Indie 2017 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 18 May 2017

Players: 8/10

Ravenfield is a tactical shooter with a first-person view for single player play. Together with the blue men you have to destroy those annoying red men using...

Hollow Knight

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 24 February 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

An atmospheric action-platformer about a journey through the dying underground kingdom of Hallownest, inhabited by mysterious insects and strange creatures. A dark...

Everspace

Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Everspace is a space simulator created on the basis of the Unreal Engine 4. You can expect randomly generated levels, a non-linear plot, advanced upgrade and...

Gang Beasts

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 December 2017

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Gang Beasts is a multiplayer game with gelatinous characters, comical fights and absurd...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: Mac → 17 October 2017

Players: 8/10

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes with unique...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 21 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Night in the Woods is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. The game tells the story of a twenty-year-old cat who was expelled from college for truancy. After...

Detention

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 12 January 2017

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Detention is an indie puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. At Greenwood High School, located in a remote mountainous area, two students are trapped...

Serial Cleaner

Action, Stealth, Simulation, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 July 2017

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 66/100

An interesting simulator with stealth elements and a view of the top, inspired by the atmosphere of Fargo and Crime Fix. The work is simple, but dangerous: to hide...

Black the Fall

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 11 July 2017

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Black the Fall is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer whose main goal is to tell the story of a hero escaping the communist system. Solve puzzles to avoid...

Let Them Come

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

Game released: Mac → 3 October 2017

Let Them Come is a 2D side-scrolling arcade shooter with a pixel art style, where you have to clear multiple levels from hordes of disgusting aliens and terrible...

Paradigm

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 5 April 2017

Metacritic: 85/100

Paradigm is a surreal point and click adventure in which you take on the role of a handsome mutant named Paradigm. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic city...

Cat Quest

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Mac → 8 August 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Cat Quest is an unusual action RPG with an isometric camera view. The game invites you to get into the role of a cat who wanders around the world and fights...

Overgrowth

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 October 2017

Players: 6.8/10

Overgrowth is a third-person action game about brave rabbits who master martial arts. There are other animals in the game that complement the medieval universe of...

Nidhogg 2

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2017

Metacritic: 76/100

Nidhogg 2 is a sequel to the arcade side-scrolling indie fighting game. The sequel received completely new graphics and animation, characters stylistically similar...

Sky Rogue

Flight Simulator, Action, Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: Mac → 24 August 2017

A combat flight simulator where you can cut through the skies near countless randomly generated islands. The game has different missions in which you need to...

Slaps And Beans

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Mac → 15 December 2017

Metacritic: 63/100

Slaps And Beans is a retro-style game about Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, Italian actors who together made many action-packed comedies and spaghetti westerns...

Defense Zone 3

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

Game released: Mac → 20 January 2017

Players: 9.3/10

Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD is an indie tower defense strategy game with a top-down view in real time. This is a sequel to the famous Defense Zone strategy, only now...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never aired. You are...

Hidden Folks

Hidden Objects, Casual game, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Game released: Mac → 15 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 81/100

The player tries to find all the hidden people or other objects in hand-drawn interactive pictures. There are 32 areas and more than 300 hidden objects available...

Lydia

Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 2 June 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Lydia is a point and click adventure with a side view and an atmospheric plot. The game will tell the story of a little girl in the world of adults. What is hidden...

Antihero

Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 10 July 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Antihero is a turn-based strategy where we have to become the leader of a bandit group and engage in robbery activities. The game takes place in Victorian London...

88 Heroes

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 24 March 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

88 Heroes is an indie platformer with side-scrolling action elements, made in a retro style. The game offers a non-standard approach to gameplay, because with each...

Crawl

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Mac → 11 April 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Crawl is a fast-paced action roguelike with side-scrolling RPG elements. The game features a variety of dungeons that are randomly generated. The game is designed...

The Drone Racing League Simulator

Action, Simulation, Indie, Online, Flight Simulator

Game released: Mac → 16 June 2017

The Drone Racing League Simulator is a racing simulator using drones that you can not only control, but also create from scratch. You will be able to design your...

SimAirport

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 February 2020

Players: 7.1/10

SimAirport is a real-time business strategy with a top-down view. You have to manage your own airport. Expand, invest in the purchase of new aircraft and new...

Serious Sam Fusion

Shooter, Virtual Reality (VR), First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 21 March 2017

Serious Sam Fusion is a first-person shooter in virtual reality. You will experience extreme violence, inexplicable joy, some sadness, sometimes all at once, and...

Weapon Shop Fantasy

Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 March 2017

Players: 1/10

Weapon Shop Fantasy is a unique top-down management simulator with RPG elements. In the game, you will be responsible for managing each element of your shop. Hire...

Beat Cop

Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 30 March 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Beat Cop is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with pixel graphics. The game takes place in New York in the 80s. Former detective Jack Kelly was framed for...

Block'hood

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 May 2017

Block'hood is a city planning simulator with strategy elements from indie developers from the Plethora-Project studio. You have to build the greatest creation of...

OVIVO

Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2017

Metacritic: 71/100

OVIVO is a minimalist side-scrolling indie platformer. In the world of the game, Black and White live in harmony. Intertwining and replacing each other, they...

First Strike: Final Hour

Strategy, Indie, Action, In real time

Game released: Mac → 31 May 2017

First Strike: Final Hour — A dynamic real-time strategy game in which starting a nuclear war is a piece of cake. You'll choose one of the big nuclear powers...

Slash It Ultimate

Action, Music game, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 15 July 2017

Slash It Ultimate is an indie musical action game with arcade elements. The goal of the game is to play the rhythm of the song in various game modes and compete...

SuperLuminauts

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

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2017

SuperLuminauts is a cooperative top-down shooter in a sci-fi setting, designed for 2-4 players on one PC. You'll fight each other in spaceships that leave a deadly...

Cybercube

Platformer, Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Cybercube is an arcade indie platformer with action elements and a side view. You will have to go through 100 levels with a mesmerizing background, each of which...

Ellipsis

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Mac → 25 January 2017

Ellipsis — A top-down neon skydiving shooter where you control a futuristic spaceship. The main task — Avoid all sorts of obstacles on your way. In the...

Death Squared

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Death Squared is an arcade puzzle game from the developers of SMG Studio. The game has a cooperative mode in which you can solve various problems together with...

Monster Slayers

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 23 March 2017

Monster Slayers is a side view role-playing game with a dash of action and indie game from developers from the studios Nerdook and Nerdook Productions. The main...

Flinthook

Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Mac → 18 April 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Flinthook is a side-scrolling action platformer from the creators of Mercenary Kings and Curses N Chaos. You have to play as a little guy who destroys many enemies...

Doodle Mafia

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 20 April 2017

Players: 6.5/10

A casual puzzle in the Doodle game series. In the game you can lead a gangster clan or help the police clear the city of crime. There are more than 500 elements...

Tower 57

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 November 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Tower 57 is a neo-retro top-down shooter in cyberpunk style. The game features six characters, a sea of weapons and abilities. The environment is destroyed and...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2017 for Mac (Game released)