Indie 2014 for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre

Game released: iOS → 12 June 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

Hero Siege

Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Indie

Game released: iOS → 15 January 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 December 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

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...

Five Nights at Freddy's

Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Five Nights at Freddy's is a first-person horror game in the point and click genre. From your small office, you must keep a close eye on the security cameras. You...

Banner Saga

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: iOS → 2 October 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Banner Saga is a tactical role-playing strategy with turn-based combat and a top-down view. The game combines amazing visual style and Nordic atmosphere. Banner...

Talisman: Digital Edition

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 1 May 2014

Players: 9.4/10

Talisman: Digital Edition is a board card game in a fantasy setting. You are about to go on an exciting adventure where you need to outrun your opponents and get...

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...

Candy Crush Soda Saga

Arcade, Logic, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: iOS → 11 November 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Candy Crush Soda Saga is a logical indie arcade game. The developer has released another puzzle. You have to create rows of identical figures, while receiving...

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...

Dumb Ways to Die

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Free game

Game released: iOS → 24 February 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Dumb Ways to Die — arcade indie puzzle game. Death has never been funnier. You have to survive in various mini-games. It's not as simple as it seems...

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: 8.6/10

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...

80 days

Adventure, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: iOS → 31 July 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

80 days is an interactive text adventure from indie developers Inkle Studios. Traveling around the world takes place in map mode, on which cities of most countries...

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 September 2014

Players: 7.8/10

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...

Surgeon Simulator

Arcade, Simulation, Action, First-person view, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 12 March 2014

Players: 6.5/10

Surgeon Simulator is a logic action game with simulator elements and a first-person view. You take on the role of Nigel Burke, a would-be surgeon with a penchant...

Devious Dungeon

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

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2014

Metacritic: 69/100

Prime World: Defenders

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

Game released: iOS → 20 March 2014

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Prime World: Defenders is a fantasy strategy game in the "tower defense" genre with elements of a collectible card game set in the Prime World universe. In a world...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Choice of Robots

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Choice of Robots — fantasy role-playing game with adventure elements in the visual novel genre. This is an epic 300,000 word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin...

Block Legend

Role-playing game, Action, Puzzle, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 7 March 2014

Block Legend is an indie action role-playing game in the roguelike genre with puzzle elements. You will travel through different regions with many characters...

Pako: Car Chase Simulator

Arcade, Racing, Isometric, Indie

Game released: iOS → 14 August 2014

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Pako: Car Chase Simulator is an isometric arcade game with racing and indie elements from the masters at Tree Men Games. The game is published by Tree Men Games...

Shadow Blade

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 16 January 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Shadow Blade — the game consists of small levels and rewards the player based on three factors: the total time to complete the level from start to finish, the...

Fist of Jesus

Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: iOS → 4 December 2014

Metacritic: 63/100

Fist of Jesus is an action game with a mixture of fighting, "beat 'em all" and indie games from developers from the Mutant Games studio. The main publisher of the...

Siralim

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Free game, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 17 June 2014

Siralim is an indie action role-playing game in the bagel genre. In this game you have to fight your way through randomly generated dungeons and complete randomized...

Woah Dave!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: iOS → 30 October 2014

Metacritic: 71/100

Woah Dave! is an arcade game with elements of action, platformer and indie game from developers from MiniVisions studio. The game is published by Choice...

Timberman

Arcade, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 8 May 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Timberman is an arcade game with a side view about the hard everyday life of lumberjacks. The player's task is to cut down as many trees as possible in order to...

Mountain

Simulation, Music game, Indie

Game released: iOS → 28 June 2014

Mountain is an indie simulator that will allow you to become the god of an entire mountain. Forests grow on it, fireflies fly and day turns into night. In addition...

Crazy Belts

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 18 June 2014

Crazy Belts is an arcade action, puzzle and indie game from jemchicomac studio. The main publisher of the game is Immanitas...

First Strike: Final Hour

Strategy, Indie, Action, In real time

Game released: iOS → 12 March 2014

First Strike: Final Hour — A dynamic real-time strategy game in which starting a nuclear war is a piece of cake. You'll choose one of the big nuclear powers...

Turbo Dismount

Simulation, Action, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 24 September 2014

Players: 6.6/10

Turbo Dismount is a simulator with action elements and an indie game from developers from the Secret Exit Ltd. studio. The game is published by Secret Exit Ltd.. In...

Go To Bed: Survive the Night

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → IV квартал 2014

Go To Bed: Survive the Night is an arcade adventure puzzle game in the Point and Click...

Leo's Fortune

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 23 April 2014

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Leo's Fortune is an arcade indie platformer. Complete 24 levels of this colorful game. Solve puzzles and avoid dangerous...

Undefeated

Role-playing game, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: iOS → 3 October 2014

Undefeated is an indie RPG in an anime style with an isometric view. You play as Marcus, Bastien and Fela, three army conscripts who are unhappy with what is about...

Crossy Road

Arcade, Isometric, Indie, Free game

Game released: iOS → 20 November 2014

Players: 8.7/10

Crossy Road — in the original mobile version, the player must jump to move forward or swipe the screen in the appropriate direction to move the character...

Dead Man's Draw

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Indie, Tactics

Game released: iOS → 2 October 2013

Spoiler Alert

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: iOS → 16 December 2014

Spoiler Alert is a hardcore side-scrolling indie platformer. You will find yourself in a completely completed game: the main villain is defeated, all the coins are...

Line Of Defense Tactics: Tactical Advantage

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics

Game released: iOS → 5 February 2014

Line Of Defense Tactics: Tactical Advantage is an action, strategy, indie and tactical RPG from the masters at 3000AD, Inc. and Inc. The main publishers of the game...

Perils of Man

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: iOS → 1 October 2014

Players: 7/10

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 16 January 2014

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek is a puzzle-meets-indie adventure from the masters at Artifex Mundi. The game is published by G5 Entertainment AB. There has...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2014 for iOS