54 Best Indie Games for Mac OS

Papers, Please or also known as Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller is a Puzzle video game by an Indie video game developer named as 3909. The game focuses on the Emotional Life of a character who works as an Immigration Officer. Set in the Dystopian country of Arstotzka, the protagonist goes through the Emotional toll every day while deciding about who to let in the country and whom to stop. The ultimate task of the player is to check the documents of people by using various tools and stop the Criminals, Smugglers, and Terrorists from entering the country. When certain discrepancies are discovered in the documents, the players investigates the individuals and tries to collect data about the ones with faulty or suspicious documents. The further investigation includes Full-body Scan, Fingerprint verification, demanding more information, and the decision of denying the entrance, etc. The full day shift of the player doing all the things goes on in real-time and the players does all every day in the game. At the end of every day, players get rewarded with money based on his performance (Less Penalties, Bribes Collected, Items Confiscated, etc.). The players are allowed to use the earned money on daily life expenses such as paying the rent, buying food, and other necessities. The game kind of looks like a Life-Simulation but it is a bit different from that. With a remarkably addictive and involving gameplay, cool 3D visuals and all the amazing benefits of working as an Immigration Officer, Papers, Please offers a brilliant Puzzle and Interactive experience to enjoy.

Hyper Light Drifter is an Action Role-playing, 2D, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Heart Machine. The game offers an exciting gameplay and takes place in the beautiful ruined world invaded by unknown dangers. The story revolves around the protagonist, who is a Drifter and get access to a lost technology that has been vanished and is suffering from illness. The character is equipped with a powerful sword and can get access to other weapons as he completes a variety of quests. The protagonist needs to expand the world to find rate batteries around the globe and unlocks the ability of weapons and arsenal. It includes a Role-playing game with area attack and long-range weapons. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist and your ultimate aim is to explore the world from a top-down perspective, fight against enemies and defeat them using a variety of weapons and progress through the game to survive longer. It offers a beautiful and vast world to manipulate. Upgrades, different Weapons, New Skills, Traverse a Dark World, detailed Environment, Background Elements, Hand-Animated Characters, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.

Braid is a cool Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game Created by Hothead Games, Braid is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam, XBox 360 and PS3 and offers a number of cool upgrades and stuff. Although the gaming environment is quite similar to Super Mario but, the puzzles and game-play is quite like Limbo, Badland and Contre Jour etc. Another great feature included in the game is the ability of the player to reverse the time. For example. If you die in the game you can always reverse the time and save yourself whenever you reach the same point where you died previously. This feature alone attracts the players a lot. Six different playing scenarios, everyone with a unique set of challenging puzzles to solve and twisted structure of the game gets you to the whole new level of excitement and Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform gaming. Braid is a wonderful alternative to a lot of games of the same genre. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate fun.

Owlboy is an Adventure, Platform and Single-player video game created and published by D-Pad Studio. The game takes place in the land of the Sky consists of an island separated by a catastrophic event. The player controls the protagonist named as Octus, who can fly and carry multiple objects during flight can throw at enemies to kill. There are a series of levels available, and the player can discover new allies while exploration that accompanies him during the epic journey, each character has its unique set of weapons and properties. During the gameplay, the player has to avoid obstacles, fight enemies to kill them and become the best adventurer around the world. The game takes the player in the monster-infested ruins world full of hidden secrets. The player can carry out anything in the level and can throw to kill enemies. As the game progress, it offers strong levels that the player has to accomplish at any cost. Owlboy offers core features such as massive Dungeons, Challenging Boss Battles, Mixture of Platform and Flight elements, and more. Check out the game and have fun.

