Indie for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 4

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 12 January 2017

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Detention is an indie puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. At Greenwood High School, located in a remote mountainous area, two students are trapped...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 2 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

Doodle Farm

Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2018

A vibrant game from the Doodle series, set on a farm. The gameplay remains familiar: combine different elements and creatures in the right order to create something...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op VR puzzle game about defusing a bomb. One of the participants has an explosive device with a timer on the screen, but...

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

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...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Simulation, Action, Fighting, Business / Management, Indie, Medieval era, Sandbox, Comedy

Early Access: Mac → 1 April 2019; Game released: Mac → 1 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

A fun tactical simulator in which historical battles turn into a chaotic and funny sandbox. Stupid, but charming units fighting under the control of funny physics...

112 Operator

Simulation, Top-down view, Strategy, Tactics, Indie, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 73/100

A continuation of the original 911 Operator idea, but on a larger scale - now the whole world is under control. As an emergency services dispatcher, you will have...

For the People

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Strategy, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 13 August 2020

Players: 8.8/10

For the People is a political simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you will try on the role of the head of a small industrial...

The Last Train

Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Simulation, Side view, Post-apocalyptic, Trains, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 11 October 2018

Players: 1/10

The Last Train is an indie role-playing simulator with elements of a post-apocalyptic adventure. You play the role of one of the last surviving train drivers in...

Octave

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

Game released: Mac → 19 October 2016

Octave is an atmospheric adventure horror game about occultism with a side view. You will take on the role of a person who has been brought to a cemetery to be...

Unheard

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Horror, Top-down view, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2019

Unheard is an indie horror adventure with puzzle elements and a top-down view. You have to put on headphones and go back in time. Use the voices you hear to return...

This War of Mine: Final Cut

Action, Historical, Business / Management, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 14 November 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine: Final Cut — an enhanced and complete edition of the atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The package includes an expanded...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 9 September 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an arcade game with action and indie elements from developers from the Asteroid Base studio. The game is published by Asteroid...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never aired. You are...

BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2019

Players: 4.4/10

Big Drunk Satanic Massacre is a satirical action role-playing game with an isometric camera view. You will play as the son of Satan named Lou, who will have to...

The Battle of Polytopia

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Mac → 4 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Battle of Polytopia is a minimalist global strategy game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. In the game you will go to conquer the Square...

Nine Sols

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Adventure action-platformer from the creators of psychological horrors Detention and Devotion. The game tells the story of an awakened hero who must fight nine...

Milo and the Magpies

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 7 September 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Milo and the Magpies is a point and click adventure with indie elements. Milo, a curious and adventurous cat, must find his way home after an encounter with pesky...

Dave The Diver - In the Jungle

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Hunting / Fishing, Business / Management, Indie, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 18 June 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 86/100

A storyline expansion that continues the adventures of Dave and his team beyond the familiar ocean depths. This time, the explorers venture into the heart of the...

FTL: Faster Than Light

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

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Don't Starve

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Isometric, Indie, Survival

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries and vegetables...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 26 September 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long string of...

Stoneshard

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

Early Access: Mac → 6 February 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Stoneshard is a tactical RPG with roguelike elements and an open world from the creators of 12 is Better Than 6. You will embark on a grand journey across the...

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Action, Science fiction, Space, Business / Management, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2020

The player, as a captain, controls a spaceship. It is necessary to recruit crew members, explore the galaxy and confront aliens. The legendary edition of Space...

The Roottrees are Dead

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Mac → 15 January 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Return of the Obra Dinn, but set in the 90s. The main character is a young investigative journalist trying to establish the...

Legend of Grimrock 2

Role-playing game, Hack and slash, In real time, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 March 2015

Players: 9.6/10

Legend of Grimrock 2 is a first-person role-playing game with a mix of hack-and-slash, fantasy and indie games from developers Almost Human Ltd. The main publisher...

Kerbal Space Program

Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Kerbal Space Program is a sci-fi simulator with well-developed physical laws. You have to manage the space program of a certain planet. Everything needed to build a...

Ravensword: Shadowlands

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

Game released: Mac → 15 May 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...

Cookie Clicker

Arcade, Action, Indie, Clicker

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2021

Players: 7.9/10

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...

Blackwake

Online, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 February 2020

Players: 7.6/10

A multiplayer team shooter in which players fight each other on ships. The main task is to sink the enemy ship or destroy the entire hostile team. The game offers...

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Isometric, Simulation, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: Mac → 7 August 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is an indie action-adventure game in the point and click genre with an isometric view and puzzle elements. This is a fun adventure...

War on the Sea

Action, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines, Historical, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Mac → 2 February 2021

Players: 8.6/10

War on the Sea is a massive tactical strategy game in which you travel to the historic battlefields of World War II and lead your fleet to victory. The game offers...

while True: learn()

Educational game (Education), Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 18 January 2019

An indie puzzle game with elements of a simulator and adventure, where all the mechanics are tied to machine learning. The main character is a programmer who...

Phonopolis

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

An atmospheric dystopian quest from the creators of Samorost, Machinarium , and Creaks, combining a surreal world, a philosophical plot, and an unusual visual...

House Flipper Remastered Collection

Action, Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 4 June 2026

The updated edition of the renovation simulator House Flipper, where abandoned houses gradually turn into cozy spaces with character. The project retains the core...

Slender: The Arrival

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 28 October 2013

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Mac → 15 May 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

Coffee Talk Tokyo

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 21 May 2026

Metacritic: 81/100

The game transports the familiar formula of a cozy visual novel Coffee Talk to the nighttime Tokyo, where the worlds of humans and yokai intersect behind the doors...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

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