Indie for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2014

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.3/10

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...

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...

Serial Cleaner

Action, Stealth, Simulation, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 11 February 2025

Players: 5.1/10

Metacritic: 66/100

An interesting simulator with stealth elements and a view of the top, inspired by the atmosphere of Fargo and Crime Fix. The work is simple, but dangerous: to hide...

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...

Gordian Quest

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...

Halls of Torment

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2025

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The main action takes place in a dark fantasy world with monsters, demons and magic. The brave hero sets out to explore various underground spaces to find new...

Crying Suns

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

Game released: iOS → 25 June 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Crying Suns is a tactical strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future...

Cozy Grove

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Isometric

Game released: iOS → 22 March 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Cozy Grove is an indie adventure simulator with an isometric view. Welcome to a life simulator about camping on an ever-changing haunted island. As a spiritual...

Thronefall

Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie

Game released: iOS → 20 May 2025

Players: 7.6/10

A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...

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...

Cookie Clicker

Arcade, Action, Indie, Clicker

Game released: iOS → 24 September 2013

Players: 8.1/10

An arcade clicker game where everything revolves around baking endless amounts of cookies. Every click brings a tasty reward, and the more cookies you bake, the...

Cat Quest

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie

Game released: iOS → 9 August 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Cat Quest is an unusual action RPG with an isometric camera view. The game invites you to get into the role of a cat who wanders around the world and fights...

Despot's Game

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

Game released: iOS → 29 September 2022

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...

Silt

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 20 January 2026

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 71/100

The actions of the game take place in the depths of the sea, where various monsters live. With the help of soul transference, the main character can use the...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

Game released: iOS → 25 July 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries to find a...

Neon Chrome

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 16 November 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Neon Chrome is a top-down cyberpunk roguelike shooter where you have to conquer the Neon Chrome Corporation by hacking your brain. Sleeping bodies have different...

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...

Mini Motorways

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

Game released: iOS → 19 September 2019

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Mini Metro is an engaging top-down indie management strategy game from the creators of Mini Metro. In the game, you will start developing the road network of a...

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...

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → 24 July 2019

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a unique first-person puzzle adventure game with pixel graphics. The game will give you the opportunity to invade the privacy of...

Sky: Children of the Light

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

Game released: iOS → 18 July 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Journey and Flower. Players take control of the Children of Light, who bring light from the heavens to where it is...

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game

Game released: iOS → 19 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

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...

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...

My Friend Pedro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 5 August 2021

Players: 8.5/10

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...

Levelhead

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Combat robots, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: iOS → 30 April 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Levelhead is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to control the GR-18 delivery robot through various levels with...

while True: learn()

Educational game (Education), Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 22 August 2019

An indie puzzle game with elements of a simulator and adventure, where all the mechanics are tied to machine learning. The main character is a programmer who...

Century: Age of Ashes

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

Game released: iOS → 21 June 2023

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Century: Age of Ashes is an indie action game with a third-person view in the fantasy style. This is a dogfighting game where you have to fly dragons. Players will...

Radio Commander

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: iOS → 14 August 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Radio Commander is an unusual simulator with a first-person view, where you have to use all the delights of radio communications to give various commands to brave...

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Action, Horror, Indie, First-person view

Game released: iOS → 8 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

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...

Turmoil

In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 2 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

A side-view real-time management strategy game set in North America at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the oil rush, a small town and the struggle for...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 20 October 2021

Players: 7.8/10

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...

Gris

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 22 August 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

GRIS is an atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a side view. The game will tell the sad story of the main character named Gris. The girl is locked in her own...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 20 November 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

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...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 4 February 2026

Players: 9.3/10

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...

This Is the Police 2

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 September 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This Is the Police 2 is a continuation of the adventure strategy with elements of a management game and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the small...

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...

Little Orpheus

Action, Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Science fiction, Side view, Old school

Game released: iOS → 12 June 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Orpheus is an adventure platformer with puzzle and action elements in the science fiction genre. 1962 NASA is trying to land a man on the moon. Meanwhile, in...

Whispering Willows

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

Game released: iOS → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.1/10

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...

Bridge Constructor Stunts

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 24 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for iOS