Kerbal Space Program or also known as KSP is a Single-player Space Flight, Building and Construction and Simulation video game by Squad. The game is built using the updated Unity Engine and offers playability on Multiple Platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. The game allows the players to control a whole Space Mission Program named as Kerbal Space Program, Have a Crew of Humanoid Aliens known as Kerbals and enjoy Exploring the Space. Game’s Complex and realistic Orbital Physics helps players learn about the Hohmann Transfer Orbits (Start from a Lower Orbit and end up in a Higher Orbit) maneuvers and enjoy piloting the ship. According to the gameplay and game story, the game tasks the players to head a Nascent Space Program, Control the Kerbals (Intelligent Humanoid Aliens from an Earth-like planet Kerbin) and enjoy learning to maneuver into Space. Kerbal Space Program gameplay is divided into two main parts such as Construction and Flight, and it allows the players to construct various types of Rockets, Aircraft, Rovers, etc. Once the ships are created, the players can simply launch them into Space from in-game launch Pad, explore the Space and complete various objectives of the game. The game offers various types of mission such as Reaching to a Certain Height, Escape the Atmosphere, Reach Stable Orbit, Capture Asteroids, Create Space Stations, Visit different Planets and collect information about them, etc. With all the Space Exploration fun, Unique game Physics and mechanics, and interesting gameplay, Kerbal Space Program is a fun Space Simulation to enjoy.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Undertale is a Single-player Role Playing and Puzzle sgame by Toby Fox. The game offers a Top Down perspective and allows the players to control a Child’s character who falls in the underworld. This large secluded region under the Earth’s surface is separated by a very thin Magic Barrier. After falling to the Underworld, the game tasks the player to explore the world, meet monsters on your way up the surface, engage into epic combats with the monsters and keep on going up while reigning a Bullet hell over the enemies. Undertale offers a choice-based gameplay and allows the players to either kill the monsters or spare them and the decisions that the players makes, directly affect the ending of the game. There is also brief Dialog included in the game, and that feature allows the player to interact with various characters in the game, know the directions and get info about safe passageways, etc. Undertale offers Puzzle elements as well in the game and allows the players to solve some of the most complex puzzles while exploring the world and finding the way up. With the Scripted events, Bullet hell combats, loads of obstacles, Boss fights, an epic journey to complete, and Challenging puzzles, Undertale offers quite a unique experience of Action, RPG and Puzzle gaming elements to enjoy.

Night in the Woods is an Adventure and Single-player video game for cross-platform created by Infinite Fall and published by Finji. The plot revolves around the exploration, in which you control a mysterious cat named as Mae, who kicked out from the college to find unexpected changes. Mae is a child, who can run, jump, and attack his way to learn new mechanics that allows him to manipulate the Possum Springs, a strange town full of various anthropomorphic animals. You act as a cat with a task to explore the world from a side-scroll perspective and fulfill a variety of levels to uncover the dark secrets of the town. You can interact with the environment, and NPCs to collect the information about the task and process to find clues and complete the task. The game world is full of characters to interact and a variety of levels to complete. As you advance through the game, it becomes challenging to master. Night in the Woods is the best game to play.

Prison Architect combines the elements of Construction and Management Simulation created and published by Introversion Software. The game offers top-down gameplay and deals with city-building genre. The main objective of the player is to build and run a prison to earn money and experience points. It offers the similar gameplay like Theme Hospital, and the player has to build different units, rooms, cages, and office. Hire staff such as a warden, workers, and guards and train them. There are two types of roles that the player can assume such as Governor and Architect. It has a set of levels, and the player will rank up as he completes the objectives. The player can enjoy two different types of modes offering different challenges, story and gameplay such as Escape mode and Story mode. Navigate the world, complete tasks and expand the prison further and further to earn lots of money and points and compete against rival NPCs. With superb gameplay, addictive soundtracks, and brilliant visuals, Prison Architect is the best game as compared to other Business Simulations.

To the Moon is an Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed and published by Freebird Games. The game takes place in the randomly generated world and offers an exciting story in which Sigmund Corp develop a technology that creates artificial memories. The Corporation offers their service to people on their beds. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist and explore the memories of Johnny to locate items and gather energy from them to strengthen his memory and connect to his old age to go back his childhood. You must explore the areas where Johnny lived to find clues. Complete a series of challenging levels, interact with NPCs and earn points. Unlock new areas using your points and fulfill your missions. You must help the Johhny to fulfill his wish of going to the moon. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, superb visuals, and exciting story, To the Moon is the best game to play and enjoy.

Dwarf Fortress is an Open Ended RTS, Roguelike, Construction, management and City-Building video game. The game is set up in a procedurally generated game world in which you control two different groups of dwarfs. Your objective is to make the two dwarf groups work and build an underground fortress and all the buildings required. The open world is full of continents, oceans, and beastly civilizations and allows you to gather up resources by fighting and defeating your enemies. Text based game interface, Turn-Based Strategy and Roguelike game elements make this game a bit different than others but quite addictive and engaging. Dwarf Fortress features dwarfs with different mood swings and skills, for example, you can make a dwarf craft super beautiful and legendary artifacts or you can just task them to go search for resources etc. Dwarf Fortress features best 3D graphics, a lot of exciting objectives to complete, a huge amount of objects/resources to collect and much more. Do try it out.

Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.

TowerFall Ascension is one of the best games of this specific genre. This brilliant Action, Fighting, Archery and Combat masterpiece allows you to enjoy a game-play inspired by the classics and takes you to a whole new level of entertainment plus the quality gaming. TowerFall Ascension lets you engage yourself in epic Duels and Versus matches, use your abilities and special skills to defeat your enemies/opponents and master all the techniques of the pros. TowerFall Ascension offers insane amounts of treasures to loot, loads of power-ups, and abilities to catch the arrows mid-air while fighting with the enemies, monsters and other players. With Co-Op quests, and Multiplayer Support, TowerFall Ascension offers over 120 unique game maps, 50 hardcore battles, cool power-ups, 4 main and more unlockable player characters, loads of new stuff to discover and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

Nidhogg 2 is an Action, Side-scroll Fighting, Party, and Pixel Graphics video game created and published by Messhof for multiple platforms. The game offers an exciting gameplay revolves around fighting element that you have never seen before. At the beginning of the game, you have to select your character, dive into the competition battle against enemies or other players to paint the walls with the flesh of foes. Your goal is simple, you just reach the other side and slay anyone that stands in your path. It serves as the sequel to Nidhogg and comes with improved gameplay and enhanced mechanics. During the gameplay, you can participate in tournament where you have to battle against up to eight players with a task to reach the top. There are four weapons and you must master the distinctive trails. Customize your character using stylish items and accessories. Nidhogg 2 comes with core features such as Online Matches as well as Private Mode, 10 Variables, 10 Stages, Stylize your Character, and more.

The Witness is an Adventure, Puzzle, First-person Perspective and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Thekla, Inc. The game offers a beautiful world where it takes place and has an exciting gameplay based on Exploration of the Open-Ended world like Myst. The tropical Island full of human-made and natural structures and the player must navigate the landscapes, interact with the environment and solve a variety of mind-bending puzzles based on interaction with complex mazes hidden within the specific areas. In the start, the player has to find the clues to complete each puzzle and recording spread around the globe. The player takes on the unnamed protagonist, who explores an island with various natural formations and numerous structures. The island is split into different sections, and each offers its unique challenges, a set of puzzles and more. During exploration, the player can experience the most beautiful world that he has never seen before. There are dozens of locations to manipulate with more than five-hundred puzzles to accomplish or solve. Each puzzle brings a new idea and challenge. With addictive features, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, The Witness is the best game to enjoy.

Oxenfree is a Single-player Graphic Adventure video game developed and published by Night School Studio for cross platforms. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, a teenager named as Alex, who is on a weekend to an Island. The game revolves around supernatural events and the protagonist and his friend must explore the environment to unearth the mysteries of the Island. The player navigates the world from an isometric perspective, who has unleash the paranormal force on the island mistakenly. The player and his fellows must figure out about the force and find a way to fend off it. The game gameplay centers on walk and talk gameplay. Speech bubbles appear on the playfield over the head of the protagonist, instead of dialogue appearing during cutscenes, enabling the player select between two or three choices what the player will say next in the chat. Oxenfree offers prominent features such as an Intelligent Conversation System, Unique Radio Mechanics, Original Soundtracks, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Firewatch is a First-person Action, Adventure and Mystery video game. The game takes the players back to the year 1989 and leaves them right in the middle of the Shoshone National Forest and lets them be Fire Lookout named as Henry. The game revolves around two main characters, Henry and Delilah, Henry’s Supervisor and tells the story of a mystery that formed over a Conspiracy. Firewatch is full of mysterious incidents, happenings, and all the pondering situations. According to the storyline, Henry works as a Fire Lookout, Delilah Assists him as a Supervisor and the story is about finding the roots of mystery that rocked the minds of the characters of the game. It all starts when Delilah Calls on Henry to investigate an illegal Firework at a Lake. Henry reaches to the spot only to find out two teenage girls Skinny Dipping who blame him for leering. On his way back to his watch tower, Henry finds a Cave locked and sees the shadows of a shrouded figure, returns to his Watch Tower and finds it completely ransacked. Next day, Henry gets to Communication line where he finds it cut along with a note from the girls. He plots to scare them away but finds their Camp abandoned. Some time later, on another location, Henry finds a Disposable Camera that belongs to Brian, son of Ned, the outdoorsman, and a fellow Fire lookout. Brian and Ned are both missing. This is where player’s character gets into the play. The game tasks the players to search for Brian, and Ned and the mission Girls, and solve the Mystery that’s bothering Henry big time. Firewatch is all about mysteries and amazing happenings that lead to an epic open world gameplay. With a great story, plenty of room for the gameplay, open world environment, fantastic characters and their own stories, Firewatch offers a remarkable and kind of twisted gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing mystery games, Firewatch would definitely be a great source of entertainment.

Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.

Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.

Proteus is a great Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform and Exploration-based video game by Twisted Tree. The game takes you to an amazing dream-like world and leaves you on an island where you as the player will have to interact with objects, explore and solve some challenging puzzles in order to complete the game objectives. Proteus offers a procedurally generated game map and lets you experience traveling through the superbly designed valleys, ruins and a lot of other amazing wonders. With super fine graphics, amazing story and an immersive and engaging game-play, Proteus is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video games.

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a wonderful Rogue-like Action-Adventure, Exploration and a hardcore Rhythm video game by Brace Yourself Games. The game sets you up into the character of Cadence, whose father goes missing and she embarks on a journey to find him. While on exploration, she reaches the crypt controlled by the NecroDancer and falls in it. The NecroDancer steals her heart and forces her to get it back by fighting against the minions. Your task is to help Cadence traverse through the Dungeons, defeat the minions of NecroDancer by simply performing actions on musical beats, get her heart back, defeat the NecroDancer and finally free her father. Crypt of the NecroDancer allows you to play the game with built-in sound tracks or if you want you can play with your own music library. With thrilling encounters with minions and the NecroDancer, amazing eye-catching visuals, an addictive game-play and a wonderful story-line to follow, Crypt of the NecroDancer is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.

Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.

Her Story mixes the Psychological Horror, Adventure, Detective, Point-and-Click and Single-player video game developed and published by Sam Barlow. It is a mystery game, playing like a true crime documentary where the game enables the player go hand on with the database of police of live action footage. The game starts with a film actress named as Viva Seifert, Joe Gideon and Shark. In the game, the player takes on the role of the detective who must solve a variety of murder cases and experience a unique gameplay from start to finish. The player needs to find and collect evidence, interact with suspects, and progress through the story to solve complicated cases. It lets the player sits in front of the computer, logs into the police database to find out hundreds of video clips that covers several interviews from 1994, in which the women are interrogated about their missing husband. The player can manipulate the police database by typing words and watch the clips where the player needs to collect evidence. Her Story is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Dungeons of Dredmor is a cool Dungeon Crawler, RPG and Roguelike elements filled video game that sets you up as the only savior of the realm after the re-surfacing of the Dark Lord of Dredmor. The eternal forces and the mighty heroes that kept the Dark Lord beneath the earth for centuries have gone soft and the darkness and destruction is upon the mankind. You must stand up against the evil forces, embark on a journey full of wonders, dangers and unholy powers, defeat the terrifying monsters, go on epic quests and adventures, reach to the Dark Lord of Dredmor and finally defeat him in order to save the humanity. Equipped with special abilities, powers, weapons and heavy expertise, you must overcome the enemies and be an ultimate savior, the one who is awaited for so long. With an amazing setting, characters, enemies etc, a brilliant story and a wonderfully engaging game-play, Dungeons of Dredmor is quite a great game similar to Crowntakers. Do give it a go.

Defcon is a Real-time Strategy and Multiplayer video game developed by Introversion Software. The game takes place in the vector graphics of old computer themed the world and offers a variety of nuclear weapons. It comprises different nations and it allows you to select your nation and get into the game world where you have to destroy as much population of enemies as possible to score the highest points. Protect your land by defeating enemies and other players and gain experience points. The game rewards you with 2 points as you defeat your enemies and can lose one point as you lose or death in the game. There are different levels in the game and each level has its own time challenge. The game includes six different countries such as Latin America, Africa, North America, Russia, Europe and Asia. All countries contain over 1 billion population. It has a set of modes such as Offline mode, Diplomacy mode, Multiplayer mode as well as units. Nuclear missiles, aircraft, ships, and ground units are also features in the game. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.

