Indie 2015 for Android — top best games in the Indie genre

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: Android → 22 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

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

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Android → 28 April 2015

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Android → 15 July 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Hotline Miami

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

Game released: Android → 28 May 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Hotline Miami is a brutal and bloody top-down action game. You have to step into the shoes of a serial killer who kills hundreds of various bandits and simply not...

Limbo

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

Game released: Android → 12 February 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

Talos Principle

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Android → 28 May 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Talos Principle is a first-person adventure puzzle game in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Serious Sam. In an unknown place, deserted and seemingly divorced...

Luftrausers

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Android → 28 May 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Luftrausers is an arcade aerial combat shooter set among the clouds and over open seas. Players configure their fighter by choosing its weapon, body, and propulsion...

Rusty Lake Hotel

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

Game released: Android → 14 December 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Contrast

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

Game released: Android → 8 October 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 61/100

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

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Business / Management

Game released: Android → 19 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Clicker Heroes is a shareware arcade clicker with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. Like many games of this type, there's a lot of pointing involved, or...

Whispering Willows

Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: Android → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Whispering Willows is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a mysterious mansion. The plot centers on Elena Elkhorn. She goes to the estate in search...

GunSlugs 2

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

Game released: Android → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is taking its war to...

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action, Survival horror, Combat robots

Game released: Android → 8 March 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is an action-horror game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its...

Angeldust

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Android → 7 October 2015

Steam: 64/100

Angeldust is a first-person MMORPG with indie action elements. Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures with millions of friends. Ride your...

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Action, Horror, Indie, First-person view, Survival horror

Game released: Android → 8 August 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 is an action-horror game with a first-person view in the point and click genre. This time the horror followed you home. In this final...

Crossy Road

Arcade, Isometric, Indie, Free game

Game released: Android → 7 January 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Crossy Road — in the original mobile version, the player must jump to move forward or swipe the screen in the appropriate direction to move the character...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: Android → 18 May 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Atlantic Fleet is a real-time strategy game with warships and an isometric view. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies, or Kriegsmarine (German Navy), in...

OlliOlli

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

Game released: Android → 28 May 2015

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120 tricks and...

Black Survival

Tactics, Indie, First-person view, Role-playing game, Online, Adventure, Horror, Free game, Survival, Strategy

Game released: Android → 11 November 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 80/100

Black Survival is a role-playing adventure horror game with a first-person view. This is a real-time survival game played by 10 people on a desert...

Bridge Constructor Stunts

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Android → 8 October 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Bridge Constructor Stunts is an arcade puzzle game for mobile devices, where instead of bridges you will build ramps and trampolines. Even the slowest trucks will...

Spoiler Alert

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 14 January 2015

Steam: 77/100

Spoiler Alert is a hardcore side-scrolling indie platformer. You will find yourself in a completely completed game: the main villain is defeated, all the coins are...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Android → 18 August 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

SPACECOM

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Android → 6 May 2015

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

SPACECOM is a sci-fi strategy game with turn-based combat and a top-down view. You have to become the commander of a space fleet designed for battle. The game...

Knights of Pen and Paper 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Simulation

Game released: Android → 13 May 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Please, Don't Touch Anything

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Android → 25 November 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Please, Don't Touch Anything is an arcade puzzle game with pixel graphics. While your colleague has gone to the restroom, you need to replace him at a mysterious...

Chronology

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

Game released: Android → 18 March 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Chronology is a mix of puzzle, adventure and platformer. You have to control both the past and the future to fix the present. The main characters are an elderly...

Earn to Die 2

Arcade, Side view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Android → 4 May 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Earn to Die 2 is an arcade racing game with a side view in the style of a post-apocalypse. An evacuation ship is waiting on the other side of the country. The only...

Nihilumbra

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

Game released: Android → 22 May 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Nihilumbra is a platform puzzle game developed by BeautiFun Games that will take you into a world of unusual adventures and abstract inclination. You will play as a...

Spellcrafter

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Android → 5 May 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 33/100

Tetrobot and Co.

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 1 April 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This puzzle platformer follows Psy, a microscopic robot built to help repair Tetrobot, a popular but imperfect machine. Maya created Psy as Tetrobot’s little...

Crowntakers

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Android → 31 March 2015

Steam: 74/100

Crowntakers is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements set in a fantasy world. In a big fairy-tale world, a tragedy occurs — a good king is captured by...

Devious Dungeon 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: Android → 9 April 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 73/100

This medieval action platformer takes place in a dark castle whose ever-shifting halls conceal monsters, traps, and treasure. The castle is the domain of the...

In Between

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 29 October 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 68/100

In Between — arcade side-scrolling indie adventure. The game tells a sad story about a man who is dying of cancer. The main character will have to delve into...

Le Havre: The Inland Port

Arcade, Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 10 November 2015

Steam: 55/100

Le Havre: The Inland Port is an arcade game with strategy and card game elements from developers from the Digidiced studio. The game is published by...

Sorcery! 3

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Android → 22 April 2015

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Sorcery! 3 is a role-playing fantasy board game in the visual novel genre. The land of Kahabad is a wilderness — ruined desert, tangled forest, cruel...

You Must Build A Boat

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row), Strategy

Game released: Android → 4 June 2015

Players: 1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This role-playing puzzle game combines match-three tile combinations with runs through procedurally generated dungeons, all in pursuit of building a boat. As the...

Guides

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Android → 17 August 2015

Guides is a puzzle game with indie game elements from the masters of the studios Kevin Bradford and Luke Lisi. The main publisher of the game is Kevin Bradford. For...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Android → 4 November 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This comedic adventure follows an octopus posing as a human father and trying to keep his true nature secret from his family. In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the hero...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: Android → 14 January 2015

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Ace of Seafood

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Comedy, Open world, Exploration

Game released: Android → 26 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

Ace of Seafood is a spectacular, slightly absurd and slightly crazy action movie, developing in the dark and cold waters of an unknown ocean, where a bloody war has...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2015 for Android (Game released)