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

This Is the Police 2 - a game in the Indie genre

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...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Chess game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 18 December 2025

Players: 10/10

A strategy game with roguelike elements that reimagines chess. The player takes control of a black king with a shotgun, who must defeat an army of white pieces and...

Car For Sale Simulator 2023

Simulation, Open world, First-person view, Indie, Racing, Third-person view

Game released: iOS → 17 September 2024

Players: 7.1/10

The player develops his car business by buying and selling cars. You can buy an almost completely destroyed car in order to repair it and resell it more profitably...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 4 December 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

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...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition

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

Game released: iOS → 17 November 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 53/100

Minecraft: Pocket Edition is a sandbox version of Minecraft, ported to mobile devices. Players explore spacious worlds and build various structures from cubes. To...

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...

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...

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...

Delivery from the Pain: Survival

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

Game released: iOS → 14 December 2018

Players: 6.5/10

Delivery from the Pain: Survival is an action-adventure role-playing game with survival elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. A...

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...

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Isometric, Simulation, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: iOS → 17 December 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is an indie action-adventure game in the point and click genre with an isometric view and puzzle elements. This is a fun adventure...

Katana Zero

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

Game released: iOS → 21 May 2024

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Katana Zero is a hardcore side-view action game in cyberpunk style. Expect dynamic battles using futuristic technologies, fast movements of the main character and...

Beyond Blue

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond Blue is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Never Alone. Beyond Blue takes place in the near future...

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...

El Paso, Elsewhere

Action, Third-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Adventure, Zombies, Shooter

Game released: iOS → 17 September 2024

Metacritic: 78/100

Dynamic action game based on the mechanics of the original Max Payne 3, with graphics reminiscent of any PS2 game. A mysterious gunslinger finds himself in a...

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...

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...

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...

Moonlighter

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 18 November 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Moonlighter is an action RPG with a procedurally generated world and a Japanese-style isometric camera view. Players will find dark and gloomy dungeons populated by...

Brotato

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Shooter, Casual game, Procedural generation, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 27 March 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Arena shooter about a combat potato in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game tells the story of Spud from the planet Potato, who crashes on an alien planet...

Rogue Legacy

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 8 August 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Go Ape Ship!

Third-person view, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy, Space, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: iOS → 18 February 2026

Players: 10/10

A multiplayer game where the team must complete tasks and respond to emergencies on a spaceship. You will need to adjust the engines, activate shields, prepare...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: iOS → 6 August 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes with unique...

FTL: Faster Than Light

Simulation, Action, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy

Game released: iOS → 3 April 2014

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

FTL: Faster Than Light is a unique management simulator with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. The cruiser Kestrel was lucky to find out secret information...

The Legend of Bum-bo

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: iOS → 23 December 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The Legend of Bum-bo — a turn-based role-playing game with arcade puzzles and randomly generated levels from the creators of Binding of Isaac. A monster named...

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...

Maneater

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 15 December 2025

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Adventure action set in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The story centers around a shark that has survived a brutal encounter with a hunter and is driven by a...

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...

#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...

Crashlands 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Action, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Survival, Exploration, Crafting, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: iOS → 10 April 2025

Players: 9.3/10

A continuation of Crashlands, in which the main character ends up on another planet due to a mysterious explosion. The game features curious creatures, friendly...

Samorost

Adventure, Free game, Side view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.5/10

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

Godus

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

Game released: iOS → 6 August 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Godus is a real-time strategy god simulator with an isometric view. In this game, you can sculpt every inch of the beautiful world you look down upon, where your...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: iOS → 31 October 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

The Past Within

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

Game released: iOS → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

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...

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