Indie 2012 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

FTL: Faster Than Light - a game in the Indie genre

Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy

Game released: PC → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...

To the Moon

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

Game released: PC → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

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...

Cat Lady

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 December 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Cat Lady is a third-person adventure with a dash of horror, interactive cinema and indie action from the developers at Harvester Games. The game is published by...

Tiny Troopers

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Tanks, Warships / Submarines

Game released: PC → 24 August 2012

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Tiny Troopers is an arcade indie action game with tactical elements and an isometric view. This game puts you in charge of a team of little soldiers. You must guide...

Thomas Was Alone

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

Game released: PC → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Unmechanical

Arcade, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2012

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Grimrock

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 11 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

Symphony

Arcade, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 August 2012

Symphony is an arcade-music-meets-indie game from Empty Clip Studios. The main publisher of the game is Empty Clip Studios. It seems that Symphony turned out to be...

Super Hexagon

Arcade, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 November 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Super Hexagon is an indie music arcade game. This is one of the most difficult games you will ever play. A pulsating soundtrack underscores the danger as swirling...

Kairo

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

Game released: PC → 24 April 2013

Metacritic: 66/100

Kairo is a first-person adventure with a mix of puzzle and indie game from the developers of Richard Perrin Studios. The game is published by Lupus Studios. It...

Bleed

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Bleed is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter, platformer and indie game from developers from the Bootdisk Revolution studio. The main publisher of the...

Karateka (2012)

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Action, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PC → 3 December 2012

Metacritic: 60/100

Karateka (2012) is an indie tactical fighting game with action and arcade elements. The game takes place in a feudal universe. Your mission is to save your beloved...

Wanderlust: Rebirth

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

Game released: PC → 27 July 2012

Wanderlust: Rebirth is an action role-playing game, fantasy game and indie game from Yeti Trunk studio. The game is published by...

Intrusion 2

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

Game released: PC → 20 June 2012

Players: 10/10

Ether Vapor: Remaster

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Ether Vapor: Remaster is an arcade with action, shooter, anime or manga and indie games from the studio Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt GmbH. The game is published by...

Space Ark

Arcade, Action, Pinball, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 March 2012

Space Ark is an arcade with a mixture of action, pinball simulator and indie game from the developers of Strawdog Studios Ltd.. The game is published by Bounce...

Miasmata

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

Game released: PC → 28 November 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Miasmata is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and survival elements. Take on the role of Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist who embarks on a...

Revelations 2012

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Revelations 2012 is a first-person action game with shooter, strategy and indie elements from Dark Artz Entertainment. The game is published by Dark Artz...

Desolate Hope

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Players: 7/10

Desolate Hope is a unique action-platformer with role-playing elements, turn-based combat and a side view in a sci-fi setting. The action takes place on the...

McDROID

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 September 2014

Players: 7.5/10

iBomber Attack

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 November 2012

Metacritic: 79/100

iBomber Attack is a top-down arcade game with a dash of action and indie game from the masters at Cobra Mobile Limited. The game is published by Chillingo and Cobra...

Party of Sin

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 December 2012

Party of Sin is an arcade game with elements of action, platformer and indie game from developers from the studio Crankshaft Games. The game is published by...

8BitBoy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 November 2012

Players: 4.7/10

8BitBoy is an arcade game with action, platformer and indie elements from the developers of AwesomeBlade studio. The game is published by AwesomeBlade. 8BitBoy is...

House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets

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

Game released: PC → 24 January 2012

House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets is an indie adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. An adventure awaits you in an ancient...

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 April 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise is a third-person arcade game with a mix of action, fighting, beat 'em up and indie games from the studio Qooc Software. The main...

Ashes of Immortality

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 March 2012

Ashes of Immortality is a classic adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Humanity lives in horror. The creatures that haunt our nightmares, hunt in the...

Ace of Spades: Battle Builder

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

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 49/100

Ace of Spades: Battle Builder is an online first-person video game with a mixture of action, shooter, massively multiplayer and indie games from Jagex Games Studio...

Dead Horde

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 45/100

Dead Horde is a third-person arcade game with action and indie elements from developers from the DnS Development studio. The main publisher of the game is DnS...

Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon

Action, Slasher, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre

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

Game released: PC → 9 July 2012

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre is the continuation of the furious third-person shooter Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood. Once again you have to protect civilians...

Fairy Bloom Freesia

Action, Fighting, Slasher, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 1 November 2012

Metacritic: 63/100

Cargo Commander is an action game with a mixture of platformer and indie game from the masters from the Serious Brew studio. The game is published by Digital Tribe...

Wizorb

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

Game released: PC → 7 November 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Omegalodon

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Vitrum

Action, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 September 2012

Vitrum is a first-person action game with puzzle and indie elements from the developers of 9heads Game Studios. The game is published by 9heads Game...

Spaceforce Homeworld

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 July 2012

Spaceforce Homeworld is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter and indie game from developers from Dreamatrix Game Studios. The main publisher of the game...

Probability 0

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 1 October 2012

Probability 0 is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, indie game and Roguelike from the developers from the Droqen studio. The game is published by...

Tryst

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

Game released: PC → 14 September 2012

Metacritic: 50/100

Tryst is a strategy game with an indie twist from the masters at BlueGiant Interactive. The game's publisher is BlueGiant Interactive. Overall, the project turned...

Sub Rosa

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 July 2012

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 August 2012

Virus Named Tom is an isometric arcade game with action, platformer, puzzle and indie elements from Misfits Attic studio. The main publisher of the game is Misfits...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2012 for PC