8. Kentucky Route Zero
Copies Sold: 106,000
Metacritic Rating: 89
Kentucky Route Zero ranks 8th in our list of most successful coolest new indie games of 2016. It is a point and click adventure game about a fictional secret highway beneath the caves of Kentucky. In the game, you control a truck driver named Conway, whose goal is to make a delivery for the antique company he works for. Along his travels, he meets mysterious people as he tries to cross Route Zero. The game is split into five acts with the fourth released this year. The game was successfully funded via Kickstarter.
