926 indie games in this list, released 2012–2026, from developers such as Strange Loop Games, Elasto Mania Team, Balazs Rozsa, NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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Eco is a cooperative simulation in which players have to join forces to build a civilization on a virtual planet. Its design rewards a gentle, careful use of natural resources, and it serves as both entertainment and an educational tool. Steam lists it as an early access adventure and simulation title, and it is also described as a survival sandbox game. Strange Loop Games, a studio from the United States, created Eco, and arrived on Steam in February 2018.
Elasto Mania Remastered revisits a 2D motorbike game first released in 2000, in which you ride a bike with very springy suspension across platform-style levels. Most stages ask you to touch scattered waypoints before the finish becomes active, and players compete online to set record times, often by discovering new routes. The remaster comes from the Elasto Mania Team and Balazs Rozsa in Hungary, released on Steam in 2020.
ElecHead is a puzzle platformer about Elec, a tiny robot whose head sends an electric charge through whatever surface it touches. Players power up platforms and machinery by making contact, working out how to route energy through each room to move forward. It was created by Japanese indie developer Nama Takahashi and launched on PC in October 2021, with music and sound by composer Tsuyomi. Console versions for Switch and Xbox One followed afterwards.
Elliot Quest is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer that takes after Metroid, Zelda II and the second Castlevania. Following those classics, it mixes combat, platforming and exploration in the style associated with Metroidvanias. It was developed by Mexican studio Ansimuz Games and published by PlayEveryWare, arriving on Windows in 2014, followed by a Wii U version in 2015 and releases on more platforms later on.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival is an open-world space sandbox from Eleon Game Studios, a developer based in Switzerland. It first appeared in early access in 2015 before its full Steam release in 2020. Players build and explore across space and planets, constructing large capital ships, planetary settlements and space stations while surviving and uncovering the mysteries of the Empyrion galaxy.
En Garde! is a third-person action game developed by Fireplace Games, a studio from France. Players take on the role of Adalia de Volador, a swashbuckling heroine in a 17th-century setting, with sword-driven action at the centre of play. Its Steam listing also tags it as an adventure. The game was released for Windows in August 2023.
ENA: Dream BBQ is an episodic adventure focused on exploration, starring ENA, a humanoid figure trying to reach a mysterious character called the Boss. Players roam strange environments, talk with other characters, complete tasks, navigate mazes and solve puzzles. It was made by ENA Team in Peru, and its first chapter, Lonely Door, launched in March 2025, with more chapters planned. Reviewers widely described the experience as surreal.
Encased is an isometric role-playing game with turn-based combat, set in a science fiction post-apocalyptic world. Its design draws on classic computer RPGs such as Fallout and Wasteland, along with the Strugatsky brothers' Soviet novel Roadside Picnic. It was developed by Dark Crystal Games in Russia, entered early access in 2019, and reached its full release in September 2021 under publisher Prime Matter.
Blending comedy with horror, Endacopia is a point-and-click adventure created and self-published by the indie developer known as ANDY LAND, with a soundtrack composed by Packtion. It launched on Steam for Windows in July 2026. The developer is based in Puerto Rico, and the game is listed on Steam under the adventure and indie categories.
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a dark fantasy action role-playing platformer about Lily, the last priestess left alive in a land where a deadly rain turns living beings into undead. Waking in a church with no memory, she sets out to find where the rain comes from, calling on the spirits of undead she has purified to fight for her. Japanese studios Adglobe and Live Wire developed it, releasing it in June 2021 after early access.
Endling: Extinction is Forever is a survival adventure about a mother fox, the last of her kind, trying to keep her cubs alive in a world after the apocalypse. It sits between action-adventure and simulation according to its listed genres. Barcelona studio Herobeat Studios developed it, and it launched in July 2022 on Windows and consoles, later reaching Android and iOS and being offered free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in July 2023.
Enshrouded is a survival game with action role-playing systems, developed and self-published by Keen Games in Germany. It runs on the studio's Holistic engine and mixes combat and character progression with the needs of staying alive. The game entered early access on PC in January 2024. A full release on PC and PlayStation 5 is planned for October 2026, with Xbox Series versions to follow in 2027.
