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

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

Game released: Mac → 18 November 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually 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...

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...

Bastion

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

Game released: Mac → 16 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 100/100

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...

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...

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...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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

Game released: Mac → 8 April 2011

Players: 5.7/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 23 May 2011

Steam: 75/100

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is a top-down arcade action game in a sci-fi setting. The setting is an alternative world in which you have to control a tank on an...

Cogs

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Logic

Game released: Mac → 21 July 2011

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Cogs is a logic puzzle game about assembling machines by sliding tiles with different components. It features 50 levels across three modes, with new puzzles...

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 20 January 2011

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure is set in an alternate 19th century where humanity has already mastered space travel. Captain Brawe investigates the kidnapping of...

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...

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...

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...

Data Jammers: FastForward

Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 October 2011

Steam: 67/100

This 3D arcade driving and destruction game takes place in a retro wireframe world of impossible tracks. The player controls a virtual commando known as a D.O.O.D...

Inside a Star-filled Sky

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

Game released: Mac → 18 February 2011

Steam: 69/100

A recursive tactical shooter with procedurally generated levels nested inside one another without end. The player moves through these spaces and can enter objects...

The Cat and the Coup

Free game, Indie, Historical

Game released: Mac → 15 June 2011

Steam: 93/100

This documentary game follows the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister, during the events surrounding 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...

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

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...

Revenge of the Titans

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

Game released: Mac → 1 July 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A real-time strategy game with tower defense elements, Revenge of the Titans follows an invasion in which the Titans send ground forces against human bases across...

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...

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

Gratuitous Space Battles: Galactic Conquest is a third-person simulator with a mixture of strategy and business simulator from the masters from the studio Positech...

Defend Your Castle

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

Game released: Mac → 7 June 2011

Steam: 54/100

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...

8-Bit Commando

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 July 2011

Demolition Inc.

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Racing, Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2011

Steam: 79/100

Demolition Inc. is an arcade game with elements of simulation, action, racing and strategy from the masters from the studio Zeroscale GmbH & Co. KG. The game is...

Sentinel 3: Homeworld

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

Game released: Mac → 1 February 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 87/100

This sci-fi tower defense strategy game takes the battle to the aliens’ homeworld. Across a 20-level campaign, the player deploys turrets, orbital weapons, drones...

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...

Saga of Ryzom

Role-playing game, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, MMO, Free game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 April 2011

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Saga of Ryzom is a first-person role-playing game with a dash of fantasy from the masters at Nevrax SARL. The game is published by Jolt Online Gaming. Sometimes the...

Capsized

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

Game released: Mac → 29 April 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 77/100

TRAUMA (2011)

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

Game released: Mac → 8 August 2011

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 62/100

TRAUMA (2011) is a first-person adventure with a hint of...

Avadon: The Black Fortress

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

Game released: Mac → 17 August 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

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...

AI War: Light of the Spire

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

Game released: Mac → 14 February 2011

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, it brings the Spire back to the galaxy: an alien race nearly destroyed by the artificial intelligences that also drove...

Vertex Dispenser

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 June 2011

Steam: 91/100

Vertex Dispenser is an action game with a mixture of strategy and indie games from developers from the Smestorp Limited studio. The main publisher of the game is...

New Star Grand Prix

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

Game released: Mac → 22 December 2011

Steam: 92/100

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for Mac (Game released)