Indie for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 8

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence - a game in the Indie genre

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 9 December 2025

Steam: 91/100

A pixel adventure in the spirit of 90s quests about a young writer named William, who is searching for inspiration. He goes to an abbey where the monks have taken a...

Haque

Role-playing game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 23 November 2017

Steam: 82/100

This turn-based roguelike takes place in a pixelated fantasy world falling apart at the seams. At the request of an old man, the hero sets out to rid the land of...

Legend of Grimrock

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

Game released: Mac → 19 December 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Banner Saga 2

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

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Banner Saga 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with tactical elements and an isometric view. You must lead your Viking clans through a hostile country on the verge...

FTL: Faster Than Light

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

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Trove

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: Mac → 9 July 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Trove is a free-to-play multiplayer action game with a third-person view and survival elements. Together with your friends, you have the opportunity to explore the...

Isonzo

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Historical, Simulation, Indie, MMO

Game released: Mac → 13 September 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Isonzo is a multiplayer first-person shooter from the creators of Tannenberg and Verdun. The game takes place in the Alps during World War I. You will head to...

Chasm

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

Game released: Mac → 31 July 2018

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Chasm is a side-scrolling adventure RPG action platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to try on the role of a young recruit performing his first mission...

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked

Action, DLC, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Survival, Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 December 2015

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is an add-on for the isometric survival action game Don't Starve. It adds new characters and creatures, several locations and seasonal...

Gorogoa

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 14 December 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gorogoa is a quirky puzzle adventure with beautiful, hand-drawn worlds. To complete the game, you need to move windows with worlds around the screen, placing them...

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Detective

Early Access: Mac → 18 October 2021

Steam: 94/100

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game is an unusual turn-based role-playing game that will take you back to the ancient times of Caledonia. Events will tell about...

Way of the Passive Fist

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

Game released: Mac → 6 March 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Way of the Passive Fist is a side-scrolling 2D arcade fighting game. As a mysterious traveler, you will go on a dangerous adventure around the world in search of...

The Red Strings Club

Adventure, Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 22 January 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Red Strings Club — a "point and click" adventure with a side view in a cyberpunk style. The game's plot centers around a bartender and his hacker friend, who...

Dead In Bermuda

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 27 August 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 70/100

Dead In Bermuda is a survival adventure game with role-playing elements. You need to lead a group of eight survivors of a plane crash. You will be able to give...

Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Visual novel, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Free game, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Our Life: Beginnings and Always is a visual novel where you can create and fully customize your character from the very beginning. With him you will go through...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the original game, our...

Antivirus Girl

Action, Strategy, Casual game, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Anime / Manga, Science fiction, Top-down view, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 1 July 2026

Steam: 88/100

The game combines elements of "tower defense" and dynamic shooting, allowing not only to build defenses but also to directly control the main character. As an agent...

GrimKeep

Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Procedural generation, Card game

Game in development: Mac → 30 November 2026

A colorful roguelike set in a dark fairy-tale world, where the path to the Princess leads through a cursed city full of nightmarish creatures and dangerous trials...

Surgeon Simulator

Arcade, Simulation, Action, First-person view, Logic, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2013

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Surgeon Simulator is a logic action game with simulator elements and a first-person view. You take on the role of Nigel Burke, a would-be surgeon with a penchant...

Rising World

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Construction

Early Access: Mac → 3 December 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Rising World is a voxel-based open-world sandbox with procedurally generated, destructible environments and survival elements. Starting with basic tools, players...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 25 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 81/100

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 98/100

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...

Jackbox Party Pack

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Casual game, Trivia, Indie

Game released: Mac → 26 November 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Jackbox Party Pack is a fun, arcade game for a large group. Using your mobile devices and computer, you have to play simple, uncomplicated games with your friends...

Snow Horse

Arcade, Third-person view, Indie, Snowboard, Casual game, Action

Game released: Mac → 4 August 2016

Steam: 90/100

Snow Horse — arcade racing game with a third-person view. Players will play as a horse that masterfully conquers the snowy slopes on a snowboard. If just a...

Reigns

Board / Group Game, Card game, Logic, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 August 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Reigns is a card board game where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in important elections that will determine your reign and the fate of...

Outreach

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game canceled: Mac → 2018

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

Outreach is a first-person sci-fi adventure. The game takes place at the end of the Cold War, where in the role of a brave astronaut you have to go on a dangerous...

BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre

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

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2019

Players: 4.4/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Stoneshard

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

Early Access: Mac → 6 February 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 74/100

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...

Moving Out

Simulation, Arcade, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Isometric, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 28 April 2020

Players: 4.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Moving Out is a fun cooperative arcade game with an isometric camera view, where you have to learn how to move furniture correctly. Together with your friends, you...

Out of Space

Strategy, Online, Roguelike, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 26 February 2020

Steam: 80/100

Out of Space is an online indie strategy game about team survival on board a spaceship. You have to collect resources, fight off attacks from hostile aliens...

OMORI

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

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 88/100

OMORI is an indie horror adventure with fantasy RPG elements. You have to explore a strange world full of colorful friends and enemies. You'll travel through the...

Neva

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The main character is the girl Alba, who, after meeting with dark forces, found herself connected with a curious wolf cub. Together they embark on a dangerous...

OFF

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

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player plays the role of a certain Puppeteer, who is helped by an entity named Butter. Together they will try to cleanse the eerie and hopeless world inhabited...

ISLANDERS: New Shores

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Procedural generation, Casual game, City Building

Game released: Mac → 10 July 2025

Steam: 96/100

The player creates a dream city on a small island. Locations feature different biomes, each with its unique abilities. There are 44 types of buildings and various...

Luck be a Landlord

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Roguelike, Casual game, Old school, Procedural generation, Casino

Game released: Mac → 6 January 2023

Steam: 94/100

A strategic roguelike where a slot machine becomes your main way to earn rent money and challenge the capitalist system. The main character is in a tough spot...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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

Game released: Mac → 8 April 2011

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly: Warzone Earth — This is a strategy with an unconventional approach. The player controls units that move along a pre-marked route. The goal is to kill...

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Business / Management, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 24 October 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a unique first-person puzzle adventure game with pixel graphics. The game will give you the opportunity to invade the privacy of...

Swords of Ditto

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Swords of Ditto is a top-down action-adventure RPG in a fantasy setting. The game is dedicated to creating unique adventures for each new hero of the legend...

The Walking Vegetables

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 87/100

Walking Vegetables — an arcade shooter with a top-down view. It’s the 1980s, and an evil alien race has invaded Earth, turning all vegetables into crawling, fierce...

Steampunk Tower 2

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2018

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 72/100

Steampunk Tower 2 is a unique side-view action strategy game set in an alternative steampunk universe. There is a protracted world war with an unprecedented enemy...

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