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

New Beginning - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: PC → 11 December 2012

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This graphic-novel-style adventure thriller follows a looming climate catastrophe that threatens humanity with extinction. Former bioengineer Bent...

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: 85/100

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...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Secret of the Magic Crystals

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...

Ancient Spirits: Columbus' Legacy

Logic, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Adventure, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 22 December 2010

Steam: 100/100

Ancient Spirits: Columbus' Legacy is an indie game with elements of a shareware game from the studio cerasus.media GmbH. The main publisher of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alien Shooter 2: Conscription

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...

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...

Jolly Rover

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

Game released: PC → 7 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This comedic point-and-click adventure follows Gaius James Rover, a dog who sets out for tropical islands in the pirate-filled Caribbean. The son of...

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...

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

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

Game released: PC → 1 November 2010

Steam: 83/100

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...

Joan Jade and the Gates of Xibalba

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

Game released: PC → 21 January 2010

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 57/100

This hidden-object adventure follows archaeologist Joan Jade as she searches the ruins of the Maya for her missing children. She suspects their...

Wake

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 March 2010

Steam: 28/100

This action platformer follows an engineer trapped aboard a sinking ship. The protagonist runs and swims through its compartments in search of a way...

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...

Puzzle Dimension

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 21 June 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game has players navigate structures where gravity depends on the rolling ball’s position. Each level requires collecting all the...

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...

Polynomial: Space of the Music

Action, Shooter, Music game, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2010

Steam: 72/100

A 3D space shooter with fractal scenery that changes in time with the music. The player explores worlds, fights enemies, protects allies, collects...

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH

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

Game released: PC → 3 December 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to guide cubes to exits of matching colors. In Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH, routes are shaped with conveyor...

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...

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...

Shatter

Arcade, Action, Music game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Arkanoid, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 June 2010

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Shatter is a top-down futuristic arkanoid game where you need to clear the playing field from colorful blocks using a ball and a moving...

Escape from Frankenstein's Castle

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

Game released: PC → 3 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

Escape from Frankenstein's Castle is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from PlayFirst, Inc., Spark Plug Games and LLC. The...

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...

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...

Razor2: Hidden Skies

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

Game released: PC → 19 July 2010

Steam: 22/100

Razor2: Hidden Skies is a top-down arcade shooter inspired by classic games in the genre. Players battle through eight levels, fighting waves 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...

AI War: Children of Neinzul

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

Game released: PC → 27 October 2010

Steam: 87/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, centered on encounters with the Neinzul, an insectoid race whose Enclaves are small collectives with their...

Bit.Trip Beat

Action, Music game, Third-person view, Arkanoid, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 November 2010

Players: 5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A rhythm-based arcade action game inspired by classic games, combining its gameplay, visuals, and music around the beat. The player controls a paddle...

Booster Trooper

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2010

Players: 7/10

Steam: 50/100

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

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2010 for PC