Sound like you like turn-based roguelikes.
He is Coming is the trendiest flavor of the month. Loop Hero was pretty popular a few years ago and is on sale quite often.
But you could use Steam's explore to drill down:
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Gonna pull out a deep cut and recommend Invisible Inc: a turn based stealth game from Klei. It's loads of fun and really well designed
Monster Train 2, its better than the first game
Caves of Qud, grow 4 arms and a face on your arm-foot.
Jupiter Hell
Path of Achra
Siralim Ultimate. (It looks bad but it's good)
Into The Breach -> Tactical Breach Wizards plays similarly (tactical game with undo and pushing stuff) but is deeper and has great writing.
FTL -> I don't have any recs that have similar gameplay, but you can get cool space vibes for free - Escape Velocity: Nova is abandonware, and The Ur-Quan Masters is open source.
Slay The Spire -> Slice & Dice is vaguely similar but it's dice. And also like deeper, more challenging, sicko shit.
Balatro -> There's a whole wave of games trying to be a Balatro But right now, and I don't think any have really gotten there, but Merge Maestro is cheap and has a little bit of the feel.
Monster Train -> I never actually played this, so it's time to plug UFO 50, the game that's 50 games in one. Several of them (Bug Hunter, Avianos, Party House) are up your alley from what you listed. Others may be.
Dead Cells -> If you like hard combat-heavy platformers you should get into Hollow Knight. The sequel, Silksong, is harder, but also even better.
Slice & Dice
Good rec, I hadn't seen this before. It's fun
I love the thousand-hour games, stuff like Kerbal Space Program, Rimworld, and Factorio
I tried the demo of Into the Grid lately. It plays very similarly to Slay the Spire but with a cyberpunk/netrunner flavour. Bit more freedom in the character customisation, map layout is still RNG but you have more choice about how to approach it. The demo should give you a pretty good idea if its your kind of thing.
Hey this looks sick
Monster Train 2 def
Roboquest and/or Voidbreaker is you like twitchy FPS (as you seem to like roguelite-spinoff genres), Voidbreaker is UE5 though so it might run like shit depending on hardware
He is Coming is good but a bit too light on for me
9 Kings
Vampire Survivors
Death Must Die
Caves of Qud (goated but extremely deep)
Risk of Rain 1/2
Inscryption
Hollow Knight of course
Reviewing this list of games i've played in the last 5 years again, I really have to shout out Roboquest more because i don't think that game got anywhere near enough love.
The artstyle might throw some off, and the underlying nothing story might be a bit sappy, but the movement and progression fucking ruled so hard
https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/
A little pricy for an indie game but it goes on sale regularly too.
I'm playing this at the moment, difficult but great!
Void Stranger is indie as fuuuuuck and good if you enjoy the so called "metroidbrainia" genre and figuring out oblique puzzles.
Have you tried Hades? I actually enjoy all of the games by that studio (even Pyre) but Hades & Bastion are for sure their biggest hits.
hell yeah roguelites, here's a list of action ones since i don't have any turn-based ones under my belt to recommend
Risk of Rain, Enter the Gungeon, Wizard of Legend, Nuclear Throne, Crypt of the Necrodancer (actually this one technically has a turn-based mode if you play as Bard, otherwise it's a rhythm game)
UFO50
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio!
Death Road to Canada is a fun indie zombie version of oregon trail
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell roguelike i really like, the enemies are all bullets and guns, and there is a bunch of diferent guns, its fun
Katana Zero is one of my favorite indie games, its an action-platformer about a dude with the ability to slow down time, also the free DLC is totally coming this year i have faith 
Shovel Knight is the classic indie platformer its very good
Terraria is a fun 2d minecraft with rpg elements
Nubby's Number Factory is a really fun and chill game
Also i havent play it but Starsector, is a 2d game about managing a Spaceship (or even fleet) and dealing with trade, exploration and battles, seems pretty fun its like the Real Time Strategy version of FTL, its not on steam plus its still in development but it looks pretty finished
im gonna sit here n plug for supergiant games, and pretty much their whole catalog. I personally think playin their games in order of release is a neat experience cause you get to see them as a studio steadily improve at their craft. bastion to transistor to pyre to hades to hades 2. though if not particularly interested by that, hades 2 is about to get its 1.0 release after being in early access for awhile and is already quite a fantastic game
You'll probably like Risk of Rain if you haven't played it yet. Personally I'm a much bigger Risk of Rain 2 fan.
It's about as much of an "indie game" as anything else ya listed, at least.
Darkest Dungeon 1 should be right up your alley. As well as the already recommended Loop Hero.
They turned my favourite movie into a game. I haven't played it but if it's half as good as the film it should be worth playing.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Just finished Indika which is included with PS now.
Really fun and interesting little 5-6 hour game where you play the devil controlling a nun that is wrecked with guilt.
-Fear and Hunger 1/2: Horror turn based rpg that’s brutal to the point of basically being a rougelike. I tried 2 first but ended up getting into 1 because it ended up being easier to get into for me. Not for the faint of heart tho.
-Look Outside: another horror turn based RPG I’m just now getting into. More psychological horror than F&H’s body/occult themes and less visually disturbing due to its pixel art style. Also way more forgiving with more accessible save points.
-World of Horror: a junji ito inspired horror rougelike. A kind of point n click game with turn based combat. Pretty cool with good depth but not a ton of content
-Rimworld: space colony sim with a stupid amount of content at this point. The most recent expansion added an FTL-like space travel system.
-Binding of Isaac: The OG but you didn’t mention it so I’ll put it on here. It’s the OG for a reason.
-Skull: great side scrolling action rougelite. Me and my partner dumped a stupid amount of hours into this game passing the controller back and forth between runs.
-Project Zomboid: Another certified indie classic zombie survival sim. Also reaches near-rougelike/lite status due to the brutality but the learning curve is incredibly satisfying. A great game to play with friends but also plenty of fun alone.
I didn’t mean to most almost entirely horror games but I think anything else I would suggest has already been mentioned lol
I would highly recommend Foxhole: infact on the hexbear gaming discord server we have a small population of foxhole players. I could give you a rundown of the game.
Just started with the game and been enjoying it, even though my gameplay consisted mostly of digging trenches and getting blown up by tanks. The channel seems to be dead unfortunately.
also, i know his content has changed in the last week or so as he got a new PC, but i was seeing a lot of cool indie roguelite games in NorthernLion's youtube videos over the last few months
Sol Cesto looked very cool but i dunno about the depth. some others were demos only but looked cool, like Insider Trading and Ball x Pit
Starvaders
In stars and time - rpg about being in a time loop. A mix of the most wholesome party in video games, a dark story, and very interesting lore.