Games Game Genres Indie

Indie

Indie is short for the English word independent, which means "not dependent." Independent developers usually create games without investments from publishers, and therefore have a very limited budget. As a result, the games do not feature AAA-level graphics, but in each of these projects, the developers strive to realize their boldest fantasies and apply risky ideas. Often, indie games are not well-received by hardcore players due to their experimental gameplay. The most prominent representatives of the indie game genre are: Minecraft, Super Meat Boy, Super Meat Boy , and perhaps Fez.

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2012 (Game released)

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Minecraft

Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Xbox 360, Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 5 → 9 May 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Journey

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS → 13 March 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 17 February 2010

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

Block Story

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 10 December 2015

Players: 7.9/10

Block Story is an action role-playing game with elements of adventure and fantasy with a first-person view. A world of vast landscapes awaits you, where you are in...

FTL: Faster Than Light

Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...

The Room

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2014

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The Room is an indie puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a...

Legend of Grimrock

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS → 11 April 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Android, PS Vita → 11 January 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Ravensword: Shadowlands

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 6 December 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Ravensword: Shadowlands is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in the fantasy style. After the fall of Ravengard, the world plunged into chaos. The...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

Miasmata

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 November 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Miasmata is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and survival elements. Take on the role of Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist who embarks on a...

House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 24 January 2012

House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets is an indie adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. An adventure awaits you in an ancient...

Desolate Hope

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Desolate Hope is a unique action-platformer with role-playing elements, turn-based combat and a side view in a sci-fi setting. The action takes place on the...

The Unfinished Swan

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PC, iOS → 23 October 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The Unfinished Swan is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. In the game you control a boy who chased a swan and ended up in a strange invisible world...

Ashes of Immortality

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 March 2012

Ashes of Immortality is a classic adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Humanity lives in horror. The creatures that haunt our nightmares, hunt in the...

Space Ark

Arcade, Action, Pinball, Indie

Game released: PC, Xbox 360 → 16 March 2012

Space Ark is an arcade with a mixture of action, pinball simulator and indie game from the developers of Strawdog Studios Ltd.. The game is published by Bounce...

Revelations 2012

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Revelations 2012 is a first-person action game with shooter, strategy and indie elements from Dark Artz Entertainment. The game is published by Dark Artz...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Xenonauts

Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 31 May 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Xenonauts is a strategy game with an indie twist from the masters at Goldhawk Interactive. The game is published by Goldhawk...

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC, Mac → 1 November 2012

Metacritic: 63/100

Cargo Commander is an action game with a mixture of platformer and indie game from the masters from the Serious Brew studio. The game is published by Digital Tribe...

Bleed

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox 360 → 12 December 2012

Bleed is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter, platformer and indie game from developers from the Bootdisk Revolution studio. The main publisher of the...

Kairo

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 24 April 2013

Metacritic: 66/100

Kairo is a first-person adventure with a mix of puzzle and indie game from the developers of Richard Perrin Studios. The game is published by Lupus Studios. It...

Fortnight

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 29 June 2012

Players: 8/10

Fortnight is an arcade game with a mixture of action and indie games from the masters from the studio Whisper Games. The game is published by Whisper Games. But...

Tiny Troopers

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Tanks, Warships / Submarines

Game released: iOS, PC, Mac → 7 June 2012

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Tiny Troopers is an arcade indie action game with tactical elements and an isometric view. This game puts you in charge of a team of little soldiers. You must guide...

A-men

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 25 January 2014

Players: 5.5/10

A-men is an arcade game with elements of action, adventure, platformer and indie game from developers from the Bloober Team studio. The game is published by Bloober...

Unmechanical

Arcade, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC, iOS, Android, PlayStation 3 → 8 August 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Android → 16 June 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

Chicken Invaders 4

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android → 6 June 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Chicken Invaders 4 is a top-down, sci-fi arcade action game. They came without warning, squawking menacingly, their ruffled feathers darkening the sun. An invasion...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 13 April 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

Ether Vapor: Remaster

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Ether Vapor: Remaster is an arcade with action, shooter, anime or manga and indie games from the studio Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt GmbH. The game is published by...

iBomber Attack

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 1 November 2012

Metacritic: 79/100

iBomber Attack is a top-down arcade game with a dash of action and indie game from the masters at Cobra Mobile Limited. The game is published by Chillingo and Cobra...

Crow

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS, PC, Mac → 12 April 2012

Crow is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action, adventure and indie games from the Sunside studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Retro/Grade

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3 → 20 March 2013

Metacritic: 78/100

Retro/Grade is an action arcade, beat 'em up, music and indie game from 24 Caret Games. The game is published by 24 Caret...

Boxed In

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 22 February 2012

Boxed In is an action game with a touch of adventure and an indie game from the developers of the GGGamers studio. The game is published by GGGamers. For some...

Cat Lady

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 December 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Cat Lady is a third-person adventure with a dash of horror, interactive cinema and indie action from the developers at Harvester Games. The game is published by...

Cake Ninja: XMAS

Arcade, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: Nintendo DS → 20 December 2012

Cake Ninja: XMAS is a beat-'em-up arcade and indie game from the masters at Cypronia studio. The main publisher of the game is Cypronia. But Cake Ninja: XMAS has...

Frederic: Resurrection of Music

Arcade, Action, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, PS Vita, iOS, Windows Phone, Android, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 16 May 2014

Frederic: Resurrection of Music is a dynamic musical arcade game with a colorful visual style. You will be able to join Fryderyk, one of the most important...

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC, Xbox 360 → 25 April 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise is a third-person arcade game with a mix of action, fighting, beat 'em up and indie games from the studio Qooc Software. The main...

Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon

Action, Slasher, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 December 2012

Players: 4.9/10

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition is a third-person action game with elements of shooter, horror and indie game from Intoxicate Studios. The game is published by...

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