In 2019 alone, Indie Game Lover showcased over 350 exciting and outstanding new indie games in our weekly feature videos!
But out of these hundreds of indie games, which were the very best of the best? Which of these games were the best received by their respective audiences in 2019, and which of these games continued to catch our eye and capture our imagination?
Watch the full video below to see Indie Game Lover's selection of the 100 best indie games of 2019!
This video features: 1001st Hyper Tower | 198X | A Place for the Unwilling | A Short Hike | Afterparty | AMID EVIL | Anodyne 2: Return to Dust | APE OUT | Arise: A Simple Story | ASTRONEER | Baba Is You | Black Future '88 | Blasphemous | Blazing Chrome | Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling | Cat Quest II | Children of Morta | Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank | Clam Man | Crying Suns | DARQ | Dicey Dungeons | Disco Elysium | Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive | Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest | Eagle Island | Eastshade | Eliza | Elsinore | Epitasis | ETHEREAL | Fantasy Strike | Forager | Fujii | Gato Roboto | Ghost Giant | Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure | Guildlings | HARDCORE MECHA | Hardland | Heaven's Vault | Horace | Hypnospace Outlaw | Indivisible | INMOST | Ion Fury | ISLANDERS | Jenny LeClue - Detectivu | Katana ZERO | Kind Words | Knights And Bikes | Later Alligator | Lonely Mountains: Downhill | LOST EMBER | Manifold Garden | MO: Astray | Mutazione | My Friend Pedro | My Time At Portia | Nauticrawl | Neo Cab | Newfound Courage | Observation | OUTBUDDIES | Outer Wilds | Pikuniku | Pilgrims | Pine | Reventure | Sayonara Wild Hearts | Sea of Solitude | Shakedown - Hawaii | Sky: Children of the Light | Slay the Spire | Songbird Symphony | Streets of Rogue | SUNLESS SKIES | Supraland | Tangle Tower | Tannenberg | Telling Lies | The Beast Inside | The Blackout Club | The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] | The Touryst | The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature | Touhou Luna Nights | Truberbrook | Unruly Heroes | Untitled Goose Game | Valfaris | Vane | Void Bastards | Void Tyrant | Wargroove | WHAT THE GOLF? | Whispers of a Machine | Witcheye | Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair | Yuppie Psycho ♥
100 Best Indie Games of 2019
January 14, 2020
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Indie Game:
Chop Chop Inc.
Build your own furniture empire after getting fired from Furnox Corp 🖕. Chop down trees, process wood, automate your growing production lines and sell clever furniture sets for bonus cash. Explore a handcrafted world packed with weirdos, secrets and trees begging for violence....
Indie Game:
Sovereign Tower
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again....
Indie Game:
The Skin Stapler
The Skin Stapler is a retro-styled PSX grindhouse horror adventure set in the rotting, crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Players follow jaded detective Dick Slater and his eager rookie partner Robbie Knox as they hunt a mysterious serial killer known only as The Skin Stapler....
Indie Game:
Doloc Town
Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden....
Indie Game:
GRAIN ROT
A horror co-op extraction builder set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Descend with your friends into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run....
Indie Game:
Inkwellers
In this online 2-player co-op puzzle adventure, you and a friend become Inkwellers and dive into Celiphia’s magical journal. Work together, communicate clearly, and solve puzzles hidden within its pages....
Indie Game:
The Skin Stapler
The Skin Stapler is a retro-styled PSX grindhouse horror adventure set in the rotting, crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Players follow jaded detective Dick Slater and his eager rookie partner Robbie Knox as they hunt a mysterious serial killer known only as The Skin Stapler....
Indie Game:
Sovereign Tower
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again....
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