Indie for iPad — top best games in the Indie genre

Papers, Please - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: iPad → 12 December 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

Choice of Zombies

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Text quest, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: iPad → 13 April 2012

Steam: 50/100

Choice of Zombies is an adventure horror game with a first-person view in the style of a post-apocalypse. You have to fight for survival in a world overrun by...

Zombie Exodus

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Text quest, Indie

Game released: iPad → 4 December 2011

Steam: 84/100

Zombie Exodus is a role-playing adventure horror game with a first-person view. You'll create your own character and fight your way out of a zombie-infested city to...

Quell

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iPad → 20 August 2011

Steam: 97/100

Quell is a logic puzzle in which the player slides a droplet of water across a window pane. Each level involves avoiding spikes and collecting pearls while planning...

Choice of Broadsides

Role-playing game, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Indie

Game released: iPad → 14 April 2010

Steam: 58/100

A text-based interactive novel about naval adventures in the age of sail, blending elements of the Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey–Maturin stories with the novels of...

Canabalt

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

Game released: iPad → 20 June 2010

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Canabalt is a fantasy arcade platformer. You have to escape from the destruction of your city with just one button. The game that popularized the endless runner...

Aquaria

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

Game released: iPad → 2 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...

Fieldrunners

Strategy, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: iPad → 29 March 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A tower defense strategy game in which the player protects the field from waves of ground and air enemies. The defense relies on placing and upgrading towers...

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: iPad → 1 October 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Who's That Flying?!

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

Game released: iPad → 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...

Choice of the Dragon

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: iPad → 7 January 2010

Steam: 58/100

Choice of the Dragon is an RPG with fantasy game elements from the masters at Choice of Games. The game is published by Choice of Games. There has still been no...

Mysterious Cities of Gold: Secret Paths

Adventure, Isometric, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iPad → 21 November 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 60/100

An adventure game following Esteban, Zia and Tao as they travel across China in search of the local City of Gold. The trio explores settings ranging from Asian...

Uplink

Role-playing game, Simulation, Cyberpunk, Indie, Strategy

Game released: iPad → 7 June 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 89/100

This cyberpunk hacking simulation follows an independent hacker who takes on dangerous contracts and breaks into secure systems. The protagonist steals corporate...

Nihilumbra

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iPad → 27 June 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Nihilumbra is a platform puzzle game developed by BeautiFun Games that will take you into a world of unusual adventures and abstract inclination. You will play as a...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iPad → 2 April 2010

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

Choice of the Vampire

Role-playing game, Horror, Adventure, Text quest, Indie

Game released: iPad → 27 August 2010

Steam: 53/100

Choice of the Vampire is a horror role-playing adventure game. It's an epic, four-volume, 850,000-word interactive novel by Jason Steven Hill. It's entirely...

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Simulation, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: iPad → 5 January 2011

Steam: 77/100

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a top-down simulator with a dash of action and strategy from the masters at Digital Eel. The game is published by Shrapnel...

Tiny Diggers 2

Arcade, Action, God Simulator, Business / Management, Third-person view, Indie

Game canceled: iPad → 23 November 2013

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

Tiny Diggers 2 is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, business simulator and indie game from developers from the TouchTilt Games studio. The game is...

Edge (2010)

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: iPad → 11 November 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A retro-styled platformer with puzzle elements in which the player controls a cube and rolls through levels. Along the way, the cube collects prisms and searches...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

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

Game released: iPad → 2 November 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...

Avernum 3: Ruined World

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

Game released: iPad → 18 April 2018

Steam: 87/100

Avernum 3: Ruined World — continuation of the classic isometric role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You have to explore a vast...

Eufloria HD

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

Game released: iPad → 8 February 2012

Players: 10/10

Eufloria HD is a top-down strategy game with a touch of indie game from the studio Omni Systems Ltd.. The game is published by Omni Systems Ltd.. There has been no...

Clash Force

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Arcade, Indie

Game released: iPad → 19 March 2012

Steam: 78/100

This retro run-and-gun platformer follows the Clash Force team as they try to stop the evil Crackman and his minions. Players choose Voom, Scorpido, or Echid and...

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

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

Game released: iPad → 18 July 2012

Steam: 79/100

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text adventure with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you will find yourself in an amazing world where...

Moebius

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: iPad → I квартал 2014

Steam: 78/100

A modern-day adventure follows Malachi Rector, an antiquities expert tasked by a secretive government agency with investigating a murder. He must determine whether...

Toki Tori

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

Game released: iPad → 2 February 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

Cubemen

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

Game released: iPad → 28 March 2012

Steam: 73/100

Cubemen is a third-person strategy game from the developers of 3 Sprockets Pty Ltd. The main publisher of the game is 3 Sprockets Pty Ltd.Cubemen is definitely not...

Windosill

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: iPad → 14 December 2011

Steam: 92/100

Windosill is a casual puzzle game made up of ten interactive, animated rooms filled with creatures and objects that obey the laws of physics. The player explores...

Mia: The Happy Helper!

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Indie

Game released: iPad → 30 December 2014

Mia: The Happy Helper! is an arcade educational and indie game from Kutoka Interactive Inc. The game is published by Kutoka Interactive Inc. In some circles, Mia...

Star Sky

Adventure, Third-person view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iPad → 9 December 2011

Steam: 78/100

This casual adventure follows a man taking a midnight stroll along the same road, where each journey can bring new encounters. Every step shapes the story, and its...

iBomber Defense

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

Game released: iPad → 17 November 2010

Steam: 76/100

iBomber Defense is a top-down strategy game with a historical twist from Cobra Mobile Limited. The main publisher of the game is Chillingo...

Rooms: The Main Building

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

Game released: iPad → 29 May 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This puzzle adventure takes place in a mysterious world of rooms, where an unexpected invitation leads the protagonist; finding a way home means reaching the exit...

Hidden Expedition: Amazon

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: iPad → 1 April 2010

Steam: 69/100

This hidden-object adventure puzzle takes place in the Amazon rainforest, where the Hidden Expedition team searches for a missing professor. Their only clue is a...

New Beginning

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

Game released: iPad → 8 December 2015

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This graphic-novel-style adventure thriller follows a looming climate catastrophe that threatens humanity with extinction. Former bioengineer Bent Svensson lives in...

Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iPad → 8 March 2012

Steam: 76/100

Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the developers of Freeze Tag, Inc.. The game is published by Freeze Tag...

Gunpowder

Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iPad → 31 March 2015

Steam: 95/100

Gunpowder is an action game with a dash of puzzle and indie game from the masters at Rogue Rocket Games. The main publisher of the game is Rogue Rocket Games. For...

Defend Your Castle

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: iPad → 24 July 2011

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A casual strategy game set in a fantasy medieval world, where a castle must withstand hordes of crayon-drawn barbarian invaders. Different enemy types call for...

Atlantis Sky Patrol

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

Game released: iPad → 7 September 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Atlantis Sky Patrol is a top-down arcade game with a dash of action, strategy and puzzle from Big Fish Games, Inc. The game is published by Big Fish Games...

Treasures of Montezuma 3

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

Game released: iPad → 21 December 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 64/100

Treasures of Montezuma 3 is a continuation of the arcade puzzle game in the “three in a row” genre. You again have to go to the world of the Aztecs, where you can...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: iPad → 28 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...

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