Soma is a mixture of Science Fiction, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Exploration elements developed and published by Fictional Games. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Simon Jarret, who finds himself at the facility under strange circumstance, struggling to unearth his past. According to the story, the world in threatened by strange creatures, trying to taking over humanity. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary goal is to explore the facility from first-person perspective, encounter various creatures and struggle to solve puzzles. During exploration, the protagonist discovers a huge array of clues including audio tapes and notes, which creates atmosphere and progresses the plot. There is no combat system like other games by Fictional Games, and instead the player can use stealth elements, and can explore the environment, and solve puzzles to progress through the game. Players can manipulate the underground world, interact with NPCs, and objects to solve puzzles and earn experience points. Soma offers prominent features, immersive gameplay, and highly detailed environment. Try it out.

Cave Story Plus is one of the best Action filled Stealth, Puzzle-Platform and indie games. The game offers a unique storyline based on Mysterious themes and it takes you to an amazing world of Mimiga, the land of the Free Running Rabits named as Mimigas. After the attack of the mad Scientist, the Mimigas, are in grave danger and they are in dire need of your help. You act as an amnesiac boy, who wakes up in Mimiga with no memories of his past but he knows he has to save Mimiga and all of its resident Mimigas. Your task is to run, jump, fly and shoot your way through a series of platforms, explore a massive game world and eventually reach to the Mad Scientist. You must defeat the delusional Scientist and save the Mimiga. Cave Story Plus features enhanced graphics, great background music, over 20 boss battle game levels, amazing weaponry, four different game endings, a Metroid inspired setting, Easy Controls, a wonderfully simple storyline, brilliantly immersive and engaging game-play etc. try it out and you’ll definitely love this game.

Evil Labs is a Strategy, Base Building, and Single-player Building Simulation developed and published by Mirabilis Studios. The game offers the fantastic gameplay that you have never experienced before. The gameplay is about building and managing the evil laboratory, where you research and develop multiple diseases, infect inhabitants of the city, sell your product and get rich. At the beginning of the game, you have to build your lab with dozens of structure types and upgrades such as bedrooms, security offices, laboratories, power generator, and more. You must effort to improve your laboratory by completing several tasks and earn enough money to unlock upgrades. During the gameplay, after completing the evil empire, you have to hire staff to assist the construction of your laboratory, produce medicines, and more. You have to research new technologies to enhance and unlock new building upgrades, increase the ability of your staff, and find new elements to develop the disease. Research Technologies, Develop Diseases, Hire Staff, Infect People, Build your Lab, etc. are prominent features in the game.

Gladiator School is a 2D Action, Role-playing, Strategy, and Single-player Management Simulation published and developed by Raptor Claw Games for multiple platforms. The game offers a deep management simulation gameplay with hand-drawn environment and characters. In the game, you as the protagonist have decided to build a school. You needs to recruit fighters and command your fighters to train. Every decision you make in the game will matter. You must select the weapons, skills, and items wisely to advance through the game. Before sending your troops to battle you must train and equip them with weapons to survive in the brutal environment and defeat the opponents. Keep an eye on your fighters and make sure they perform well in battlefield. The ultimate task is to clear the field from enemies, make your fighters famous in the arena and earn as much coins as you can to become the master. Gladiator School includes prominent features such as Build and Run your School for Fighters, Acquire Slaves, huge Arsenal of Weaponry, Rewards, Hire Staff, and more.

Shelter 2 is another wonderful Action-Adventure, Indie, Graphic and Interactive video game by Might and Delight. The game lets you Control a Lynx from a third-person perspective, explore the wilderness, hunt for food, take care of its cubs and stay away from the harm. Shelter 2 is a bit of different from other games on our list but it provides with a wonderfully similar aesthetics and makes you love every bit of this brilliant game. The most prominent objective of the game is to survive in an unforgiving and harsh environment, keep the cubs alive and make them safe from all the prying entities that are part of the wilderness too. As the name suggests, you’ll have to provide the mother Lynx with shelter and help her out with all the things. With an amazingly addictive game-play, beautiful 3D graphics, amazing background music etc, Shelter 2 is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

I Am Bread is a story of a slice of bread who wants to become a full grown “Bread” and struggles to achieve his goals by going on a journy. The game combines Action-Adventure, Indie and Simulation elements together and provides with an addictive game-play. I Am Bread lets you be that little slice of bread and go on a journey withing the kitchen, explore the world around you, interact with different objects, play games, solve puzzles and do whatever you can. You must also find a way to get out in the open and reach to the limits of exploration. You must achieve your goals of becoming a Bread by doing what no other Slice can do. I Am Bread features a great story mode in which you can engage yourself in Cheese Hunt (Find and gather Cheese), Begel Race (Race Against opponents), Rampage (Cause Destruction), Zero-G and Free-Play (Do whatever you want to do). With blazing graphics, a good story and amazing game-play, I Am Bread will surely amuse you if you play it. Do try it out.

