Things are kicking off this April with the best indie games this month has to offer. Let’s take a look at the best indie titles we covered in April. Continue reading to discover great titles that you might have been sleeping on.
Showcasing April 2024s Indie Titles
Looks like the month of fools and fabulous indie titles is upon us all and—oh boy—did the indie scene not disappoint. We’ve got a mixed bag of visionary titles this time, with everything from sea-themed soulslikes to the perfect April Fool’s game gracing our screens. We’ve also got an abundance of games themed around building and rebuilding, be it through careful city planning, tedious grinding, or gritty outback survival. The bottom line is this month’s lineup is building itself up to be a great one!
Check out last month’s edition of our indie showcase if you missed it!
Content Warning
There’s no better way to kick off April than with a game designed solely to be an April Fool’s Day prank. Content Warning is a multiplayer co-op game where you dive through ancient and unknowable ruins for that sweet ad revenue. That’s right, streaming is a dangerous business and no stream knows danger better than yours.
Journey through dank underground areas and capture the sickest horror footage for your followers. Learn dances, earn money for better equipment, and watch those views pile up in the funniest horror multiplayer game since Lethal Company.
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
How about we veer away from the allure of social media for a bit and find some peace and satisfaction in nature? Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is a factory management/automation simulator where you use woodland creatures called "Sparks" and uniquely rustic machinery to mass produce items.
It’s a verdant take on a traditionally mechanical genre that evokes a relaxing environment. However, this won’t prevent you from creating the most logistically stunning production lines, and the Sparks are more than happy to help you create the woodland factory of your dreams.
Another Crab’s Treasure
It might not look like it, but this cutesy game about a crab looking for their shell is a soulsike. That’s right, this game’s got the classic soulslike accouterments, including thrilling boss fights, various weapons and armor, and a difficulty spike that’ll get you raging in no time flat.
Explore the bottom of the ocean blue and fight through waves of sea-themed enemies in a quest to get your shell back. Switch shells on the fly and figure out what combat style works best for you in Another Crab’s Treasure.
Manor Lords
Manor Lords is a historically accurate and deeply detailed medieval city-builder made by a solo dev. Don’t let its dull tones and foliage fool you, however, this game is far from ordinary. Sporting perhaps the most natural-looking terrain generation and city-building mechanics I’ve ever seen, Manor Lords is at the forefront of satisfying city planning everywhere.
It’s still in Early Access and already managed to rack up millions of wishlists before its EA release and I can see why. The amount of period-accurate detail alone is enough to earn this game a crown among its peers.
Kingsgrave
Keeping up the theme of monarchs building up their kingdoms, how about we move on to one that’s fallen to ruin? Kingsgrave is an arcade-style 2D action-adventure game with pixel art stylings where you play the role of a ruined monarch. Your kingdom has long since fallen and it’ll be up to you to pick through its ruins and build it back up brick by brick.
This is a game that has exploration and puzzle solving by the coffer, forcing you to use what resources you already have to unlock new paths to better rewards. The disparaging state of your kingdom is but an obstacle, one that you can get past through cunning, bravery, and a whole lot of grinding. If you’re a fan of classic RPGs, then this is the game for you.
Broken Roads
Broken Roads is an RPG set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Australian outback. But this isn’t Mad Max, folks; only hard reality and harsh truths await our heroes out in the scorching brush.
Manage resources, kit out your party, and survive the heat of the outback as you maneuver through the complexities of post-apocalyptic life. Choose your dialogue carefully and navigate the intricacies of your morality through the game’s built-in moral compass.
Will you survive the adversity unchanged, or will your morality dive in the face of certain death? Find out in Broken Roads.
Beat Slayer
Beat Slayer is an action game with a rhythmic twist, forcing your swings and dashes to keep in sync with the beats and chords of the post-apocalypse. Consider this the lovechild of Hades and Hi-Fi Rush, where room-based traversal and tempo-based combat are married into a high-energy symphony you won’t soon forget.
Featuring head-banging beats and the hardest-hitting bass on this side of the megacorp’s bottom line, you’re bound to rock out with Mia and the rest of the crew as you stick it to the man in Beat Slayer.
