The Game Census

Games published by indienova

40 census-tracked games, ranked by total Steam reviews.

indienova has published 40 games tracked by The Game Census, with 160k Steam reviews between them and an overall 94% positive rating. The most reviewed is A Dance of Fire and Ice (84k reviews, 94% positive). Its best-rated title with at least 1,000 reviews is Rhythm Doctor at 98% positive. Releases span 2016 to 2026. 4 are free to play.

At the latest census sample, 2.1k people were playing its 4 games that report a live player count. Census health tiers across the catalog: 5 healthy, 33 quiet.

Genres across the catalog: Indie (40), Adventure (25), RPG (14), Strategy (13), Casual (10). Most common player tags: Indie, Adventure, Singleplayer, Story Rich, Puzzle, 2D.

Games
40
Steam reviews
160k
Positive
94%
Players now
2.1k
#GameReviewsRatingPlayersHealthPriceReleased
1A Dance of Fire and Ice
A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.
84k94%2.0kHealthy$4.792019-01-24
2Rhythm Doctor
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
27k98%98Healthy$19.992025-12-06
3Wingspan
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
12k94%—Healthy$19.992020-09-17
4The Operator
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
8.9k92%—Healthy$13.992024-07-22
5《文字遊戲》
Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!
6.4k93%9Healthy$27.992022-01-21
6Threefold Recital 三相奇谈
Threefold Recital is set in an oriental fantasy world where the metropolis of Bluescales faces turmoil after a long golden age. The mix of magic, modern, and ancient technologies challenges governance, while tensions between humans, beastlings, and dragons grow. In the shadows, a crisis looms...
5.8k98%—Quiet$14.992025-01-13
7Devil Slayer - Raksasi 斩妖Raksasi
Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.
2.9k85%—Quiet$14.992021-04-22
8Desktop Explorer
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
2.0k96%——$17.992026-07-17
9Hymer 2000
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
1.1k89%—Quiet$4.992025-11-12
10Stone Story RPG
An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...
99691%—Quiet$29.992023-07-26
11Gomoku Let's Go
Gomoku: One of the most popular classic board games for all ages. Experience Zen style visuals, various levels of AI, seamless online multiplayer and Endgame challenges!
93588%—Quiet$2.992021-07-28
12Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre. Use your cards to clear dungeons, then upgrade your deck with new cards and perks to press forward. The fate of the world is in your hands.
90490%—Quiet$14.992020-07-22
13Heaven Dust 2
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
85990%—Quiet$14.992022-01-05
14Heaven Dust 秘馆疑踪
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
69391%—Quiet$7.992020-02-26
15Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
65277%1Quiet$19.992023-04-18
16拯救大魔王2 Rescue the Great Demon 2
Sino was controlled by human. Human made the rules, and annihilated every race that opposed them. Every race on this continent became slaves, except human.Demons had been enslaved for 80 years since their leader, the Great Demon was captured. This is where our story begins.
46373%—QuietFree2016-11-18
17Lucky Hunter
Lucky Hunter is a deck-building auto battler Roguelike game. Your pieces are automatically played on the board, and players will focus on building unique decks and artifacts, making the best of the synergies between pieces to defeat increasingly powerful prey.
45890%—Quiet$5.992024-11-04
18I and Me
If there were another me, Observing myself from the perspective of a spectator, How would I regard another me?
36296%—Quiet$9.992016-05-04
19Dragon Spirits 龙魂:学院奇闻
While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times. In those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he was working on, the fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.
34286%—Quiet$9.992023-04-25
20Night Reverie
Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
33196%—Quiet$9.992021-10-08
21Clocker 铸时匠
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
28583%—Quiet$4.992019-02-14
22Night Reverie: Prologue
Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
27892%—QuietFree2020-11-25
23SELF
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
27877%—Quiet$2.492020-01-15
24The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
27681%—Quiet$4.992020-07-10
25Arrog
Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure game featuring hand-drawn art and set in a bizarre black-and-white world with color accents.
22588%—Quiet$2.992020-07-28
26Rush Rover
Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
22294%—Quiet$4.992017-11-29
27Ink Reverie
Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.
21479%—Quiet$9.992025-07-16
28交界线 Red Line
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world. A thrilling adventure taking place across multiple timelines ensues.
18797%—Quiet$9.992023-07-20
29《文字遊戲世界》
「探索」世界,「創造」世界,只要你會中文,就能主宰這個世界。在《文字遊戲》的經典機制上,帶來全新的探索與創造體驗。你可以遊玩主線故事、挑戰跨界聯名內容,還能動手自製關卡,一起「敲」出專屬於你的文字世界吧!
13468%—Quiet$9.592026-03-15
30Dragon Spirits : Prologue
While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times. In those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he was working on, the fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.
13297%—QuietFree2020-08-26
31Farabel
Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!
11474%—Quiet$9.992016-10-14
32Piggy Gambit
Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy searching for the meaning to his life.
5995%—Quiet$7.992023-05-05
33ECHOPLEX
ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.
5883%—Quiet$14.992018-03-15
34Desktop Dungeons: Rewind - Daily Demo
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind - Daily Demo is a new, procedurally generated challenge, designed to rack the strongest minds…DAILY! So grab your sword, embark on this brain-teasing roguelike adventure, explore dangerous dungeons, and prepare for the full game! Do you have what it takes to be the GOAT?!
5279%—QuietFree2023-01-25
35Cruel Bands Career 残酷乐队生涯
The Glass Heart Band face challenges brought on by a cruel world! They are on a secret mission and must face varied audiences and bosses to complete their quest.
5090%—Quiet$3.992020-08-05
36Dream of Things 物之梦
Dream of Things is an adventure puzzle game packed with mystery. You had died in a bathtub and acquired the ability to talk to inanimate things. You need to enter their dreams to help them fulfill their wishes and figure out what happened.
3497%—Quiet$9.992025-06-19
37Yesterday
It's a 3D Puzzle Game talking about the philosophy of love and encounter from female's perspective. All we experienced in countless “yesterday” make us be ourselves today. Beautiful visual performance and intriguing music immerse players in this fantasy world soon, where dreams mix with reality, time and space interweave together.
3181%—Quiet$1.742017-08-23
38Duel on Board
Duel on Board is a 1 vs 1 local multiplayer competitive / party game where pirates fight for the precious beer while sailing the dangerous high seas. Just like old school games, you can play with your friend on the same keyboard!
2896%—Quiet$7.992021-03-04
39Soul Link
Soul Link is a challenging puzzle game where you use your intelligence to build bridges with falling pieces of various shapes. Reconnect this broken land with Soul Bridges, and make the world whole again!
2596%—Quiet$5.992024-05-22
40Savage Age
Savage Age is a labor of love that combines survival, combat, base building, puzzle solving, and even tower defense into a single game. The game revolves around a hero's quest in an eon of strife to save the holy totem of his tribe, thus beginning a journey of romance and adventures.
2295%——$14.992024-04-03

Reviews and ratings are Steam totals at the latest census snapshot. Players is the most recent concurrent-player sample recorded by the census and is blank where Steam exposes no count. Health is the census verdict for each game; the tiers are explained in the methodology. Game blurbs, genres and tags are the Steam store's own.

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