ICY is a great narrative driven post-apocalyptic, Indie, RPG and Text-based video game by Inner Void. The game is set in a brilliant icy and frozen world with amazingly enhanced graphics to enjoy. You can explore the game world by creating your own character with complete skills and abilities. You have to survive in the frozen world by having bow and arrow fight along with the melee combat and shooting with multiple weapons. The game is based on your survival and the survival of your followers while exploring the frozen icy age of the game world in an amazing work of snow falling. You will lead the group of survivors, hunting food to survive in the ice age. You can customize your character with 10 skills and abilities to make it stronger. ICY is an outstanding game for having fun in frozen world.

Foul Play is another great Multiplayer Action-Adventure Brawler, Casual, Indie Hack ‘n’ Slash and Beat ‘em’ up video game by Mediatonic. The game allows you to be a Demon Hunter named Baron Dashforth, get into a theater stage game world, pummel your opponents/enemies and earn different kinds of rewards. In order to complete the game objectives you must perform well on the stage while speedily wielding your weapons and satisfy your audience. You must also take down all the vicious beasts, pummeling enemies and all the other rivals. With 22 super stage acts, 50 different enemies, amazing stage tricks, cool visuals, great story and a wonderful gameplay, Foul Play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.

Unturned by Smartly Dressed Games is a Single and Multiplayer Indie Horror and Survival video game. The game offers a Zombie-themed gameplay in which it lets the players be lone wanderers in a Zombie infested game world. Unturned offers multiple maps for the game including Prince Edward Island, Russia, Washington and Yukon as well as loads of other custom built maps by the community. The game leaves the players right in the middle of Zombies without any item in their Inventory. The players must explore the world and find weapons and items such as medicines, water, and food not to get killed by Starvation, disease, or swear weather (in Yukon and other player created maps with winter weather). Unturned offers three different game difficulty levels and various game modes including Hardcore and Gold Mode. With the progress in the game, players are rewarded with experience points by killing Zombies, collecting Resources, and by Crafting various types of weapons and items. Furthermore, the game offers a Multiplayer mode in which players can play the game as a team of go against each other in PvP Combats and Arena-based matches. In Arena mode, the players are tasked to collect Weapons, and Supplies while keeping on moving towards the middle of the map. With all the amazingly fast-paced PvP matches, hardcore encounters with the Zombies and blasting Action; Unturned is a wonderful Zombie-themed Horror and Survival video game to play.

Geometry Dash is an Arcade-style Action, Puzzle Platform and Indie video game by RobTop. The game allows you to control a Cube shaped character, and it allows you to go through a highly luminous, obstacles infested and quite challenging game world, and tasks you to complete different objectives in order to complete the exciting game levels. The rhythm-based game-play allows you to enjoy every tiny detail of the game. With super cool visuals, great setting, amazing objectives, cool background music and a totally fantastic game-play, Geometry Dash is a great Action, Puzzle and Platform video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played it and you’ll love it for sure.

Evoland, developed by Shiro Games is a super addictive Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle and Indie video game like Torchlight 2. The game takes you to an amazing journey of history and lets you experience Action and Adventure filled game-play in which you are allowed to explore, unlock new technologies, solve different challenging puzzles and enjoy a beautiful combination of Puzzle, Platform, and RPG elements. Unlike a lot of other cult inspired video games, Evoland provides with superb 3D graphics, a great story and an unimaginably fun filled game-play. Epic boss fights and different types of enemies along with different environmental wonders are the real deal for the gamers. For an awesome Action-Adventure, Puzzle and RPG video game experience, you must play this game. With a wonderful plot, amazing quest based story and an immersive game-play, Evoland is one of the best games like Torchlight 2 to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

Thirty Flights of Loving is a First-person Action-Adventure, Indie and Interactive-Fiction video game that offers a fun filled gameplay experience. This short story game lets you explore the world of Thirty Flights of Loving from a first-person perspective and witness an amazing combination of Exploration, Object Finding and Puzzle gaming elements altogether. You can be a gunslinger, an explorer or a normal being in the game world, interact with the objects, find clues, interact with the NPCs, eliminate criminals, wave a stick at the stray animals and enjoy being part of a mystical world where everything is puzzling and you are the one to solve that puzzles. With amazing 3D graphics, an involving story and an engaging game-play, Thirty Flights of Loving is quite fun to play and enjoy.

