Top Indie Games Under $20 in 2026

With a $20 budget, you can access some of the highest-rated indie games ever made. These titles represent the best bang for your buck in indie gaming.

Dunjungle

A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weir...

Pizza Tower

Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by...

and Roger

A brief mystery point-and-click visual novel about a young girl, Sofia, who wakes one morning to find a stranger where her father should be. Told acro...

TearyHand Studio

Planet of Lana II

As greed and power divide the tribes of their home planet, Lana and her little companion, Mui, must stand together against the forces reshaping their ...

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Crypt of the NecroDancer

Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award-winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic D...

Brace Yourself Games

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SANABI

SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over ...

Wonder Potion Co, Ltd.

Songs of Syx

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder where you start off as a small colony and can grow into a vast empire. Manage and recruit citizens, build settl...

The Henry Stickmin Collection

A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.

PuffballsUnited

Braid, Anniversary Edition

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and ser...

MOTORSLICE

Parkour through the ruins of a megastructure, climb massive bosses, and hunt down every construction equipment in this slice of life action-adventure ...

Palia

Palia is a free-to-play cozy MMO life simulation where you craft, farm, fish, hunt, and build the home of your dreams in a beautiful open world. Play ...

Singularity 6 Corporation

BlazBlue Entropy Effect

Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls. Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyl...

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Skul: The Hero Slayer

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platforme...

Semblance

An innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. Squish, squash, and reshape the world around you to solve puzzl...

Wizard of Legend

A no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that feat...

TCG Card Shop Simulator

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hi...

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Brotato

Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens.

Ascend to ZERO

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stop time? Ascend to ZERO is a time-bending action-roguelike where you can use your unique ability to fre...

Flyway Games, Inc.

Fields of Mistria

A charming farming sim RPG where you restore a once-thriving town to its former glory. Farm, mine, fish, forage, cook, craft, and befriend the townsfo...

Paint the Town Red

Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, ba...

South East Games

Salt and Sanctuary

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG m...

Dinkum

A survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, ex...

Tiny Glade

A small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages, and romantic ruins. Explore gridless building with procedural detail. No ma...

Sheepy: A Short Adventure

A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game f...

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