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Gordian Quest - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Indie, Card game, Adventure, Turn-based

Game released: iOS → 1 April 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Gordian Quest is an adventure card role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. An ominous curse hangs over the world — darkness reigns all...

Otherworld Legends

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

Game released: iOS → 18 August 2020

Players: 9.3/10

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...

Black Book

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Strategy

Game released: iOS → 21 April 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Black Book is a mixture of an adventure game and a card RPG in the setting of Russian fairy tales. The game tells the story of a young peasant woman, Vasilisa: the...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Simulation, Action, Fighting, Business / Management, Indie, Medieval era, Sandbox, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 16 January 2025

Players: 7.7/10

A fun tactical simulator in which historical battles turn into a chaotic and funny sandbox. Stupid, but charming units fighting under the control of funny physics...

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 September 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Goat Simulator is an unusual goat simulator with a third-person view. You have to control such extraordinary characters in the world of computer games as a goat...

Journey

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

Game released: iOS → 6 August 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Kingdom Rush

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2011

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Kingdom Rush is a real-time strategy game with fantasy elements and a top-down view. In this game you have to fight enemies with the help of your towers and protect...

Cat Quest 2

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Open world

Game released: iOS → 19 September 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Cat Quest 2 is a continuation of the fun role-playing action game with an isometric camera view. The game will take you to a fantasy universe in which there are two...

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: iOS → 12 March 2015

Players: 8/10

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...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → 13 December 2017

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2014

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

112 Operator

Simulation, Top-down view, Strategy, Tactics, Indie, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 8 October 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 73/100

A continuation of the original 911 Operator idea, but on a larger scale - now the whole world is under control. As an emergency services dispatcher, you will have...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: iOS → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet. Having meager...

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 November 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a continuation of the popular series of horror stories with a first-person view. Welcome to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's...

WorldBox - God Simulator

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

Game released: iOS → 3 February 2019

Players: 8.4/10

WorldBox — God Simulator is a real-time god simulator with indie strategy elements and an isometric view. You can create sheep, wolves, orcs, elves, gnomes...

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Action, Horror, Indie, First-person view

Game released: iOS → 8 August 2015

Players: 7.5/10

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...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: iOS → 20 April 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

Talos Principle

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

Game released: iOS → 11 October 2017

Players: 9.4/10

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...

Lost in Play

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 12 July 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Young brother and sister are lost in the vastness of their own imagination. Now Toto and Gel must stick together and solve puzzles to return home. Along the way...

60 Parsecs!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iOS → 20 December 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the game 60 seconds!, the events of which occur in open space. After the explosion of the station, the team of evacuated astronauts is one on one...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 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...

#DRIVE Rally

Racing, Sports game, Indie, Old school

Game released: iOS → 10 December 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 63/100

A stylish racing game dedicated to the motorsport era of the 90s. Players can get behind the wheel of legendary rally cars including Das Holzwagen, The Doggo and...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 19 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Door Kickers: Action Squad

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

Game released: iOS → 8 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

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...

Night Slashers: Remake

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

Game released: iOS → 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...

Bad North

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 15 October 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 10 September 2021

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Night in the Woods is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. The game tells the story of a twenty-year-old cat who was expelled from college for truancy. After...

Tesla Force

Action, Shooter, Indie, Top-down view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 19 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Tesla Force is a dynamic shooter with role-playing elements and a top-down view. In the game you have to choose one of four geniuses initiated into secret...

Slender: The Arrival

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

Game released: iOS → 13 October 2021

Players: 8/10

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...

The Company Man

Platformer, Action, Side view, Indie, Slasher, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 2 November 2023

Players: 9/10

The Company Man is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The game challenges you to battle the work routine of attacking your crazy colleagues with a...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 27 February 2014

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 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...

Secret Neighbor

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: iOS → 29 April 2021

Players: 6.9/10

Secret Neighbor is a free-to-play cooperative action-horror game with a first-person view set in the Hello Neighbor universe. The events of the game take place...

After Inc: Revival

Strategy, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 27 November 2024

Players: 6.1/10

Continuation of the biological simulator Plague Inc, only this time players will not infect the planet, but save humanity after the zombie apocalypse. As you...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: iOS → 10 May 2017

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iOS → 22 September 2016

Players: 7.8/10

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Patch Quest

Adventure, Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Construction, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: iOS → 21 May 2025

Players: 10/10

The main character sets out to uncover the secrets of Patchlantis, and to do this he will have to explore a patchwork labyrinth, tame many monsters and upgrade...

Dead Effect

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 September 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Dead Effect is a fantastic indie shooter with a third-person view. You have to fight for your life and hunt hordes of...

Minit

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 26 June 2019

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Minit is an unusual top-down action adventure game. You have to get out of the cozy house and help the funny characters of the black and white world. Many secrets...

Dungeon of the Endless

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

Game released: iOS → 20 August 2015

Players: 7.7/10

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...

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