Indie 2010 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 11 January 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Toki Tori

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

Shank

Action, Platformer, Side view, Beat them all, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Mac → 26 October 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Set in a stylized criminal underworld, this side-scrolling beat ’em up follows Shank on a quest for revenge. Its story unfolds through fully animated scenes, while...

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 December 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This action RPG follows DeathSpank on a comic adventure across war-torn battlefields, mountain ranges and dangerous seas. He hunts for the magical Thongs of Virtue...

Hacker Evolution: Untold

Simulation, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 September 2010

Steam: 64/100

This hacking simulator is set amid a technological singularity: computers have surpassed humanity in number and processing power, and an unexplained cause has...

Jolly Rover

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

Game released: Mac → 8 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This comedic point-and-click adventure follows Gaius James Rover, a dog who sets out for tropical islands in the pirate-filled Caribbean. The son of a famous clown...

Sam & Max: Season Two

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 May 2010

Steam: 100/100

Sam & Max: Season Two is a third-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from the masters at Telltale, Inc.. The game is published by Telltale, Inc.. In some...

Air Forte

Action, Flight Simulator, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Top-down view, Logic, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 July 2010

Steam: 50/100

This casual educational game combines math, vocabulary, and geography challenges with piloting an aircraft through aerial arenas. It can be played solo or with up...

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 3 December 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to guide cubes to exits of matching colors. In Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH, routes are shaped with conveyor belts, warps...

Fortix

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 14 April 2010

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Fortix is an arcade game with strategy elements, set in a fantasy land where the knight Fortix seeks to reclaim the kingdom of Fortiana from dragons. The player...

Eets

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 7 December 2010

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle platformer combines character movement with physics-based challenges. The player helps Eets overcome obstacles by using objects and interactions in the...

Ancient Spirits: Columbus' Legacy

Logic, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Adventure, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

Ancient Spirits: Columbus' Legacy is an indie game with elements of a shareware game from the studio cerasus.media GmbH. The main publisher of the game is...

Madballs in Babo: Invasion

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Madballs in Babo: Invasion is a 3D arena shooter with a single-player campaign and online modes, featuring characters from the Madballs toy line. The campaign can...

Bit.Trip Beat

Action, Music game, Third-person view, Arkanoid, Indie

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2010

Players: 5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A rhythm-based arcade action game inspired by classic games, combining its gameplay, visuals, and music around the beat. The player controls a paddle to deflect...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2010

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

Secret of the Magic Crystals

Arcade, Simulation, Sports game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click, Business / Management, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game released: Mac → 26 August 2010

Steam: 79/100

Magic Ranch. Legend of the Crystals is an indie arcade game in the point and click style. In this game you will become the owner of a ranch with magical horses. You...

Joan Jade and the Gates of Xibalba

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2010

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 57/100

This hidden-object adventure follows archaeologist Joan Jade as she searches the ruins of the Maya for her missing children. She suspects their disappearance is...

Eschalon: Book 2

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

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2010

Steam: 86/100

This turn-based role-playing game unfolds in a fantasy world threatened by war, where the hope for peace lies in the hero’s past. Eschalon: Book 2 continues the...

Flight of the Icarus

Action, Third-person view, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2010

Steam: 39/100

This action game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a privateer carries cargo between towns aboard an airship, navigating skies dominated by pirates and...

Jisei: The First Case

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 8 June 2010

Steam: 89/100

This supernatural mystery visual novel follows a homeless, nameless teenager with an unusual psychic ability who is accused of murdering a woman he has never met...

Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 18 September 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 50/100

Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters at Freeze Tag, Inc.. The game is published by Freeze Tag...

Swarm Arena

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 19 August 2010

Steam: 73/100

A top-down arcade action game in which the player controls a virtual organism and moves as part of a swarm. Play involves developing movement and applying tactical...

Legend of Crystal Valley

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 31 May 2010

Steam: 85/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles blends the real world with fantasy and science fiction. After receiving a mysterious letter from her long-estranged...

Escape from Frankenstein's Castle

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Mac → 4 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

Escape from Frankenstein's Castle is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from PlayFirst, Inc., Spark Plug Games and LLC. The game is published...

Power of Defense

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Mac → 4 August 2010

Steam: 25/100

This tower defense strategy game is about protecting the world from robots arriving through a passage between parallel universes. As the last hero on Earth, the...

Puzzle Dimension

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 26 August 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game has players navigate structures where gravity depends on the rolling ball’s position. Each level requires collecting all the sunflowers and...

Bob Came in Pieces

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

Game released: Mac → 22 January 2010

Steam: 69/100

This physics-based puzzle adventure follows Bob, whose ship has crashed on a strange planet. To get back to work, he searches for scattered ship parts and...

Super Laser Racer

Racing, Top-down view, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 18 February 2010

Steam: 82/100

Super Laser Racer is a combat racing game set in outer space amid abstract geometric environments. Racers use bombs, cannons, lasers, mines, missiles, and plasma...

Din's Curse

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2010

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This real-time fantasy RPG follows a hero cursed by the god Din to spend a second life serving others; redemption depends on helping the inhabitants of towns. In...

Diamond Dan

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2010

Steam: 79/100

This adventure platformer with puzzle elements follows archaeologist Dan as he explores ancient temples filled with treasure and traps. By following clues found...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Order

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles that adds the Order, a race seeking to destroy alien species in the name of the one true god. It introduces 10 ships, new...

Winter Voices: Avalanche

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

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2010

Steam: 66/100

An isometric role-playing game set in a dark world at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Winter Voices: Avalanche follows a young woman who leaves her snowbound...

Polynomial: Space of the Music

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

Game released: Mac → 16 October 2010

Steam: 72/100

A 3D space shooter with fractal scenery that changes in time with the music. The player explores worlds, fights enemies, protects allies, collects bonuses and earns...

AI War: Children of Neinzul

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2010

Steam: 87/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, centered on encounters with the Neinzul, an insectoid race whose Enclaves are small collectives with their own personalities...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Tribe

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Tribe is an add-on for the sci-fi strategy game Gratuitous Space Battles. The universal war continues endlessly and only one force can...

Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 22 April 2010

Steam: 76/100

Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Freeze Tag, Inc.. The game is published by Freeze Tag...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Nomads

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles, in which a nomad fleet passes through inhabited space and attacks local planets. This ancient race has no homeworld and...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Swarm

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles focused on the Swarm, a new race that attacks in relentless waves and has nowhere to retreat. It adds 10 ships, new ship...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2010 for Mac (Game released)