If you’re unsure where to start, take a look at this list of the best indie games for the PS4.

Stardew Valley, created by lone developer Eric Barone, quickly became a runaway hit when it launched in 2016. Designed as a spiritual successor to Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley takes place in an idyllic town filled with interesting citizens. Your job is to live the small town life, filling your days with farming, exploration, and small talk.

With a great relationship system, beautiful 16-bit visuals, tantalizing daily loop, and multiplayer, it’s quite easy to start viewing Pelican Town as your actual home. Stardew Valley is the sort of game you’ll unwittingly dump 100 hours into, but you won’t regret any of your time spent living the farming life.

Rocket League combines soccer and racing to achieve stupendously ridiculous levels of fun. Each player drives around a large soccer field in a vehicle chasing after a ball to knock into the opposing team’s net. It’s a surprisingly enthralling experience that continues to delight three years after its launch.

If you haven’t tried Rocket League and are fans of sports and arcade racers, Rocket League is sure to entertain. And even if you don’t like soccer or car games, there’s a still a good chance you’ll like Rocket League. That’s how dang fun it is to play.

The only PSVR game on this list, Moss is one of the most inventive platformers we’ve played in recent years. You play as a tiny mouse named Quill, who is chosen for a grand adventure to save the kingdom. Moss takes full advantage of the PSVR technology by presenting a dual control scheme. Quill is controlled with the joysticks, but the motion controls can be used to interact with the environment.

Since Quill is aware of your presence in the story, she will often look up at you and thank you for helping her complete tasks. As the game progresses through deftly realized forest environments, the puzzles and enemy encounters require consistent teamwork between you and Quill. This is when Moss is at its best when the promise of VR is shown off to such a high degree. Charming and a ton of fun to play, the only downside of Moss is that you can finish it in a handful of hours.

Just like Playdead’s breakout hit Limbo, Inside is a mysterious, wordless tale set in a dark world starring a young boy. A minimalistic color palette and sound design add to the stripped down nature and increase the suspense throughout. Inside gets straight into the action. There’s no filler here.

Every puzzle you solve teaches you something about future puzzles and the world around you. While we can’t say much about the story without ruining it, by the time you reach the chilling conclusion, you’ll realize how absolutely brilliant Inside‘s storytelling and interactive mechanics truly are. It’s a profound, atmospheric experience that surpasses Limbo in every way.

Set in 14th century France, A Plague Tale: Innocence gets its power from its well-designed atmosphere. You play as Amicia, a young woman who guides her younger brother Hugo across rural France to look for a cure for his mysterious ailments. A Plague Tale is ostensibly a stealth game, with most of your movement revolving around sneaking past Inquisition soldiers who are searching for the siblings. The puzzles are largely designed around plague-ridden rats, thousands of them. They will eat Amicia and Hugo alive if you don’t stay in the light.

A Plague Tale‘s uncertainty and the historical backdrop make for a compelling adventure. The relationship between Amicia and Hugo is what shines the brightest, though.

Dead Cells combines the trappings of Metroidvanias with a rogue-like progression system. Playing as the Prisoner, a humanoid composed of dead cells (get it?), you make your way through a series of increasingly challenging dungeons. Although you can purchase permanent upgrades at the end of each section, when you die, you start back at the beginning. Much of Dead Cells, like most rogue-likes, revolves around trial and error.

Since Dead Cells has such satisfying combat and a detailed, interesting world to explore, starting back at the beginning upon each death rarely feels like a chore. If you’re a fan of Metroidvanias who isn’t afraid of an uphill battle, Dead Cells is one of the best indie games on PS4 in both genres.

From D-Pad Studio, Owlboy is one of the most charming and engaging 2D platformers around. You play as a human-owl hybrid named Otus. When Otus’ town is attacked by pirates, he is forced to take action. Impressively, as you make progress, you’ll begin to notice that Owlboy‘s world is far larger than expected.

It’s a cross between a Metroidvania and a 16-bit platformer, excelling in both genres at play. Owlboy oozes personality, featuring clever puzzles, witty companions, and an art style brimming with detail. It’s a beautiful experience through and through and incredibly fun to play to boot.

In Undertale, you play as a nameless child in an underground land filled with various monsters. It’s a retro JRPG in style, but Undertale becomes so much more than that as you make your way through its beautiful, hilarious, and heartbreaking story.

You’ll quickly realize that the combat isn’t where Undertale is supposed to excel. It’s merely there as a device, just like the minimalistic visuals. Undertale will stick with you because of the stories its characters tell you and for the decisions you make. Out of all of the games on this list, Undertale might be the one to make you see the world around you differently.

It’d be irresponsible to create a PS4 indies list without including Journey, thatgamecompany’s third and best game that is commonly regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. In Journey, you play as a nameless robed figure. Dropped in a large desert, you must follow visual clues to make progress.

There are no words in Journey, nor is there any real gameplay besides moving and jumping. The world is beautifully rendered and the understated narrative is something that everyone should experience. It only lasts a couple of hours, though it’s a breathtaking couple of hours.

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