Indie 2016 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Mac → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Plague Inc: Evolved

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Business / Management, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Plague Inc: Evolved is an updated version of an unusual simulator with elements of management strategy for modern platforms. The game will give you the opportunity...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Mac → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Mac → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet. Having meager...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Bridge Constructor Stunts

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 February 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Bridge Constructor Stunts is an arcade puzzle game for mobile devices, where instead of bridges you will build ramps and trampolines. Even the slowest trucks will...

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...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries to find a...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

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...

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...

Stellar Interface

Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 21 November 2016

A hardcore shooter made in the style of NES games. In a randomly generated universe and random perks, no journey will be the same. The game has over 100 perks and...

Marooners

Arcade, Action, Online, Board / Group Game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 September 2016

Marooners is an arcade, cooperative action game from independent developers from the M2H studio. The game is designed for a fun group of friends, where you will...

Move or Die

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 21 January 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Move or Die is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer for a noisy group. The game is a collection of mini-games in which several people can participate. Among the...

Rive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 13 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Shoppe Keep

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Zombies on a Plane

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2016

Zombies on a Plane is a meat shooter where you need to clean a falling airplane from hordes of zombies and save the aircraft from crashing. You will take on the...

Little Acre

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2016

Players: 4/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Acre — point and click adventure from the developers from the Pewter Games studio. The game tells the story of Irishman Aidan, who is trying to find...

Scrap Garden

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

Game released: Mac → 6 May 2016

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Scrap Garden is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. The game tells about the adventures of the little robot Kenny, who wakes up in a world where there is...

Ice Lakes

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Ice Lakes is an ice fishing sports simulator with first and third person views, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. You will have the...

Butcher

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Butcher is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game is based on the best shooters from the 90s. You have to get used to the...

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...

Heart&Slash

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

Game released: Mac → 9 August 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Soul Axiom

Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 February 2016

Metacritic: 51/100

Soul Axiom is a first-person adventure with indie game elements from developers from Wales Interactive. The game is published by Wales Interactive. It seems that...

Cube Runner

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

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2016

Cube Runner — arcade 3D platformer with minimalistic graphics, made in the form of neon cubes. Features include varied levels and easy-to-learn...

Level 22

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 February 2016

Level 22 is a fun adventure stealth game with pixel graphics. You will play as an office subordinate who, after a long party, overslept on his way to work. And now...

Crea

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 9 June 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Brigador

Action, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 2 June 2016

Brigador is an isometric action game with an indie and tactical twist from the developers of Gausswerks and Stellar Jockeys. The game is published by Stellar...

Goetia

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 14 April 2016

Players: 3.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Goetia is a point and click adventure with a side view. The main character is the ghost of a girl, Abigail Blackwood, who died forty years ago and returned to the...

Slayaway Camp

Arcade, Strategy, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 October 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Slayaway Camp is an exciting strategy game with horror elements and a lot of puzzles. You have to get used to the role of a maniac killer, calling himself...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric

Game released: Mac → 25 February 2016

Players: 7/10

Atlantic Fleet is a real-time strategy game with warships and an isometric view. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies, or Kriegsmarine (German Navy), in...

Drawful 2

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 21 June 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Drawful 2 is an exciting board arcade game for a large company. Together with your friends, using controllers and phones, you will have to create absurd drawings...

Burly Men at Sea

Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2016

Metacritic: 72/100

Burly Men at Sea is a minimalist side-scrolling adventure. The game tells a fairy tale about three big bearded fishermen who were tired of quietly and peacefully...

BattleTime

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Isometric

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2016

Players: 8.5/10

BattleTime is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. You will act as the leader of a real army and will capture enemy...

Flat Kingdom

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

Game released: Mac → 7 April 2016

Flat Kingdom is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. The events of the game take place in a fairy-tale paper kingdom, where a powerful talisman is in the...

Seasons after Fall

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

Flame in the Flood

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 24 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Flame in the Flood is a survival adventure game in which the player will wander through procedurally generated levels, exploring the slums of the United States...

Cubikolor

Arcade, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2016

Cubikolor is an arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view. In the game you have to control a multi-colored cube, each side of which can affect the...

Meadow

Online, Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 26 October 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Meadow is a multiplayer adventure simulator where you take on the role of a wild animal. Choose one of the many animals and go. Use all five senses to find others...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for Mac (Game released)