Celebrate creative and original gaming experiences with PlayStation Indies. Discover independent titles of all shapes and sizes and the people who create them.
Celebrate creative and original gaming experiences with PlayStation Indies. Join us as we shine a spotlight on independent titles and the people who make them. Discover games of all shapes and sizes, filled with exciting ideas.
Out now on PS5
Experience indies like never before with next generation features like the super-fast loading and immersive haptic feedback.
Oddworld Soulstorm
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
Set directly after the events of 2014's Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty, Oddworld: Soulstorm is the second game in Abe’s heroic new epic.
Abe has now undergone a transformation - from a clueless Mudokon cog about to be chewed up by the Glukkons’ mega-corporate machines into an unlikely hero who rises to become a beacon of hope.
Disco Elysium
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: ZA/UM
Disco Elysium is a stylish open-world role playing game where it's up to you to decide what sort of detective you want to be.
After waking up in a trashed hostel room with a hangover and no memory of his past, follow a detective trying to piece his life back together while investigating a murder in the town of Revachol.
Bugsnax
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Young Horses
Embark on a whimsical adventure to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary half-bug half-snack creatures, Bugsnax.
Invited by intrepid explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive only to discover your host is nowhere to be found, her camp in shambles, and her followers scattered across the island alone... and hungry!
Maquette
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Graceful Decay
Explore an utterly unique puzzle adventure where the world you inhabit is nested inside ever larger ones and size is entirely relative.
Featuring the voice talents of Seth Gabel and Bryce Dallas Howard, discover the romantic trials and tribulations of Michael and Kenzie as you relive the memories of their lives together, uncover fragments of thier history and share the moments that defined them.
Maneater
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Tripwire Interactive
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as a terrifying shark! Maneater is a single player, open world action RPG where you are the shark.
Make your way from a humble baby of bayou to scourge of beach-side resorts, as you chomp your way through prey of all shapes and sizes.
Worms Rumble
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Team 17
For the first time ever, Team 17 brings you a real-time version of Worms, with even more chaotic action!
Get ready to rumble in Deathmatch or Last Worm Standing modes where you’re only ever a Holy Hand Grenade away from death!
The Pathless
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Giant Squid
From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest.
Explore an open world and travel to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world. Together with your eagle companion, discover the history of the island, and fight epic battles to restore light to the land.
No Man's Sky
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Hello Games
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.
No Man's Sky also features full support for PlayStation VR and up to four players in multiplayer.
Upcoming indie games for 2021
Check out some of the best indies coming to PS4 and PS5 consoles this year.
Goodbye Volcano High
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: KO_OP
Release date: 2021
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about the end of an era and the beginning of a love story.
Jett: The Far Shore
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Superbrothers
Release date: 2021
JETT: The Far Shore is a cinematic action adventure that invites you on an interstellar journey to carve out a future for a people haunted by oblivion.
Solar Ash
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Heart Machine
Release date: 2021
Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Platform: PS5
Developer: Finji Games
Release date: 2021
Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, help your animal friends and restore color to the world in this charming adventure game on PlayStation 5.
Puzzling Places
Platform: PS4
Developer: Realities.io
Release date: 2021
Puzzling Places brings one of the world's most beloved pastimes to PlayStation VR - jigsaw puzzles! Construct 3D puzzles of beautiful places from around the world - without cluttering your kitchen table.
Temtem
Platform: PS5
Developer: Crema
Release date: Early access begins 8th December 2020
Lose yourself in a massively-multiplayer, online creature collection role-playing game.
Explore the six islands of the Airborne Archipelago, discover and collect new species of Temtem and make good friends along the way.
Tribes of Midgard
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Norsfell Games
Release date: 2021
Resist the oncoming invasion of Giants during Ragnarök. 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
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Clever Plays
Release date: TBC
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.
Where The Heart Leads
Platform: PS4
Developer: armature
Release date: July 13th, 2021
The lines between the concrete and the imagined blur together as you explore main character Whit’s past and future.
F.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torch
Platform: PS4
Developer: TiGames
Release date: TBC
Dive into a dieselpunk-style action adventure featuring an anthropomorphic bunny wielding a huge, weaponized metal fist.
Stray
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: BlueTwelve Studio
Release date: 2021
Lost, alone, and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find the way home.
Little Devil Inside
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Neostream Interactive
Release date: TBC
Little Devil Inside is an action-adventure RPG with survival elements set in an atmospheric, semi-open world.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Ember Lab
Release date: 24th August, 2021
Find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their abilities and creating new ways to manipulate the environment.
Heavenly Bodies
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: 2pt Interactive
Release date: TBC
In Heavenly Bodies, you’re a brave cosmonaut and it’s your sole duty to maintain Earth’s latest and proudest feat of space engineering.
