Indie 2022 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Forgotten Hill Tales - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Forgotten Hill Tales is an arcade puzzle horror game with a first-person view. The game will delight you with a series of exciting and atmospheric stories with many...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an improved version of the office adventure with a first-person view. You will play the role of office plankton Stanley, who...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Chess game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 12 May 2022

Players: 10/10

A strategy game with roguelike elements that reimagines chess. The player takes control of a black king with a shotgun, who must defeat an army of white pieces and...

Tunic

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 March 2022

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Tunic is an action-adventure game with an isometric camera view. The main character is a cute red fox who must go through a lot of tests, defeat a large number of...

Army of Ruin

Top-down view, Action, Shooter, Roguelike, Fantasy, Indie

Game released: Mac → 8 June 2023; Early Access: Mac → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.3/10

A dynamic action game in which players lead legendary heroes on a campaign against the hordes of evil. As you progress, you can collect a deadly arsenal, capable of...

The Past Within

Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Online, Puzzle, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 68/100

The Past Within — an engaging cooperative puzzle game from the creators of Rusty Lake Hotel. In the game, you and a friend will solve puzzles together, but one...

Chained Echoes

Role-playing game, Side view, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration, Old school

Game released: Mac → 8 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Old school RPG with turn-based combat. Events take place in a colorful fantasy world on the continent of Valandis. A group of heroes embark on a dangerous journey...

We Are OFK

Adventure, Indie, Interactive movie, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 18 August 2022

Metacritic: 75/100

We Are OFK is an adventure visual novel with a deep plot. Itsumi Saito has just moved to Downtown and broken up with her longtime girlfriend. Trying to realize...

Dark Light

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Cyberpunk, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2022

Players: 8.4/10

A sci-fi metroidvania in a cyberpunk setting, where the world is experiencing an apocalypse after an invasion of supernatural creatures. The player must make his...

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

Interactive movie, Adventure, Indie, Puzzle,

Game released: Mac → 19 March 2022

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? — an adventure interactive movie in the puzzle genre with point and click elements. Every year, Abby's mom hosts a family...

Backpack Hero

Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy, Dungeons, Tactics, Card game, Side view, Roguelike

Early Access: Mac → 15 August 2022; Game released: Mac → 14 November 2023

Players: 10/10

Pixel roguelike about anthropomorphic animals and inventory management. The player sets out to conquer dungeons, collecting rare items, distributing them in a...

The Iron Oath

Role-playing game, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Adventure, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 2 November 2023; Early Access: Mac → 19 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Tactical role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. Players lead a group of mercenaries, making key decisions that affect the fate of their...

The House of Da Vinci 3

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects, First-person view, Logic

Game released: Mac → 23 December 2022

Players: 10/10

The House of Da Vinci 3 is an indie adventure puzzle game with elements of exploration and a first-person view. The time for the finale has come: for the last time...

Isle of Jura

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 11 February 2022

Players: 6.8/10

The fishing simulator, where players in the role of a girl named Jura are exploring a beautiful island, looking for artifacts, communicate with local residents and...

Inua – A Story in Ice and Time

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Isometric, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 11 February 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Inua – A Story in Ice and Time is a point and click adventure puzzle game with indie elements. You are about to go on a mystical journey to the far north of Canada...

Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 15 December 2022

Players: 7.5/10

Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell is an expansion for the popular roguelike game Vampire Survivors. The events of the expansion take place in the eastern...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Early Access: Mac → 14 October 2021; Game released: Mac → 29 September 2022

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

The Gallery

Interactive movie, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 August 2022

Players: 6.5/10

The Gallery is an interactive psychological thriller with elements of social drama. An art curator is being held hostage by a portrait artist who threatens to...

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Procedural generation

Game released: Mac → 23 March 2022

A classic turn-based roguelike where each run offers a new challenge. Randomly generated dungeons, enemies, items, and events make every expedition different from...

Haiku, the Robot

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 28 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Kredolis

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2022

Kredolis is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place on a small island that remains from Atlantis. A mysterious...

Home Wind

Arcade, Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Roguelike

Early Access: Mac → 10 March 2022; Game in development: Mac → 2026

Home Wind is a free city-planning simulator without complex mechanics with a top-down view in a medieval setting. A beautiful and minimalistic game awaits you with...

Treasure Temples

Isometric, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Mac → 3 February 2022

An adventure puzzle in which two young researchers go deep into the Antarctic glaciers in search of ancient treasures. Each step in the game matters: the tile under...

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

Action, Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: Mac → 15 December 2022; Game released: Mac → 26 April 2024

Players: 6.9/10

After Ragnarok, Yggdrasil, the World Tree, lost almost all of its energy needed to support the Nine Realms. Only a few heroes survived the End of the World...

Immortality

Adventure, Indie, Horror, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 30 August 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Adventure interactive FMV thriller from the creator of indie hit Her Story. This time, the plot revolves around the missing actress Marissa Marcel, whose fate the...

NORCO

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 24 March 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

NORCO is a sci-fi adventure with a gothic and noir twist. The game takes place in the sinking suburbs and green industrial swamps of the petrochemical regions of...

Crystal Project

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2022

Crystal Project is a Japanese-style RPG adventure game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You have to go to conquer a large open world, find crystals and...

Stacklands

Strategy, Business / Management, Card game, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Casual game, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 8 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Stacklands is a minimalist card roguelike with elements of tactical strategy in a fantasy setting. In the game you will become the head of your own village and with...

Lonesome Village

Adventure, Fantasy, Puzzle, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 1 November 2022

A relaxing pixel game about a coyote without the battles. The character must uncover the village's mysterious magical past and save it from the hands of evil. The...

Little Witch in the Woods

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy, Casual game

Early Access: Mac → 17 May 2022; Game released: Mac → 15 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

The game tells the story of Ellie, a young witch apprentice who goes to the old Witch House to learn the secrets of magic and discover an amazing world. Everyday...

Dungeon Munchies

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Early Access: Mac → 5 June 2019; Game released: Mac → 27 July 2022

Metacritic: 54/100

Dungeon Munchies is a side-scrolling adventure role-playing action platformer in a fantasy setting. The game will tell a story about a necromancer cook who hunts...

Patrick's Parabox

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Arcade, Horror

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Patrick's Parabox is a logic puzzle game with arcade and horror elements. This is a game that explores a unique recursive system with boxes within boxes within...

Prime of Flames

Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Tactics, Turn-based, Adventure, Card game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 15 December 2022

Prime of Flames is a turn-based role-playing adventure with roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to lead brave warriors of different clans...

Heck Deck

Card game, Arcade, Tactics, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 12 January 2022

Heck Deck is a top-down tactical card arcade game with indie elements. Over the course of 5 stages, you will be able to show dexterity and resourcefulness to dodge...

Plunder Panic

Action, Online, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Mac → 17 September 2021; Game released: Mac → 16 September 2022

Plunder Panic is a side-scrolling, 12-player arcade action platformer where two rival teams battle for supremacy. You and your crew need to loot the loot, defeat...

Tap Ninja

Side view, Arcade, Roguelike, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 March 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Tap Ninja is an adventure arcade clicker with role-playing elements and a side view in a medieval setting. In the game you have to try on the role of a warlike...

Card Shark

Adventure, Board / Group Game, Side view, Indie, Stealth

Game released: Mac → 2 June 2022

Metacritic: 80/100

Card Shark is an adventure game about tricks, intrigue and subtle cheating. In the game you have to become a skilled card sharper, finding yourself in the society...

The Chronos Principle

Puzzle, Indie, Arcade, Tactics, Logic

Game released: Mac → 2 March 2022

The Chronos Principle is an arcade puzzle game based on the concept of time manipulation. The game features 77 well-developed and interesting puzzles, a calm and...

Dwerve

Fantasy / Medieval, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Top-down view, Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Tactics, In real time

Game released: Mac → 31 May 2022

Players: 10/10

Dwerve is a top-down action RPG with tower defense elements in a fantasy setting. In the game, you will try on the role of a craftsman dwarf who goes to a ruined...

Black Book - Endless Battles

Board / Group Game, Turn-based, DLC, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 18 February 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Black Book — Endless Battles — an expansion for the adventure game and card RPG set in the decorations of Russian fairy tales Black Book. It adds a mode with...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2022 for Mac