Indie 2022 for Android — top best games in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Survival, Crafting, Open world

Game released: Android → 19 May 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Dysmantle is an open world RPG that combines the best ideas from Zelda, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, SteamWorld Dig and Dark Souls. The action takes place on a...

Streets of Rage 4

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Indie

Game released: Android → 24 May 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Streets of Rage 4 is a continuation of the iconic side-view beatmap from the 90s. You will find bright graphics made in the style of comics, as well as characters...

Into the Breach

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

Game released: Android → 20 July 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Into the Breach is a tactical strategy game with turn-based battles about fighting off an alien invasion from the creators of FTL: Faster Than Light. You will...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Android → 5 August 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

ScourgeBringer

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

Game released: Android → 5 May 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 89/100

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...

Dicey Dungeons

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Card game, Role-playing game, Turn-based

Game released: Android → 7 July 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Dicey Dungeons — an exciting card-based turn-based game with RPG elements and a simplified roguelike from the creators of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. In the...

Dungeon Munchies

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Android → 28 July 2022

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Dungeon Munchies is a side-scrolling adventure role-playing action platformer in a fantasy setting. The game will tell a story about a necromancer cook who hunts...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Android → 30 May 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore 2D side-scrolling platformer. You have to help the meat cube save his beloved, who was kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Fitus. The...

Guns and Spurs 2

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Historical

Game released: Android → 18 April 2022

Players: 7.2/10

Guns and Spurs 2 is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and indie elements. Jack Lane is a bounty hunter who has just arrived in town to find a better...

Knights of Glory Online

Online, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action, Third-person view

Game released: Android → 27 July 2022

Players: 4.3/10

Knights of Glory Online is a medieval action game with a third-person view in the online genre. You have to fight with other players and become the most glorious...

The Past Within

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

Game released: Android → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Android → 24 May 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an adventure RPG puzzle game with horror elements and an isometric view. You are a nice baby turnip who was declared an enemy of...

99Vidas

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie, Old school

Game released: Android → 3 November 2022

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 61/100

99Vidas is a side-scrolling arcade action game reminiscent of the gameplay of classic games Double Dragon and Battletoads. You have 11 characters to choose from...

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Adventure, Stealth, Isometric, Indie, Historical, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Android → 25 January 2022

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 73/100

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is an adventure with stealth elements and an isometric camera view in the spaghetti western genre. Events will send you to conquer the...

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, DLC, Action, Indie

Game released: Android → 6 April 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea is an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-slasher inspired by the Dark Souls series. In the expansion, you will...

When The Past Was Around

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

Game released: Android → 24 January 2022

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

When The Past Was Around is a point & click adventure puzzle game with a sad story about a girl who has lost the meaning of life. She couldn't find him until she...

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

Interactive movie, Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, , Casual game

Game released: Android → 19 March 2022

Steam: 71/100

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? — an adventure interactive movie in the puzzle genre with point and click elements. Every year, Abby's mom hosts a family...

Immortality

Adventure, Indie, Horror, Visual novel, Hidden Objects, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 15 November 2022

Players: 6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Adventure interactive FMV thriller from the creator of indie hit Her Story. This time, the plot revolves around the missing actress Marissa Marcel, whose fate the...

Candy Disaster - Tower Defense

Isometric, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics, Roguelike, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Survival, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 17 January 2022

Steam: 81/100

Candy Disaster — Tower Defense — tactical tower defense in the fantasy genre with an isometric view. In the game, you can play as the mad scientist Jik...

Unheard

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Horror, Top-down view, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Android → 25 February 2022

Steam: 91/100

Unheard is an indie horror adventure with puzzle elements and a top-down view. You have to put on headphones and go back in time. Use the voices you hear to return...

Polywar

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Tactics, Indie

Early Access: Android → 7 March 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Polywar is a tactical online shooter with a first-person view. In this game you have to fight with thousands of players from all over the world, upgrade and...

Aerial_Knight's Never Yield

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Runner, Music game

Game released: Android → 30 March 2022

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Aerial_Knight's Never Yield is an adventure arcade platformer in the world of the future with a side view and runner elements. You have to play on behalf of the...

