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

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

Game released: PC → 18 November 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically 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...

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...

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...

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...

Bastion

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

Game released: PC → 16 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 100/100

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...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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

Game released: PC → 8 April 2011

Players: 5.6/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO

Strategy, MMO, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 May 2011

Steam: 68/100

Illyriad is a fantasy MMO strategy game set in a vast world where players develop cities and build an empire. Cities can be specialised through research and...

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...

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...

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...

Wizorb

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 November 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An arcade game set in a fantasy medieval world, Wizorb combines classic block-breaking action with light role-playing...

Beat Hazard Ultra

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 June 2011

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 63/100

An expansion for Beat Hazard, Beat Hazard Ultra adds modes, enemies and customization options to the music-driven arcade shooter. Combat intensity and firepower...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 and claiming new...

Legend of Fae

Indie, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC → 26 July 2011

Steam: 77/100

This casual match-three puzzle game follows Claudia as she searches for her missing uncle on Sea Cross Island. As mysterious Fae spread chaos, Claudia discovers...

Aselia the Eternal

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 November 2011

Steam: 85/100

This tactical role-playing game with visual-novel elements follows Yuuto, who is summoned from his ordinary life to the distant land of Phantasmagoria, while his...

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...

HOARD

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 April 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This top-down arcade strategy game casts the player as a dragon seeking to amass the largest possible hoard. The dragon burns villages and castles, collects gold...

Hacker Evolution Duality

Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 15 August 2011

Steam: 31/100

Hacker Evolution Duality is a hacking simulation game about programmer Brian Spencer. It begins in the early days of his career, then moves into the future, where...

King Arthur's Gold

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Online, Construction

Game released: PC → 4 September 2011

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 82/100

King Arthur's Gold is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will travel back to the glory days of King Arthur, where you...

Critical Mass

Casual game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 June 2011

Steam: 71/100

Critical Mass is a 3D puzzle game built around a take on the match-three formula. Players match blocks in fast-paced rounds that also call for strategy. The game...

The Asskickers

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 February 2015

Steam: 26/100

Metacritic: 31/100

A 2D beat ’em up with single-player and co-op modes, inspired by classic games from the 1980s. The Asskickers’ inspirations include Streets of Rage, Kung-Fu Master...

Naval Warfare

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 25 May 2011

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Naval Warfare is a dynamic top-down shooter in a steampunk setting. The game will take you to a fantasy world where a war is raging between industrial superpowers...

iBomber Defense

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

Game released: PC → 26 May 2011

Steam: 76/100

iBomber Defense is a top-down strategy game with a historical twist from Cobra Mobile Limited. The main publisher of the game is Chillingo...

Before the Echo

Role-playing game, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 20 October 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A role-playing game with rhythm mechanics follows Ky as he climbs a mysterious Tower. Guided by a mysterious girl named Naia, he encounters dangerous monsters and...

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

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

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows young Edna as she tries to escape from a psychiatric asylum. She wakes in a padded cell with no memory of her...

Zeit²

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

Game released: PC → 12 January 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Zeit² is a side-scrolling 2D shoot ’em up built around time travel. The player can move into the past and interact with a time-shadow, combining attacks and gaining...

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...

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...

Ancients of Ooga

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

Game released: PC → 20 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This platforming puzzle adventure takes place in the primeval land of Ooga, where seven tribes rise up against the tyrannical Boolis. The hero befriends the tribes...

Breath of Death 7

Arcade, Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 13 July 2011

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Breath of Death 7 is a parody of the classic top-down RPG in a fantasy setting. Skeleton King Dam, ghost historian Sarah, vampire technician Lyta, and zombified...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for PC (Game released)