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Top 20 Indie Games of the Early 2010s

By YPB Team

The scrappy era when bedroom coders and tiny studios reshaped gaming, with pixel-art platformers, roguelikes and quiet narrative experiments all jostling for the crown. Cast your vote!

  1. Bastion — ranked #11
    Bastion
    Supergiant's 2011 action RPG with a reactive narrator and a hand-painted floating world.
    1000pts
  2. Terraria — ranked #22
    Terraria
    Re-Logic's 2011 2D sandbox adventure of mining, building, and boss battles.
    900pts
  3. Minecraft — ranked #33
    Minecraft
    Markus Persson's 2011 sandbox phenomenon of block-building and survival that became a cultural juggernaut.
    877pts
  4. Journey — ranked #44
    Journey
    Thatgamecompany's 2012 wordless desert pilgrimage celebrated for its emotional anonymous multiplayer.
    877pts
  5. The Stanley Parable — ranked #55
    The Stanley Parable
    Galactic Cafe's 2013 meta-narrative walking sim built around a wry omniscient narrator.
    692pts
  6. Fez — ranked #66
    Fez
    Phil Fish's 2012 2D-meets-3D perspective-rotating puzzle platformer.
    692pts
  7. Gone Home — ranked #77
    Gone Home
    Fullbright's 2013 first-person exploratory story set in an empty 1990s family house.
    600pts
  8. FTL: Faster Than Light — ranked #88
    FTL: Faster Than Light
    Subset Games' 2012 spaceship-management roguelike of tense real-time crew survival.
    600pts
  9. Shovel Knight — ranked #99
    Shovel Knight
    Yacht Club's 2014 8-bit-styled action platformer starring a chivalrous shovel-wielding knight.
    600pts
  10. Limbo — ranked #1010
    Limbo
    Playdead's 2010 monochrome puzzle-platformer with a haunting silhouette aesthetic.
    600pts
  11. Papers, Please — ranked #1111
    Papers, Please
    Lucas Pope's 2013 dystopian document-thriller about a border-checkpoint inspector.
    600pts
  12. Transistor — ranked #1212
    Transistor
    Supergiant's 2014 sci-fi action RPG blending real-time and turn-based combat in a neon city.
    491pts
  13. Hotline Miami — ranked #1313
    Hotline Miami
    Dennaton's 2012 top-down neon-soaked ultraviolent action game with a synthwave soundtrack.
    491pts
  14. The Binding of Isaac — ranked #1414
    The Binding of Isaac
    Edmund McMillen's 2011 roguelike dungeon crawler of grotesque biblical body horror.
    491pts
  15. Guacamelee! — ranked #1515
    Guacamelee!
    DrinkBox's 2013 Metroidvania brawler steeped in Mexican folklore and luchador action.
    491pts
  16. Rogue Legacy — ranked #1616
    Rogue Legacy
    Cellar Door's 2013 roguelite platformer where each heir inherits quirky genetic traits.
    360pts
  17. Don't Starve — ranked #1717
    Don't Starve
    Klei's 2013 gothic wilderness survival game with a Tim Burton-esque art style.
    360pts
  18. Spelunky — ranked #1818
    Spelunky
    Derek Yu's 2012 roguelike platformer of deadly procedurally generated caves.
    0pts
  19. Super Meat Boy — ranked #1919
    Super Meat Boy
    Team Meat's 2010 brutally precise platformer about a boy of meat rescuing Bandage Girl.
    0pts
  20. Kentucky Route Zero — ranked #2020
    Kentucky Route Zero
    Cardboard Computer's episodic magical-realist adventure that began in 2013.
    0pts

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