Indie 2016 for iOS — top best games in the Indie genre

Human Resource Machine - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: iOS → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Human Resource Machine is an indie puzzle game from the developer World of Goo. We have to use office workers to solve the next puzzle and get promoted to the next...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Point & Click, Puzzle, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

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 where zombies live...

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 and the...

This War of Mine: The Little Ones

Strategy, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Roguelike, Simulation, Indie

Game released: iOS → 13 October 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 80/100

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is an expansion to the side-scrolling management strategy adventure This War of Mine. The addition tells the story of young...

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 to choose your...

Prison Run and Gun

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: iOS → 30 March 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Arcade action platformer with pixel graphics about a daring prison escape. The main character must overcome many obstacles, fight enemies, and solve puzzles to win...

Galaxy Reavers

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 May 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Space strategy in real time. Control of a fleet of seven types of ships with unique characteristics takes place against the backdrop of large-scale battles across...

Dead In Bermuda

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 30 June 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 70/100

Dead In Bermuda is a survival adventure game with role-playing elements. You need to lead a group of eight survivors of a plane crash. You will be able to give...

Party Hard

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Tactics, Indie

Game released: iOS → 9 November 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A tactical stealth game about someone trying to stop noisy parties hosted by neighbours across the United States. Rather than call the police, the protagonist uses...

Banner Saga 2

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

Game released: iOS → 28 September 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Banner Saga 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with tactical elements and an isometric view. You must lead your Viking clans through a hostile country on the verge...

Invisible, Inc.

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Isometric

Game released: iOS → 6 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Invisible, Inc. — a tactical strategy with turn-based battles in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell about a secret organization of special agents who...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: iOS → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Greedy Cave

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

Game released: iOS → 22 March 2016

Players: 8/10

Greedy Cave is an action RPG with randomly generated dungeons. The game takes place in the fantasy kingdom of Iblis, where the main source of income for citizens...

Turmoil

In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view, Strategy, Online

Game released: iOS → 2 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

A side-view real-time management strategy game set in North America at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the oil rush, a small town and the struggle for...

Reigns

Board / Group Game, Card game, Logic, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: iOS → 11 August 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Reigns is a card board game where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in important elections that will determine your reign and the fate of...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: iOS → 22 September 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 81/100

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked

Action, DLC, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Survival, Indie

Game released: iOS → 26 December 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is an add-on for the isometric survival action game Don't Starve. It adds new characters and creatures, several locations and seasonal...

Skyhill

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Survival, Indie

Game released: iOS → 7 September 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Skyhill is a quest with survival elements. The main character ends up in a hotel called SKYHILL, where he rents the safest room on the hundredth floor. And then...

Neon Chrome

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Action

Game released: iOS → 16 November 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Neon Chrome is a top-down cyberpunk roguelike shooter where you have to conquer the Neon Chrome Corporation by hacking your brain. Sleeping bodies have different...

Dungeon Warfare

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Old school

Game released: iOS → 24 August 2016

Steam: 95/100

A strategy game in the tower defense genre, where the role of the dungeon defender is assigned not to towers, but to numerous deadly traps. Spikes, rotating blades...

1943 Deadly Desert

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: iOS → 6 December 2016

Steam: 65/100

Step-by-step tactical strategy about battles for desert territories during World War II. In 1943, the forces of the Allies and the Hitler coalition clash in a...

Deiland

Role-playing game, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Farm Simulator, Sandbox, Visual novel

Game released: iOS → 19 February 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Deiland is an adventure role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting, created based on “The Little Prince” by the famous French writer Antoine de...

Tiny Rails

Strategy, Side view, Business / Management, Trains, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iOS → 13 December 2016

Steam: 75/100

The player develops his railway empire with dozens of trains and tracks, having received his grandfather's modest locomotive company. You need to deliver passengers...

Element TD

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Futurism (Future), Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, Indie

Game released: iOS → 29 July 2016

Steam: 76/100

Element TD is a fantastic tower defense strategy game in an isometric view. In this game you have to defend your towers from enemy armies...

Pandora's Books

Shooter, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iOS → 8 July 2016

Pandora's Books is a shooter with adventure, puzzle and indie elements from developers from Smithsoft studio. The main publisher of the game is Smithsoft. There has...

Crush Your Enemies

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Action

Game released: iOS → 9 June 2016

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Crush Your Enemies is a top-down real-time strategy arcade game. You can expect a lot of humor, tactical depth, like in the classic strategies of Starcraft, Age of...

Bulb Boy

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

Game released: iOS → 21 July 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Bulb Boy is an indie horror adventure with point and click elements. The main character of Bulb Boy is a boy with a glowing head. You have to overcome your fear and...

Bombing Bastards

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Isometric, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 11 February 2016

Steam: 57/100

Bombing Bastards is an isometric arcade, action, beat 'em up and indie game from the developers of Sanuk Games. The game is published by Sanuk Games. In some...

Toby: The Secret Mine

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

Game released: iOS → 14 April 2016

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Toby: The Secret Mine is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with puzzle elements. The main character Toby is trying to find out where his friends disappeared. He...

Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Comedy, Old school, Point & Click

Game released: iOS → 7 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 79/100

An eminent physicist goes crazy when the scientific community ridicules his life's work — a shower-shaped time machine. Seeking to leave his mark on history...

Wheels of Aurelia

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Visual novel

Game released: iOS → 19 October 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Wheels of Aurelia is an adventure game with driving elements. The events take place on the road in Italy in the 70s. The main character is a very restless woman who...

Clue/Cluedo: The Classic Mystery Game

Tactics, Indie, Board / Group Game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Online, Isometric, Top-down view, Strategy, Casual game, Detective

Game released: iOS → 26 December 2016

Steam: 87/100

Clue/Cluedo: The Classic Mystery Game is an indie tactical board game with mystical elements and an isometric view. You will join Scarlett, Mustard, Peacock, Green...

Burly Men at Sea

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: iOS → 29 September 2016

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Burly Men at Sea is a minimalist side-scrolling adventure. The game tells a fairy tale about three big bearded fishermen who were tired of quietly and peacefully...

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Chess game, Tactics, Indie

Game released: iOS → 19 May 2016

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, combining traditional chess with a separate combat mode called Regicide. Players command...

Fun Hospital

Strategy, Business / Management, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 23 May 2016

Steam: 63/100

A colorful and fun simulator of managing a medical center. The player will gradually create their dream hospital: opening new offices, purchasing equipment...

Legend of the Skyfish

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: iOS → 18 August 2016

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An adventure game that combines puzzles and combat in a large handcrafted world. Players explore 45 levels with hand-painted art, solve puzzles, and battle unusual...

Ember

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 14 September 2016

Steam: 75/100

This fantasy role-playing game follows a resurrected Lightbringer tasked with protecting the Embers as the world nears collapse. The journey begins in the Deep...

Retsnom

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: iOS → 18 October 2016

Steam: 73/100

Retsnom is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer with pixel graphics. You play as a father who needs to save his daughter from a zombie virus. The only way to...

Demon's Rise 2: Lords of Chaos

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

Game released: iOS → 10 November 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Demon's Rise 2: Lords of Chaos is a continuation of the turn-based strategy with elements of the role-playing game Demon's Rise for mobile platforms. You have to...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for iOS (Game released)