81 indie games in this list, released 2025, from developers such as Trioskaz, Oblitus mortis, RetroStyle Games. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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During a solar catastrophe that has pushed humanity into a nocturnal existence, No, I'm Not a Human keeps players locked indoors by day and answering the door by night. Each person asking for shelter must be questioned to judge whether they are human or a hostile Visitor, with new detection methods revealed daily and several possible endings. Russian studio Trioskaz developed this first-person horror game, released by Critical Reflex in September 2025.
Oblitus mortis is a Metroidvania adventure that pits its protagonist against monsters taken from folklore. Its creatures and themes draw on the myths and legends of Venezuela, the country where it was developed. The game follows the genre's pattern of exploring a connected world while confronting hostile beings. It launched on Steam for Windows in March 2025 as a small independent release credited to the Oblitus mortis team.
Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival is a survival roguelike that pairs horde-clearing combat in the vein of Vampire Survivors with underwater mining. Players dig through caves for resources, upgrade weapons and a customisable mech spider, and hold out against waves of monsters and bosses. The game is the work of Ukrainian studio RetroStyle Games; it entered early access in 2024 and reached its 1.0 release in May 2025.
By NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, Tsuyomi · Japan
Öoo is a puzzle platformer built around one core idea: players drop bombs and detonate them to move through a 2D side-scrolling world in inventive ways. Japanese independent developer Nama Takahashi designed it as an experiment in how far a single mechanic could carry a puzzle game. Released in 2025, it was well received, with critics highlighting its intricate puzzles, open-ended experimentation and brief length.
Starring Pippit of the influential Pipistrello family, Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo plays as a platform-adventure with a Game Boy Advance feel. After rivals attack his aunt, her soul is split and locked in mega-batteries, so Pippit uses a cursed yoyo holding the last fragment to recover them. Its design particularly recalls The Legend of Zelda. Brazilian studio Pocket Trap developed it, and it launched in May 2025 with PM Studios as publisher.
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.
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.
RV There Yet? is a cooperative adventure in which a group of friends tries to drive a rear-wheel-drive RV home from a camping trip across punishing terrain. Getting the vehicle through rough ground takes teamwork, and hazards such as bears can damage the RV and injure players along the way. Swedish studio Nuggets Entertainment developed and self-published the game, which came out on Windows in October 2025 and found a large audience on Steam.
Released in 2025, s.p.l.i.t is a psychological horror game made and self-published by Mike Klubnika, a developer from Estonia, with Oro Interactive also credited as a publisher on Steam. It launched on Windows and Linux in July 2025. Beyond its psychological horror framing, its store and database listings place it in the action and simulation genres. The title is stylised in lowercase with full stops, while it is written as Split in plain text.
SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim is a dark visual novel and dating sim from Japanese developer Safe Havn Studio, published by Hyper Real. Players are Rin, a captive of Saeko, a young woman who can shrink people and secretly preys on them. Rin must look after the other miniaturized prisoners while his relationship with his captor slowly develops. The game launched on Windows and Linux in May 2025, pairing its unsettling premise with choice-driven adventure storytelling.
Schedule I is an open-world crime simulator with a dark comic streak. Players start a drug trafficking business in Hyland Point, a fictional city, and grow it over time, mixing business management with tactical strategy as the operation expands. It is developed by TVGS (Tyler's Video Game Studio) from Australia and entered early access on Windows in March 2025, where it picked up a large audience through Twitch and TikTok livestreams.
SCUM is an open-world survival game pitched as a prison riot scenario, where convicts are dropped onto a hostile island. Staying alive means looting, crafting, hunting, building and fighting, and detailed character customization shapes the prisoner you play. Croatian studio Gamepires made it in Unreal Engine 4. It entered Steam early access in 2018 and reached its full release in June 2025.
