What once started as the smaller scale side of the gaming industry has now become a dominant creative force to be reckoned with, with some of the best games every year being produced by indie game developers of all persuasions. No longer content to just make the same few genres that once used to be the purview of indie developers, indie games today deliver games of all types, with the lack of pressure from publishers or to recover astronomical budgets meaning they can even innovate and experiment in a way that most AAA games cannot.

What follows is a list of the fifteen best indie games that launched this year – but these games are so great that most of them could well find themselves on a list of the 15 best games of the year, period, and no one would bat an eye.

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