Hard indie games

Sourcebound

Petit Vaisseau

4 titles on Steam

The screen is black, and the dark plays music. Every step, every sonar pulse, every hunter's click is a note in a score composed as you play, and paints the walls in neon for a moment. Sneak through twenty generated levels down to the Source of silence. Headphones on.

Super Frog Ninja

David Harrington

Become the ultimate Super Frog Ninja in this retro-inspired pixel platformer packed with challenging trials, hidden secrets, and lightning-fast gameplay.

Legend of Kendor

pickysource

Legend of Kendor is a Fantasy Free-Roaming Action Roguelike game. This is about people in Kendor trying to save their loved ones. You make your own path and adventure with consequences. **Warning** No Loading Screen, and Very Fast Paced.

Nientum - Op.ZERO

QueseraGames

A 2D action-adventure where the story unfolds by tuning the stage with music. A play by Aleph and Liora, who have lost their memories. A beautiful yet eerie stage, and the secret of the forgotten theater await. Your choices will determine the play's ending — and their fates.

Contract Cooks

Potato Peoples

2 titles on Steam

We're a staffing agency. We send cooks to kitchens. The cooks are you. Today, a bubble tea kiosk. Tomorrow, an economy flight galley. Contract Cooks is a co-op cooking roguelite where you go where the agency sends you and try not to get fired.

Vicarius

Nocten

2 titles on Steam

A small handcrafted open world focused on exploration and combat. Leave your safe zone to gather the resources that will help you craft better gear. The further you go, the more dangerous it gets but the resources are also better. Dying means losing everything that you are carrying.

ROLY

Frederico Dos Santos Lima

ROLY is a 2.5D physics platformer where you are a tire. You don't walk — you roll, and momentum is your best friend and your worst enemy. Climb walls, chain wall jumps and dodge exploding enemies across 100 handcrafted levels.

INVERT: The Fracture

Rahib Games

Switch between two fractured worlds, overcome deadly traps, and uncover the truth hidden behind a broken reality.

Bullet Hero

vertoker

A musical bullet-hell based on rhythm. Play, dodge, survive, repeat. Create your own levels and share them with everyone

Lightholm

Lalen

A tower defence where every enemy has a weakness and every tower can overheat. Slow, burn or shock an enemy to open it up, then bring it down. Twelve boards, four tower types, element pads, a skill tree between runs, and an Endless mode on every board you beat.

BOSS ARENA: The Goldilock One Trials

Shed of Ideas

Every door holds a new challenge. Face relentless waves and powerful bosses in this free standalone arcade/action RPG. Earn XP, shape your fighter, and combine weapons, armor, and abilities into your own build. Read enemy attacks, master your timing, and prove yourself in the Arena.

Aknua Tower

KillerTimeGamer

Climb a mysterious tower in this challenging 2D platformer, learning new mechanics and overcoming tricky floors one attempt at a time.

Where's WigglyJiggly

CurlyGames

First game from this studio

Where's WigglyJiggly is a fast-paced minimalist puzzle game about finding the one blue dot that's different. Chase high scores across five modes, build streaks, survive shrinking timers, and push your eyes and reactions as the board gets increasingly chaotic.

Shape Up!

Rocket Powered Games

Be a circle, a square, or a triangle - and change your mind mid-jump. A neon platformer about the right shape at the right instant. 53 hand-built rooms, a full level editor, and up to four players racing the same room. Need a rest, try building a level together, multiplayer level editor!

Double Alpha

UTC+2 Studio

Practical shooting simulator under Ukrainian UPSF rules. Plan your route, shoot the stage against the clock, engage the targets: points divided by time decide everything. Real ballistics, A/C/D zones, fault line penalties. Early Access starts with the .223 rifle in SAS and SAO.

Seed Money

Studio Oriens

₩1,000,000 — about $700 — and no safety net. A real-time stock-trading sim where judgment is your only weapon: read the news, read the charts, time every trade. Climb from a windowless room to a private island, Bronze to Legend. Fall to the bottom, and the Hangang is waiting.

Second Zero

Kavari Studio

5 titles on Steam

Time is your health in this fast-paced parkour FPS. Kill enemies to regain seconds, manipulate time, unlock new guns, and race against the clock.

Starforge Reborn

CommandoGamesStudio

You are the last salvager. Fight, salvage, extract, and rebuild in a gritty top-down 2D action roguelite. Pilot upgradeable ships through hostile sectors, recover valuable resources, and return to the Forge before your run is lost. Every successful extraction unlocks lasting power.

Uppercute

PrettyScar

Uppercute is a 3D action platformer where, with the help of your sister and the use of your runner skills, you’ll dive into people's minds, face challenging opponents and retrieve valuable information to solve the mystery of your brother's disappearance.

Space Breakout Odyssey

Epic Dragon Games

A sci-fi arcade breakout where your colony ship is the paddle. Trapped inside an alien cube, bounce your last projectile through 100 sectors, catch falling capsules to arm lasers, shields and multiball, and break a path back to the stars. Hardcore mode gives you one hull for the entire run.

Tessera

Peace War Found

A match-3 × falling-block hybrid roguelike. Forge gems into tetrominoes on the left board, drop them to clear lines and strike on the right. Fight through a five-chapter dark-fantasy campaign with elemental counters, 100+ relics and one-life runs, or chase high scores in Endless mode.

Crossroads

Jicklus, Michael

With nothing but a revolver by your side, traverse the deepening chasms and acrobatically dispatch a range of enemies from bats to bandits in this western themed tale of letting go.

Echo Weaver

Moonlight Kids

Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.

Order of the Sinking Star

Thekla, Inc.

From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery.