Indie for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

art of rally - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Simulation, Racing, Isometric, Sports game, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: iOS → 14 December 2023

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Exciting rally arcade from the creators of Absolute Drift, where players can participate in the "Golden Era" rally. The game features a career mode...

The Past Within

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

Game released: iOS → 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...

Block Story

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 82/100

Block Story is an action role-playing game with elements of adventure and fantasy with a first-person view. A world of vast landscapes awaits you...

Sandbox

Arcade, God Simulator, Puzzle, Logic, Sandbox, Simulation, Indie

Game released: iOS → 15 May 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Sandbox is an arcade god simulator with puzzle elements. Imagine creating your own 8-bit pixel world, playing with humans, ninjas, robots or zombies...

Cooking Simulator

Simulation, Arcade, First-person view, Indie, Business / Management, Sandbox, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game

Game released: iOS → 11 February 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Cooking Simulator is a realistic simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you have to become an unsurpassed chef. You...

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

Adventure, Detective, Indie, Point & Click, Historical

Game released: iOS → 25 June 2025

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A remaster of the original 1996 adventure Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. The game received improved graphics and support for 4K resolution...

Reigns: Game of Thrones

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Visual novel, Logic, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 18 October 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Reigns: Game of Thrones is a unique card board game in the Game of Thrones universe. As in the original game, the heads of the kingdoms will have to...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 4 February 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

My Child New Beginnings

Arcade, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 20 November 2025

The game raises themes of parenting, making ethical decisions, and self-reflection. The main character and their child have experienced some...

Keep on Mining!

Business / Management, Indie, Casual game, Clicker, Arcade

Game released: iOS → 26 August 2025

Steam: 91/100

A colorful clicker about resource mining, where stones automatically turn into a source of new pickaxes. Any stone in the mining zone provides...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2014

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Whispered World

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: iOS → 25 November 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana...

Brawlhalla

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

Game released: iOS → 6 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

The Legend of Bum-bo

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

Game released: iOS → 23 December 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 78/100

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...

Cut the Rope

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 5 October 2010

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Cut the Rope is a physics-based puzzle game about Om Nom, a creature inside a mysterious package who wants candy. The player cuts ropes to guide the...

Kingdom Rush

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

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2011

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Dead Effect

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

Game released: iOS → 12 September 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 70/100

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...

Inside

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 11 December 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is...

Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: iOS → 31 January 2017

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Corpse Party: Blood Drive is a Japanese-style visual novel with a touch of horror that continues the story of Corpse Party and is a direct...

Elderand

Adventure, Action, Side view, Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: iOS → 26 September 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A game with Metroidvania elements and hardcore combat, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The main character travels through a dark world...

Tap Tap Fish - AbyssRium

Arcade, Simulation, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: iOS → 15 July 2016

Players: 8.4/10

A relaxing game about creating a cozy underwater world. At the heart of the story is a lonely coralite, tasked with gradually bringing a silent ocean...

Crying Suns

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

Game released: iOS → 25 June 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 84/100

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...

Pilgrims

Adventure, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Replayability, Point & Click, Card game

Game released: iOS → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Pilgrims — an atmospheric side-view adventure from the creators of Machinarium and Samorost 3. The game will delight you with the absence of a...

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker

Simulation, Business / Management, Puzzle, Side view, Adult game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 September 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker is a fun dating simulator. The player runs his own dating agency under the leadership of Kitty Powers. You'll have to match...

El Paso, Elsewhere

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

Game released: iOS → 17 September 2024

Steam: 90/100

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...

Heroes of Steel

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: iOS → 18 December 2014

Steam: 77/100

Heroes of Steel is a classic role-playing game with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. You have to control a party of four...

My Friend Pedro

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

Game released: iOS → 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...

Yes, Your Grace

Role-playing game, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Historical, Side view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 1 February 2024

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Yes, Your Grace is a management strategy with role-playing game elements in a medieval setting. In the game you will take control of a large kingdom...

Incredibox

Music game, Sandbox, Educational game (Education), Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 27 March 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Incredibox is a music educational editor. This is an app that allows you to create your own music with the help of a fun team of beatboxers. You get...

Space Commander: War and Trade

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 13 October 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Space Commander: War and Trade is a fantasy-style tactical action RPG with real-time management elements and an isometric view. You will have to...

Night Slashers: Remake

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

Game released: iOS → 27 May 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

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...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 10 September 2021

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: iOS → 8 November 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and...

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2026

Steam: 91/100

A pixel adventure in the spirit of 90s quests about a young writer named William, who is searching for inspiration. He goes to an abbey where the...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

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

Game released: iOS → 30 June 2016

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...

This Is the Police

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

Game released: iOS → 13 December 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This Is the Police is an adventure strategy game with management game elements and an isometric camera view. Scandals, intrigues, investigations are...

Artifact Seeker

Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Fantasy, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: iOS → 24 October 2024

Players: 9.3/10

The Aurorium Continent has been captured by the Nether Demon King. Brave heroes explore local lands in search of powerful artifacts and power that...

Transistor

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Cyberpunk, Science fiction

Game released: iOS → 11 June 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Transistor is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of a girl named Red. She is...

Shelterra the Skyworld

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 4 December 2014

A fantasy role-playing game set on Shelterra, a vast floating continent untouched by the mysterious blight known as Odium. Claude dreams of becoming...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone...

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