Best psn indie games

Opulent to look at and absolutely drowning in depth and great writing, The Forgotten City is a true Russian Doll of videogame — with each delectable layer becoming stunningly apparent the longer you play. A stunning indie effort that combines heart-rending melancholy with endlessly smart puzzle design, Bonfire Peaks has players climbing the titular peak and burning their possessions along the way in order to shed the skin of their current previous?

Tasking players to burn their belongings in a variety of different, diorama style isometric block puzzles, Bonfire Peaks is a beautiful little game that dutifully taxes the old grey matter as it does to pull on those heartstrings. A whimsical adventure for the ages from developer Young Horses, Bugsnax whisks players off on an adventure to Snaktooth Island, a vast rural expanse that is home to the titular Bugsnax; creatures that are half bug, half snack and all delicious.

Oozing more charm out of its pixels than many games have across their entire duration, Bugsnax has you cutting across the island cataloguing all the different Bugsnax while you search for your missing host, the intrepid Elizabert Megafig.

Bright, colorful, funny and with an unyielding sense of discover, Bugsnax is an essential indie title for PlayStation 5. A magical realist adventure game in five acts, featuring a haunting electronic score, and a suite of hymns and bluegrass standards. Set in worlds full of dark creatures, hidden gods and abundant materials to be uncovered, play as a Viking living in the last bastion that protects the Gods from the other Realms.

Operation: Tango is an espionage-themed cooperative adventure challenging you and a friend to complete dangerous missions across the globe in a high-tech near-future world.

Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to 'couch co-op'. Lose yourself in a vast, sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally-generated universe.

Collect, trade, fight and more as you delve deep into each unpredictable galaxy, uncovering new animal species, plants and technology to drive you forward. In the mayhem-filled streets of the future, criminal gangs rule and cops live in fear.

Only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Grow stronger as you battle through an awesome neon world, striking down monstrosities in this hack-and-slash roguelite. Experience a dreamlike odyssey in virtual reality. Discover a wild ecosystem, born from lost Internet data. Latest news Latest news Upcoming and out now Search by genre. Latest news. Cult phenomenon. Among Us Innersloth Prepare for departure, but beware the Impostor!

Find out more. One to watch. Critically acclaimed. Recently released. First Class Trouble Invisible Walls First Class Trouble is a party game where players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. Free demo. Indie developer spotlight Nour: Play With Your Food creator Tj Hughes is exploring new spaces in games, creating playful, empathetic moments Upcoming and out now.

Developed by Spanish codehouse Piccolo , Arise: A Simple Story is a heartfelt and beautifully constructed affair that has players taking control of an elderly man who recounts the memories of his life in a vividly euphoric dreamlike adventure. More than just a talented tugger of the heartstrings, Arise is deceptively clever too — weaving time manipulation mechanics around its already resoundingly solid third-person platformer shenanigans. There are few games you will ever play that will whisk you away to such an ornately rendered realm of emotional resonance as Arise: A Simple Story.

Cat Quest is quite the anomaly. With some of the most satisfying combat and platforming beats seen in a game to date, coupled with some eye-popping pixel art graphics and ultra clever roguelike elements that keep you coming back time and again, Dead Cells is one of the most essential games for your PS4 that you can buy right now.

There are fewer titles on the market that have more atmosphere than Dear Esther does right now. Set in the Outer Hebrides, Dear Esther casts player as an observer who must explore a seemingly abandoned island, discovering clues and reliving memories in order to piece together what happened to the folks that used to be there before. Death Road to Canada is insane in the absolute best way a videogame can be.

A Canadian bound roadtrip set during a zombie apocalypse, Death Road to Canada has players mashing the shambling dead, scavenging supplies, meeting fellow survivors along the way and generally trying to do their utmost to survive. Where Death Road to Canada really excels though, is that its permadeath roguelike leanings mean that every playthrough is almost entirely different to the last.

In one playthrough for example, you could find yourself befriending a dog and assuming you have someone in your group who can talk to animals, that dog can then start contributing to the group by killing zombies, collecting gear or even driving your vehicle. Indeed, take that scenario to its natural end and its quite possible that you could end up with four, super-intelligent dogs driving a car with no human survivors remaining. Absurdly funny, great to play and stuffed full of value, Death Road to Canada is easily one of the most entertaining games of the year and a must for fans of zombie movies and well-constructed survival horror efforts.

An extremely inventive take on the tried and tested vertical shooter that turns the concept almost literally on its head, Downwell has you tumbling down a well in pursuit of treasure and, naturally, the destruction of various horrible beasties along the way.

Due to some slick level design, gameplay is challenging and satisfying as you take your magic crossbow and use melee or range attacks to take down enemies.

