Top Indie Games Under $5 in 2026

Vampire Survivors

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your ch...

Reventure

The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!

Devil Daggers

Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a ...

Downwell

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

VVVVVV

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

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.

What Comes After

A side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Ride the train to the afterlife and talk to souls about...

HoloCure - Save the Fans!

Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this u...

Nubby's Number Factory

A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! B...

Teenage Blob

Half game, half album, all awesome. A colorful art-punk adventure towards the best night of your life, created in collaboration with indie rock band T...

Hylics

Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Cube Escape Collection

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and ...

Stick It to the Stickman

Stick it to the Stickman is a physics-based brawler where you fight heaps of red stickmen to become the boss. Choose from hundreds of unique moves to ...

20 Minutes Till Dawn

20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate...

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 ...

Boneraiser Minions

Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, us...

Picayune Dreams

Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, fend off thousands of n...

Strange Jigsaws

A game of strange jigsaws.

Leap Year

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s se...

Mirage Feathers

「Maybe one day, I won't have to fight when I fly.」

Aventura Copilului Albastru și Urât

Pornește într-o aventură scurtă de uitat în maxim 30min după ce ai închis jocul! Ce mai aștepți? Aventura îl urmărește pe Copilul Albastru și Urât înt...

RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike

A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying c...

Don't Escape Trilogy

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself...

The Deadseat

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Mimic Logic

"Mimic Logic" is an automatically generated logic puzzle roguelike. Listen to the statements of the treasure chests, find the lying mimics, ...

Please, Touch The Artwork 2

A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual ...

Buckshot Roulette

A tabletop horror game that puts a sinister spin on Russian Roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Bluff, strategize, and survive in this viral indie hit.

Dead Plate

Work at a restaurant with a dark secret in this horror RPG. Uncover the truth behind the chef's suspicious menu in multiple endings.

Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain

A short 3D platformer made for Celeste's 6th anniversary. Collect strawberry fragments across charming low-poly levels.

The Roottrees are Dead

A murder mystery puzzle game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn. Piece together the fates of an eccentric family from fragmented evidence.

Fragments of Euclid

Explore impossible architecture inspired by M.C. Escher in this mind-bending puzzle game built in Unity.

Mushroom Oasis

Grow and tend a magical mushroom garden in this cozy simulation game. Discover new species, craft potions, and build your own fungal paradise.

Type Help

A puzzle mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn and Her Story. Investigate files on an old computer to uncover the dark story of Galley Hous...

Dire Decks

A card-based roguelite where deckbuilding meets bullet hell. Draw cards to attack while dodging enemy projectiles.

Becalm

A serene boat ride through beautiful, painterly sceneries. Float through dreamlike landscapes in this meditative experience.

Miss Paint

A unique platformer with inventive mechanics and exceptional level design. Paint your way through creative puzzles.

Robes

A slick Vampire Survivors-like with smooth gameplay and stylish visuals. Survive waves of enemies with powerful upgrades.

Nothing Beyond This Point

Use your endless health as damage, create your own strategy with abilities and Sigils, and fight through corrupted entities in this top-down action Me...

Giant's Path

Brave through rubbles and monsters

Dunderbeck

Transform magical creatures into sausages in Dunderbeck, a frantic inventory-management RPG set in a fantasy Cincinnati.

Cosmic Hero 2 Prologue

Retro sci-fi puzzle/arcade game, collect energy on distant planet

SlumberNapped

The quirky side-scrolling card-collecting turn-based RPG !

Die in the Dungeon CLASSIC

A turn-based, deck-building roguelite focused on dice combinations!

Dragonsweeper

A roguelike minesweeper adventure

13 Bones

Play Cursed Blackjack, buy your freedom from the MASTER

Paimon Quest -A Genshin Impact Fangame

Return to Mondstadt in this action Roguelike!

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers

You've never played blackjack with cards like these!

Roulette Hero

Deckbuilder, dungeon crawler, wheel of fortune

Prerolled

Make crazy money selling silly dice in your cozy shop!!

Cult of PiN

A Roguelike-Pinball Deckbuilder

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

A roguelike dungeon crawler RPG that's simple to get into but hard to master!

