24 Best Indie Games for PS4

Cuphead is an action, side-scrolling, run and gun, single-player, and multiplayer video game published and developed by Studio MDHR Entertainment. The game offers a beautiful world in which you assume the role of the titular character known as Cuphead, who must battle his way against a set of bosses through various levels to repay a debt to the devil. The game offers a series of levels based on continuous boss fights.

You have infinite lives and have to keep weapons to destroy enemies. You can explore the world from a side-scroll and shoot fire continuously to defeat various bosses to move to the next level. After gaining enough points, you can purchase new weapons and charms from the market using your points or coins. You use the Charms to gain special abilities like an extra life. The game looks easy to play in the beginning, but as you proceed, it becomes tough to master. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Inside is an Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game created and published by Playdead. The game offers side-scroll elements and lets you get into the role of a young boy to dive into the game world. The game offers the similar gameplay like Limbo. In the game, your main goal is to explore the surreal environment, solve a series of challenging puzzles and earn points. The character can run, walk, climb, swim, and interact and use objects to overcome obstacles to progress in the game. After progressing in the game, the boy gets the ability to control the bodies of enemies to complete puzzles. According to the story, the red-shirted boy trapped in a strange city populated with zombie-like peoples, worms, and pigs. In the game, you must use farm equipment and animals to escape to the city. With the best mechanics, addictive and immersive gameplay, superb visuals and exciting story, Inside is the best game to play and enjoy.

Stardew Valley is a role-playing farming simulation developed by Sickhead Games. The game allows the players to control a virtual character who inherits land and a house from his grandfather. It tasks the player to clear up the plot, throw away the boulders, cut down the bushes and unwanted trees, and rebuild the farm from scratch. The secondary task of the game is to grow crops, raise livestock and generate revenue by selling the products.

Once there is enough money in hand, buy more land and expand the farm, construct new buildings and facilities. The NPCs in the game are there as well, and the game’s social element allows the players to interact, engage in relationships, raise families, help them in farm-related matters, and get help from them. It offers a procedurally generated game world, beautiful 3D graphics, cool mechanics, and a great backstory that keeps players engaged till the end.

Abzû combines the elements of Adventure, Underwater Exploration, and Single-player Simulation. The game lets the player get into the role of the protagonist and explore the fantastic ocean environment. Find the hidden treasure, and search the sea life. Encounter lots of sea creatures such as Dolphins, Sharks, Small Fishes, and other species. Complete a series of challenging tasks and earn experience points that can be used to unlock the further area of the game. Enhance your abilities by exploring the game world and immerse yourself in rendered ocean environments. Discover new worlds into the heart of the sea and encounters with sea creatures. The game is inspired by the Endless Ocean. It offers prominent features such as Detailed Environment, Addictive Gameplay, Superb Mechanics, brilliant Controls, Multiple Tasks and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

Hyper Light Drifter is an Action Role-playing, 2D, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Heart Machine. The game offers an exciting gameplay and takes place in the beautiful ruined world invaded by unknown dangers. The story revolves around the protagonist, who is a Drifter and get access to a lost technology that has been vanished and is suffering from illness. The character is equipped with a powerful sword and can get access to other weapons as he completes a variety of quests. The protagonist needs to expand the world to find rate batteries around the globe and unlocks the ability of weapons and arsenal. It includes a Role-playing game with area attack and long-range weapons. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist and your ultimate aim is to explore the world from a top-down perspective, fight against enemies and defeat them using a variety of weapons and progress through the game to survive longer. It offers a beautiful and vast world to manipulate. Upgrades, different Weapons, New Skills, Traverse a Dark World, detailed Environment, Background Elements, Hand-Animated Characters, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.

