Indie 2011 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting, Arcade

Game released: PC → 18 November 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

The Binding of Isaac

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Replayability

Game released: PC → 28 September 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Binding of Isaac is a hardcore action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. The plot is based on one of the biblical stories. She will tell the...

Kenshi

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Open world, Sandbox, Survival

Game released: PC → 6 December 2018; Early Access: PC → 21 November 2011

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with elements of management strategy and survival. You have to explore a large open world where you can trade, steal...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

Bastion

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

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 Dr. Fitus. 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...

Solar 2

Arcade, Space, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 June 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This open-world arcade sandbox takes place in an infinite abstract universe where the player controls a celestial body. In Solar 2, players can complete varied...

Unepic

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2011; Game released: PC → 25 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Unepic is a side-scrolling action-platformer RPG in a fantasy setting. You will play as Daniel, who, due to strange circumstances, finds himself in the ancient and...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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

Game released: PC → 8 April 2011

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly: Warzone Earth — This is a strategy with an unconventional approach. The player controls units that move along a pre-marked route. The goal is to kill...

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...

Kerbal Space Program

Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Space, Simulation, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 24 June 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Kerbal Space Program is a sci-fi simulator with well-developed physical laws. You have to manage the space program of a certain planet. Everything needed to build a...

Trucks & Trailers

Simulation, Third-person view, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 August 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Trucks & Trailers is a realistic truck driving simulator that focuses on the art of vehicle parking. In fact, parking a truck with a trailer at a car depot, as you...

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: PC → 2 March 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 16 March 2011

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Frozen Synapse

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC → 26 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frozen Synapse is a fantastic top-down turn-based tactical strategy game. This game allows you to give detailed and precise orders to your team: classic gameplay...

Explodemon!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 November 2011

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A futuristic platformer with puzzles in which the hero uses his explosive nature to fight enemies and move through levels. The game combines the style of 16-bit...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 June 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...

Serious Sam Double D XXL

Arcade, Beat them all, Platformer, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2011

Steam: 83/100

Serious Sam Double D XXL is a 2D action platformer in which Sam battles the army of Mental. The fight spans 18 levels across three worlds, from the pyramids of...

Xotic

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2011

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This arcade-style first-person shooter takes place on a planet overrun by the Orb’s minions. Armed with a weaponized symbiotic creature called the Macroterra, the...

Rochard

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Rochard is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting, filled to the brim with physics-based puzzles. You will play as John Roshard, the...

Dead Horde

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 16 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 45/100

This action arcade game follows a survivor of a mutant virus fighting to stay alive. Alone or alongside a partner, the player makes their way through city levels...

Edge (2010)

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 August 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A retro-styled platformer with puzzle elements in which the player controls a cube and rolls through levels. Along the way, the cube collects prisms and searches...

Stellar Impact

Online, Action, Strategy, MMO, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 August 2011

Stellar Impact is an online action, strategy, massively multiplayer and indie game from developers Headup Games and Tindalos Interactive. The game is published by...

AI War: Light of the Spire

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

Game released: PC → 14 February 2011

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, it brings the Spire back to the galaxy: an alien race nearly destroyed by the artificial intelligences that also drove...

Gatling Gears

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view, Combat robots, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 30 August 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An isometric action shooter about Max Brawley, a retired combat-robot pilot who takes on an Empire ravaging the world in search of natural resources. Alongside his...

Rock of Ages

Action, Third-person view, Comedy, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 September 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade action game with strategy elements centers on a clash between two fortresses: the player steers a giant boulder toward the enemy’s defenses to destroy...

Bridge Constructor

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Simulation, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Bridge Constructor is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Using the proposed materials, you have to build the strongest bridge that can withstand various types of...

Ether Vapor: Remaster

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Steam: 84/100

This 3D arcade shooter is set during a war between Lydia and Caldea, whose forces have an overwhelming advantage in numbers and technology. An unknown pilot takes...

Elementary My Dear Majesty!

Logic, Indie, Arcade, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Hidden Objects, Adventure

Game released: PC → 24 November 2011

Steam: 76/100

Elementary My Dear Majesty! — an exciting fantasy arcade puzzle game in the "hidden object" genre. During the meal, the king’s beloved daughter turned into an...

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...

BEEP

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 30 March 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 82/100

A 2D science-fiction platformer about a small robot exploring the galaxy. BEEP travels across planets, overcoming hazards and fighting enemy robots with an...

1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)

Action, Music game, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 April 2011

Steam: 27/100

A first-person music action game about BASE jumping from giant aerial sculptures inspired by the player’s music. Set ten years after the events of...

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 January 2011

Steam: 75/100

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is a top-down arcade action game in a sci-fi setting. The setting is an alternative world in which you have to control a tank on an...

APOX

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 June 2011

Steam: 24/100

A real-time strategy game with first-person shooter tactics, APOX is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players build bases, control strategic sites, and manage...

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 February 2011

Steam: 94/100

This real-time historical strategy game centers on warfare in ancient Greece. Campaigns unfold across a continuous map based on satellite data and cover a range of...

Dino D-Day

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 8 April 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Dino D-Day is a multiplayer first-person shooter set in the alternate universe of World War II. Adolf Hitler successfully succeeded in reviving the dinosaurs and an...

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...

Hydrophobia: Prophecy

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 May 2011

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Hydrophobia: Prophecy is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the future, in the middle of the 21st...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for PC