18 Best Indie Games Of The Decade (So Far)

7. Gemini Rue

Another one for the "Don't run away from the graphics!" pile, Gemini Rue's grandiose narrative plan mixed with a minimal budget meant something had to give, and to be honest after even the smallest amount of time in its company, you'll learn to love the retro adventure game look everything has.

Being a dark noir-like detective tale with a killer sci-fi edge - and this entry will stay spoiler-free - you'll start out as investigator Azriel responding to a call from a friend, before things turn sideways and you're forced off-world. From here on in you switch to another character, Delta-Six, waking up in a detention facility (or what seems to be one), only for their two stories to play out across many hours of interactive elements and some really brilliant characters.

The main takeaway here though is the tone; everything is positively drenched in a Blade Runner-esque future-gone-sour feel, and even walking through the streets and interacting with everything along the way, learning the terminology of this world and discovering its history has every part painstakingly crafted by an incredibly talented coder in Joshua Nuernberger.