Kerbal Space Program or also known as KSP is a Single-player Space Flight, Building and Construction and Simulation video game by Squad. The game is built using the updated Unity Engine and offers playability on Multiple Platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. The game allows the players to control a whole Space Mission Program named as Kerbal Space Program, Have a Crew of Humanoid Aliens known as Kerbals and enjoy Exploring the Space. Game’s Complex and realistic Orbital Physics helps players learn about the Hohmann Transfer Orbits (Start from a Lower Orbit and end up in a Higher Orbit) maneuvers and enjoy piloting the ship. According to the gameplay and game story, the game tasks the players to head a Nascent Space Program, Control the Kerbals (Intelligent Humanoid Aliens from an Earth-like planet Kerbin) and enjoy learning to maneuver into Space. Kerbal Space Program gameplay is divided into two main parts such as Construction and Flight, and it allows the players to construct various types of Rockets, Aircraft, Rovers, etc. Once the ships are created, the players can simply launch them into Space from in-game launch Pad, explore the Space and complete various objectives of the game. The game offers various types of mission such as Reaching to a Certain Height, Escape the Atmosphere, Reach Stable Orbit, Capture Asteroids, Create Space Stations, Visit different Planets and collect information about them, etc. With all the Space Exploration fun, Unique game Physics and mechanics, and interesting gameplay, Kerbal Space Program is a fun Space Simulation to enjoy.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Night in the Woods is an Adventure and Single-player video game for cross-platform created by Infinite Fall and published by Finji. The plot revolves around the exploration, in which you control a mysterious cat named as Mae, who kicked out from the college to find unexpected changes. Mae is a child, who can run, jump, and attack his way to learn new mechanics that allows him to manipulate the Possum Springs, a strange town full of various anthropomorphic animals. You act as a cat with a task to explore the world from a side-scroll perspective and fulfill a variety of levels to uncover the dark secrets of the town. You can interact with the environment, and NPCs to collect the information about the task and process to find clues and complete the task. The game world is full of characters to interact and a variety of levels to complete. As you advance through the game, it becomes challenging to master. Night in the Woods is the best game to play.

Nex Machina: Death Machine is a Single-player and Multiplayer Multi-directional Shooter video game developed and published by Housemarque for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game revolves around the Shoot ‘em up element and offers exciting gameplay played from a top-down perspective. It takes place in the stunning environment where the player as the protagonist can move through rooms shooting hordes of enemies while struggling to save the humanity. He can collect power-ups and can use his earned points to upgrade weapons throughout the levels. It brings a thrilling story, in which the humanity is standing on the edge of destruction in the future world of Nex Machine. The player as the hero must manipulate the world from a top-down perspective, use a variety of weapons and effort to kill enemies to progress through the game. As the game advances, it becomes difficult to play. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics, Nex Machina: Death Machine is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Prison Architect combines the elements of Construction and Management Simulation created and published by Introversion Software. The game offers top-down gameplay and deals with city-building genre. The main objective of the player is to build and run a prison to earn money and experience points. It offers the similar gameplay like Theme Hospital, and the player has to build different units, rooms, cages, and office. Hire staff such as a warden, workers, and guards and train them. There are two types of roles that the player can assume such as Governor and Architect. It has a set of levels, and the player will rank up as he completes the objectives. The player can enjoy two different types of modes offering different challenges, story and gameplay such as Escape mode and Story mode. Navigate the world, complete tasks and expand the prison further and further to earn lots of money and points and compete against rival NPCs. With superb gameplay, addictive soundtracks, and brilliant visuals, Prison Architect is the best game as compared to other Business Simulations.

TowerFall Ascension is one of the best games of this specific genre. This brilliant Action, Fighting, Archery and Combat masterpiece allows you to enjoy a game-play inspired by the classics and takes you to a whole new level of entertainment plus the quality gaming. TowerFall Ascension lets you engage yourself in epic Duels and Versus matches, use your abilities and special skills to defeat your enemies/opponents and master all the techniques of the pros. TowerFall Ascension offers insane amounts of treasures to loot, loads of power-ups, and abilities to catch the arrows mid-air while fighting with the enemies, monsters and other players. With Co-Op quests, and Multiplayer Support, TowerFall Ascension offers over 120 unique game maps, 50 hardcore battles, cool power-ups, 4 main and more unlockable player characters, loads of new stuff to discover and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

Nidhogg 2 is an Action, Side-scroll Fighting, Party, and Pixel Graphics video game created and published by Messhof for multiple platforms. The game offers an exciting gameplay revolves around fighting element that you have never seen before. At the beginning of the game, you have to select your character, dive into the competition battle against enemies or other players to paint the walls with the flesh of foes. Your goal is simple, you just reach the other side and slay anyone that stands in your path. It serves as the sequel to Nidhogg and comes with improved gameplay and enhanced mechanics. During the gameplay, you can participate in tournament where you have to battle against up to eight players with a task to reach the top. There are four weapons and you must master the distinctive trails. Customize your character using stylish items and accessories. Nidhogg 2 comes with core features such as Online Matches as well as Private Mode, 10 Variables, 10 Stages, Stylize your Character, and more.

