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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Garshasp: The Monster Slayer

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 31 May 2011

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Garshasp: The Monster Slayer is a third-person action game with a mixture of fighting, puzzle and fantasy from Dead Mage. The game is published by Digital Dragon...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hitogata Happa

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2011

Steam: 80/100

A vertically scrolling shoot ’em up in the Gundemonium Collection series follows an invasion by an army terrorizing the land. Rosa turns to the witch Kreutzer, who...

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...

Puzzler World 2

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 10 October 2011

Steam: 77/100

Puzzler World 2 is a puzzle game with indie game elements from the developers at Ideas Pad. The main publisher of the game is Ubisoft...

Stealth Bastard

Arcade, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 November 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stealth platformer sends an unarmed, unarmoured hero into a deadly facility, where the goal is to reach the exit without being caught by its security...

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...

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...

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