Nour: Play With Your Food
Platform: PS5
Developer: Terrifying Jellyfish
Release date: TBC
Nour: Play With Your Food is an interactive exploration into the aesthetics of food and drink where you're free to play with your food however you see fit.
Recompile
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Phigames
Release date: TBC
Play as a sentient virus, trying to escape deletion as you infiltrate the digital world of The Mainframe to achieve sapience and bring about the first technological singularity.
Little Devil Inside
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: Neostream Interactive
Release date: TBC
Little Devil Inside is an action-adventure RPG with survival elements set in an atmospheric, semi-open world.
Out now on PlayStation VR
Until You Fall
Platform: PS4
Developer: Schell Games
Grow stronger as you battle through an awesome neon world, striking down monstrosities in this hack-and-slash roguelite.
Paper Beast
Platform: PS4
Developer: Pixel Reef
Experience a dreamlike odyssey in virtual reality. Discover a wild ecosystem, born from lost Internet data.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
Platform: PS4
Developer: Fireproof Games
The disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist prompts a Police investigation into the unknown.
Multiplayer games
Go head to head with friends, team up online and battle for ultimate gaming prestige in coop and competitive multiplayer.
Huntdown
Platform: PS4
Developer: Easy Trigger Games
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.
Streets of Rage 4
Platform: PS4
Developer: DotEmu / Lizardcube / Guard Crush Games
Streets of Rage 4 builds upon the classic trilogy’s gameplay with new mechanics, beautiful hand-drawn visuals and a authentic new soundtrack.
Moving Out
Platform: PS4
Developer: SMG Games
Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to 'couch co-op'.
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Platform: PS4
Developer: Mediatonic
Battle bizarre obstacles, shove through unruly competitors, and overcome the unbending laws of physics to avoid both humiliation and elimination.
Stylish games
Experince the surreal, the brilliant and the bravely creative in a selection of one-of-kind adventures.
The Last Campfire
Platform: PS4
Developer: Hello Games
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Return of the Obra Dinn
Platform: PS4
Developer: Lucas Pope
Return of the Obra Dinn is a first-person mystery adventure based on exploration and logical deduction.
Earthnight
Platform: PS4
Developer: Cleaversoft
EarthNight is an illustrated procedurally generated platformer that takes place in a dystopian future just after the dragon apocalypse.
Creaks
Platform: PS4
Developer: Amanita Design
Explore ambiguity as you navigate the dark corridors of a strange, towering mansion.
Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
Platform: PS4
Developer: Cardboard Computer
A magical realist adventure game in five acts, featuring a haunting electronic score, and a suite of hymns and bluegrass standards.
Action games
Let off some steam in frenetic, action-driven escapades with unique and inventive twists.
BELOW
Platform: PS4
Developer: Capybara Games
BELOW presents a vast underworld of ever-shifting labyrinths where deadly monstrosities, cunning traps, and a shadowy presence lurk in every passage.
Void Bastards
Platform: PS4
Developer: Blue Manchu
Forget everything you know about first-person shooters: Void Bastards asks you to take charge, not just point and shoot.
John Wick Hex
Platform: PS4
Developer: Bithell Games
A fast-paced, action-oriented strategy game that makes you think and strike like John Wick, the hitman of the critically acclaimed film franchise.
Creature in the Well
Platform: PS4
Developer: Flight School Studio
A top-down, pinball-inspired, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. Uncover and upgrade powerful gear in order to free the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm.
Quirky & unique games
Understated indie gems pushing the boundaries of what games can do, explore and express.
Haven
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: The Game Bakers
Release date: Out now
Haven is an RPG where you feel free: broken from your chains and able to explore a mysterious planet.
Carto
Platform: PS4
Developer: Sunhead Games
A delightful adventure wrapped around a unique world-shifting puzzle mechanic where you’ll progress by mastering cartography skills.
Atomicrops
Platform: PS4
Developer: Bird Bath Games
You're in a hellscape wasteland defending the last surviving source of sustenance - your crops - and every mutant wants a piece.
Wattam
Platform: PS4
Developer: Funomena
Alone in a dark world with no memories, an unexpected reunion helps Mayor remember the joy in grabbing a friend by the hand and adventuring together.
Untitled Goose Game
Platform: PS5 | PS4
Developer: House House
You are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and ruining everyone’s day.
Form
Platform: PS4
Developer: Charm Games
Charm Games brings you Form, a surreal adventure that unfolds within the confines of the human mind.
Telling Lies
Platform: PS4
Developer: Sam Barlow
An investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling, Telling Lies revolves around a cache of secretly recorded video conversations.
Deliver us the Moon
Platform: PS4
Developer: KeokeN Interactive
A Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future, where Earth's resources are depleted. Will you save mankind or be forgotten in the abyss?
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