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An indie video game refers to games typically created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial support of a large publisher, in contrast to most triple-A games. The term can also refer to games financed by publishers who do not exert significant creative control on the developers. Because of this particularity, indie games often focus on innovation and taking risks not usually afforded in triple-A games.
Even though the indie game industry is as old as the 70's. (even knowing a small resurgence in 1990's.) This specific fringe of the market really started to expand in the 2000's, principally by the availability of internet distribution, bypassing the need for physical retail. Allowing semi-professional teams, or even standalone developers to experiment with new gameplay mechanics and to publish their own games. Some of these games even had the benefit of being freeware.
Famous examples of indie games include titles such as Cave Story,Spelunky,Braid, Super Meat Boy and Fez. Of course, the horror genre had a few influential titles of it's own, especially in the 2010's with the popularization of "let's play" videos, with games of varying quality such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and slender.
Feel free to complete the list but avoid putting "asset-flips", fan-games, and mods.
Survival Horror[]
- 2Dark
- Alisa
- Babysitter Bloodbath
- Back in 1995
- Bendy and the Ink Machine
- Black Soul
- Claire
- The Count Lucanor
- Crying is not Enough
- Cry of Fear
- Daymare: 1998
- Dawn of Fear
- Darkwood
- Dark Ocean
- DreadOut
- Faith
- Faith: Chapter 2
- Fear the Dark Unknown
- Fiend
- The Forest
- Forgotten Memories
- The Glass Staircase
- Garden Variety: Body Horror
- The Hotel
- Husk
- Lone Survivor
- Lost in Vivo
- Motte Island
- Noct
- The Padre
- Prototype Mansion
- SCP: Containment Breach
- Search Party
- Them & Us
- Tormented Souls
- Vaccine
- Vila do Nevoeiro R.E.L.I.D.O
- Yuppie Psycho
Run n' Hide[]
- 1916: Der Unbekannte Krieg
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Among the Sleep
- Araya
- Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning
- Dark Deception
- Detention
- Erie
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Hide
- Itan - Stench Of Death
- Insanidade
- Knock-Knock
- Little Nightmares
- Lethe
- Master Reboot
- Mall Monster
- Outlast
- Outlast II
- Perception
- Remothered: Tormented Fathers
- The Silent House
- Spooky's House of Jumpscares
- Soma
- Welcome to the Game
- Wick
Action[]
- Hush
- Til Morning's Light
First Person Shooter[]
- Dusk
- Get Even
- Inner Chains
- Spirits of Xanadu
- Solarix
Adventure[]
- Concluse
- Downfall
- .Flow
- Home
- Horns of Fear
- Hotel Hell
- Ib
- The Last Door
- Leftway
- A Room Beyond
- The White Chamber
Visual Novels[]
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- The Letter
- Scar of the Doll
Walking Sim[]
- Albino Lullaby
- Close to the Sun
- Devotion
- Fariwalk
- The Fire's Inherit
- Imscared
- Judith
- Layers of Fear
- Layers of Fear 2
- Narcotic
- Neverending Nightmares
- Observer
- One Late Night
- Paratopics
- The Space Between
- Through the Woods
- Visage
Upcoming (as of 2019, any genres)[]
- Banned Memories: Yamanashi
- Conscript
- HellSign
- Heathen: Sons of the law
- Kings of Lorn: The Fall of Ebris
- Lamentum
- Negative Atmosphere
- Paracusia
- Remothered: Going Porcelain
- Rides with Strangers
- Scorn
- Simulacrum
- Summerford
- Tangliers
- Vigil: Prophecy of the Bestowed
- World of Horror
- The Welder
- Dark Fracture