Indie 2010 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Super Meat Boy - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 30 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore 2D side-scrolling platformer. You have to help the meat cube save his beloved, who was kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Fitus. The...

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 December 2010

Steam: 72/100

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on an infected space station...

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...

Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 8 October 2012

Steam: 69/100

This first-person adventure horror game follows detective Howard Loreid, who is tormented by paranormal events and discovers that his dark past is tied to an...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 January 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

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...

Shank

Action, Platformer, Side view, Beat them all, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 25 October 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Set in a stylized criminal underworld, this side-scrolling beat ’em up follows Shank on a quest for revenge. Its story unfolds through fully animated scenes, while...

Zombie Driver

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 2. Захват

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 January 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 80/100

An isometric action game with RPG elements, this expansion for Alien Shooter 2 follows a war against alien invaders. Monsters are destroying cities and claiming new...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

Booster Trooper

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2010

Players: 7/10

Steam: 49/100

A multiplayer platform shooter in which fighters move across maps on foot or through the air, battling opponents with a varied arsenal. Weapons include assault...

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This action RPG follows DeathSpank on a comic adventure across war-torn battlefields, mountain ranges and dangerous seas. He hunts for the magical Thongs of Virtue...

Transformice

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

Game released: PC → 1 May 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Transformice is a multiplayer platformer in which mice navigate traps to reach cheese and carry it back. Rounds take place on maps filled with physics-based...

Super Crate Box

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Free game, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An arcade platform action game inspired by classic games, built around chasing a high score while fighting endless hordes of enemies. The player collects weapon...

Pirates of New Horizons

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 October 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Pirates of New Horizons — is a 3D platformer in which you will play as a young and charming space pirate girl with the strange name Annha, who dreams of...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 November 2010

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

Star Ruler

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 21 August 2010

Steam: 86/100

A real-time space strategy game about building an interstellar empire in a procedurally generated galaxy. Its scale can range from one star system to more than ten...

Clones

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 November 2010

Steam: 76/100

Clones is a puzzle game with platforming and real-time strategy elements, in which players direct a squad of clones across the Clones Planet. The single-player...

Beat Hazard

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 April 2010

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Plain Sight

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

Game released: PC → 5 April 2010

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Plain Sight is a multiplayer arcade action game about ninja robots battling in space. Players fly between planetoids and attack opponents with katanas, taking their...

Sam & Max: Season Two

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 April 2010

Steam: 100/100

Sam & Max: Season Two is a third-person adventure with a hint of puzzle from the masters at Telltale, Inc.. The game is published by Telltale, Inc.. In some...

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 1 November 2010

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure is set in an alternate 19th century where humanity has already mastered space travel. Captain Brawe investigates the kidnapping of...

Power of Defense

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 4 August 2010

Steam: 25/100

This tower defense strategy game is about protecting the world from robots arriving through a passage between parallel universes. As the last hero on Earth, the...

Bob Came in Pieces

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

Game released: PC → 22 January 2010

Steam: 69/100

This physics-based puzzle adventure follows Bob, whose ship has crashed on a strange planet. To get back to work, he searches for scattered ship parts and...

Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 12 February 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

This first-person team action game centers on a three-way PvP conflict between Pirates, Vikings, and Knights. Players choose a class and fight across varied maps...

Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time

Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 October 2010

Steam: 39/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A comedy quest for all ages, built around problem-solving challenges and humorous encounters. Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time focuses on working through...

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

Downfall

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

Game released: PC → 27 January 2010

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Downfall is a horror adventure about Joe, who takes his wife on a romantic getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. The trip descends into insanity, and the...

Air Forte

Action, Flight Simulator, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Top-down view, Logic, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 September 2010

Steam: 50/100

This casual educational game combines math, vocabulary, and geography challenges with piloting an aircraft through aerial arenas. It can be played solo or with up...

Tommy Tronic

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

Game released: PC → 28 October 2010

Steam: 68/100

This old-school platformer follows Tommy on a journey through Gnarly Wood, an eerie forest avoided by adults, as he sets out to rescue his puppy Yapz from an insane...

Zero Gear

Arcade, Online, Action, Racing, Sports game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 January 2010

Players: 2.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Zero Gear is an online kart racing game with combat and physics-driven movement. Players customize their karts and characters, then compete in Race, Tag, Goal, and...

Toki Tori

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 28 January 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

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

Game released: PC → 9 April 2010

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in an abandoned railway station and hotel where the past intrudes on the present and ghosts linger in the...

Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

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

Game released: PC → 20 April 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This puzzle-platformer follows P. B. Winterbottom through a macabre, comical silent world as he searches for the mysterious Chronoberry Pie. The story unfolds...

Oil Blue

Simulation, Business / Management, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 June 2010

Steam: 71/100

Oil Blue is a simulator with business simulator elements from the masters from the Vertigo Games studio. The main publisher of the game is Vertigo...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Nomads

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 11 November 2010

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles, in which a nomad fleet passes through inhabited space and attacks local planets. This ancient race has no homeworld and...

Волшебное ранчо. Легенда о кристаллах

Arcade, Simulation, Sports game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click, Business / Management, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 14 January 2010

Steam: 79/100

Magic Ranch. Legend of the Crystals is an indie arcade game in the point and click style. In this game you will become the owner of a ranch with magical horses. You...

Sol Survivor

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

Game released: PC → 15 March 2010

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This futuristic tower defense strategy game centers on protecting a colony from waves of enemies. The player builds different types of turrets and calls in orbital...

Ion Assault

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 November 2010

Players: 1/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Ion Assault is an arcade space shooter built around controlling ion particles and using them against obstacles and enemies. Each level has a limited supply: the...

Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten

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

Game released: PC → 18 February 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 40/100

Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from Anino Games, Inc.. The game is published by Alawar Entertainment...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2010 for PC