10 Best Indie Games on PlayStation Plus (August 2026)

I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing Untitled Goose Game. There’s just something about breaking the rules as a wild goose that I can’t stop going back to. However, there are far more peculiar experiences that the best indie games on PlayStation Plus have to offer.

Undertale has been an interesting moral scale to gauge yourself, while on the opposite end of the spectrum is Hotline Miami, which encourages violence for no reason at all. It’s a brave, new world out there, thanks to up-and-coming developers willing to push the boundaries and safety of all we’ve seen so far.

What is an Indie Game?

An indie game has a low budget for marketing and publishing, which often makes it slip under the radar of most gamers’ wishlists. Still, the lack of a publishing house allows the developers to create and design freely, without any industry restrictions or demands. And thus, releasing indie games that are tasty and unique.

Best Indie Games on PlayStation Plus

Ready to begin your journey into the unexpected? Try out the best indie games on PlayStation Plus that each offer an experience unlike most others.

10. Cult of the Lamb

It’s a rather simple concept that Untitled Goose Game proposes, one that should take you less than a minute to figure out. Cast into the webbed feet of a wild goose, you’re asked to go into town and cause whatever chaos you feel like it.

And that’s pretty much it. But before you call it too simplistic, the actual gameplay will pull you in. Before you know it, you can’t stop annoying the hell out of the villagers. You’re honking through your beak, grabbing stuff, and tossing them around. You can steal stuff and prank people, ticking off the hilarious items on your to-do list of mischief.

9. A Space for the Unbound

It’s interesting that A Space for the Unbound tells such an emotional story on a 2D screen. The characters communicate via text-based dialogue, which can be tough to convey heavy emotions. Yet, you really get drawn into the ‘90s rural Indonesia world in the game, with its relaxing atmosphere juxtaposed by supernatural events.

What starts as the story of two high school sweethearts grows more complicated when reality begins to break. Suddenly, your problems don’t seem as huge compared to the catastrophic events around you that are leading up to the end of the world.

8. Hotline Miami

We always think that hitmen must have a reason for their choice of career. But sometimes, you simply are an in-game antihero in Hotline Miami, killing the next person whose name comes up on the answering machine.

The fun of it is in the actual combat, of course. It gets so bloody brutal, with a high-octane speed and skull-crushing melee action. You’re a hitman going on a murderous rampage, and stopping at nothing until all your targets are taken care of.

7. Abiotic Factor

The worst thing that could happen to a scientist is having the research turn against you. When the anomalies and paranormal entities you’ve been studying find their way out of containment and begin to enact their vengeance on you.

Abiotic Factor is an interesting take on survival. It forces scientists to adapt, applying their knowledge to crafting and planning against attacks. You can’t be sure when help will arrive. So, you must adjust to a new way of living, scavenging resources, building defense stations, and optimizing sci-fi-tech against interdimensional threats.

6. Another Crab’s Treasure

Mother Nature gives us so much, even when we take away from it. While it’s just a game, Another Crab’s Treasure finds clever ways to educate on maritime conservation. It implements upcycling ideologies through transforming trash into slick outfits and armor. Trash in this world is valuable, but it can also cause harm through spreading a mysterious infection called the Gunk. 

Soulslike fans should also have a blast here, as the bosses can be pretty tough, demanding precise parries. It has FromSoftware design choices, like rest points, though it replaces Soulslike’s heavy atmosphere for a more colorful and cartoony world of talking crabs.

5. Dead Cells

Imagine waking up as a bunch of Dead Cells. You have nothing to lose and possess unrelenting courage and determination to travel to the ends of the Earth looking for answers. Even when the game design is a roguelite, you never stop searching, unlocking new levels and abilities that bring you one step closer to getting the answers you need.

4. Blue Prince

It seems like a tense enough decision to open the closed door in Mt. Holly, not knowing what you’ll find behind it, until you realize that it leads to more closed doors. Each new door reveals its own unique secrets that keep Blue Prince feverishly juicy.

3. Undertale

Will you show mercy or fight? Is the main question that litters most of your journey through Undertale. How do you decide which monster to kill and which one to spare? And what consequences will your actions bring? 

As far as choice-driven narratives go, Undertale goes out of its way to weave tangled webs of intrigue and suspense. You carve a unique path each time you make a life-and-death decision that inspires replayability and even playing with friends.

2. Tetris Effect: Connected

Tetris Effect: Connected is next-level Tetris, if you will. It applies the same core game rules, except with 30+ stages, each with unique backgrounds, shimmer, music, and sound effects. The backgrounds are like the expanse of the galaxy, exploding in visual effects and pulsating graphical style. And you can experience these magical wonders with friends in crossplay multiplayer mode.

1. Dredge

Settle down now for the calming and relaxing life of a fisherman. At least while sailing across still waters, and scouring the depths of the ocean for rare fish species. But Dredge can be dangerous, too, when you sail too far away from the port.

As much as tantalizing mystery lies farther out at sea, it brings with it darkness from the sea’s troubled past. If you can upgrade your boat with stronger equipment, though, you might stand a chance at unraveling the mystery of the deep seas.