Persuasion RPG

A Text-Driven Victorian Roguelike Mystery

Minato

Minesweeper but it's a roguelike.

Tiny Kingdom

Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom in a minimalist card based city-building strategy

Gun Knight

A knight who modifies his gun by changing its attachments.

GET YOKED: Extreme Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding Roguelike Deckbuilder.

Labyrinth of Legendary Loot

A simple turn-based roguelike with over a hundred unique abilities and loot!

Crownbreakers

Tyrants keep the city in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH!

Demon Bluff

Roguelike card game, where your cards lie

Rogue64 (C64)

Modern roguelike for the Commodore64

Vapor Trails

Heartfelt game about revenge

Delta-Gal

3D lowpoly/pixelart metroidvania

Periphery Synthetic

A non-linear sci-fi adventure across generative musical playgrounds

Repugnant Bounty

A Metroidvania for Game Boy Color

Böbl (NES)

A water-based platformer developed for the NES. Bobl ROM included

Momodora I

Action Platformer

Hollow Knight Beta [Gameboy Demake]

Bug themed platformer remade for the GameBoy

Sanctuarium Online

Welcome into the world of Sanctuarium, a long dead social MMO for the DS...

Monster Sanctuary

monster taming metroidvania

Kobold Siege

One-kobold siege against a whole castle!

IguaRPG

Be an iguana and save the world from evil

GREEDED

GREEDED is a physics puzzle game about a long-armed robot in outer space

Dank Tomb

Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.

Trapers Platformer

A stylish and challenging, graph-paper-hand-drawn metroidvania platformer!

Knight 'n' Grail (C64)

The ultimate arcade adventure for the C64!

birdsong

It's finally time to leave the nest.

Goodboy Galaxy DEMO

Exploration platform game for Game Boy Advance (and more!)

Saving Princess

"IF THEY GET PRINCESS, THE WAR IS LOST."

Bunmask

You are a bunny. There are Masks. It's exactly what it sounds like.

Prototype N

A side-scroller shooting platformer! Starring Nadine, the prototype android!

BFDI: Branches

A platformer featuring multiple characters, a story mode, a level editor, and an online level browser!

Pikwip

Head to the summit. Local co-op or single player.

Billie Bust Up! Kickstarter Demo

A Musical 3D Platformer with cute characters and catchy villain songs!🎶

Super Smash Bros. Crusade

A Smash Bros. fangame.

NSMB Mario Vs Luigi - KKT's Gooffy little Mod (V.1.1.0)

A Goofy Little Mod Of Mario Vs Luigi Online

HELP! NO BRAKE

Where did my brake pedal go?

Turrican II - The Final Fight - AGA

Remake of the PC-DOS version for AGA Amigas

Sonic Time Twisted

A complete Sonic The Hedgehog Fan Game

Changed: Berserk+ (Plus) - Demo

Deepest Sword

Plunge your sword deep into the dragon's heart!

Zombotron Re-Boot

Explore a mysterious world, find great weapons and fight various enemies to survive!

FISH

A Platformer Run & Gun Game

Super Mario 63 Redux [Tiny Demo]

A fan recreation of http://runouw.com's classic flash game based on Super Mario 64!

Super Mario 127

The sequel to Super Mario 63

DELTATRAVELER

Kris, Susie, and Noelle travel between worlds to make their way back home.

Nefarius - The Last Wizard (hiatus)

Survive against the slime army

DELTARUNE

UNDERTALE's parallel story

Solace Inc.

recruit your employees and fight baddies

Mesmerizer Fangame

"Mesmerizer" Fan-made Game

InfidHells

Hell of a game! Roguelike Stacker

Curseball

cursed curses!

Touhou ~ Unmei no Hoshi ~ / 東方運命の星

A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.

RIG Riot

A third-person mech-action roguelike

Undercroft Warriors

Crush the forces of hell and get a high score in this addictive, action-packed, arcade-inspired twin-stick shooter!

Eli

bullet-hell hell.

lose95

click click delete

Deadbeats Encore

Sick Tracks To Perish To !

Crimson Fantasia

Twin-stick youkai-busting action!

Astro Prospector

Incremental bullet hell about mining cofferoids and fighting SpaceCorp. AstroCoffe for all!