The Witness is an Adventure, Puzzle, First-person Perspective and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Thekla, Inc. The game offers a beautiful world where it takes place and has an exciting gameplay based on Exploration of the Open-Ended world like Myst. The tropical Island full of human-made and natural structures and the player must navigate the landscapes, interact with the environment and solve a variety of mind-bending puzzles based on interaction with complex mazes hidden within the specific areas. In the start, the player has to find the clues to complete each puzzle and recording spread around the globe. The player takes on the unnamed protagonist, who explores an island with various natural formations and numerous structures. The island is split into different sections, and each offers its unique challenges, a set of puzzles and more. During exploration, the player can experience the most beautiful world that he has never seen before. There are dozens of locations to manipulate with more than five-hundred puzzles to accomplish or solve. Each puzzle brings a new idea and challenge. With addictive features, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, The Witness is the best game to enjoy.

Oxenfree is a Single-player Graphic Adventure video game developed and published by Night School Studio for cross platforms. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, a teenager named as Alex, who is on a weekend to an Island. The game revolves around supernatural events and the protagonist and his friend must explore the environment to unearth the mysteries of the Island. The player navigates the world from an isometric perspective, who has unleash the paranormal force on the island mistakenly. The player and his fellows must figure out about the force and find a way to fend off it. The game gameplay centers on walk and talk gameplay. Speech bubbles appear on the playfield over the head of the protagonist, instead of dialogue appearing during cutscenes, enabling the player select between two or three choices what the player will say next in the chat. Oxenfree offers prominent features such as an Intelligent Conversation System, Unique Radio Mechanics, Original Soundtracks, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Firewatch is a First-person Action, Adventure and Mystery video game. The game takes the players back to the year 1989 and leaves them right in the middle of the Shoshone National Forest and lets them be Fire Lookout named as Henry. The game revolves around two main characters, Henry and Delilah, Henry’s Supervisor and tells the story of a mystery that formed over a Conspiracy. Firewatch is full of mysterious incidents, happenings, and all the pondering situations. According to the storyline, Henry works as a Fire Lookout, Delilah Assists him as a Supervisor and the story is about finding the roots of mystery that rocked the minds of the characters of the game. It all starts when Delilah Calls on Henry to investigate an illegal Firework at a Lake. Henry reaches to the spot only to find out two teenage girls Skinny Dipping who blame him for leering. On his way back to his watch tower, Henry finds a Cave locked and sees the shadows of a shrouded figure, returns to his Watch Tower and finds it completely ransacked. Next day, Henry gets to Communication line where he finds it cut along with a note from the girls. He plots to scare them away but finds their Camp abandoned. Some time later, on another location, Henry finds a Disposable Camera that belongs to Brian, son of Ned, the outdoorsman, and a fellow Fire lookout. Brian and Ned are both missing. This is where player’s character gets into the play. The game tasks the players to search for Brian, and Ned and the mission Girls, and solve the Mystery that’s bothering Henry big time. Firewatch is all about mysteries and amazing happenings that lead to an epic open world gameplay. With a great story, plenty of room for the gameplay, open world environment, fantastic characters and their own stories, Firewatch offers a remarkable and kind of twisted gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing mystery games, Firewatch would definitely be a great source of entertainment.

Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.

Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.

Soma is a mixture of Science Fiction, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Exploration elements developed and published by Fictional Games. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Simon Jarret, who finds himself at the facility under strange circumstance, struggling to unearth his past. According to the story, the world in threatened by strange creatures, trying to taking over humanity. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary goal is to explore the facility from first-person perspective, encounter various creatures and struggle to solve puzzles. During exploration, the protagonist discovers a huge array of clues including audio tapes and notes, which creates atmosphere and progresses the plot. There is no combat system like other games by Fictional Games, and instead the player can use stealth elements, and can explore the environment, and solve puzzles to progress through the game. Players can manipulate the underground world, interact with NPCs, and objects to solve puzzles and earn experience points. Soma offers prominent features, immersive gameplay, and highly detailed environment. Try it out.

