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81 indie games in this list, released 2025, from developers such as Starvania Studio, Silver Thumb Games, M4DOOM. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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By Starvania Studio · Saudi Arabia
Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree is a 2D underwater adventure drawn from Arabian mythology. You swim through Ma'een, a cosmic ocean overrun by dark entities, using light to shield yourself, clear corruption and decipher inscriptions left by a lost civilisation. It is the debut title of Starvania Studio, a team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is also listed on PlayStation.
By Silver Thumb Games · Saudi Arabia
Biida-Bash is a turn-based multiplayer game built on tabletop marbles with physics that react to every impact. Players use powers such as energy pulses, flight and rebound control to set off chain reactions across modes that include elimination, racing and a football variant. Friends, family or strangers can join. It was developed by Silver Thumb Games, one of the studios in Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle of Saudi indie games.
By M4DOOM · Saudi Arabia
Billies Wheelie is a racing platformer starring Billie, a hamster rolling around in an exercise ball. You boost, drift and jump through obstacle tracks, collect cheese for rewards, customise your hamster and ball, and race up to eight players online in co-op or PvP. It was developed by M4DOOM, which the IsaKaba MENA games directory lists as a Saudi Arabian developer.
By Visionaries · Egypt
Business Heroes: Street Grub is a food-truck tycoon and strategy game in which you start with a burger bike and limited cash. You set prices, tune recipes, manage stock, hire staff and react to rivals and customer reviews as you try to grow a street-food business. The design takes cues from Lemonade Tycoon. It was made over more than three years by Visionaries, an Egyptian team, and is co-published by Hawthorn Games from China.
By Fast X Play · Iraq
Deep in the Dread is a first-person horror mystery set in the old Hoverfield Mansion, now a library. When her colleagues leave for a pub, librarian Stella stays behind and starts to notice paranormal activity. Players read notes and a diary to learn the lore, with a guidebook to help. It released in January 2025 as the second game from Fast X Play, a studio based in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
By Northend Games · Iraq
Deepstone Rift is a tower defense game set in underground mines, where you dig for gold and minerals while defending your base from looting goblins. Towers range from miniguns and cannons to sawblades, and treasure chests grant power-ups for you, your dwarves and your defences. It entered early access in late 2025. It is the second game from Northend Games, an independent studio based in Baghdad, Iraq.
By Team0Studio · Saudi Arabia
Defend The Cubes is a tower defense game that swaps fixed towers for deployable units. Enemies circle a central cube along paths that change, so each wave asks you to reconsider where and when to place defenders. The game aims to be easy to start but deep to master, and it was developed by Team0Studio, which is part of Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle of Saudi indie releases.
By AMBRATOR GAMES · Jordan
Drift Tafheet is a mobile car game that mixes drifting with traffic races through city streets and an online open world where players can cruise and drift together; an offline mode is also included. Tafheet refers to the Gulf style of stunt driving. It is developed by Ambrator Games, a small studio based in Amman, Jordan, that specialises in games for mobile devices.
By Amilcar Technologies · Tunisia
Heistfest is a top-down action racer in which the player is a getaway driver who robs banks and outruns growing police forces. Chases move through destructible, hand-drawn black-and-white cities inspired by real places from Italy to Egypt, and the pressure rises from cruisers to tanks and airstrikes. The Tunisian studio Amilcar Technologies developed it and released it in Steam Early Access in October 2025 with support from indie.io.
By Knight Owl Games · Egypt
Hive and Seek is a free side-scrolling strategy and base-building game about retaking space stations overrun by monsters. Players rally robots, salvage resources, build defences and clear rooms one by one until every hive on the station is destroyed. Progress is room by room rather than open-ended. It is developed and published by Knight Owl Games, an indie studio from Alexandria, Egypt.
By Shusmo · Jordan
Idle Block Miner is a mobile idle game with a blocky art style in which a miner digs down through underground caverns, collecting ore and treasure while upgrades let the digging continue with little input. It combines light management with the relaxed pace of idle games. It is developed by Shusmo, a game studio listed in Jordan's 962Games directory, and was also shown at Pocket Gamer Connects in Aqaba, Jordan.
By Nabokov · Saudi Arabia
Keytamine is a keyboard-themed action game in which you battle waves of enemies shaped like keycaps through rhythmic clicking, combos and ASMR-style sound design. Its Chaos System offers 11 levels of difficulty, from a deathless relaxed mode at level 0 to a demanding mode at level 10 that adds new mechanics. It was made by Nabokov, a developer featured in Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle of Saudi indie games.
