The PS5 has become one of the best places to play indie games — and increasingly the console where the biggest indies make their debut. From the cosy to the cosmic, these are the indie games most worth your time on PlayStation 5 (and PS4) — spanning every genre, in no particular order.
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Disco Elysium
The most ambitious writing in any RPG — a detective story with no combat, just consequences.
Stray
Play a stray cat in a neon-drenched cyberpunk city — the cosy-yet-melancholy adventure that became a PS5 sensation.
Hades
The roguelike that perfected the genre — lightning combat and a story that rewards every death.
Outer Wilds
A time-looping space mystery widely hailed as one of the greatest games ever made — best gone into knowing nothing.
Hollow Knight
The metroidvania benchmark — a vast, gorgeous, brutally fair underground kingdom.
Celeste
A pixel-perfect platformer about climbing a mountain and your own anxiety.
Death’s Door
A razor-sharp, gorgeous action-adventure where you play a crow reaping souls — Zelda-like combat with real bite.
Dead Cells
A razor-sharp roguevania fusing Metroid exploration with souls-like combat.
Cuphead
A punishing run-and-gun drawn like a 1930s cartoon — gorgeous and merciless.
Stardew Valley
The beloved farming life-sim — endless cosy depth on the couch or the go.
Inscryption
A deck-building roguelike that keeps tearing off its own mask — one of the most unsettling, surprising games in years.
Hyper Light Drifter
A wordless, neon-soaked action-RPG of brutal combat and aching beauty.
Slay the Spire
The deckbuilding roguelike that launched a genre — build a deck, climb, repeat.
Cult of the Lamb
Build a murderous cult by day, clear roguelike dungeons by night.
Tunic
A tiny fox, a Zelda-like world, and a secret manual that turns it into a puzzle box.
Spiritfarer
A cosy management game about death — build a boat, care for spirits, say goodbye.
Sea of Stars
A gorgeous modern throwback to the golden age of JRPGs.
Cocoon
A mind-bending puzzle adventure of worlds within worlds, from a Limbo/Inside designer.
Citizen Sleeper
A narrative survival RPG about scraping by on a derelict space station.
Vampire Survivors
The minimalist bullet-heaven phenomenon — pure escalating dopamine.