Indie games

Indie games is a term that describes games made by independent game makers outside of the big studio developers and publishers.

Indie games have existed since the beginning of video game making in one form or another, Rogue has some characteristics of an indie game despite the absense of a large game publishing industry at the time.

More recently, the indie game world has grown quickly with digital publishing and game making tools allowing independent and hobbyist developers to produce and distribute games.

ZZT (1991)

Tim Sweeney

Game Maker (1999)

Cave Story (2004)

Dōkutsu Monogatari

Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005)

Danny Ledonne, made on RPG Maker

Darwinia (2005)

Chris Delay

Syobon Action (2007)

ちく(Chiku)

Passage (2007)

Jason Rohrer

flOw (2007)

Jenova Chen & Nicholas Clark

Dear Esther (2008)

The Chinese Room

WTF Is... Dear Esther?

The Graveyard (2008)

Tale of Tales

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World of Goo (2008)

Kyle Gabler, Ron Carmel, Allan Blomquist

Braid (2008)

Jonathan Blow

Blueberry Garden (2009)

Erik Svedang

Minecraft (2011)

Markus Persson

dys4ia (2012)

Anna Anthropy

Depression Quest (2013)

Zoe Quinn

Papers, Please (2013)

Lucas Pope

Oquonie (2014)

Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega

STEP (2014)

Takorii

Plug & Play (2015)

Michael Frei, Mario von Rickenbach

Stardew Valley (2016)

Eric Barone (ConcernedApe)