Indie 2011 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Mac → 18 November 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

The Binding of Isaac

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

Game released: Mac → 28 September 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Binding of Isaac is a hardcore action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. The plot is based on one of the biblical stories. She will tell the...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 21 December 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

Bastion

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

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...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Mac → 18 November 2011

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore 2D side-scrolling platformer. You have to help the meat cube save his beloved, who was kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Fitus. The...

Edge (2010)

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 August 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A retro-styled platformer with puzzle elements in which the player controls a cube and rolls through levels. Along the way, the cube collects prisms and searches...

Frozen Synapse

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie, Tactics, Online

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frozen Synapse is a fantastic top-down turn-based tactical strategy game. This game allows you to give detailed and precise orders to your team: classic gameplay...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2011

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Defend Your Castle

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 7 June 2011

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A casual strategy game set in a fantasy medieval world, where a castle must withstand hordes of crayon-drawn barbarian invaders. Different enemy types call for...

Before the Echo

Role-playing game, Indie, Music game

Game released: Mac → 20 October 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A role-playing game with rhythm mechanics follows Ky as he climbs a mysterious Tower. Guided by a mysterious girl named Naia, he encounters dangerous monsters and...

Beat Hazard Ultra

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 16 June 2011

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 63/100

An expansion for Beat Hazard, Beat Hazard Ultra adds modes, enemies and customization options to the music-driven arcade shooter. Combat intensity and firepower...

HOARD

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 5 April 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This top-down arcade strategy game casts the player as a dragon seeking to amass the largest possible hoard. The dragon burns villages and castles, collects gold...

CreaVures

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

Game released: Mac → 23 February 2011

Steam: 79/100

CreaVures is a third-person action game with a mixture of platforming and puzzles from the studio Muse Games Corp.. The game is published by Muse Games Corp.. In...

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: Mac → 1 January 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Critical Mass

Casual game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 June 2011

Steam: 71/100

Critical Mass is a 3D puzzle game built around a take on the match-three formula. Players match blocks in fast-paced rounds that also call for strategy. The game...

iBomber Defense

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

Game released: Mac → 10 March 2011

Steam: 76/100

iBomber Defense is a top-down strategy game with a historical twist from Cobra Mobile Limited. The main publisher of the game is Chillingo...

Super Puzzle Platformer

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

Game released: Mac → 19 June 2011

Steam: 91/100

This arcade platformer combines falling-block puzzle elements with old-school action: rather than matching colored blocks, the player shoots them and tries to...

Hacker Evolution Duality

Indie, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2011

Steam: 31/100

Hacker Evolution Duality is a hacking simulation game about programmer Brian Spencer. It begins in the early days of his career, then moves into the future, where...

NightSky

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

Game released: Mac → 1 March 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

NightSky is an atmospheric 2D action-puzzle game about guiding a sphere through picturesque worlds using realistic physics. Each world is divided into areas with...

Beat Hazard

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: Mac → 19 October 2011

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Treasures of Montezuma 3

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

Game released: Mac → 22 September 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 64/100

Treasures of Montezuma 3 is a continuation of the arcade puzzle game in the “three in a row” genre. You again have to go to the world of the Aztecs, where you can...

Bus Driver

Simulation, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 9 June 2011

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A bus-driving simulator about transporting passengers along routes through a large city while keeping to a timetable and obeying traffic rules. Careful driving...

TRAUMA (2011)

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

Game released: Mac → 8 August 2011

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This adventure puzzle game follows a young woman who survives a car accident. While recovering in the hospital, she dreams about different aspects of her identity...

Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Role-playing game, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 December 2011

Steam: 91/100

This fantasy role-playing game is set in Avernum, an underground nation where the Empire sends its outcasts. Banished to the volcanic depths by the cruel Emperor...

Rochard

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

Game released: Mac → 11 December 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Rochard is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting, filled to the brim with physics-based puzzles. You will play as John Roshard, the...

Lume

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

Game released: Mac → 2 May 2011

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Lume is a puzzle adventure set among paper-and-cardboard sets filmed on video. After the power fails at her grandfather’s house, the protagonist works to restore it...

Q.U.B.E.

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 December 2011

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Q.U.B.E. is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in which you need to manipulate various blocks in order to find a way out of the current situation...

English Country Tune

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

Game released: Mac → 24 November 2011

Steam: 91/100

English Country Tune is a third-person strategy game with a hint of puzzle from the developers at increpare games. The game is published by Increpare...

8-Bit Commando

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 July 2011

3079

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 October 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 53/100

3079 is an adventure role-playing shooter with a first-person view in a pixel style. You will go to an amazing world that is constantly generated randomly. The game...

New Star Grand Prix

Racing, Top-down view, Indie, Sports game, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 22 December 2011

Steam: 92/100

This retro-style arcade racer spans motorsport from the 1980s to the present day. Players manage their own racing team and compete on circuits around the world...

No Time To Explain

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

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 53/100

No Time To Explain is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer in a sci-fi setting. One day, he himself breaks into the main character’s house, only from the...

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony

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

Game released: Mac → 8 June 2011

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This arcade-style top-down shooter is set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. Players fight enemies alone or in local co-op for up to four...

Scoregasm

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 7 October 2011

Steam: 85/100

This top-down arcade shooter sends the player through a galaxy connected by branching routes. Choosing a path reveals new levels and enemies, while encounters with...

Capsized

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 April 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This 2D platformer with shooter elements follows a space traveler whose ship crash-lands on a mysterious planet. To survive, the protagonist explores hazardous...

Gratuitous Space Battles: Galactic Conquest

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

Game released: Mac → 11 February 2011

Steam: 75/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles focused on galactic conquest and managing an interstellar campaign. The player moves fleets between systems through...

Lightfish

Action, Top-down view, Arcade, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 October 2011

Steam: 90/100

This arcade action game follows a small fish trying to clear the ocean depths of dangerous creatures. The player draws lines across unexplored areas to claim...

Runespell: Overture

Strategy, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 July 2011

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A role-playing game set in an alternate medieval Europe where historical figures meet characters from Norse sagas and mythology. The protagonist is the Changeling...

Vertex Dispenser

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 June 2011

Steam: 91/100

This abstract real-time strategy game with mathematical puzzle elements revolves around territorial control across a geometric surface. Players move across it...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for Mac