Indie 2020 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Early Access: Mac → 6 February 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Stoneshard is a tactical RPG with roguelike elements and an open world from the creators of 12 is Better Than 6. You will embark on a grand journey across the...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines

Game released: Mac → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

Monster Sanctuary

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Early Access: Mac → 28 August 2019; Game released: Mac → 8 December 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Monster Sanctuary is a side-scrolling pixel Metroidvania in a fantasy setting, in which you become monster trainers and can fight in 3v3 tactical battles...

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Mac → 10 February 2025; Early Access: Mac → 4 November 2020

Players: 7.7/10

A top-down tactical real-time strategy game about special forces conducting operations against terrorists in the Middle East. The game offers full squad deployment...

112 Operator

Simulation, Top-down view, Strategy, Tactics, Indie, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 23 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 73/100

A continuation of the original 911 Operator idea, but on a larger scale - now the whole world is under control. As an emergency services dispatcher, you will have...

Moving Out

Simulation, Arcade, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Isometric

Game released: Mac → 28 April 2020

Players: 4.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Moving Out is a fun cooperative arcade game with an isometric camera view, where you have to learn how to move furniture correctly. Together with your friends, you...

Spiritfarer

Simulation, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 18 August 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Spiritfarer is a fun management simulator with a side view that tells the story of death. You take on the role of a ferryman for the dead and build your own ship to...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Helltaker

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: Mac → 11 May 2020

Players: 9/10

Helltaker is a free-to-play adventure puzzle game. The game tells the story of a hero who suddenly opens a portal to hell, in which, oddly enough, a whole harem of...

OMORI

Horror, Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 88/100

OMORI is an indie horror adventure with fantasy RPG elements. You have to explore a strange world full of colorful friends and enemies. You'll travel through the...

Fort Triumph

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

Early Access: Mac → 26 April 2018; Game released: Mac → 16 April 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Fort Triumph is an exciting tactical strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You will become the leader of fearless heroes...

Hidden Through Time

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Logic, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 12 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Hidden Through Time is a charming top-down arcade hidden object puzzle game. During the game you will have to look for various objects scattered throughout world...

Shing!

Action, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Fighting, Beat them all

Game released: Mac → 28 August 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Shing! — a dynamic action-adventure with a side view, where you will play the role of a deadly ninja and begin to chop down hordes of demons. In the game you...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: Mac → 20 March 2020; Game released: Mac → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Golf With Your Friends

Arcade, Golf, Sports game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Simulation

Early Access: Mac → 30 January 2016; Game released: Mac → 19 May 2020

Players: 5.7/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Golf With Your Friends is a fun sports arcade game dedicated to golf. Exciting matches await you, designed for cooperative play by up to 12 people. You will find 7...

Ratropolis

Card game, Strategy, Indie, Arcade, Tactics, In real time

Early Access: Mac → 1 November 2019; Game released: Mac → 22 December 2020

Ratropolis is a real-time tactical strategy card game with a side view. In the game you will become the head of a settlement of tiny but valiant rats. You have to...

Founders' Fortune

Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Strategy, In real time, Roguelike, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 18 December 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Founders' Fortune is a fantasy colony simulator with elements of real-time management strategy, which is based on construction, base defense and the psychology of...

For the People

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Strategy, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 13 August 2020

Players: 8.8/10

For the People is a political simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you will try on the role of the head of a small industrial...

WINGSPAN

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 17 September 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 78/100

WINGSPAN is a fun collectible card game with turn-based combat for 1-5 players. You will act as ornithologists, collectors, connoisseurs and observers who want to...

Five Dates

Interactive movie, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Adult game

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Five Dates is a dating simulator with elements of an interactive adult adventure and a dash of romantic comedy. Unlike most similar projects, the game offers to...

Bite the Bullet

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 13 August 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Bite the Bullet is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. In this game you have to eat opponents in order to upgrade your character...

Wanderlust: Transsiberian

Visual novel, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Trains

Game released: Mac → 9 April 2020

Wanderlust: Transsiberian — adventure visual novel with a non-linear narrative. The two main characters embark on an amazing journey through the easternmost...

Beyond Blue

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond Blue is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Never Alone. Beyond Blue takes place in the near future...

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: Mac → 23 October 2020

Metacritic: 80/100

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp is a sequel to the online dating simulator, this time moving to a new location — a summer camp. The formula of the original...

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Isometric, Simulation, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: Mac → 7 August 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is an indie action-adventure game in the point and click genre with an isometric view and puzzle elements. This is a fun adventure...

Spinch

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 3 September 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Spinch is an atmospheric side-scrolling action platformer. You will go to an amazing world filled with psychedelia and colorful chaos. In the role of a round...

art of rally

Arcade, Simulation, Racing, Isometric, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Mac → 23 September 2020

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Exciting rally arcade from the creators of Absolute Drift, where players can participate in the "Golden Era" rally. The game features a career mode with 72 tracks...

Blackwake

Online, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: Mac → 20 February 2020

Players: 7.6/10

A multiplayer team shooter in which players fight each other on ships. The main task is to sink the enemy ship or destroy the entire hostile team. The game offers...

Tonight We Riot

Arcade, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 8 May 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Tonight We Riot is a side-scrolling pixel arcade action game where you lead a working-class revolution. The events of the game take place in the near future. The...

Gonner 2

Indie, Platformer, Arcade, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Shooter

Game released: Mac → 22 October 2020

Gonner 2 is a sequel to the brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. Hikk returns again, and this time he will...

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 11 December 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is a game about the adventures of a little girl who really loves nature. Alba, that’s our heroine’s name, goes to visit her grandparents...

I Am Dead

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 8 October 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

I Am Dead is a heartwarming puzzle-adventure game about the afterlife from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot's Warehouse, in which a deceased museum director...

Ray's the Dead

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 22 October 2020

Ray's the Dead is a fun zombie action game with an isometric camera view, where you rise from your grave and lead hordes of zombies. The main task is to investigate...

Totally Reliable Delivery Service

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 April 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Totally Reliable Delivery Service — a fun third-person action game about a "reliable" delivery service that is actually not reliable at all. The main idea is to go...

What the Golf?

Arcade, Indie, Sports game, Golf, Action

Game released: Mac → 22 October 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

What the Golf? is a fun arcade golf game where you can use literally everything around as a ball, and all this according to the laws of realistic physics. You will...

Welcome to Elk

Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 17 September 2020

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Welcome to Elk is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure set on a fictional island, filled with whimsical stories and tall tales. You will take on the role of...

A Long Way Down

Strategy, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Mac → 28 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

A Long Way Down is a fun side-scrolling card strategy game set in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to try on the role of Sam, who finds himself in the...

The Henry Stickmin Collection

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Action, Indie

Game released: Mac → 7 August 2020

Players: 9.3/10

The Henry Stickmin Collection is a collection of action, platforming and point-n-click adventure games. An epic journey awaits you with six different stories, the...

Secret Government

Simulation, Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 April 2021; Early Access: Mac → 22 June 2020

Players: 7/10

Secret Government is a global turn-based strategy about secret societies, where you have to manage a powerful organization that influences the whole world. You will...

Ring of Pain

Roguelike, Card game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Ring of Pain is a tactical indie roguelike card game with fantasy elements. The cards you collect go into your item slots throughout the adventure, where you have...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2020 for Mac