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For the King - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy world. You can play...

Celeste

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 25 January 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

Little Misfortune

Adventure, Side view, Arcade, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 18 September 2019

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Little Misfortune is an exciting side-scrolling interactive adventure. In the game you will try on the role of the little girl Ramirez Hernandez, who goes on a...

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker

Simulation, Business / Management, Puzzle, Side view, Adult game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 22 April 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker is a fun dating simulator. The player runs his own dating agency under the leadership of Kitty Powers. You'll have to match endless clients...

Truckful

Action, Adventure, Business / Management, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 9 October 2026

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A vehicular adventure game about delivering cargo in the countryside and searching for an ancient mystery connected to an old forest. The main character travels in...

Rogue Legacy

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Rogue Legacy is a fantasy platforming roguelite in which a hero explores procedurally generated castles and battles enemies. When a character dies, an heir takes...

Project: Gorgon

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: Mac → 13 March 2018; Game released: Mac → 29 January 2026

Steam: 80/100

A fantasy MMORPG focused on exploration and freedom of choice, where the world does not guide you by the hand but gradually reveals itself through curiosity and...

Through the Darkest of Times

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Historical, Indie

Game released: Mac → 30 January 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Through the Darkest of Times is a historical strategy with elements of a management simulator. You will become the leader of a resistance group in Berlin during the...

Mindustry

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Construction

Game released: Mac → 26 September 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Mindustry is a fun real-time strategy game with elements of the tower defense genre and a top-down view. In the game, you have to create complex conveyor chains to...

Godus

Strategy, God Simulator, Indie, Isometric, In real time, Simulation

Early Access: Mac → 13 September 2013

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Godus is a real-time strategy god simulator with an isometric view. In this game, you can sculpt every inch of the beautiful world you look down upon, where your...

Banner Saga 3

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 July 2018

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Banner Saga 3 is the third and final installment in a series of tactical turn-based role-playing games in which your decisions, sometimes very difficult, have very...

The Last Night

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game in development: Mac → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The Last Night is a side-scrolling arcade cyberpunk platformer. A two-dimensional open world awaits you, which the main character will have to explore as his...

Mineko's Night Market

Adventure, Side view, Simulation, Indie, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 26 September 2023

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

The main character is an inquisitive girl named Mineko, who has just moved to a new home on a hapless Japanese island at the foot of Mount Fugu. Superstitious...

Night Call

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2019

Players: 1/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Night Call is an atmospheric noir adventure set in Paris and told from the perspective of a taxi driver. The main character unwittingly witnesses evidence that...

The Past Within

Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Online, Puzzle, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The Past Within — an engaging cooperative puzzle game from the creators of Rusty Lake Hotel. In the game, you and a friend will solve puzzles together, but one...

Beholder: Conductor

Simulation, Business / Management, Comedy, Side view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2025

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Spin-off of the Beholder series. The main character is a train conductor who is tasked with monitoring passengers, reporting incidents and carrying out important...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Chess game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

A strategy game with roguelike elements that reimagines chess. The player takes control of a black king with a shotgun, who must defeat an army of white pieces and...

Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Bloodmoon

Action, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Casual game, Fantasy, Gothic, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 28 August 2026

Steam: 96/100

A dark expansion about a cult that sets out in search of the legendary paradise of Saint Baal-Tazar. According to legend, many years ago he saw a vision of a land...

Shank 2

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

Game released: Mac → 20 February 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This 2D side-scrolling action platformer follows Shank, a former mob hitman drawn back into a fight when people close to him are threatened. He uses an arsenal of...

Psychonauts 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 24 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic sequel to the third-person action platformer that takes players back to the world of psychonauts. The dream of the protagonist of the...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Mac → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

Outlast: Whistleblower

Action, Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 6 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Outlast: Whistleblower is an add-on for the first-person horror adventure game Outlast. The add-on will tell the story of software engineer Waylon Park, who worked...

Everspace

Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Space, Action

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Everspace is a space simulator created on the basis of the Unreal Engine 4. You can expect randomly generated levels, a non-linear plot, advanced upgrade and...

Sun Haven

Indie, Farm Simulator, Online, Adventure, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 11 March 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

A fantasy farm simulator with dragons, magic, an interesting story and a final boss. The game offers a huge world full of opportunities for development and...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to Europe. She soon...

Dead Effect

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Zombies, Horror

Game released: Mac → 17 December 2014

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Dead Effect is a fantastic indie shooter with a third-person view. You have to fight for your life and hunt hordes of...

Pacify

Adventure, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), First-person view, Indie, Action, Online

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2019

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Pacify is a cooperative survival horror game with a first-person perspective. You will be a newly minted employee of an organization that investigates cases of...

The Mexican Dream

Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 5 September 2017

Steam: 62/100

The Mexican Dream is a humorous tower-defense strategy game about a mechanized wall on the border between Mexico and America. The player defends it against...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 21 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Night in the Woods is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. The game tells the story of a twenty-year-old cat who was expelled from college for truancy. After...

Risk of Rain

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

Game released: Mac → 8 November 2013

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Risk of Rain is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will take you to a distant...

Party Hard

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 August 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A tactical stealth game about someone trying to stop noisy parties hosted by neighbours across the United States. Rather than call the police, the protagonist uses...

Cookie Clicker

Arcade, Action, Indie, Clicker, Casual game, Horror

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 96/100

An arcade clicker game where everything revolves around baking endless amounts of cookies. Every click brings a tasty reward, and the more cookies you bake, the...

Feudal Alloy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Side view, Medieval era, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 17 January 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Feudal Alloy is a fun side-scrolling action RPG in which the main character is an aquarium fish dressed in medieval armor. Bandits attacked the protagonist’s home...

Nordhold

Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2025

Steam: 84/100

The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...

Windward Horizon

Role-playing game, Warships / Submarines, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world, Procedural generation

Game released: Mac → 22 May 2025

Steam: 79/100

An open-world adventure RPG about sea voyages, trade, and life as a captain. The game builds on the ideas of the original Windward from 2015. As a young captain...

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 March 2015

Players: 9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a continuation of the dynamic top-down action game. The main action takes place parallel to the events of the original Hotline...

Trüberbrook

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 March 2019

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Trüberbrook is a mysterious point-and-click adventure game with a unique visual style, set in a German village in the late 1960s. You will play as a young American...

Prodeus

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Early Access: Mac → 9 November 2020; Game released: Mac → 23 September 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Prodeus is a fast-paced first-person shooter set in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the DOOM 64 and Quake series. You can expect realistic blood, modern...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

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