Here are our top ten indie games you can pick up for $10 or less this January. Each selection is based on factors such as current player count, wish list numbers, and peak player activity. As always, no developer or publisher has paid for placement on this list.
10. Dead Engine
Dead Engine is a survival action-roguelike where players explore a post-apocalyptic city overrun by intelligent zombie threats. Each choice to fight or flee impacts survival as zombies actively track, adapt, and work together to hunt their prey. Loot critical items and manage your expandable backpack every item could mean the difference between life and death.
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack…
9. Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying
Choose from 9 unique base classes, each offering a distinct combat identity. Evolve your playstyle even further with 18 specialized subclasses, each introducing new mechanics, abilities, and synergies. Master 15 unique weapons – from life-stealing scythes to boomerangs that strike twice – each with their own passives and attack patterns. Whether you’re a precise swordsman, an explosive spellcaster, or an agile ranged fighter, every class delivers fresh ways to dominate the battlefield.
Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying is a fast-paced twin-stick action roguelite focused on manual aiming, dodging, and…
8. SHE WAS 98
You are a young man, the grandson of an almost century-old grandmother who is living out her days in her once cozy but long dilapidated apartment. Her relatives have long ago withdrawn from her, the medics speak of “senile dementia”, but you come to care for her – out of duty? Or in the hope that after her death the apartment will be left to you?
“SHE WAS 98” – you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother’s home to care…
7. The Wellmonts Case
Step into the shoes of a private detective sent to investigate a family’s mysterious disappearance in 1993, Northern Maine. Uncover evidence, document your findings, and face the creeping horror hidden within the abandoned Wellmont farm.
The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective…
6. OH DEMON! Fix my TV
In this experience that combines horror, comedy, and puzzles, you will play as a demon summoned by an old woman to fix her television.
In this horror, comedy, and puzzle game, you will play as a demon summoned by an old woman…
5. Holo vs Robo
Oh no! Robots are attacking hololive! They must be stopped!!
With the energy of fans’ cheers, bring holodolls to life and fight off hordes of robots in this hololive-themed lane-based tower defense!!
Build a strong defense of hololive dolls to defeat a robot army in this exciting hololive-themed tower defense…
4. Factory Planner
Factory Planner is a card-based strategy and simulation game where your goal is to build your own factory from scratch by combining different types of cards, managing resources, and optimizing production lines. Each card plays a specific role: gather materials, produce goods, distribute power, or boost efficiency. With the right planning, combinations, and engineers, your factory can become an industrial powerhouse!
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal…
3. Tiny Isle
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation where you care for a magical, secluded island. Discover a mysterious sprite civilization and help them rebuild their home.
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island…
2. Kin and Quarry
An evil Geomancer has stolen the magic essence from your sacred Evertree and buried it deep underground!
An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree…
1. Gamblers Table
Click on coins to toss and flip them – having coins land on their dollar side wins you sweet, sweet cash. Use your winnings to buy more and better coins. The more coins that you own, the more coins you can flip! Spend your money on upgrades to improve your earnings and watch your coins flood the table and your income flood your pockets. Simple, satisfying and strangely compelling
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins
