Indie 2024 for Mac — top best games in the Indie genre

Shogun Showdown - a game in the Indie genre

Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Roguelike, Medieval era, Card game, Replayability

Game released: Mac → 5 September 2024

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A tactical turn-based roguelike about a hero who challenges the powerful shogun. To win battles, you need to choose a good position, attack at the right moment and...

Thronefall

Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie, City Building

Game released: Mac → 11 October 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 95/100

A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

A gloomy adventure made in black and red colors and inspired by fairy tales. The game has several endings, the receipt of which depends on the decisions made by the...

Альтушка для скуфа

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 21 April 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 84/100

The game, based on a popular meme, tells the story of the acquaintance of a pot-bellied and balding man with altushki from State Services. In the game you can start...

Caves of Qud

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Open world

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The environment can be...

Nine Sols

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Adventure action-platformer from the creators of psychological horrors Detention and Devotion. The game tells the story of an awakened hero who must fight nine...

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

Adventure, Detective, Indie, Point & Click, Historical

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2024

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A remaster of the original 1996 adventure Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. The game received improved graphics and support for 4K resolution. The main...

REVEIL

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: Mac → 6 March 2024

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A narrative thriller about Walter Thompson and his dark past at the Nelson Brothers Circus. The main character sorts out fragments of memories, explores the...

Neva

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 October 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The main character is the girl Alba, who, after meeting with dark forces, found herself connected with a curious wolf cub. Together they embark on a dangerous...

Anima Flux

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Mac → 7 October 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

A cooperative game that pits two genetically modified soldiers against mutants in a deserted space city. Each character has their own characteristics and skills...

A Difficult Game About Climbing

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 6 March 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Hardcore precision platformer in the spirit of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The player controls the climber's hands to ascend a massive, treacherous...

DREDGE - The Iron Rig

DLC, Indie, Hunting / Fishing, Adventure, Exploration, Open world, Simulation, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 81/100

The add-on tells a completely new story related to the Iron Harbor company. Players deliver cargo to an oil platform containing a secret laboratory. By assisting...

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

Action, Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy, Exploration, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 26 April 2024

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

3 Minutes to Midnight

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 22 August 2024

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The game takes place in Mexico, where the peace of people is disturbed by a huge explosion. At this moment, Betty Anderson wakes up and needs to regain her memory...

Saviorless

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 2 April 2024

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A dark action-platformer in which two main characters try to escape the cursed lands known as the Smiling Isles. The main characters realize that they are inside...

Gladiator Guild Manager

Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Turn-based, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Business / Management, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 22 June 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 80/100

A managerial simulator with elements of tactics in which the player needs to develop his own guild of fighters and lead them to glory. Recruiting warriors...

Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game, Fantasy

Game released: Mac → 20 June 2024

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A colorful visual novel in the spirit of tabletop fantasy adventures, where instead of playing the role of a hero with a sword, you become the owner of a magical...

Arco

Tactics, Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Top-down view, Adventure, Exploration, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2024

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A unique tactical action game where the plot is formed based on the player’s decisions. Four heroes must travel through dense forests, endless plains and scorching...

Off Trail

Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Skiing

Game released: Mac → 24 October 2024

Steam: 91/100

An endless game with randomly generated locations about a high-speed descent from a mountain. You can perform tricks, discover unique biomes, and meet different...

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kitten

Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 19 February 2024

Hardcore indie platformer with roguelike elements and dungeons. The player takes on the role of a brave hero who, at the command of the eccentric Lady Tallowmere...

Repair this!

Casual game, Simulation, Comedy, Indie, Business / Management, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2024

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Phone repair master simulator in the spirit of Papers, Please. As the game progresses, the player tinkers with electronics and helps customers, but also comes...

Gift

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 8 May 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

A colorful action platformer in which the main character tries to escape from a giant ship before it sinks into the sea. The tilt of the ship and the water level in...

Sunset Hills

Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Role-playing game, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 21 August 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

The game takes place in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. After the army, the main character named Niko became a writer and went on a train journey. In...