By Maysalward(MRD) · Jordan
Konnichiwa Jordan is a collection of mini-games about Jordan itself. Players visit Petra, Jerash and the Dead Sea, cook traditional Jordanian dishes, dress in traditional costumes, play along with the oud and tabla, and collect photos in an album as they go. It is developed by Maysalward, a veteran mobile game studio headquartered in Amman, Jordan.
By ALAA HAMASH · Jordan
Last Hammashan: Awakening of a Hero is a free-to-play, story-driven action game in Early Access. The player enters Hammashan castle to save his village and wakes a war over the power of a civilisation believed to be extinct. Defeating bosses grants their powers and fighting styles, which can be switched mid-combat. It is the work of Alaa Hamash, a solo developer based in Jordan.
By Evlnu GameWorks · Saudi Arabia
Mall Heist is a stealth game in which you play a security tester breaking into a shopping mall. You sneak past and confront guards, hack systems and use whatever each store offers, from bananas in the supermarket to boots in a clothing shop, as tools for the job. It was released by Evlnu GameWorks, an independent studio founded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2023.
By Knight Owl Games · Egypt
Mini Settlers is a minimalist city builder about settling islands and running supply chains. Players place houses and factories, then link them with roads, trains and ports so each building gets the resources it needs, growing the population to unlock new lands. The challenge comes from keeping logistics flowing without overloading the network. It is developed by Knight Owl Games, an indie studio in Alexandria, Egypt, and published by Goblinz Publishing and IndieArk.
By LUNAR GAMES LTD · Iraq
My Father Lied is a story-driven mystery with Lovecraftian influences. Huda follows the trail of her father, missing for 20 years, into an abandoned Mesopotamian museum whose former residents left puzzles to hold on to their fading memories. The studio says Huda is the first Iraqi female lead in a video game, named after the ancient writer Enheduanna. It is developed by Lunar Games, a studio from Iraq.
By Limeless · Saudi Arabia
My Peephole: Hotel Harborview is a psychological horror game in which a demon forces you to work as the receptionist of a strange hotel. From a cramped office you watch guests through a peephole, check their documents and make phone calls to decide who is normal and who is not, and mistakes are punished. It was made by Limeless Studio, a horror-focused studio based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
By Zakeh Limited · Lebanon
Pou 3D is the sequel to the mobile virtual pet game Pou, bringing its character into three dimensions. As in the original, players look after the creature's needs and customise it, now in a 3D presentation. It launched in December 2025 under Zakeh Limited, the company behind the first game. Pou was created by Lebanese designer Paul Salameh, and the original became one of the most downloaded mobile games of its time.
By DIGITAL DUNES · Qatar
PSL - Pro Soccer Legends is a mobile football game that combines arcade-style matches with squad management. Players collect and train footballers, pick tactics, use special skills during games, and compete in real-time PvP modes to climb leaderboards. It was first revealed as Project Soccer Legends at Web Summit Qatar with Invest Qatar's support and was designed with players in the MENA region in mind. The developer and publisher, Digital Dunes, is based in Media City Qatar in Doha.
By Luma Play · Saudi Arabia
Rocket Boots Mania mixes racing and platforming around rocket-powered parkour. You boost, power-slide, wall-run and fly through more than 70 levels across four worlds, build and share tracks in a create mode, and race online or chase leaderboard times. It is the live title of Luma Play, a studio based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that describes the game as Parkour Trackmania.
By HOLODOT STUDIO · Saudi Arabia
SHOTBALL is a free 3v3 competitive game that blends football with shotguns. Players pick class-based loadouts and use movement and precise shots to move the ball and score, with matches that swing between sport and combat. It is the debut of Holodot Studio, founded in Riyadh in 2023, and was published by Saudi publisher Naphora Games Group on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
By Blue Tango Street · Saudi Arabia
Sips and Sonnets is a visual novel about Ms Meadows, a retired journalist who runs a small tea shop in the English countryside while preparing for a visit from an old friend. You brew different teas, listen to the stories of customers, and turn each day's conversations into a poem at night. The voice cast includes Bethan Dixon Bate and Lenval Brown, and it was made by London and Jeddah based Blue Tango Street.
By Limeless · Saudi Arabia
Slappingrot is a first-person action game in which you fight a string of absurd brainrot bosses in a ring using nothing but slaps. Each boss has its own attack patterns, so you wait for vulnerable moments, strike, and spend coins at a vending machine on upgrades between fights. The game leans fully into internet meme humour and was developed by Limeless Studio, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.