Indie 2009 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Zombie Driver - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game

Game released: PC → 17 February 2010

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Alien Shooter is a dynamic shooter with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. Endless darkness and gloomy, long passages of a military complex that became...

Fort Zombie

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Horror, In real time, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 66/100

A role-playing strategy game about surviving a zombie apocalypse in the small American town of Piety, Indiana. The protagonist chooses a building to serve as a...

Whispered World

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 October 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana foretells the end...

Zombie Shooter 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2009

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 80/100

Zombie Shooter 2 is a furious shooter with role-playing elements and an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you can choose the...

Braid

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 February 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Braid is a 2D puzzle-platformer with painterly visuals. Setting out from a house in the city, the protagonist travels through a series of worlds to rescue an...

World of Goo

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 February 2009

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 91/100

World of Goo is a construction puzzle game where you move living Goo balls and use them to build buildings, bridges, and airships to solve various problems as you...

Path

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 December 2009

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This horror adventure set in the modern day draws on older versions of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. Six sisters are sent one at a time through the forest to...

Zeno Clash

Action, Shooter, Fighting, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2009

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person fighting game set in a punk-fantasy world, Zeno Clash follows Ghat, who is banished by his brothers and sets out across a forbidden desert on a...

Hotel Mogul

Arcade, Free game, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 26 June 2009

Steam: 71/100

Hotel Mogul is a free-to-play arcade game from the developers of Alawar Entertainment, Inc.. The main publisher of the game is Alawar Entertainment...

Hammerfight

Action, Fighting, Side view, Arcade, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 September 2009

Players: 10/10

Steam: 74/100

Hammerfight is a 2D game about fighting between flying machines equipped with various types of cutting, piercing and crushing weapons. The unique combat system is...

Fatale

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Adult game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 November 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 57/100

Fatale is a frantic first-person puzzle adventure from the creators of The Path. The game is based on the legend of Salome, who demanded the head of John the...

And Yet It Moves

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

Game released: PC → 2 April 2009

Players: 5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle-platformer takes place in a world made of torn paper, where the character runs, jumps and rotates the surroundings in 90-degree increments to get past...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 August 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Fortix

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 July 2010

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Fortix is an arcade game with strategy elements, set in a fantasy land where the knight Fortix seeks to reclaim the kingdom of Fortiana from dragons. The player...

Eufloria

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 November 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Eufloria is a meditative real-time strategy game with a top-down view. You'll explore a beautifully realized universe, created in a unique and compelling style...

Saira

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 12 December 2009

Steam: 80/100

This nonlinear puzzle platformer follows Saira, a photographer who digitally captures dangerous places and animals across the universe. For reasons unknown, she...

Half-Life: Before

Action, Shooter, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 5 March 2009

Half-Life: Before is a fan modification for the sci-fi first-person shooter Half-Life. You will play the role of a scientific scientist from the Black Mesa complex...

Doom Rails

Action, Shooter, Racing, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 November 2009

Steam: 19/100

This 3D action game combines racing with combat on hazardous roller-coaster tracks. Players choose one of nine characters and drive combat carts in multiplayer...

Caster

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

Game released: PC → 7 January 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 77/100

A third-person action shooter in which the player races through scenic locations and fights bug-like creatures called the Flanx. Combat offers six attacks...

Vehicle Simulator

Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 March 2009

Steam: 89/100

Vehicle Simulator is an open-world simulator of flying, sailing and driving, with flight physics and marine dynamics. Players can operate aircraft, boats and land...

Nation Red

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 September 2009

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Nation Red is a top-down arena shooter about fighting hordes of zombies and their bosses. After a long lull, the undead return to the Arizona desert, and some are...

Ziro (Collector's Edition)

Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 December 2009

Steam: 67/100

Ziro (Collector's Edition) is a top-down strategy game with puzzle elements from the developers of Eipix studio, D.O.O.. The main publisher of the game is Kokakiki...

Bad Rats

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2010

Players: 3/10

Steam: 81/100

Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game about rats taking revenge on the cats they have captured. Each level calls for a solution built around the laws of physics...

Madballs in Babo: Invasion

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 September 2009

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Madballs in Babo: Invasion is a 3D arena shooter with a single-player campaign and online modes, featuring characters from the Madballs toy line. The campaign can...

Windosill

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2009

Steam: 92/100

Windosill is a casual puzzle game made up of ten interactive, animated rooms filled with creatures and objects that obey the laws of physics. The player explores...

Closure

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 January 2009

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Closure is a puzzle game built around manipulating light: in its dark world, only visible objects exist, and lighting shifts objects in and out of reality. The...

Jane Angel: Templar Mystery

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 30 April 2010

Steam: 50/100

Jane Angel: Templar Mystery is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from iMaxGen. The game is published by Big Fish Games, Inc. Sometimes the game is also...

Penguins Arena

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 May 2009

Steam: 91/100

This multiplayer first-person shooter follows penguin tribes fighting for survival amid melting ice and pollution. The ancient penguin goddess Sedna declares that...

Sacraboar

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Tactics, Action

Game released: PC → 6 November 2009

Steam: 27/100

Sacraboar is a real-time strategy game in which the objective is to capture the opposing side’s boar trophy. Matches move quickly, without lengthy construction...

Obulis

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 March 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Obulis is a fun arcade puzzle game with a side view, where you have to guide colorful balls to the corresponding jugs. To do this, you will use a developed system...

Fading Hearts

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 5 February 2014

Steam: 60/100

This role-playing story with simulation and visual novel elements follows Ryou, an ordinary high school student in the land of Sorayama. The player decides how he...

RunMan: Race Around the World

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

Game released: PC → 1 October 2009

Steam: 100/100

RunMan: Race Around the World is a third-person action game with a dash of...

Time Gentlemen, Please! + Ben There, Dan That! Double Pack

Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 August 2009

Steam: 86/100

This collection brings together two humorous point-and-click adventures: Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please!. Their stories range from a death in the...

Dark Blood

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 24 May 2019

Steam: 8/100

This fantasy action RPG follows Athanas, a knight seeking power to avenge his wife, who was killed during the demon legion’s invasion. With help from the dark...

Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light

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

Game released: PC → 10 July 2009

Steam: 70/100

Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light is a first-person adventure with a mix of puzzle and fantasy game from the developers of V-Games. The game is published by Big Fish...

Mevo & the Grooveriders

Action, Platformer, Music game, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 20 March 2009

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This rhythm platformer follows Mevo as he tries to reunite his band, bring back funk, and defeat the enemy known as Silence. His journey spans five worlds—Ocean...

Vanguard Princess

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 June 2009

Steam: 69/100

Vanguard Princess is a third-person action game with elements of a fighting game and an anime or manga...

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity

Action, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 3 September 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This first-person action game centers on performing stunts while base jumping through a futuristic floating city. The player leaps from skyscrapers and threads...

15 Days

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 July 2010

Steam: 33/100

This adventure game with puzzles follows a group of three activists who steal famous artworks from museums, sell them to private collectors, and donate the proceeds...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2009 for PC (Game released)