Indie 2021 for Android — top best games in the Indie genre

Interactive movie, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Adult game, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: Android → 14 February 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Five Dates is a dating simulator with elements of an interactive adult adventure and a dash of romantic comedy. Unlike most similar projects, the game offers to...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Construction, Sandbox, Casual game

Game released: Android → 20 October 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

My Friend Pedro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Shooter

Game released: Android → 5 August 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer that will remind many of Max Payne. You will play as a heavily armed hero who kills hundreds of...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Android → 11 June 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...

The Ascent

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

Game released: Android → 29 July 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

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...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Android → 30 March 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

Dungeon of the Endless

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Android → 16 March 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A hardcore roguelike in which a group of prisoners suddenly become explorers of a hostile world. After a prison ship crashes on the mysterious planet Auriga, the...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: Android → 30 June 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Chicken Police is a noir adventure of two feathered cops, Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken, in a black-and-white detective novel full of satire and cynical...

7 Billion Humans

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Android → 19 July 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

7 Billion Humans is the sequel to the fun indie puzzle game Human Resource Machine. This time you have to automate a swarm of employees so that they become part of...

Slender: The Arrival

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror

Game released: Android → 13 October 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...

Bloodshore

Indie, Adventure, Action, Interactive movie, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: Android → 3 November 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 68/100

Bloodshore is an interactive adventure movie in the point and click genre with action and indie elements. This game is about a televised battle between famous...

Cube Escape Collection

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Horror

Game released: Android → 1 March 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

Bloons TD Battles 2

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

Game released: Android → 1 December 2021

Steam: 83/100

Bloons TD Battles 2 is a continuation of the shareware arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre. In the game, you will engage in a...

Samorost

Adventure, Free game, Side view, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Samorost is an unusual side-scrolling indie adventure game that follows the exciting journey of a dwarf in...

Fly Corp

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 11 February 2021

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

A minimalist strategy game for managing an air network. The main objective is to develop air routes between real cities with populations corresponding to real data...

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Horror, Science fiction, Casual game

Game released: Android → 26 January 2021

Steam: 91/100

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is an indie horror adventure in the style of a visual novel with fantasy elements. Building on the horrifying legacy of the Weeping...

Moncage

Indie, Arcade, Puzzle, Platformer, First-person view, Casual game

Game released: Android → 16 November 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Moncage is an abstract puzzle platformer with a first-person view where you explore a mysterious cube. Each face of the cube is a window into a unique world, and...

Goose Goose Duck

Futurism (Future), Action, Arcade, Logic, Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Indie

Game released: Android → 11 October 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 90/100

Goose Goose Duck is a free arcade multiplayer online social deduction game that clearly resembles Among Us, but with ducks and geese. Some control a spaceship...

Nobodies: After Death

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Android → 22 December 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

The main character is a cleaner for a secret government intelligence organization. Only he can carefully dispose of bodies, brilliantly destroy evidence and leave...

Wall of insanity

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Horror, Adventure

Game released: Android → 19 August 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 83/100

Wall of insanity is an action-adventure game with horror elements and a third-person view. The plot of the game tells about a special forces soldier who was drawn...

Animal Revolt Battle Simulator

Simulation, Action, Fighting, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, First-person view, Shooter, Sandbox

Game released: Android → 29 August 2021

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Animal Revolt Battle Simulator is a fun battle simulator that lets you create fun and epic battles between different creatures. The choice of units is quite wide...

Infectonator 3: Apocalypse

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Simulation, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Zombies, Strategy

Game released: Android → 15 January 2021

Steam: 83/100

Infectonator 3: Apocalypse is a furious top-down arcade action game with elements of a management simulator. The world is overrun by a real zombie apocalypse. And...

One Hand Clapping

Adventure, Platformer, Music game, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 14 December 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

One Hand Clapping is a side-scrolling indie musical platformer that challenges you to sing into your microphone to solve puzzles and unlock the power of your voice...

