Indie 2015 for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: iOS → 22 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a unique action-adventure game with many interesting puzzles. The story revolves around two brothers who must overcome obstacles and...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 15 July 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The game allows you to plunge into the life of ordinary civilians trying to...

Her Story

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Detective, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: iOS → 23 June 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Her Story is a mystical indie adventure with a first-person view. In this game, you sit in front of a mothballed desktop computer that is registered in a police...

Happy Wheels

Arcade, Indie, Free game, Side view, Sandbox, Action

Game released: iOS → 19 August 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Happy Wheels is a free-to-play side-scrolling arcade runner for mobile platforms. Your main task is to try to survive and get to the finish line before the “death...

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 going to take...

Rusty Lake Hotel

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Side view, Horror, Point & Click

Game released: iOS → 14 December 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Rusty Lake Hotel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure game with horror elements inspired by the cult TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. The plot centers on...

Dungeon of the Endless

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: iOS → 20 August 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Legend of Grimrock

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

Game released: iOS → 7 May 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition

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

Game released: iOS → 9 July 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition is an isometric fantasy action RPG with adventure elements and an isometric view. Now you can experience an uncompromising survival...

Whispered World

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

Game released: iOS → 25 November 2015

Players: 9.1/10

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 foretells the end...

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Business / Management

Game released: iOS → 19 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Whispering Willows

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

Game released: iOS → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

GunSlugs 2

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Science fiction

Game released: iOS → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is taking its war to...

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action, Survival horror, Combat robots

Game released: iOS → 12 March 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is an action-horror game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its...

Angeldust

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: iOS → 8 October 2015

Steam: 64/100

Angeldust is a first-person MMORPG with indie action elements. Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures with millions of friends. Ride your...

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: iOS → 20 August 2015

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an atmospheric “point and click” adventure with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. A terrible epidemic turns...

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Action, Horror, Indie, First-person view, Survival horror

Game released: iOS → 8 August 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Tallowmere

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Slasher

Game released: iOS → 11 May 2015

Players: 6/10

Steam: 90/100

This 2D action platformer with roguelike elements sends the player into Lady Tallowmere’s infinite dungeons, where rooms are generated anew for each run. They grow...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: iOS → 18 May 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Atlantic Fleet is a real-time strategy game with warships and an isometric view. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies, or Kriegsmarine (German Navy), in...

Templar Battleforce

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: iOS → 27 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where the Templar Knights wage war in Leviathan battle mechs. Their squad faces Xenos, rogue...

Downwell

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Action, Indie

Game released: iOS → 15 October 2015

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Downwell is an arcade platformer with procedurally generated locations. You have to play as a mysterious little man, descending lower and lower, destroying enemies...

Bridge Constructor Stunts

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 24 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

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...

SPACECOM

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: iOS → 6 May 2015

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

SPACECOM is a sci-fi strategy game with turn-based combat and a top-down view. You have to become the commander of a space fleet designed for battle. The game...

Please, Don't Touch Anything

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 21 October 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Please, Don't Touch Anything is an arcade puzzle game with pixel graphics. While your colleague has gone to the restroom, you need to replace him at a mysterious...

Knights of Pen and Paper 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 13 May 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Spellcrafter

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

Game released: iOS → 16 April 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 33/100

Rex Rocket

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iOS → 7 April 2015

Steam: 71/100

Set in Earth’s distant future, this 2D platformer follows a former war hero trying to stop a starship’s rogue artificial intelligence. The player chooses Captain...

Crowntakers

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

Game released: iOS → 31 March 2015

Steam: 74/100

Crowntakers is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements set in a fantasy world. In a big fairy-tale world, a tragedy occurs — a good king is captured by...

Devious Dungeon 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: iOS → 9 April 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 73/100

This medieval action platformer takes place in a dark castle whose ever-shifting halls conceal monsters, traps, and treasure. The castle is the domain of the...

Deer God

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iOS → 3 September 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A side-scrolling adventure platformer about a deer’s survival in a fantasy world shaped by karma and reincarnation. The player explores 3D pixel-art landscapes...

In Between

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 29 October 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 68/100

In Between — arcade side-scrolling indie adventure. The game tells a sad story about a man who is dying of cancer. The main character will have to delve into...

Le Havre: The Inland Port

Arcade, Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2015

Steam: 55/100

Le Havre: The Inland Port is an arcade game with strategy and card game elements from developers from the Digidiced studio. The game is published by...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 28 October 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This comedic adventure follows an octopus posing as a human father and trying to keep his true nature secret from his family. In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the hero...

Detail

Adventure, Interactive movie, Indie, Point & Click,

Game released: iOS → 4 February 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Detail is an episodic point and click adventure in a noir style, inspired by the HBO series The Wire. The game tells an intriguing story of police officer Reginald...

Sorcery! 3

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iOS → 22 April 2015

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Sorcery! 3 is a role-playing fantasy board game in the visual novel genre. The land of Kahabad is a wilderness — ruined desert, tangled forest, cruel...

You Must Build A Boat

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row), Strategy

Game released: iOS → 4 June 2015

Players: 1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This role-playing puzzle game combines match-three tile combinations with runs through procedurally generated dungeons, all in pursuit of building a boat. As the...

Guides

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 17 August 2015

Guides is a puzzle game with indie game elements from the masters of the studios Kevin Bradford and Luke Lisi. The main publisher of the game is Kevin Bradford. For...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: iOS → 14 January 2015

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: iOS → 21 January 2015

Steam: 84/100

Potatoman Seeks the Troof is a side-scrolling pixel arcade platformer about a potato man. In search of the “truth” you will go through a complex world filled with...

Swing Copters 2

Arcade, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: iOS → 17 December 2015

Swing Copters 2 is a free-to-play side-scrolling arcade game from the creator of the hardcore Flappy Bird. Players will have to control a little man with a...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2015 for iOS