Indie is a genre that includes absolutely all game projects developed by independent studios or even individual developers. Such games cannot boast huge, sometimes frankly inflated, budgets, impressive scale or impressive graphics, instead they often attract with their originality.
Most major studios do not risk trying new things in game development, instead they follow a long-trodden road and release another faceless project. Independent developers do not disdain to create something new and unique, releasing for sale such games that large studios could not even think about.
The genre has one serious drawback — among the huge number of crappy projects, it will be difficult for the player to find a candy. The vast majority of indie developers release outright shit with uninteresting gameplay, terrible graphics and incredibly bloated system requirements (a seedy two-dimensional pixel platformer may well require a quad-core processor and a powerful gaming graphics card). Nevertheless, among a large number of bad games, you can always find a decent and unusual project. The same Minecraft started its journey as an indie game. Features of the genre: