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

Role-playing game, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Mac → 26 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Ironcast is an engaging role-playing strategy game with elements of a match-three puzzle set in a Victorian steampunk environment. To protect Great Britain, the...

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 31 January 2019

Players: 10/10

Adventure role-playing game, which is a direct sequel to Sunless Sea. The setting is not murky water-filled spaces like in Sunless Sea, but the sunlit sky. The...

Nordhold

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

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2025

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...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 21 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

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...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

Cookie Clicker

Arcade, Action, Indie, Clicker

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2021

Players: 8.1/10

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...

Narcosis

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Mac → 28 March 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Narcosis is a first-person horror adventure game that supports HTC Vive, OSVR and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. The game takes place deep under the Pacific...

Neo Cab

Adventure, Visual novel, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Mac → 3 October 2019

Metacritic: 75/100

Neo Cab is an unusual game with survival elements that will tell you about all the difficulties of life in the distant future. The plot follows a brave and...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

The Swapper

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 30 May 2013

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in a sci-fi setting. In this game, a lone astronaut will explore a cave created by aliens. In order to get to its secrets...

ScourgeBringer

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

Game released: Mac → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

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...

Danger Scavenger

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Danger Scavenger is a dynamic arcade shooter with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. Deadly effective, highly skilled, invisible to indifferent...

Bad North

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...

Shing!

Action, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Fighting, Beat them all

Game released: Mac → 28 August 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Shing! — a dynamic action-adventure with a side view, where you will play the role of a deadly ninja and begin to chop down hordes of demons. In the game you...

Steel Assault

Arcade, Platformer, Action, Side view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 28 September 2021

Metacritic: 76/100

Steel Assault is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the near future of post-apocalyptic America. You...

Clustertruck

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

Defense Zone 3

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Action, In real time, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 January 2017

Players: 9.3/10

Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD is an indie tower defense strategy game with a top-down view in real time. This is a sequel to the famous Defense Zone strategy, only now...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 30 July 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 March 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

Poly Bridge

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The game allows you to build bridges from different parts. Buildings must comply with the laws of physics, especially those parts that relate to the resistance of...

Beyond Blue

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond Blue is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Never Alone. Beyond Blue takes place in the near future...

NORCO

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 24 March 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

NORCO is a sci-fi adventure with a gothic and noir twist. The game takes place in the sinking suburbs and green industrial swamps of the petrochemical regions of...

We Were Here Together

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

A story about two companions trapped within the icy walls of an ancient citadel, where every room oozes mystery and the joker's laughter echoes through the gloomy...

Immortality

Adventure, Indie, Horror, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 30 August 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Adventure interactive FMV thriller from the creator of indie hit Her Story. This time, the plot revolves around the missing actress Marissa Marcel, whose fate the...

Full Void

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 July 2023

The game takes place in a dystopian future. The main character is a frightened and lonely teenager who is trying to free humanity from the oppression of evil...

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: 7.1/10

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...

Escape Simulator 2

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A sequel to the co-op puzzle game Escape Simulator. One to eight players explore three large levels, each consisting of four rooms: Dracula's gloomy fortress, an...

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...

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...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

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

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Crystal Project

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2022

Crystal Project is a Japanese-style RPG adventure game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You have to go to conquer a large open world, find crystals and...

Samorost

Adventure, Free game, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Samorost is an unusual side-scrolling indie adventure game that follows the exciting journey of a dwarf in...

Manual Samuel

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 14 October 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Manual Samuel is a fun adventure game that tells the story of Samuel. He is handsome and rich, but most importantly, he is dead. Samuel decides to make a deal with...

Fabled Lands

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2022

Fabled Lands is an old-school role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. In the game you can be whoever you want: explorer, merchant, priest...

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 28 February 2018

Metacritic: 72/100

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an original adventure game from one of the creators of Gone Home. The plot follows the road adventure of a man interacting with...

Deiland

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

Game released: Mac → 9 August 2018

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Deiland is an adventure role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting, created based on “The Little Prince” by the famous French writer Antoine de...

Defense Grid 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 23 September 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Defense Grid 2 is a continuation of the exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. In the sequel, you will find an...

Fly Corp

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 May 2023

Players: 6.2/10

A minimalist strategy game for managing an air network. The main objective is to develop air routes between real cities with populations corresponding to real data...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Gris

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

GRIS is an atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a side view. The game will tell the sad story of the main character named Gris. The girl is locked in her own...

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