Top 10 Best itch.io Games

Do you know what itch.io is? If not, you’ve been robbed of the opportunity to play some of the best games of recent years.

Itch.io is an up-and-coming site for indie game creators to share their work with fans. You can post your work, host a game jam, or check out some cool and unique new work.

If you don’t know about itch.io, here are the 10 best and most popular games you’ve been missing out on.

10. Please Collect Your Things And Leave

Please Collect your Things And Leave gameplay

Do you like goofy physics-based games like Surgeon Simulator? If so, this little gem is for you. You play as a person who’s just been fired and has to pack up their personal items before leaving the office.

However, the character’s wacky movements are about to destroy the office as you go around knocking over cubicles and tumbling across the carpet. This game is for everyone who ever wanted to trash an office on the way out.

After being let go by the powers that be?  Release your anger on cubicle city as you go

9. I’m Lost

I’m Lost gameplay

The tenth most popular game on itch.io is called I’m Lost. It’s an experimental, mysterious horror game where you explore a haunted house as a first-person protagonist. You have to uncover clues about what happened in the haunted house and complete the story. Several Let’s Players have already covered it, and fans agree that the game’s best qualities are its terrifying soundscape and its use of environmental storytelling.

What is haunting this creepy house?

8. The Other Half

The Other Half from Studio Eggroll is a game in the action/adventure genre. It’s available for pre-order with a playable demo, and it comes out on November 2nd. You play as a demon hunter who bravely travels through a dangerous land to help a friend, unleashing fiery attacks to cleanse your path of unholy enemies. It’s fully voiced with hand animated characters on bleak, mysterious 3D backgrounds, and the indie game community is so excited for a full release.

The Other Half gameplay"

Cleanse the world of demons and restore the world to its former beauty.

7.Grimder

This quirky game was made by a four-person team for Ludlum Dare. In this parody of dating apps, you play a new Grim Reaper who must decide which way to swipe on the profiles of dead people: Heaven or Hell? Get too many wrong and you’ll get on Lucifer’s nerves. If you like the comedy The Good Place, this game is perfect for you.

Grimder gameplay:

Swipe for Heaven or Hell

6. Advanced Education with Victor Strobovski

Are you a 90’s kid? Were you forced to play crappy and/or weird video games just because they were educational? Then this horror parody is for you. Intentionally low-poly graphics and staticky voice work contribute to the feeling that you’ve unearthed something from the past that should have stayed buried. In this creepy school, you’ll have to solve math problems to survive.

Advanced Education with Victor Strobovski gameplay:

Math = survival

5. The Confraternity of Toast

The Confraternity of Toast, from Dema Studios, is a surreal puzzle-platforming adventure. You play as a toast-human hybrid who needs to complete parkour tests in a sci-fi world in order to join a secret group. This game is an example of how interesting and unique itch.io’s offerings can be.

The Confraternity of Toast gameplay

Secret Toast Society: play as a toast human hybrid solve puzzles to gain entrance to a secret society.

4. My Legs Got Tubed

My Legs Got Tubed is a quirky platformer in which you play a man whose legs have been stolen. Explore a mysterious hospital and use your arms to push yourself around as you search for not only your legs, but also a secret room. Reviewers have talked about how funny and inventive this game’s concept is.

My Legs Got Tubed gameplay

I got no legs to hold me down!

3. Blow The Hen Down

Pirates and chickens. Not an ordinary combo. From the mind of developer Nick Zangus, this quirky adventure has you playing a pirate who must get rid of constantly multiplying hens by exploding them, loading them into cannons, and hauling them overboard. Fail, and the chickens will make you walk the plank!

Blow The Hen Down gameplay:

Mutiny on the Bounty: get rid of those hens or you’ll be sleeping in Davy Jones’ Locker

2.LIFO.

LIFO is a first-person horror game about surviving a kidnapping. Travel through surreal rooms and solve riddles and puzzles to escape with your life. The itch.io community says the graphics are impressively creepy, and that the game has a great air of mystery.

LIFO gameplay:

Escape your kidnapper by solving riddles and puzzles

1. Error#54

Even though Error#54 looks super-professional, it was made by only one person over a period of two months. It’s a short horror game that packs a huge punch. Reviewers have called it “amazingly well-made” and “scary as shit.”

Error#54 gameplay:

Short, sweet, and scary as shit.