The Gallery

Interactive movie, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Detective, Exploration

Game released: Android → 1 August 2022

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 65/100

The Gallery is an interactive psychological thriller with elements of social drama. An art curator is being held hostage by a portrait artist who threatens to...

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kitten

Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher, Procedural generation

Game released: Android → 30 September 2022

Steam: 79/100

Hardcore indie platformer with roguelike elements and dungeons. The player takes on the role of a brave hero who, at the command of the eccentric Lady Tallowmere...

1979 Revolution: Black Friday

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Historical, Indie

Game released: Android → 4 February 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is an atmospheric adventure based on real events and eyewitness accounts. Take on the role of Reza Shirazi, an aspiring...

Unreal Life

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Logic, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Android → 28 January 2022

Steam: 95/100

Unreal Life is a side-view pixel adventure about a girl who has lost her memory and remembers nothing but one name — Miss Sakura. Hooked on this thread, she...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike, Tactics

Game released: Android → 29 September 2022

Steam: 82/100

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

Neoverse

Adventure, Card game, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Tactics, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Android → 11 April 2022

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Neoverse is a tactical card game in the futuristic genre with a third-person view and anime elements. This is a beautiful, fantastic game of adventure with exciting...

The House of Da Vinci 3

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects, First-person view, Logic, Point & Click

Game released: Android → 12 September 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

The House of Da Vinci 3 is an indie adventure puzzle game with elements of exploration and a first-person view. The time for the finale has come: for the last time...

Helicopter Flight Simulator

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

Game released: Android → 10 June 2022

Steam: 21/100

Helicopter Flight Simulator is an exciting flight simulator that invites you to become a helicopter pilot in which you will have to save people and put out fires...

Prison Life

Detective, Online, Casual game, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics, Role-playing game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Android → 26 July 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 77/100

Prison Life is a multi-player co-op detective game with RPG and tactical elements. You'll be able to play alongside 3-11 other players, with each player given a...

Templar 2

Action, Side view, Medieval era, Demons, Metroidvania, Platformer, Comics, Slasher, Indie

Game released: Android → 10 January 2022

Steam: 82/100

The game takes place in a medieval world in which the red plague has turned most people into terrible demons. Only the last Templar knight, Rui, can cope with evil...

Finding Paradise

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

Game released: Android → 18 November 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Finding Paradise is an indie top-down adventure that is a direct sequel to To the Moon and A Bird Story. Players will once again meet two doctors who travel through...

Sumire

Adventure, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Side view, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Android → 7 April 2022

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Sumire is a fantasy adventure visual novel with anime and supernatural elements. In this charming place, a sad girl named Sumire meets a mischievous spirit who...

Broken Universe: Tower Defense

Isometric, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Indie

Game released: Android → 5 January 2022

Steam: 90/100

Broken Universe: Tower Defense — tactical tower defense with an isometric view. You have to build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into the maze and...

Before Your Eyes

Adventure, Indie, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Android → 26 July 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An emotional adventure about the soul's journey to the afterlife using a new innovative form of gaming interaction — the gamer's real blinks, which are read...

Dungeons of Dreadrock

Isometric, Role-playing game, Adventure, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Old school, Puzzle

Game released: Android → 13 February 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Dungeons of Dreadrock is an isometric fantasy action RPG. You'll be reliving memories of old-school dungeon crawlers like Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder...

Teacup

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Android → 18 August 2022

Steam: 96/100

A short colorful adventure about a shy frog named Teacup, who goes into the forest in search of ingredients for an upcoming tea party. The day before meeting...

Love is... in small things

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

Game released: Android → 29 April 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Love is... in small things is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. It is a hidden object game that captures the emotions of healing art play. You...

Heck Deck

Card game, Arcade, Tactics, Indie, Top-down view, Strategy

Game released: Android → 11 January 2022

Steam: 92/100

Heck Deck is a top-down tactical card arcade game with indie elements. Over the course of 5 stages, you will be able to show dexterity and resourcefulness to dodge...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2022 for Android