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

Online, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game, Comedy, Strategy

Game released: Android → 14 December 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 94/100

The player builds towers, selects upgrades for them and hires cool special agents to destroy all the balls flying over the map. A total of 21 buildings with...

Radiant Defense

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Android → 13 April 2012

Steam: 82/100

Radiant Defense is a tactical tower defense game. The player finds himself in a vibrant universe, which has been invaded by numerous hordes of aliens. You have to...

Choice of Zombies

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Text quest, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Android → 13 April 2012

Steam: 50/100

Choice of Zombies is an adventure horror game with a first-person view in the style of a post-apocalypse. You have to fight for survival in a world overrun by...

League of Evil

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Android → 22 October 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a bionic super agent on a mission to stop the League of Evil, an alliance of evil scientists. The agent fights through...

Canabalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: Android → 16 March 2012

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Canabalt is a fantasy arcade platformer. You have to escape from the destruction of your city with just one button. The game that popularized the endless runner...

Defense Zone 2

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

Game released: Android → 24 October 2012

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Defense Zone 2 is a continuation of the top-down tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre. New interesting levels with even more beautiful graphics and...

Gunman Clive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Android → 3 April 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Gunman Clive is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with a beat 'em up style. The game takes place in 1800, where the player controls the main character...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Android → 4 June 2012

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Draw Slasher

Arcade, Action, Slasher, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Android → 27 April 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Draw Slasher is a side-scrolling arcade action slasher about a ninja named Hanzo. While Hanzo was learning the way of the ninja, pirate zombie monkeys kidnapped his...

Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Android → 19 December 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

An arcade platformer about Nyan Cat flying through endless space. The player collects coins and food, jumps across cake platforms, and dodges enemies such as dogs...

Waking Mars

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

Game released: Android → ноябрь 2012

Players: 1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 84/100

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

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: Android → 30 June 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Android → 28 April 2012

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

Vector (2012)

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Stunts, Parkour, Indie

Game released: Android → 11 October 2012

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 90/100

This arcade platformer follows a freerunner escaping a totalitarian society while pursued by Big Brother. The character crosses rooftops using parkour moves...

Defense Zone

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

Game released: Android → 14 March 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Defense Zone is an exciting tactical strategy game in the "tower defense" genre with a top-down view. During the game, you need to protect your towers from huge...

Bridge Constructor

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

Game released: Android → 23 May 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Bridge Constructor is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Using the proposed materials, you have to build the strongest bridge that can withstand various types of...

Lords & Knights

Online, Strategy, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Free game

Game released: Android → 6 December 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Lords & Knights is an online game with a mixture of strategy, massive multiplayer, fantasy, indie and free-to-play from the masters at Xyrality. The main...

Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Android → 29 November 2012

Steam: 80/100

This arcade flight simulator centers on aerial combat during World War II, with battles set at Pearl Harbor, the Coast of Dover, Midway and other historical...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 17 January 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

Role-playing game, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest

Game released: Android → 13 July 2012

Steam: 79/100

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text adventure with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you will find yourself in an amazing world where...

King Oddball

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 23 November 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a king who swings a boulder with his tongue and uses it to destroy targets. The player chooses when to release the rock, with...

iBomber Attack

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

Game released: Android → 31 October 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This top-down arcade action game sends the player across Europe in a tank to complete combat missions and destroy enemy installations. Targets include naval...

Delver

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

Game released: Android → 20 April 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Android → ноябрь 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This exploratory action-adventure follows a wandering warrior monk on a quest through a mythic realm of mountains and forests in a Bronze Age setting. Events are...

Knights of Pen and Paper

Arcade, Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Android → 30 October 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A turn-based, pixel-art role-playing game built around a fantasy tabletop session. The player controls both the adventurers and the game master, who shapes the...

Lume

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

Game released: Android → 28 June 2012

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Lume is a puzzle adventure set among paper-and-cardboard sets filmed on video. After the power fails at her grandfather’s house, the protagonist works to restore it...

Cut the Rope: Magic GOLD

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 16 January 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Cut the Rope: Magic is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Our beloved Om Nom is on his next search for candy, and even the supernatural will not interfere with...

Cut the Rope: Experiments GOLD

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie

Game released: Android → 27 March 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

The player solves various puzzles to feed Om Nom candy. The gamer goes through a series of more than 200 experiments where you need to use suction cups and other...

Avadon: The Black Fortress

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Android → 20 March 2012

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This isometric fantasy role-playing game follows a servant of Avadon, a secretive organization of spies and assassins that protects the alliance of five nations...

God of Blades

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 27 September 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Endless runner God of Blades offers a prog-rock aesthetic and swordplay in an atmosphere very reminiscent of classic '80s fantasy. You know, the kind of fantasy...

Block Ops

Shooter, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Android → 8 December 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Block Ops is a third-person shooter with an indie twist from the developers at Rory Harvey Studios. The game is published by Rory Harvey. There has still been no...

Hidden Expedition: Amazon

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: Android → 12 May 2012

Steam: 69/100

This hidden-object adventure puzzle takes place in the Amazon rainforest, where the Hidden Expedition team searches for a missing professor. Their only clue is a...

Puddle (2012)

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Android → 27 June 2012

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This physics-based puzzle platformer challenges the player to guide a puddle of fluid to its destination by tilting the game world. Friction, momentum, and the...

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Math Flash Cards

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Logic, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Android → 23 February 2012

Math Flash Cards — A mobile math game to improve your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. The game has a user-friendly interface...

Treasures of Montezuma 3

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Android → 26 June 2012

Players: 8/10

Steam: 64/100

Treasures of Montezuma 3 is a continuation of the arcade puzzle game in the “three in a row” genre. You again have to go to the world of the Aztecs, where you can...

Munch Time

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: Android → 13 November 2012

Metacritic: 74/100

An arcade puzzle game about Munch, a chameleon searching for lunch. He swings from his powerful tongue to reach hard-to-access places and latches onto flowers, each...

Eerie Estate Agent

Adventure, Horror, Text quest, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Android → 31 August 2012

Steam: 66/100

Eerie Estate Agent — adventure text quest with horror elements. Your work — rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss fires you. It's an...

Draw Rider Plus

Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Motorcycle racing, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Android → 22 July 2012

Steam: 70/100

Draw Rider Plus is a side-scrolling racing platformer. This is not an ordinary race, here you will find treacherous challenges with many hardcore levels. Earning...

Hamlet (2012)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Android → 1 April 2012

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This puzzle adventure reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: an explorer from the future arrives amid the events of the play and sets out to rescue Ophelia from...

Hyperspace Pinball

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Pinball, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 31 March 2012

Steam: 60/100

Hyperspace Pinball — arcade pinball with a futuristic setting. The game has more than 20 levels and it is possible to compete with other...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2012 for Android