JUMPGRID

White-knuckle speed-Pac-Man.

One Way Lane

What are you happy about? :]

Casualties: Unknown

Scavenging survival game demo

TANKMAGE

Hardcore Turn Based Battles - Gameboy Color Homebrew ROM inspired by oldschool mmo battle mechanics.

Pelican Post

A cozy narrative-driven mail delivery game!

Cold Front

A short RPG horror/story game about unstable friendships and blizzards in july

Peggy's Post

A peaceful package sorting game

Six Cats Under

You died. Your unfinished business? The fate of your many cats!

Taiyaki Fabulous Museum of Fish

Nonogram Exploration Adventure

First Cut

Demon Pages (Zx Spectrum 128K)

PokéPath TD

Pokémon Tower Defense

KittyToy

Kitty Caretaking Simulator

Chop Chains

Relaxing incremental game where you chop trees!

Gunsaw Demo

A 2D shooter with focus on ammo management

Serenitrove

Dig, upgrade, expand... then dig deeper!

Project Landsword

Tactical stealth meets top-down mecha combat and excessive destruction

SKINFACE

get close to the target by becoming their friend

The 18th Attic - Cat Anomaly Horror Game (Photography Horror Teaser)

Fatal-Frame Inspired Horror Game Where You Have To Pet Cats To Restore Sanity!

ULTRAKILL Prelude

A fast-paced ultraviolent old school FPS with Character Action influences.

AmiRun and the Alien Beersuckers

Beer Rescue part 2

Juice Galaxy (formerly Juice World)

Floppy ragdoll rpg sandbox with physics-based combat

GALVAN

galvan

Half Sword

Physical medieval combat simulator

AoTTG2 - Attack on Titan Tribute Game 2

The official sequel to one of the most beloved fan games ever created.

Attack on Toys

Play as Plastic Army Man Toy Soldiers!

Uncanny Cat Golf

A simple retro-styled golf game that gets a teeny bit uncanny...

BattleMaidens: Break Duel

An ARMOR BREAK duel game where battle leaves maidens beautifully exposed.

Red Handed

A stealth game where you have to get caught

Bits & Bops

A collection of original rhythm mini-games!

Pipeline Heroes

🚀 VOXEL MEGA WORLD BUILDER: 100+ MODELS (VOL. 1)

voxel-mega-vol1

Reid Dates Roughly 1/3 of the RTP

Survive The Horde

Weapon, Zombie, Survive

Sky Dungeon

A 3D procedural dungeon in web

Tamara

Cinematic Dungeon Crawler

Candy Crunch: Sugar Escape

A sweet puzzle adventure where sliding candy blocks by color and size leads them to crunch..

flappy bird

Paddles

Two paddles. A ball. You know what to do.

Megaloot

Megaloot is an addictive Inventory Management Roguelite RPG

TOPDOG

L'élite du pari stratégique. Devenez milliardaire grâce à votre logique.

Bajo la mascara

Wall & Order

Fembots n Femboys

An endurance minigame about sorting femboys and fembots.

Traks

Traks is a lowpoly racing game with a built-in track editor

The Shovelling Hour

Puzzling shovelling

Second Hand Computer

A digital toy and fantasy computer for text-mode games.

UNDYING: Kowloon in Red

A visual novel/rpg hybrid about a new vampire in 1950s Hong Kong

2021: Moon Escape

Sci-Fi classic adventure for Game Boy

Wheelchair Wizards

Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.

Black Gunner Wukong: Prologue

Black Gunner Wukong: Prologue is a TPS+ROGUE game where players will take on the role of Sun Wukong, using three heads, six arms, and six big guns to ...

Bloody Hell

A short but sweet game about an Angel on a Bloody Bullet-hell mission to kill Satan! Dash, Double Dash, Grapple & Blast your way through Hell to f...

Pages of Time: Prologue

Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy...

Ascent DX

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and...

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...

Grimm's Hollow

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on...

20 Small Mazes

This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.

SuchArt: Creative Space

Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complet...

100 hidden frogs

The frogs hid. Can you find them?

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lor...

Awaria

Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

Galactic Brawl

A fast-paced multiplayer party brawler where up to 8 players battle using absurd weapons, chaotic arenas, and customizable mascots in frantic free-for...