There are many amazing AAA games coming to PlayStation 5 this year, but what about Best Indie Games For PlayStation 5? We’ve picked the greatest PS5 indie games and upcoming titles. Buy your favorites and game share with others.
Haven Haven from The Game Bakers is a romantic space RPG adventure where you control two characters at once. You and Kay escaped to an abandoned planet where you must collect components to build a home. Cook, create, scavenge, make friends, and fight enemies as a couple. This easy-to-play game incorporates DANGER’s electro soundtrack. A local co-op is also great with a friend.
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Best Indie Games For PlayStation 5
Elysium
Disco Elysium isn’t for everyone. The award-winning open-world RPG uses cards and dice. The amnesiac detective must solve murder mysteries. The game has no fighting, just an oil-painting graphic style. You select options in dialogue trees, do skill checks, and access your character’s Thought Cabinet. Disco Elysium is a deep, involved game that will last long after the credits roll.
Outback
Outer Wilds is only on PS4, however, you can play it on a PS5. Developed by Mobius Games and Annapurna Interactive, this award-winning game is an open-world cosmic mystery about a solar system locked in a temporal loop. Use your jetpack, spacecraft, and other awesome gear to explore the solar system. Why are you stuck in a time loop? Can it be stopped? Each session offers new things to uncover and regions to explore, so Outer Wilds is a game you’ll spend a lot of time on.
Sol Ash
Rei, a Voidrunner, must save her world from the Ultravoid in this stylish action-adventure by Heart Machine. In a vivid, colorful dreamscape filled with ancient ruins, you’ll grapple, grind rails, and surf through the skies as you battle deadly adversaries and enormous bosses. We recommend Solar Ash and Hyper Light Drifter if you haven’t played them.
Hades
This roguelike hack-and-slash dungeon crawler from Supergiant games (of Bastion and Transistor) not only looks fantastic but it’s received over 50 Game of the Year honors, too. It’s been out for a while, but you must play it to beat the God of the Dead and escape the Underworld. Play as Zag, a warrior who may wield six weapons with four versions depending on your play style. You can pick off adversaries from a distance with the bow or use the Stygian Blade to dive into the fight.
Hades combines fast-paced action with a profound, delightful, progressive plot and a cast of fascinating characters, including Sisyphus and his fondly named boulder.
Twelve
Mix Groundhog Day, Rear Window, and Memento. 12 Minutes-like game. When a police detective accuses your wife of murder and beats you, you find yourself transported back in time to moments before it happened. Stuck in a 12-minute time loop, you must figure out what’s happening to break the circle. Willem Dafoe, James McAvoy, and Daisy Ridley provide their voices to this Annapurna Interactive thriller.
Lady Sky
Wales Interactive’s first-person psychological gothic horror game is scary. Maid of Sker is set in 1898 in a lonely hotel with a dark history. As you slip through the hotel, you must use stealth to avoid being detected and killed by the Quiet Ones, sound-based AI foes. An eerie soundtrack of Welsh hymns and folk tunes helps build the mood, with a narrative by SOMA and The Bunker.
A Sea Call
First-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930s South Pacific. You play Nora, a lady searching for her missing husband. It’s your job to explore the mysterious island, discover its secrets, and find out who you are. Nora is spoken by Cissy Jones (The Walking Dead, Firewatch), making for an immersive experience.
Lost City
This award-winning game, developed from a mod with 3 million downloads, is now on PS5. When you find the remnants of an old underground city, you’re transported to Ancient Rome and must discover how the city was destroyed. You must utilize bribes, charm, reason, intimidation, and moral decisions to question a colorful variety of personalities to break the time loop. Non-linear mystery with many endings and a magnificent, historically accurate, open-world ancient Roman metropolis. It can be tedious, but manipulating time loops to solve puzzles is satisfying.
Lost
In this Giant Squid mythological adventure, you play as the Hunter, a master archer tasked with eliminating a curse from a remote island. You and your eagle partner must traverse a large open environment without a map, solving riddles, uncovering old secrets, and hunting ancestral ghosts with your bow. Unlock trick shots and fluid acrobatics as you combat epic enemies and explore the island’s secrets.
A Colorful Tale
A Colorful Tale of Chicory is colorful. This indie game by Greg Lobanov lets you paint to solve puzzles, explore, and restore color. Chicory uses The Brush to provide color to Picnic Province. You must use the Brush to replace it when it and Chicory depart. Draw to solve riddles, paint to engage with the Province’s residents, and draw on whatever you see. In co-op mode, you can play with a friend.
The Rally
Art of Rally is one of the top PS5 indie racing games. From Funselektor Labs, the creators of Absolute Drift, this stylized rally game is nostalgic and lovely. In Career Mode, drive over 50 famous rally cars from the 60s through the 80s on 60 globe stages from Finland to Japan. Top-down view, genuine control, and charming visuals make this a rally game for all. There are beginner-friendly options, expert-level modes, daily and weekly challenges, and more. Art of Rally is a must-play even if you don’t like rally games.
Gods
Heavenly Bodies is a space-based physics game by 2pt Interactive. In zero gravity, you must clamber, pull, and push through a research station to solve problems. Only mission control can help you. The game can be hard, but there’s a local co-op so you can play with a friend.