Super Hexagon is a cool Action, Puzzle Platform and indie video game developed and published by Terry Cavanagh games. The game offers vivid graphics, super engaging game-play, minimal design and puzzles related to the Hexagons. Your task is to go through challenging puzzles and amazing obstacles and complete the game objectives in order to clear the game levels. Super Hexagon offers wonderful visuals, an engaging and immersive game-play, along with simple layout and easy controls. For an amazing puzzle-platform gaming experience, you should totally try this game out. It’s fun playing Super Hexagon.

Axiom Verge is a fun Indie Action-Adventure and 2D Platform video game by Thomas Hepp Games. The game offers a Side-Scrolling view and allows the players to enjoy a delightful Metroidvania feel. With a brilliant backstory, Axiom Verge allows the players to control the character of Trace, a Scientist who after getting injured and a black out gets up in an unfamiliar High-tech Ancient World. Axiom Verge focuses on Hardcore Metroidvania Action and Exploration and tasks the players to traverse through an entirely new world where many fears are lurking in the dark shadows. The game lets you have weapons that you can use to overcome the enemies and enjoy upgrading your gear and stuff with all the available power-ups (over 60 different items). With an absorbing and addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics, great mechanics and an overall feel of an amazing adventure, Axiom Verge offer elements borrowed from the biggest Metroidvania games such as Blaster Master, Contra, Bionic Commando and Metroid. For an excellent Action-Adventure and Platform gaming experience, do try it out.

Crea is a great Action-Adventure, indie, RPG Sandbox and Rogue-like video game by Siege Games. The game allows you to explore multiple gigantic game worlds, craft different and unique items such as weapons, armors, objects etc. and fight against the gruesome monsters to survive. The combats in the game are randomly generated and the game worlds are all based up on fantasy themes. You are free to build and destroy whatever you want using the crafting system of the game. Character progression, unique skills, action filled combats, a lot of unique monsters, boss battles, a lot of upgrades, NPCs etc. are among the best features of the cool game. Crea offers fantastic storyline, epic Combat rich gameplay and beautiful 3D visuals to enjoy. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played this game. You’ll definitely enjoy it.

Electronic Super Joy is a brilliant new Action, Puzzle Platformer and indie video game by Michael Todd Games. it takes you to an amazing musical world where you’ll have to Run, Jump, Fly and go through amazingly challenging obstacles all set up on some really difficult platforms in three different and quite unforgiving worlds. Electronic Super Joy offers over fifty challenging levels, 8 hours of purely entertaining gameplay, amazingly blasting Boss battles, loads of enemies, and features like low gravity, rotating worlds, humongous monsters and brimming missiles etc. With a great setting, engaging game-play, great visuals, regular content updates and loads of other exciting things, Electronic Super Joy is a best Puzzle and Platform video game to play and enjoy.

Bit. Trip Beat is a Arcade style Puzzle, Platform and music video game by Gijin Games. This brilliant Action-Adventure, Casual and Indie Platformer lets you enjoy amazing game-play packed up with great music, graphics and challenging puzzles. Once again, you get to play as Commander Video and you are tasked to fulfill your colorful journey by running, jumping, and going through amazingly challenging obstacles.Inspired by most of the Classics of this specific genre, Bit. Trip Beat lets you be part of a beautiful world where you’ll continuously run on amazing beats and all you got to do is to go through a number of different types of obstacles in order to reach down to the finish line. Once you are through to the finish line, you can jump onto new and a bit more difficult level and enjoy all the thrilling elements of the game. With super cool visuals, great background music, epic boss fights, and an immersive game-play Bit. Trip Beat is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Q.U.B.E is a First-person Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Toxic Games in collaboration with Indie Fund for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Wii U, iOS and PlayStation. The game kicks off with the player waking up after some bizarre event and finds himself wearing gloves with the ability to get in contact with some special differently colored blocks fitted into the walls, ceilings, floors and stairs. Each and every block is differentiated by its specific quality. The player reaches to an unknown bunker and tries to solve bizarre puzzles by using the colored blocks. The protagonist, with the help of player arranges the blocks in different orders to solve the puzzles and when the puzzles get solved, he advances to the next bunker, solves another puzzle and the game carries on, on its course. Game-play of Q.U.B.E is quite appealing and engagingly addictive. You’ll definitely feel awesome playing this game.

