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

Hotline Miami - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Hotline Miami is a brutal and bloody top-down action game. You have to step into the shoes of a serial killer who kills hundreds of various bandits and simply not...

FTL: Faster Than Light

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

Game released: PC → 14 September 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Shank 2

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

Game released: PC → 7 February 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This 2D side-scrolling action platformer follows Shank, a former mob hitman drawn back into a fight when people close to him are threatened. He uses an arsenal of...

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...

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 tied to an...

Mark of the Ninja

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A 2D stealth platformer about a ninja whose cursed tattoos heighten his senses and allow different approaches to each situation. The protagonist can evade enemies...

Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Role-playing game, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 April 2012

Steam: 91/100

This fantasy role-playing game is set in Avernum, an underground nation where the Empire sends its outcasts. Banished to the volcanic depths by the cruel Emperor...

Miasmata

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

Game released: PC → 28 November 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

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...

Legend of Grimrock

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

Game released: PC → 11 April 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Journey Down: Chapter One

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

Game released: PC → 18 May 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows Bwana and his sidekick Kito as they struggle to make ends meet at a run-down gas station in Kingsport Bay, on...

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 December 2012

Players: 4.9/10

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition is a third-person action game with elements of shooter, horror and indie game from Intoxicate Studios. The game is published by...

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...

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

Steam: 79/100

An arcade beat ’em up featuring martial arts combat and drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution. In Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 March 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Vessel is a fun puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. The events of the game take place in the amazing world of mechanical machines that have...

Stacking

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 March 2012

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This third-person puzzle adventure takes place in a vintage world inhabited by living Russian nesting dolls. Charlie Blackmore, the smallest doll in the world, sets...

Resonance (2012)

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

Game released: PC → 25 July 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows four ordinary people whose lives become entangled after the unexpected death of a particle physicist. They race...

Waking Mars

Arcade, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2012

Players: 1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Waking Mars is a side-scrolling arcade adventure platformer. In 2097, life was discovered on Mars. During the mission to make first contact, you find yourself...

Snapshot

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2012

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Snapshot is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. The game will tell the story of a cute robot named Peak, who is collecting mysterious energy scattered...

Tiny Troopers

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

Game released: PC → 24 August 2012

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

Kairo

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

Game released: PC → 24 April 2013

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This first-person 3D adventure takes place in a lost world of abstract architecture and ancient monuments. The player explores unusual rooms and solves puzzles by...

Oil Rush

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 23 March 2012

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This real-time naval strategy game is set in a world reshaped by nuclear war, which melted the ice caps. The player captures, upgrades, and defends floating...

Super Hexagon

Arcade, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 November 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

Cat Lady

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

Game released: PC → 1 December 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This psychological horror game follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year-old woman on the verge of suicide. With no family, friends or hope for a better future, she...

Party of Sin

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 December 2012

Steam: 57/100

This puzzle-platforming action game follows an escape from Hell: the player controls the Seven Deadly Sins as they set out to torment humanity and travel through...

Face Noir

Action, Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 July 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A noir detective adventure follows private investigator Jack Del Nero, who is falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his care. The story...

Vox

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 September 2012

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

La Mulana Ex

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 July 2012

La Mulana Ex is a side view arcade game with platformer, puzzle, fantasy and indie elements from Nigoro and Pygmy Studio. The game is published by Active Gaming...

House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets

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

Game released: PC → 24 January 2012

Steam: 97/100

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...

Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Receiver

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 18 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

A first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Receiver follows a player exploring a building complex overrun by automated turrets and hovering shock drones while...

Cargo Commander

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 1 November 2012

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a new Cargo Corps recruit sent into dangerous sectors of space to salvage valuable cargo from containers filled with...

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...

Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon

Action, Slasher, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Steam: 29/100

This fantasy hack-and-slash game, drawing on Persian mythology, follows the hero Garshasp through cursed lands. Set before the events of Garshasp: The Monster...

Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

An expansion for Serious Sam Collection, set during the events of Serious Sam 3: BFE. Sam and his team head to the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae, where...

Revelations 2012

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

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 55/100

This first-person shooter with strategy elements takes place in an alternate dimension where heroes battle gods who entered the human world through a portal...

Fieldrunners

Strategy, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A tower defense strategy game in which the player protects the field from waves of ground and air enemies. The defense relies on placing and upgrading towers...

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...

Fairy Bloom Freesia

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

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Steam: 89/100

This action platformer with hack-and-slash elements follows the fairy Freesia as she defends Lita Forest from monsters and humans seeking its spirit stones, 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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2012 for PC (Game released)