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is an action-adventure in which typing words is the core way to act on the world. Players follow a young girl riding a three-tailed fox, while the story mirrors an author's creative process, unfolding like sheets of paper and voiced as the writer's inner thoughts. Belgian studio Fishing Cactus launched it in early access in 2015 before the full 2016 release on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it was later followed by the spiritual successor Nanotale.
Escape First is an escape room puzzle game playable in virtual reality or on a standard desktop PC. It offers three separate rooms, and each can be tackled alone, cooperatively or as a race against other players. The game was developed and self-published by OnSkull Games, a studio from Greece, and released on Windows in May 2018. Steam lists it as adventure, casual and indie.
Escape First 2 is the follow-up entry in OnSkull Games' escape room series, playable either in virtual reality or on a standard desktop PC. It offers three separate rooms, each built around solving puzzles to find a way out, and supports competitive, cooperative, or solo sessions. The studio is based in Greece, and the game was released on Windows in June 2019. Store listings tag it as a casual adventure.
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game played in first person, developed and published by Croatian studio Pine Studio, released in October 2021. Built around the escape room format, it has players solve puzzles to find their way out of locked rooms. Steam lists it under Adventure, Casual and Simulation, and it holds a Metacritic score of 82. A sequel, Escape Simulator 2, followed in October 2025.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a non-linear truck simulator set across a compressed version of Europe. Players haul cargo between cities in articulated trucks, then expand into a business by purchasing more vehicles and depots and hiring drivers. Czech developer SCS Software built it on its own Prism3D engine and released it in 2012 as a sequel to Euro Truck Simulator; the intro reports over 22 million units sold.
Event[0] is a science fiction adventure played in first person, from Ocelot Society, a developer in France. An astronaut headed for Europa takes shelter on a run-down leisure ship after a disaster, finding only its AI, Kaizen-85, still aboard. Play centres on exploring and repairing the vessel while holding long conversations with the AI in hope of escape. It launched in September 2016 for Windows and macOS to positive reviews.
Evoland is a role-playing game from Shiro Games of France, built on the Heaps engine and first released in 2013. It borrows from Final Fantasy, Diablo and The Legend of Zelda and is packed with nods to film and gaming history. As you advance, you unlock new technologies and graphical upgrades that reference successive eras of the games industry. A sequel, Evoland 2, came out in 2015.
Exo One is a science fiction adventure game with a casual, exploratory feel and simulation elements, according to its store genres. Exbleative, a developer from Australia, made it, with Future Friends Games handling publishing, and it launched for Windows and Xbox in November 2021. A PlayStation release followed in June 2024, bringing the game to a wider audience.
Exophobia is a first-person shooter drawing on retro influences, set aboard a crashed human spaceship overrun by aliens. Players explore the wreck and battle through waves of hostile creatures, growing stronger through weapon upgrades and power-ups. It was developed by Zarc Attack, a studio from Portugal, published by PM Studios, and released on Windows in July 2024.
Released in 2013, Expeditions: Conquistador is a tactical role-playing game about squad combat in which players take charge of a Spanish expedition to Hispaniola and Mexico, set between 1518 and 1520. Alongside its tactical combat, it features resource management, a branching story and interactive fiction segments. It was made by Logic Artists in Denmark, partly funded through Kickstarter, and first released for Windows, Linux and Mac by BitComposer before THQ Nordic acquired the series in 2018.
Expeditions: Viking, from Logic Artists, is a tactical role-playing game built around squad combat, made, a studio based in Denmark and released on Windows in 2017 and published by THQ Nordic. Players take on the role of a Danish viking heading a voyage to Great Britain around the year 790 AD, directing a band of warriors through tactical encounters. It is the second entry in the Expeditions series after Expeditions: Conquistador, and the series later continued with Expeditions: Rome in 2022.
Factorio is a factory simulation game from Czech studio Wube Software, which both developed and published it. After crash-landing on an alien planet, an engineer gathers resources and builds increasingly automated industry with the goal of launching a rocket, and play can carry on once that goal is met. It supports single-player and multiplayer, began as a 2013 Indiegogo campaign, and reached full release in August 2020 after early access.