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Video Games PS4 Xbox One Switch Wii U PC 3DS PS3 Xbox 360 Accessories Virtual Reality Trade-In Deals Best Sellers More Gaming 1-12 of over 5,000 results for Video Games: Mac: Games Minecraft for PC/Mac Online Game Code. May 20, 2015  Gaming & Culture — The new wave: 20 indie games to watch Ahead of the E3 blockbusters, we look at some intriguing smaller up-and-comers. Kyle Orland and Sam Machkovech - May 20, 2015 5:00 pm UTC. Jan 30, 2017 When it comes to personal computers, the Mac has never been known as a gaming heavyweight: Apple doesn't focus on building machines that have the hard-core processing and graphics power you might find in, say, a Razor PC laptop. That said, there are still a number of excellent games available to play on your Mac — especially of the indie variety. Itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered. Discover the largest community for indie games and the people who make and play them. Oct 26, 2018 We prefer to limit our featured games to 10 games, but in reality, there are much more horror games that deserve your attention. To make room for more worthy scary games, we include this list of games that didn’t quite make it to the Top 10 but can still be recommended in a heartbeat. Mar 28, 2020  A multiplayer version of the hit indie single player game Don’t Starve, Don’t Starve Together continues our run of games whose titles describe their games’ goal. A wilderness survival game, Don’t Starve Together is a standalone expansion of the original, with a new story, new bosses and environments, and much more.

5. Cibele

Above: “Personal” is a understatement when it comes to Cibele

Developer: Star Maid Games
Publisher: Star Maid Games
Available on: PC, Mac
Price: $8.99

Cibele feels more like an independent film than an independent game. Not because the game doesn’t let you interact with it: you play Cibele by fussing around on a computer desktop with your mouse, then playing a simple online game while your character, Nina, talks to a guildmate of hers. Rather, it feels like an independent film because it’s brief, sentimental, and leaves you feeling like something’s missing. In Cibele’s case, the “missing” part seems intentional, as the hard-cut ending makes you feel the same absence the game’s main character does in that moment. Cibele tackles mature topics through the eyes of a teenager, and we don’t get enough of that in video games.

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4. Axiom Verge

Above: Axiom Verge looks just like Super Metroid but does a lot to distinguish itself.

Developer: Thomas Happ Games LLC
Publisher: Thomas Happ Games LLC
Available on: PC, Playstaion 4, Playstation Vita
Price: $19.99

2015 had a lot of games that emanated nostalgic vibes (Super Mario Maker, Galack-Z, Downwell), but none of them iterated on old-school design quite like Axiom Verge. It’s a Metroid clone, sure, but the ways it changes up every aspect of the back-and-forth trek across a single interconnected map give the game its own unique flair. Some of the hidden items scattered across the game require you to perform acts that feel like finding exploits that game’s designer didn’t intend you to execute. Then you find out that’s exactly what you were supposed to do the whole time. It hands you weapons that force you to rethink the game you’ve been playing every few minutes, and tracking down every secret you missed the first time around made for the biggest nostalgia trip of the year.

3. SOMA

Above: SOMA uses a dense, realistic look to introduce some very real fears.

Developer: Frictional Games
Publisher: Frictional Games
Available on: PC, Playstation 4
Price: $19.99

SOMA is ostensibly a horror game, but it’s really a thriller. It pulls off one of the most clever tricks in horror gaming, though: While at first you’re scared of the monsters that might be around every corner, you eventually come to fear the ideas put forth in its diary entries, logs, and plot far more. As you progress, the number of monsters reaches a crescendo, then tapers off as the story goes from scary to downright unsettling. I’ll be thinking about the real “monsters” in SOMA long after I forget about it its physical ones. I can pay a horror game no higher compliment.

2. Her Story

Above: Her Story goes as far as to emulate screen flare in its old-school look.

Developer: Sam Barlow
Publisher: Sam Barlow
Available on: PC, iOS, Mac
Price: $5.99

You don’t kill anything, acquire new items, or even move around in Her Story, but make no mistake: It’s one of the most rewarding games of the year to play. Half of Her Story takes place on the screen of a computer in a dimly-lit room, as you navigate the video files and watch a suspect being interrogated by the police about a murder. The other half takes place in your head as you build a story out of the disparate clips you must search the police database to find. Her Story deftly crafts a game built around subjectivity and perspective, and it’s one of gaming’s rare of examples of the medium being the message.

