Indie for Xbox 360 — top best games in the Indie genre

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 May 2012

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...

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox 360 → 7 August 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a unique action-adventure game with many interesting puzzles. The story revolves around two brothers who must overcome obstacles and...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 April 2012

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...

Ori and the Blind Forest

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Metroidvania

Game canceled: Xbox 360 → 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 88/100

An adventure platformer set in an atmospheric world, Ori and the Blind Forest combines Metroidvania elements with a stronger focus on platforming and light RPG...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 20 October 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...

Limbo

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 July 2010

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: Xbox 360 → 20 July 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...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 13 April 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

Mark of the Ninja

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 7 September 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...

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Open world

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 April 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Goat Simulator is an unusual goat simulator with a third-person view. You have to control such extraordinary characters in the world of computer games as a goat...

Spelunky

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 4 July 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Spelunky is a fun adventure that takes you to explore dangerous but rich mines. You will control a rather big-nosed but cute gold digger who came to the mines for...

Solar 2

Arcade, Space, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 19 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...

Zeno Clash 2

Role-playing game, Action, Beat them all, First-person view, Indie, Fighting

Game released: Xbox 360 → 26 July 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This surreal first-person brawler continues Ghat’s story in the world of Zenozoik, where he joins forces with his former foe Rimat against the angry inhabitants of...

Shank

Action, Platformer, Side view, Beat them all, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 25 August 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Set in a stylized criminal underworld, this side-scrolling beat ’em up follows Shank on a quest for revenge. Its story unfolds through fully animated scenes, while...

Scourge: Outbreak

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Shooter, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 July 2013

Players: 5.4/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 40/100

Scourge: Outbreak is a dynamic action game with a third-person view in a sci-fi...

Contrast

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 15 November 2013

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Contrast is a puzzle platformer that combines a three-dimensional fantasy world with a mysterious two-dimensional shadowscape. Its central mechanic is shifting...

Slender: The Arrival

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror

Game released: Xbox 360 → 24 September 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...

Braid

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 August 2008

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...

Shank 2

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 February 2012

Players: 8.3/10

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...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 October 2012

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

Goosebumps: The Game

Adventure, Horror, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 14 October 2015

Goosebumps: The Game is a casual adventure from the developers of WayForward Technologies. The game is based on the Goosebumps book series by R.L. Stine. The city...

Zeno Clash

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 5 May 2010

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person fighting game set in a punk-fantasy world, Zeno Clash follows Ghat, who is banished by his brothers and sets out across a forbidden desert on a...

Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 20 April 2016

Steam: 75/100

Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom is a colorful action game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game invites you to plunge into the fantastic world of...

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Xbox 360 → 2 July 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A Metroidvania-style action platformer set in a magical world inspired by Mexican folklore. Agave farmer Juan Aguacate finds a legendary luchador mask and sets out...

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Xbox 360 → 18 September 2015

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 is a continuation of the fantasy point and click adventure with lots of puzzles and wonderful humor. In a world torn by war, gremlin...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 March 2014

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...

Guncraft

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Board / Group Game, Indie, Construction

Game released: Xbox 360 → 14 July 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 49/100

Guncraft is a cubic indie shooter with a first-person view, in which the surrounding world is completely destructible. You have a wide arsenal of weapons, vehicles...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 18 January 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 5 September 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...

Defense Technica

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 23 April 2014

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 63/100

A futuristic tower defense strategy game about protecting a core from biomechanical attackers. The defense includes eight classes of towers with different weapons...

Constant C

Arcade, Isometric, Logic, Indie, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 March 2014

Steam: 92/100

Constant C is a 2D puzzle platformer set on a space station far from Earth, where mysterious events have distorted time. The player controls a lone robot who...

Yet Another Zombie Defense

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 February 2010

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Yet Another Zombie Defense is a top-down cooperative shooter in which the player — alone or in co-op mode with up to 4 players — must build...

de Blob 2

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 December 2014

Players: 9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

de Blob 2 is a continuation of the arcade action platformer with a third-person view. The main villain from the first part returns and tries to seize power in the...

Ms. Splosion Man

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 13 July 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Ms. Splosion Man is a dynamic puzzle platformer with a side view, where the main character is a female version of the "Explosive Man" from the game of the same...

Mount Your Friends

Arcade, Action, Sports game, Indie, Comedy, Online

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 June 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 95/100

This physics-based competitive arcade game revolves around climbing a tower made of other players and a goat. In Mount Your Friends, players take turns scaling the...

Ultratron

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 25 December 2008

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 73/100

In a retro-futuristic world, the last human has been killed by evil robots, and a battle droid sets out to avenge the human race. Players fight through more than 40...

Beat Hazard

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: Xbox 360 → 28 October 2009

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Interstellar Marines

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Indie

Game canceled: Xbox 360 → 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This tactical sci-fi first-person shooter is set in the early 22nd century, when the discovery of an inexhaustible energy source has enabled humanity to explore the...

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 April 2011

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a 2D action platformer about a bloody quest for revenge, played as either Yuki, a prisoner with machine arms, or the reanimated...

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 May 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This tactical stealth game follows a crew of thieves as they case buildings and carry out heists while avoiding security. The cast includes a lock-picking...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Xbox 360