Indie 2011 for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: iOS → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

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 towers and protect...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2011

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly: Warzone Earth — This is a strategy with an unconventional approach. The player controls units that move along a pre-marked route. The goal is to kill...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition

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

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...

League of Evil

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: iOS → 3 February 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a bionic super agent on a mission to stop the League of Evil, an alliance of evil scientists. The agent fights through...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 3 November 2011

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 12 May 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

An arcade platformer about Nyan Cat flying through endless space. The player collects coins and food, jumps across cake platforms, and dodges enemies such as dogs...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 27 February 2011

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Storm in a Teacup

Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 19 May 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A platformer about Storm, who explores a magical world inside a teacup, created by his brother Cloud. Across 40 levels, the player solves physics-based puzzles...

Who's That Flying?!

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 28 April 2011

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Who's That Flying?! is a side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of the Earth" with an iron eye and...

Defense Zone

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: iOS → 24 December 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Defense Zone is an exciting tactical strategy game in the "tower defense" genre with a top-down view. During the game, you need to protect your towers from huge...

Lords & Knights

Online, Strategy, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Free game

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2011

Players: 9.4/10

Lords & Knights is an online game with a mixture of strategy, massive multiplayer, fantasy, indie and free-to-play from the masters at Xyrality. The main...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

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

Game released: iOS → 24 March 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This exploratory action-adventure follows a wandering warrior monk on a quest through a mythic realm of mountains and forests in a Bronze Age setting. Events are...

Rocket Riot

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Rocket Riot is an 8-bit side-view shooter in which players battle enemies across destructible arenas. It features more than 200 single-player missions set in...

Doodle Devil

Logic, Puzzle, Simulation, Arcade, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 11 February 2011

Players: 7/10

Steam: 76/100

Doodle Devil — an arcade devil simulator that allows you to create your own universe with demons, monsters, and zombies. The game is a continuation of Doodle God...

Doodle Farm

Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 19 July 2011

Steam: 74/100

A vibrant game from the Doodle series, set on a farm. The gameplay remains familiar: combine different elements and creatures in the right order to create something...

Quell Reflect

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 19 August 2011

Steam: 93/100

Quell Reflect is a logic puzzle game built around a series of levels that test problem-solving while maintaining a relaxed pace. A follow-up to Quell, it continues...

Puzzler World 2

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: iOS → 30 September 2011

Steam: 77/100

Puzzler World 2 is a puzzle game with indie game elements from the developers at Ideas Pad. The main publisher of the game is Ubisoft...

EPOCH

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Combat robots

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2011

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This post-apocalyptic arcade action game follows a guardian robot trying to fulfill its mission in a world devastated by war. Only robots remain among the ruins...

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 December 2011

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

An action puzzle game about containing a zombie outbreak in Franklin County. To defeat the undead, the player surrounds them with survivors of the same color, while...

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: iOS → 15 December 2011

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure is set in an alternate 19th century where humanity has already mastered space travel. Captain Brawe investigates the kidnapping of...

Avadon: The Black Fortress

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 June 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This isometric fantasy role-playing game follows a servant of Avadon, a secretive organization of spies and assassins that protects the alliance of five nations...

Muffin Knight

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2011

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This arcade platformer follows a boy on a quest to return a collection of magical muffins to an old fairy. A curse transforms him into a different fairytale...

GoatUp

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: iOS → 13 September 2011

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade platformer follows a goat jumping upwards and raising a family on the way to ever greater heights. Kissing billy goats and eating grass produces kids...

Sparkle 2 Evo

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 29 November 2011

Steam: 72/100

This arcade simulation follows a small aquatic organism as it explores the depths in search of food and gradually grows into a larger creature. The player's goal is...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 27 April 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

Rebuild

Simulation, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 November 2011

Metacritic: 81/100

A turn-based strategy game about rebuilding a city after a zombie apocalypse. The player gathers survivors, defends them from undead attacks and gradually reclaims...

Hamlet (2012)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → 20 January 2011

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This puzzle adventure reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: an explorer from the future arrives amid the events of the play and sets out to rescue Ophelia from...

7 Stories

Role-playing game, Indie, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 13 May 2011

7 Stories is a top-down pixel role-playing game for mobile platforms, in which 7 unique characters are available at...

Contre Jour

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: iOS → 25 August 2011

Metacritic: 84/100

Contre Jour is a puzzle platformer set in a world shaped by light and darkness, where the player guides the mysterious creature Petit to safety. The landscape can...

Crazy Run

Arcade, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 1 November 2011

Crazy Run is a minimalist side-scrolling arcade runner for mobile platforms. In the game you have to run as far as possible, avoiding various obstacles and earning...

Super Crossfire

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 October 2011

Metacritic: 85/100

Super Crossfire is a top-down arcade shooter in which the player pilots a ship against waves of enemies. Its central mechanic lets the ship switch between the top...

Hyperspace Pinball

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Pinball, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 26 August 2011

Steam: 60/100

Hyperspace Pinball — arcade pinball with a futuristic setting. The game has more than 20 levels and it is possible to compete with other...

Pocket League Story

Simulation, Football, Isometric, Sports game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 9 September 2011

Steam: 88/100

This soccer simulation focuses on managing a team and guiding it through the leagues. The player selects and trains footballers, then leads the team against its...

Popcorn Dragon

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: iOS → Q4 2011

Popcorn Dragon is an arcade game with a mixture of action and indie games from the masters from the studio PopCap Games, Inc.. The game is published by Electronic...

Just Survive (2011)

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: iOS → 9 September 2011

Just Survive (2011) is an arcade, action, beat 'em up and indie game from the developers of Pulsar Coders. The game is published by Pulsar Coders. Just Survive...

Home Sheep Home 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → 8 December 2011

Home Sheep Home 2 is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from the developers of Aardman Animations. The game is published by...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for iOS (Game released)