Indie for Android — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

The Past Within - a game in the Indie genre

Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Online, Puzzle, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Android → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 68/100

The Past Within — an engaging cooperative puzzle game from the creators of Rusty Lake Hotel. In the game, you and a friend will solve puzzles together, but one...

Iron Lung

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Android → 19 December 2025

Players: 7.5/10

The game takes place in a dystopian future where all inhabited planets have disappeared and the remnants of humanity begin to live on space stations. One day people...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: Android → 6 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes with unique...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Android → 20 October 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Android → 4 December 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

T.D.Z. 4 Chapter 1 - Arrival

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Old school

Game released: Android → 31 March 2024

Players: 8.3/10

A story-driven shooter set in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone. The main character is the stalker Yaroslav, who goes to Pripyat in search of his...

The Ascent

Action, Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Top-down view, Isometric, Cyberpunk

Game released: Android → 29 July 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The Ascent is a dynamic action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place in a future world in which the main...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Android → 5 August 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

Samorost 3

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

Game released: Android → 1 December 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

Hero Siege

Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Indie

Game released: Android → 15 January 2014

Players: 7.9/10

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Android → 15 July 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The game allows you to plunge into the life of ordinary civilians trying to...

Brotato

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Shooter, Casual game, Procedural generation, Comedy

Game released: Android → 17 January 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Arena shooter about a combat potato in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game tells the story of Spud from the planet Potato, who crashes on an alien planet...

Sky: Children of the Light

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Online

Game released: Android → 4 April 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Journey and Flower. Players take control of the Children of Light, who bring light from the heavens to where it is...

Go Ape Ship!

Third-person view, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy, Space, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Android → 18 February 2026

Players: 10/10

A multiplayer game where the team must complete tasks and respond to emergencies on a spaceship. You will need to adjust the engines, activate shields, prepare...

Keep on Mining!

Business / Management, Indie, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: Android → 26 August 2025

A colorful clicker about resource mining, where stones automatically turn into a source of new pickaxes. Any stone in the mining zone provides materials that can be...

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Detective

Game released: Android → 6 March 2026

A pixel adventure in the spirit of 90s quests about a young writer named William, who is searching for inspiration. He goes to an abbey where the monks have taken a...

Godus

Strategy, God Simulator, Indie, Isometric, In real time

Game released: Android → 25 November 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Godus is a real-time strategy god simulator with an isometric view. In this game, you can sculpt every inch of the beautiful world you look down upon, where your...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Android → 8 November 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Five Nights at Freddy's

Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Android → 27 August 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Five Nights at Freddy's is a first-person horror game in the point and click genre. From your small office, you must keep a close eye on the security cameras. You...

Crying Suns

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Android → 25 June 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Crying Suns is a tactical strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future...

Choice of Life: Middle Ages

Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Android → 21 November 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Choice of Life: Middle Ages is a card adventure in a medieval setting. Here everything is determined by your choice: whether you become a robber, an artisan, or the...

Ludus

First-person view, Action, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Historical, Open world

Game released: Android → 18 February 2020

Players: 6.8/10

A simulator of the owner of a gladiator school, the events of which take place in Ancient Rome. The main task is to develop and expand our own school for arena...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Android → 31 October 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

Infinite Tanks

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

Game released: Android → 29 September 2016

Players: 7.8/10

An exciting action game dedicated to tank battles. The game is similar to World of Tanks, but the battles are more dynamic, due to fast combat vehicles. Tanks can...

Rusty Lake Hotel

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Side view, Horror

Game released: Android → 14 December 2015

Players: 10/10

Rusty Lake Hotel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure game with horror elements inspired by the cult TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. The plot centers on...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Android → 4 February 2026

Players: 9.2/10

As players progress, they acquire rare items and assemble powerful builds from them. After this, the character can be sent to fight with the heroes of other...

Titan Chaser

Adventure, Walking Simulator, Open world, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Android → 12 July 2024

Players: 10/10

The main character drives a car around the territory where various scientific stations are located, and drives away titans (huge monsters) using a powerful...

Cube Escape Collection

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Android → 1 March 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Cube Escape Collection is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. In this classic anthology of adventure games, you follow the path of Dale...

Silt

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 20 January 2026

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 71/100

The actions of the game take place in the depths of the sea, where various monsters live. With the help of soul transference, the main character can use the...

The Legend of Bum-bo

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Android → 1 December 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The Legend of Bum-bo — a turn-based role-playing game with arcade puzzles and randomly generated levels from the creators of Binding of Isaac. A monster named...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 13 June 2025

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

An atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantastic setting. Over 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the inhabitants died, and the...

Night Slashers: Remake

Side view, Beat them all, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Remake, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Android → 27 May 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Remake of the beat 'em up Night Slashers, the original version of which was released in 1994 on arcade machines. The events of the game unfold in a nightmare...

This Is the Police 2

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Android → 12 September 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This Is the Police 2 is a continuation of the adventure strategy with elements of a management game and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the small...

Through the Darkest of Times

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Historical, Indie

Game released: Android → 13 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Through the Darkest of Times is a historical strategy with elements of a management simulator. You will become the leader of a resistance group in Berlin during the...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Android → 5 May 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Gris

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 2 April 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

GRIS is an atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a side view. The game will tell the sad story of the main character named Gris. The girl is locked in her own...

Crushed In Time

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Comedy, Detective

Game released: Android → 2026

Metacritic: 76/100

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in an unusual adventure, where classic detective investigation meets absurd humor, meta-narrative, and time travel. This time...

Otherworld Legends

Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Roguelike, Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Android → 18 August 2020

Players: 9/10

Otherworld Legends is a dynamic cooperative action game with roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. Great warriors from different eras and corners of the universe...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 12 June 2014

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Door Kickers: Action Squad

Arcade, Action, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Android → 8 April 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Door Kickers: Action Squad is a side-view pixel arcade action game from the creators of the Door Kickers series. In the game you have to become a SWAT operative and...

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