Slime Rancher 2 is a farm life sim that brings back rancher Beatrix LeBeau, the heroine of the 2017 original, and sends her to explore Rainbow Island, a brand-new location. It is listed across adventure, simulation and open world genres, carrying the ranching life of its predecessor to a new setting. American indie studio Monomi Park developed and published it, entering early access in September 2022 before its version 1.0 release in September 2025.
Strange Antiquities puts players in charge of a shop selling occult curios, where each visitor arrives with a need that must be worked out through puzzles. Identifying the right item for a customer is the heart of the game, blending adventure with a relaxed simulation of shopkeeping. It was developed by Bad Viking in the United Kingdom, published by Iceberg Interactive in 2025, and follows the studio's earlier title, Strange Horticulture.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world action RPG set in a dark reinterpretation of the Arthurian myths. Players roam a land frozen in perpetual autumn and make choices that steer a branching storyline. Polish developer Questline built it, with Awaken Realms publishing; it spent time in early access from 2023 before its full release in May 2025, and holds a Metacritic score of 80.
The Drifter is a point-and-click adventure with a pulp flavor, in which players explore scenes, interact with characters and objects, and push the story forward through classic adventure-game interaction. It was developed and published by Powerhoof, a studio from Australia, working with Dave Lloyd. The game came out for Windows, macOS and Linux in July 2025, with Nintendo Switch versions following later.
The King Is Watching puts the player in charge of a castle, placing buildings to gather resources, train units and repel invading enemies. It mixes real-time strategy and city-building with the randomized, run-based structure of a roguelike. It began at the Ludum Dare 54 jam in 2023 and was expanded by the Serbian indie studio Hypnohead before tinyBuild released it in July 2025, later becoming a D.I.C.E. Awards finalist.
The Last Caretaker is a survival crafting game played in first person, from Channel37, a studio in Finland, which entered early access on Windows in November 2025. Players control the final active Caretaker, a self-governing robot that wakes up on a flooded Earth after the apocalypse. Its mission is to recover human seeds, bring the Lazarus Complex back online, grow new humans and send them into orbit so that humanity can endure.
Threefold Recital is a narrative adventure game developed by Chinese indie studio Everscape Games and published by indienova. It was released for Microsoft Windows in January 2025. Wikidata classes it as an action-adventure game, while Steam files it under Adventure, placing it among story-led indie adventures on PC. It is the kind of release best suited to players who come for narrative rather than systems.
Nightmare Shift is a horror game about Emma, who takes night shifts as a receptionist at a remote motel. Players deal with unsettling guests and strange events at work and then follow her into an apartment where she feels watched, as the line between reality and nightmare blurs. It released on PC and Xbox in 2025. It is developed by Binary Lunar, the studio behind AvoCuddle, which was made by a Syrian developer from Damascus.
Amer Tycoon: Idle! is a mobile idle management game in which players help the character Amer grow a small drinks stall into a chain of shops. Players serve customers at the counter and at a car pickup point, hire and train staff and open new branches across the city. The game is developed by Mad Hook, a studio based in Amman, Jordan, and reuses the Amer character from its chase games.
Arabian Hero is a mobile archery action game with an Arabian setting in which the player's hero fights waves of enemies using bows, swords and axes. Victories unlock and upgrade abilities such as freezing, poison and speed boosts, letting players build their own combat strategy. It is developed by Mad Hook, a game studio based in Amman, Jordan, and is linked from the studio's own website.
Azooma Escape is a comedy stealth game in which the danger is family hospitality. At your uncle's village gathering you try to slip out unnoticed, dodging aunts asking about grades, hosts pushing more food and a family djinn, while a small errand grows into a village mystery. It was made by Ash Games Studio, an indie team founded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2022.
Baby Seat: Driving Sim is a mobile driving and racing simulation for Android and iOS that focuses on car handling and customisation, with the store listing highlighting its visuals and creative freedom. Players drive, tune and experiment with their vehicles across its environments. The game is made by Shusmo, one of the development studios listed in 962Games, the directory of Jordan's game industry.