Hands of Necromancy 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy, Demons, Old school, Indie

Game released: Mac → 16 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Grim old-school shooter in the spirit of Heretic and DOOM (1995). The player takes on the role of a powerful necromancer, exploring various locations, fighting...

SCHiM

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 18 July 2024

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

An unusual 3D platformer in which the player controls an entity that resembles a shadow. This is the soul, which in the game is called Shim. One day she is somehow...

Oopz-Oofs

Free game, Casual game, Exploration, Third-person view, Action, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 2 September 2024

Steam: 100/100

Adventure action in the spirit of Little Kitty, Big City, but about a dog. The game's plot tells the story of an owner and his border collie who switch bodies on...

NAIAD

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 10 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

A relaxing adventure with minimalistic graphics. The main character, named Naiad, floats down a mysterious river and interacts with animals and plants to get to the...

Deep Space Survivor

Shooter, Space, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Mac → 5 August 2024

Steam: 100/100

A top-down space shooter where everything is tied to survival among waves of enemy ships. Controls are minimalistic: just the WASD or arrow keys to move the ship...

DEMON COMPASS

First-person view, Action, Adventure, Horror, Exploration, Free game, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Mac → 22 November 2024

Steam: 87/100

The characters in the game try to remember how they got into this world, but their memories are foggy and fragmented. In everyone's hand there is only a damned...

Please, Touch The Artwork 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 19 February 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A relaxing game in which you have to look for objects in paintings. A gamer helps a lost skeletal artist find his way home in a surreal, hand-drawn universe. This...

Harold Halibut

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 16 April 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

The events of the game take place on a large spaceship, which, after two hundred years of its journey, has managed to turn into a real retro-utopia. But after a...

Teeny Tiny Trains

Logic, Puzzle, Top-down view, Trains, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 28 June 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 100/100

The player is creating his own miniature railway empire. You need to place tracks on the playing field, connecting them so that tiny trains can travel from one...

Альтушка для скуфа: Ещё, ещё!

DLC, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie, Anime / Manga, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 24 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

The add-on includes three new altushkas with the voices of Alina Rin, Albina Seksova and Persona 99, nine new endings, mini-games that are “not what they seem”, “a...

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania

DLC, Action, Roguelike, Indie, Casual game, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 31 October 2024

Steam: 97/100

Addition for Vampire Survivors with characters from the Castlevania universe. The sun set again over Dracula's castle, and with the rising of the moon, terrible...

Long Live Caesar

Indie, Role-playing game, Tactics, Historical, Roguelike, Side view, Puzzle, Detective, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 16 December 2024

Steam: 78/100

A step -by -step role -playing strategy with elements of a crogue in which the fate of the Roman Empire depends on the decisions of one person. Playing for Guy...

7Groves

Adventure, Casual game, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 1 June 2024

Steam: 67/100

A relaxing game in which the gamer leisurely strolls through beautiful and surreal forests that look like paintings come to life. Along the way, you can collect...

Mortuar

Cooperative (co-op), Horror, First-person view, Casual game, Action, Demons, Indie, Free game

Game released: Mac → 10 July 2024

Players: 3.1/10

Steam: 37/100

A cooperative game in which four gamers explore haunted places. Once you determine what type of ghost is haunting the area, you need to exorcise it. There are...

What the Car?

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Action, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 9 September 2024

Players: 7/10

Steam: 84/100

A humorous game in which the gamer drives a car with legs instead of wheels. The main character runs through locations, avoids various obstacles and tries to find...

Rusty's Retirement

Farm Simulator, Business / Management, Top-down view, Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 26 April 2024

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A colorful game about developing a farm on your own desktop. The player tries to help Rusty water and harvest crops, develop new crops, expand his farm, and even...

Playing Kafka

Free game, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 21 May 2024

Steam: 94/100

An adventure game set in a surreal world inspired by the works of Franz Kafka. The game offers a deep immersion into an atmosphere of absurdity and existential...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2024 for Mac (Game released)