Thumper is Music, Rhythm and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Virtual Reality elements created and published by Drool. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets the player guide the space beetle along a track through a variety of fantastic worlds and struggle to fulfill the requirements of each objective. During the gameplay, the player needs to press the button to hit the notes on the track with the background music, while avoiding obstacles, jumping over spikes, turning challenging walls and defeating foes. The game is played from both the first-person perspective and a third-person view. There are numerous levels available, and each level is divided into several segments. After each segment, the player receives points and a rating display how well the player did. Thumper includes prominent features, smooth controls, and wonderful graphics, Thumper is the best game available to play on PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows only.

Foul Play is another great Multiplayer Action-Adventure Brawler, Casual, Indie Hack ‘n’ Slash and Beat ‘em’ up video game by Mediatonic. The game allows you to be a Demon Hunter named Baron Dashforth, get into a theater stage game world, pummel your opponents/enemies and earn different kinds of rewards. In order to complete the game objectives you must perform well on the stage while speedily wielding your weapons and satisfy your audience. You must also take down all the vicious beasts, pummeling enemies and all the other rivals. With 22 super stage acts, 50 different enemies, amazing stage tricks, cool visuals, great story and a wonderful gameplay, Foul Play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.

Axiom Verge is a fun Indie Action-Adventure and 2D Platform video game by Thomas Hepp Games. The game offers a Side-Scrolling view and allows the players to enjoy a delightful Metroidvania feel. With a brilliant backstory, Axiom Verge allows the players to control the character of Trace, a Scientist who after getting injured and a black out gets up in an unfamiliar High-tech Ancient World. Axiom Verge focuses on Hardcore Metroidvania Action and Exploration and tasks the players to traverse through an entirely new world where many fears are lurking in the dark shadows. The game lets you have weapons that you can use to overcome the enemies and enjoy upgrading your gear and stuff with all the available power-ups (over 60 different items). With an absorbing and addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics, great mechanics and an overall feel of an amazing adventure, Axiom Verge offer elements borrowed from the biggest Metroidvania games such as Blaster Master, Contra, Bionic Commando and Metroid. For an excellent Action-Adventure and Platform gaming experience, do try it out.

Thomas Was Alone is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle-Platformer and Indie video game by Mike Bithell. The game is set in an Anti-Gravity environment and is about the friendships, jumping and floating together. Your duty is to guide a cluster of boxes through a series of obstacles by using your unique Puzle solving skills and finish the levels. Thomas Was Alone features great background music, amazing voice over and quite addictive and fun filled game-play. The boxes in the game are basically World’s first AI’s and this game lets you program them and perform different tasks with them to see if they have perfected or there is any need of redesigning. Thomas Was Alone includes some great features such as over a 100 challenging and addictive game levels, more than 10 cool player characters, super challenging and quite engaging game-play etc. If you really like to play Puzzle-Platform games, you should not miss Thomas Was Alone. it’ll definitely entertain you good. Do try it out.

Journey is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure and Indie Art and Exploration video game that offers both Single and Multiplayer Support. Developed by the “ThatGameCompany”, the game is set in a huge Desert and lets you be a Robed Figure who is destined to go through a distant mountain range, explore the world and interact with other online players, communicate via musical chimes and assist each other in different game tasks. In order to find the secrets about a lost civilization, and to calm your curious nature, you get tasked with solving some puzzles and exploring the world. The Online multiplayer mode allows you to discover other online players, communicate via text and speech and chimes, assist each other in solving a number of puzzles, and keep o progressing through the game levels. With truly remarkable environments, scenarios, beautiful background music, visuals and an amazingly addictive, and immersive gameplay, Journey will definitely leave you spellbound. Do try it out and enjoy one of its kind, Art, Exploration and Adventure experience.

Spelunky is an Indie, Rogue-like Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and RPG video game developed by Derek Yu. The game lets you be a Spelunker in the game world who gets tasked with exploring a great number of tunnels/caves, collecting different items, saving the damsels and killing the enemies. You can kill the enemy by using your whip on him or by simply jumping on his head just like you did in Mario games. Spelunky provides with four different game worlds and a number of randomly generated game levels filled with a lot of exciting things. The game awards you with points on every enemy kill and finding new treasure, area, valuable and location etc. The enemies in the game include snakes, yetis, man eating plants, ghosts etc. and each of them requires a unique set of skills for you to kill them, so you must use your earned points to buy upgrades regularly or else you’ll get killed by any of your gruesome enemies. The amazing rogue-like game environment makes it more fun to play and enjoy. Try it out.