launched on Windows in April 2018.
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.
Rubek is a casual puzzle game built around rolling and matching colours, with levels meant to bend your thinking as you plan each move. Beyond that core idea, its store information describes it only in broad casual and indie terms, so expect a compact, focused logic challenge rather than a story-driven experience. It was developed and published by Xigma Games, an Indian studio, and released in October 2016 for Windows and Mac.
Rue Valley is a narrative role-playing game about Eugene Harrow, who is trapped in a time loop lasting 47 minutes in a small desert town. Adventure and casual elements are part of its listed genres, and the repeating window of time is central to its premise. Emotion Spark Studio, a team based in Serbia, developed it, published by Owlcat Games and released in November 2025, and critics gave it mixed reviews.
Runestone Keeper is a roguelike game developed and self-published by Blackfire Games, a studio from China, with its iOS version handled by Cimu. It released on Windows and Mac OS X in March 2015, then arrived on iOS later that year and on Android in 2017. Steam tags it with the Strategy, RPG and Casual genres, while Wikidata classifies it more broadly as a strategy video game.