Space Pirates and Zombies (SPAZ) is a cool Action-Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy and a Top-Down Space Combat and Shooter video game that allows you to explore an amazingly huge randomly generated galaxy and fight against the hostile Factions, Zombies and other enemies. Use your best skills to destroy alien ships, installations and facilities. Being in charge of a whole fleet of futuristic and most advanced space ships, and commanding the whole army is one of the best aspects of this super thrilling video game. Enemies include, aliens (Different races), humans and zombies that have infested almost every corner of the galaxy and they have mastered the art of evolving by creating a multi-tiered ecosystem that supports them with their plan of conquering the galaxy. With a lot of ships to fly in and build, pilot etc., a great physics based combat structure, a lot of different enemies, great visuals and an addictive game-play, Space Pirates and Zombies SPAZ is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Evo Explores is a fantastic new Indie Puzzle and Platform video game developed by Kyrylo Kuzyk. The game draws inspiration from the popular Monument Valley video game and offers a similar type of gameplay and mechanics. With all the Gravity Defying and Physics denying aspects, Evo Explores lets you control both of the elements with simply your imagination, explore a vast impossible world based on huge optical illusions, manipulate the structures and use them to solve mind-boggling complex puzzles and enjoy a totally unforgettable Puzzle gaming experience. The game lets you be a little Robot named as Evo and tasks you to uncover the secrets about the Planet Byte and all of its citizens. You can also construct a number of optical illusions yourself to build paths that will lead you to the finish line of each and every game level. Evo Explores offers 45 unique and beautifully designed game levels, surreal background music along with gorgeous graphics and a totally addictive gameplay.

Snapshot, developed by Retro Affect is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling and indie Puzzle-Platform video game. The story of the game revolves around a lonely Robot wandering in an abandoned virtual world. The only object of the game is to solve different platform puzzles and make pictures of your great adventure. With the help of the camera, you can add or remove any part of the game world to solve the puzzles. You can achieve game rewards by collecting all the stars in a game level and complete the level to gain skill points that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. A game level completed in provided game time and the images captured are responsible for your game rankings so you must complete a task in not more than the given time. Snapshot offers a great fun filled game-play, a good story to follow, amazing 2D graphics, beautiful sceneries and game music.

Thomas Was Alone is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle-Platformer and Indie video game by Mike Bithell. The game is set in an Anti-Gravity environment and is about the friendships, jumping and floating together. Your duty is to guide a cluster of boxes through a series of obstacles by using your unique Puzle solving skills and finish the levels. Thomas Was Alone features great background music, amazing voice over and quite addictive and fun filled game-play. The boxes in the game are basically World’s first AI’s and this game lets you program them and perform different tasks with them to see if they have perfected or there is any need of redesigning. Thomas Was Alone includes some great features such as over a 100 challenging and addictive game levels, more than 10 cool player characters, super challenging and quite engaging game-play etc. If you really like to play Puzzle-Platform games, you should not miss Thomas Was Alone. it’ll definitely entertain you good. Do try it out.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is a Graphic Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer and indie video game by Caypybara Games. The game revolves around the character of Scythia and allows you to be part of the two super amazing worlds, one is the real world and the other is a dream world. You can jump from one world to another according to your states. For example, if you want to visit the dream world, you must sleep and if you want to get back to the real world, you must wake up. You can explore a massive sandbox type game world and interact with objects, find out the passage ways or you can eat the Red Mushrooms to boost up your energy levels to continue your journey. You can go on different quests to find the Trigones by traveling through the passageways. The story of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery seems kind of twisted one but it will surely engage you in some exciting Puzzles and Adventures and you will enjoy this game for sure. Do try it out.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun, developed by Big Fish Games is Match-3 Puzzle and indie video game that takes you to Japan and allows you to help Satsu save the ancient civilization. The game allows you to build a new Japanese village and everything in it by mixing-up 3 or more of the same kind of elements. You can start building from the smallest object and reach to the tallest buildings you can make. Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun provides with three exciting game modes and lets you win different challenges in every mode by matching up different elements and creating new ones. The relaxing background music, clean 3D graphics and a well written story-line are the best things included in the game. Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is one of the best Puzzle-RPG game that offers a unique combination of Puzzle and RPG elements with Turn-based game-play and enhanced mechanics. For a wonderful and challenging Puzzle and RPG experience, do try it out.