1. Undertale

Above: Some choices matter more than others.

Developer: Toby Fox
Publisher: Toby Fox
Available on: PC, Mac
Price: $2.99

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Undertale does everything an independent title should do. It introduces a gaming archetype (in this case, the role-playing game), then interrogates every aspect of that archetype to deliver new experiences; it uses its small team to nimbly implement ideas big-budget games would have a hard time realizing. Though it starts out as an average RPG, it only uses that form as springboard to mess with every apsect of its design. Boss fights frequently mess with the scope of combat, turning the game into an old-school shooter like Galaga or a platformer for the duration of the fight.

It bends its own design parameters to their breaking point, then breaks them under the weight of a few outlandish ideas that exist outside the traditional boundaries of video games. But I won’t spoil too much; you’ll want to find out what I’m talking about for yourself. Suffice to say, though, Undertale takes video games as a medium to task while simultaneously showing us what they’re capable of. And that’s exactly what we should ask of our independent games. Undertale is not only the best indie game of the year, but one of the best games I’ve played in a long, long time.

Independent games have the capacity to move video games forward; the trends in indie games now might be the ones you see in larger games in the next few years. And if we’re lucky, the giants of the industry will learn a thing or two from these indie marvels.

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With E3 coming up next month, we'll soon be gearing up to bring you word on the glitziest, biggest-budget blockbusters that the major publishers can currently cook up. Before that happens, though, we wanted to put the spotlight on some of the smaller, possibly overlooked titles we've been enjoying at festivals and elsewhere within the past year. The 20 independent games that follow show what the smaller, more inventive side of the industry has in the works. If you ask us, it's every bit as promising as what we expect to encounter during the summer's biggest blockbuster games event.

Aboard the Lookinglass

Developer: thehen
Platforms: Rift/LeapMotion
Available: TBA
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Developing natural control schemes is still the big question mark for a lot of virtual reality headsets. Leap Motion is trying to solve that problem, hosting a recent game jam to show off its Kinect-like tracker as a way to let players put their hands into VR simply by holding them in front of their face.

Aboard the Lookinglass uses that clever control solution for some inventive time-bending gameplay. Looking through the translucent, red-tinted image of your left hand creates a window into the past, while looking through your blue right hand lets you see into the future. This lets you work out some intricate puzzles by viewing an intact version of a broken picture in the past, for instance, or reaching into the future where a barrier is no longer in your way.

It's all in service of a story based around solving the mystery of the abandoned spaceship setting, complete with a Portal-style disembodied computer voice guiding you. While there are probably few people with the Rift and Leap Motion setup needed to play it, those with the means will get a puzzle adventure unlike anything else out there.

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Anarcute

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Developer: Anarteam
Platforms: Xbox One, Windows
Available: Summer 2015
Website

You can count the great games for the Wii U on one hand, but you’d probably relegate Platinum Games’ Wonderful 101 to a pinky. It wasn’t bad by any stretch, but this control-a-crowd game’s wonky use of the Wii U Gamepad and otherwise thin action made it hard to fall in love with as a major retail game. We might’ve liked it more as a slimmed-down downloadable game—and we’re getting pretty much that with Anarcute.

Players must lead and enlist a growing mob of protesters—wearing cute animal masks in colorful cities, at that—by running through streets and alleys to find new converts. Once you have a pack of rioters, you then use the city’s resources, from benches to traffic cones to entire buildings, to take down oppressive riot cops. As the game progresses, the cops get stronger (watch out for choppers and laser tripwires), but so do the 99 percent’s battle options and powers.

This is an immediately inviting game, thanks to its “cute rioter” aesthetic, simple combat controls, and bubbly animations. Its full-screen chaos evokes the best memories of Rampage’s arcade city-destruction system.

Bit Ball

Developer: CJ Kimberlin
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Available: TBA
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Since the last shrink-wrapped edition for Mac came out in the late 80’s. What I love about ED is plowing through dark territory, uncovering cities ripe for conquest and production of soldiers and materiel- and one more fast-acting enemies.Empire by Mark Baldwin and Walter Bright goes back into the early days of the PC. Best naval games for mac 10. Have you reviewed the recent re-entry of classic strategy game EMPIRE DELUXE, now developed by Killer Bee Software, whose chief developer Mark Kinkead has almost singlehandedly kept this product alive for almost two decades. You, the player) is moving against one or more AI opponents or networked humans, and they strike fast. This classic is approaching 40 years of satisfying gameplay.It’s one of the original God’s-eye games but God (i.e.