Treasure Temples

Isometric, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Android → 31 March 2021

Steam: 75/100

An adventure puzzle in which two young researchers go deep into the Antarctic glaciers in search of ancient treasures. Each step in the game matters: the tile under...

Under: Depths of Fear

Adventure, First-person view, Horror, Indie, Action

Game released: Android → 29 April 2021

Steam: 65/100

A dark horror film set in the memoirs of World War I veteran Alexander Dockter. The main character finds himself on a creepy ocean liner heading to the bottom of...

The Heroic Legend of Eagarlnia

Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Grand strategy, Strategy

Game released: Android → 8 September 2021

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 85/100

The Heroic Legend of Eagarlnia is a turn-based tactical fantasy strategy game with an isometric view. This game takes place on the imaginary continent of Igarlna...

Rob Riches

Adventure, Puzzle, Isometric, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Android → 17 November 2021

Steam: 93/100

Rob Riches is an indie adventure puzzle game with an isometric view. In this game you will visit ancient and mysterious temples, each of which is located in a...

Sparklite

Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: Android → 9 November 2021

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Sparklite is an action-adventure RPG with roguelike elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in the unusual country of Geodia, where you can fight crowds...

Tank Firing

Tanks, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Android → 8 January 2021

Players: 6.4/10

Tank Firing is a tank simulator with a third-person view. You'll explore an ever-growing roster of powerful tanks, each with their own unique personality...

Crash Drive 3

Arcade, Racing, Online, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

Game released: Android → 8 July 2021

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Crash Drive 3 is an indie arcade racing game with a third-person view and online elements. You will experience incredible fun in this game. You will be able to...

The Fox in the Forest

Online, Board / Group Game, Card game, Indie, Tactics, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Android → 19 October 2021

Steam: 89/100

The Fox in the Forest is a tactical board card game. The queen decreed that whoever defeats the monsters will receive half the kingdom as a reward. With the help of...

STARENA

Indie, Action, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Third-person view, Combat robots, Science fiction

Early Access: Android → 23 December 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 78/100

STARENA is an indie action role-playing game with a third-person view in the fantasy genre. In the future, science and technology have greatly developed, people...

Duck Souls

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Android → 1 July 2021

Steam: 97/100

Duck Souls is an indie action-adventure game with platforming elements and a side view. The game is set in a cute and deadly fantasy world where many dangers will...

River Legends: A Fly Fishing Adventure

Sports game, Indie, Adventure, Simulation, Role-playing game, Hunting / Fishing, Isometric

Game released: Android → 27 April 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

River Legends: A Fly Fishing Adventure is an indie sports simulator in the style of fishing. You have to explore the far corners of the wild canyon. Several types...

The Wild Case

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Android → 7 August 2021

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

The Wild Case is an indie point and click adventure puzzle game with supernatural elements. In this game, players meet a variety of colorful characters, experience...

Doodle Farm

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

Game released: Android → 23 December 2021

Steam: 73/100

A vibrant game from the Doodle series, set on a farm. The gameplay remains familiar: combine different elements and creatures in the right order to create something...

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Beat them all, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game canceled: Android → 19 May 2021

Anticipation Rating: 4.2/10

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up is a dynamic arcade shooter with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a sci-fi setting. A ship badly damaged...

Metal Revolution

Action, Fighting, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view, Online

Game released: Android → 30 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Metal Revolution is a fast-paced side-scrolling action fighting game set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you will go into a world where you will witness the...

My Friend Pedro: Ripe for Revenge

Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Free game

Game released: Android → 5 August 2021

Players: 6.5/10

My Friend Pedro: Ripe for Revenge — a conditionally free adventure action-platformer with a side view for mobile platforms in the My Friend Pedro series. A banana...

Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence

Adventure, Text quest, Indie

Game released: Android → 20 October 2021

Steam: 100/100

Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence is an adventure text quest with indie elements. This is a game inspired by whistleblowers. In this narrative game, you play as...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for Android