Upgrades, bonus levels, satisfying boss fights, and loot deliver much more than your standard platformer. Frostpunk is essential stuff. With their tight platforming, character progression and focus on opening up new areas, games from this genre have kept gamers from all over the globe enraptured since the days of Castlevania and Metroid in the s hence the name.

The definitive version of one of the best Metroidvania efforts in years, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is a yarn quite unlike any other as players control a lowly farmer who gains powers when he puts on different Lucha masks, and must use these powers in turn to foil the ambitions of the nefarious Carlos Calaca, who aims to merge the worlds of the living and the dead into one.

Bursting with great level design, hilarious humor and eye-openingly colorful visuals, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is hotter than a ghost naga Burrito covered in an extra hot sauce. A third-person action adventure that casts players as the titular Senua, a Pict tribal warrior who must confront a variety of supernatural creatures in order to rescue the soul of her lover, Hellblade combines hack and slash, puzzle solving and horror elements to create a wholly unique experience.

To do proper justice to a mental condition that has claimed sufferers the world over, Team Ninja collaborated with numerous mental health experts, neuroscientists and most crucially, individuals who actually suffer from the condition themselves. A top down procedurally generated blaster, Helldivers has one to four players travelling across the galaxy to rid the universe of three different races of bugs, machines and, well, something else.

Much more than a straightforward shooter, Helldivers has a real tactical component to it whereupon players can call down automated turrets, supplies, mech suits and more to aid in their struggle against the alien menace. Where Helldivers really succeeds however, is in how it leverages its co-operative multiplayer beats. Kingdom Two Crowns is a strategy game that is quite unlike any other. For start it adopts a side-scrolling perspective that very few other strategy games seem to adopt, but more than that, its uniqueness stems from how little it tells the player; instead preferring to foster a sense of wonder and discover in place of traditionally prescribed hand-holding.

As monarch your goal is simple — you must build, fortify and expand your empire in all directions — conquering one island after another as you learn new technologies and gain insights into ancient races and forgotten peoples. With the option to play in and out of VR, Rez Infinite is the definitive version of the classic rhythm shooter. Designed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who would go on to lead development on Tetris Effect, Rez Infinite is, like its block-arranging descendant, an immersive, all-encompassing experience.

See our Rez Infinite review. An important inclusion on this list as Rocket League was catapulted to success by its inclusion as a free PlayStation Plus game. See our Rocket League review. Shovel Knight is the retro 8-bit platformer as you remember it.

Shovel Knight has a whopping four campaigns, all of which are included in the Treasure Trove package. See our Shovel Knight reviews. New, creative biomes, tameable mounts, and turkeys that can be killed and eaten for bonus HP are just a few of the new twists Derek Yu and team put on the old Spelunky formula for this sequel. See our Spelunky 2 review. The Harvest Moon series has gone through creative droughts and weirdness around the licensing--the original developer, Marvelous, is now making the Story of Seasons games, while publisher Natsume toils on soulless Harvest Moon games in their absence--but Stardew Valley is Stardew Valley.

Developer Eric Barone, smartly, gives players an overarching goal--restoring the derelict community center--then populates the world with so many fun things to do farming, fishing, arcade games, romance, dungeon-crawling, and more , that you always have big and small goals to accomplish. See our Stardew Valley review. Superhot is much less about fast reflexes and twitchy aim-down-sights ability, and much more about learning how to strategize your way through a fight where the odds are stacked against you.

The only advantage you have on your opponents is that you can move in bullet time, like Neo in The Matrix, which is a pretty cool advantage, to be honest.

See our Superhot review. Though… they certainly are recognizable parts. Dropped into a procedurally generated world, you and a group of friends if you want explore fully destructible environments which can be broken down into component parts you can use to build a vast array of items, weapons, buildings which, together, can form helpful villages and more.

As in Minecraft, the world is mostly safe by day, and populated by dangerous creatures at night. With imposing enemies to vanquish the eyeball monsters are especially freaky , massive underground cavern networks to explore, and an impressive suite of creative tools, Terraria invites players to dig deep metaphorically and literally. See our Terraria review. Thumper is a rhythm game for people who want to be stressed out and white-knuckling a controller while throbbing music assaults their eardrums.

Controlling a silver-plated beetle, or something, you move along a track as frightening psychedelic visions play out around them. While most rhythm games ask you to pretend to play an instrument or tap buttons in time to the beat, Thumper has you lurching aggressively from side-to-side.

See our Thumper review. A frantic multiplayer game from the people who made Celeste, TowerFall Ascension is as fun and frenzied as it gets. This four-player local multiplayer game pits a quartet of combatants against each other in kill-or-be-killed archery battles.

The maps are small and the graphics are old-school, but TowerFall Ascension wrings massive amounts of fun out of its self-imposed limitations.