The 8-bit sports renaissance is in full swing, and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve already written about a few modern takes on the days of NES Ice Hockey, including Videoball and Hokra, and we’ve added a few more gems to our growing pile of couch-friendly indie sports.

We've already shined a spotlight on Rocket League, which is now in a semi-open beta on PS4, and while that game's great, we like two other games that revolve around putting a ball into a goal: Super Slam Dunk Touchdown and Bit Ball. Our fondness for the former comes mostly from its resemblance to Arch Rivals, the arcade predecessor to NBA Jam. Players dress up as one of many sports archetypes, including basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer, to tackle each other and attempt to either kick a ball into a giant goal or shoot it into a hoop. We love its sense of humor, but we also appreciated the arcade action and teamplay challenges required to win a match.

In terms of pure gameplay, however, Bit Ball wins out by adding just enough juice to the formula that Xbox One indie gem #idarb tried to get right last year. Like that game, players hop around Smash Bros.-style inside of a small 2D arena to grab a ball and aim it at a goal, but Bit Ball refines the “shooting” process by having players transform into a turret whenever they touch the ball—or when they land on top of a foe, at which point the winning tackler shoots their opponent in whatever direction they want. This simple, mechanical tweak, plus a very small, choice number of power-ups for speed and power, made us bug-eyed in delight after our first match.

Close Your

Developer: Goodbyeworld Games
Platforms: Windows
Available: TBA
Website

The story-first, text-driven gaming genre has exploded in recent years, and while we can always make room for a good bit of Zork-ian adventure or Twine-powered fiction, we always prefer a creative twist on clicking through text. Quite frankly, we don’t know that we’ll ever see anything as creative as Close Your ever again, at least in this genre.

Players proceed through an average person’s life, making decisions as they age that fork the story in wildly different directions, but the decision-making process is stressful for a major reason. The game requires a webcam, because it watches your real-life eyes, and every time you blink, the game fast-forwards an indeterminate amount of time. Maybe a few minutes, maybe a few years—the flash depends on your age in the story, and the developers have made some fast-forwards extreme on purpose.

If you’re looking for a game that ruminates artfully on the ways work, family, and love wither in the sands of time, look no further.

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Donut County

Developer: Ben Esposito
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Available: 2015
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Boing Boing captured this game perfectly with the headline 'What's it like to be a hole.' Yes, in Donut County you control a hole, moving underneath bright, candy colored environments and swallowing up anything that will fit inside you. The hole's size increases every time it swallows something, allowing you to slowly build up from swallowing tiny things like carrots and spare tires to big things like cows and entire houses.

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There's more than a bit of a Katamari Damacy vibe to the proceedings, and there's a similar sense of satisfaction to be found in simply gobbling up everything in sight. But there's also a puzzle-y twist to each level. In one area, for instance, you need to figure out how to fill the hole with water, so you can hydrate another portion of the map and set off the events that you need to continue. It's a brief moment of thought and reflection.. then you can get right back to swallowing up everything in sight!

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Downwell

Developer: Moppin
Platforms: Windows, iOS, Android
Available: Q2 2015
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Downwell's website describes it as 'a game about a young man going down an endless well with gun-boots.' It's hard to beat that direct description.

The game stands out partly for its stark, three-color visual style, all black and white with occasional flashes of red for accents. The game's aspect ratio is also taller than it is wide (PC players will probably want to turn their monitor to the side). The minimalist style fits with the minimalist controls, which feature only a single button that serves as both a downward attack and a jump/hover function. Navigating the randomly generated, endless caves with those limited abilities is an equal mix of twitch reflexes and quickly planning elegant paths through the maze-like structures and enemies that quickly surround you.

There's a bit of character advancement in picking up money and items from shops. In the best tradition of games like Spelunky, though, the real advancement is in the player, who gets a little bit better with each avoidable death until situations that once seemed overwhelming become routine and manageable. I much preferred playing on a gamepad to trying to manage on a smartphone, but either way Downwell has that addictive, one-more-game action down pat.

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