Role-playing game 2012 for iOS — top best games in the Role-playing game genre

Bastion - a game in the Role-playing game genre

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

Game released: iOS → 30 August 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Fantasy

Game released: iOS → 7 December 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is an expanded edition of the legendary 1998 role-playing game. In addition to improvements in graphics and gameplay, the re-release...

Final Fantasy IV

Role-playing game, In real time, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 20 December 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Final Fantasy IV is a tactical turn-based strategy role-playing game with anime and fantasy RPG elements. Expect fully voiced dramatic cutscenes, deep, emotionally...

Block Story

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

Game released: iOS → 19 December 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Block Story is an action role-playing game with elements of adventure and fantasy with a first-person view. A world of vast landscapes awaits you, where you are in...

King's Bounty: Legions

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

Game released: iOS → 21 August 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 53/100

King’s Bounty: Legions is an online fantasy strategy game built around turn-based battles in a world of magic, creatures, and monsters. Players assemble an army of...

Ravensword: Shadowlands

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

Game released: iOS → 20 December 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Ravensword: Shadowlands is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in the fantasy style. After the fall of Ravengard, the world plunged into chaos. The...

8bit Ninja

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 3 April 2012

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade game follows 8bit, a ninja trying to survive as long as possible while dodging fruit thrown by an angry crowd. Players can slice watermelons, coconuts...

Infinite Warrior

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 6 September 2012

Metacritic: 63/100

Infinite Warrior is a fantasy action game about a warrior fighting endless armies of enemies. Battles take place in 3D arenas, where attacks are performed with...

SpellSword (2012)

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 26 April 2012

Metacritic: 82/100

This retro-inspired hack-and-slash survival game follows an unlikely hero seeking to unleash the power of a newly found Spellsword. The hero battles enemies across...

Adventure Bar Story

Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 8 March 2012

Metacritic: 72/100

Adventure Bar Story combines role-playing with tavern management. The player must save a sister’s shabby tavern from being taken over by wealthy restaurant owner...

Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 17 October 2012

Metacritic: 66/100

A fantasy gamebook adventure in which the megalomaniac Gingrich Yurr is preparing an army of zombies to unleash upon the world. The hero’s choices determine the...

Hunters 2

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 22 March 2012

Metacritic: 83/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game about a squad of mercenaries travelling across the galaxy to take on contracts. In the single-player campaign and daily...

Royal Revolt!

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 10 August 2012

Metacritic: 83/100

This fantasy reverse tower defense game follows a prince who returns from magic school to find that his relatives have taken over the kingdom after his father’s...

Shin Megami Tensei (1994)

Role-playing game, First-person view, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk

Game released: iOS → 23 February 2012

Metacritic: 72/100

This first-person, turn-based role-playing game is set in Tokyo in 199X, after demons from the netherworld of Makai return to Earth and upset the balance of power...

Defender Chronicles II: Heroes of Athelia

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 24 May 2012

Metacritic: 79/100

This vertical-defense strategy game with RPG elements returns players to the fantasy land of Athelia, where they defend the Empire against Orc hordes, the Forsaken...

Heroes of Order & Chaos - Multiplayer Online Game

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 21 November 2012

Metacritic: 81/100

A multiplayer MOBA set in the fantasy world of Haradon, where immortal warriors have fought for centuries in the mysterious Sinskaald Rift. Players choose a hero...

Cardinal Quest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 8 June 2012

Cardinal Quest — is an arcade dungeon crawler inspired by classic '80s games like Gauntlet, Red-Box D&D, and Golden Axe. You have to choose your champion and...

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

Strategy, Horror, Top-down view, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 30 January 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set during the First World War, this turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements follows a team of investigators and soldiers facing an ancient enemy that...

World Ends With You

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga

Game released: iOS → 27 August 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 90/100

This action role-playing game with puzzle elements is set in Shibuya, where Neku wakes amid the city bustle and receives a message warning that he will cease to...

Cthulhu Saves the World

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Comedy

Game released: iOS → 28 August 2012

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 92/100

This turn-based parody RPG takes place in a fantasy world where Cthulhu must become a true hero after a mysterious sorcerer seals his powers. Lifting the curse...

Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Role-playing game, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: iOS → 3 April 2012

Steam: 91/100

This fantasy role-playing game is set in Avernum, an underground nation where the Empire sends its outcasts. Banished to the volcanic depths by the cruel Emperor...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

Game released: iOS → 5 April 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Mass Effect: Infiltrator

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: iOS → 6 March 2012

Metacritic: 68/100

Mass Effect: Infiltrator is a third-person sci-fi shooter set in the Mass Effect universe. The game takes place in parallel with Mass Effect 3 and tells the story...

Dark Legends

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Hack and slash

Game released: iOS → 4 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Dark Legends is an online, massively multiplayer, and hack-and-slash RPG from the developers at Spacetime Studios. The game is published by Spacetime...

Middle Manager of Justice

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Free game, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 5 September 2012

Players: 5.2/10

Metacritic: 71/100

This management strategy puts the player in charge of a new Justice Corp. branch tasked with getting a team of superheroes into shape. The player trains and manages...

Knights of Pen and Paper

Arcade, Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: iOS → 30 October 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A turn-based, pixel-art role-playing game built around a fantasy tabletop session. The player controls both the adventurers and the game master, who shapes the...

Orc: Vengeance

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 26 July 2012

Metacritic: 79/100

This fantasy action RPG follows Rok, an orc warchief who sets out on a quest for vengeance. The campaign is driven by a narrative, with combat against enemies and...

Final Fantasy Dimensions

Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 31 August 2012

Metacritic: 78/100

A role-playing game in the tradition of classic Final Fantasy, it tells a story of light, darkness, and crystals. Character growth is shaped by jobs, and additional...

Chaos Rings 2

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 15 March 2012

Metacritic: 86/100

Chaos Rings 2 — third-person hack and slash action RPG. Inside the Earth, the Destroyer awakens and begins to cause cataclysms and earthquakes, releasing...

Puzzle & Dragons

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Free game

Game released: iOS → 14 November 2013

Puzzle & Dragons is an arcade game with elements of a role-playing game, an action game, a game in the anime or manga genre, a fantasy game, a card game and a...

Lili: Child of Geos

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Logic, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 21 September 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This third-person adventure RPG follows Lili, who arrives on the mysterious island of Geos. She meets the locals, helps them with their problems, and encounters an...

Kaku-San-Sei Million Arthur

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Free game

Game released: iOS → 9 April 2012

Kaku-San-Sei Million Arthur is an anime/manga, fantasy, card and free-to-play RPG from the masters at Mighty Craft and Square Enix. The main publisher of the game...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: iOS → 29 August 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

Dr. Panda Restaurant

Role-playing game, Educational game (Education), First-person view, Simulation

Game released: iOS → 1 September 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Dr. Panda Restaurant is an educational simulator with a first-person view. This app introduces kids to cooking through fun mini-games. They will be exposed to a...

Guardian Cross

Role-playing game, MMO, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Free game

Game released: iOS → 21 June 2012

Metacritic: 58/100

This creature-based card RPG follows tamers who capture, raise, and command powerful beasts known as Guardians. Quests explore the mystery of their awakening after...

Wizorb

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie

Game released: iOS → 3 August 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An arcade game set in a fantasy medieval world, Wizorb combines classic block-breaking action with light role-playing...

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade

Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: iOS → 6 January 2012

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is a third-person role-playing game with a mix of massively multiplayer, anime/manga, and fantasy gaming from the masters at Square...

Mobbles

Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 29 May 2012

Mobbles is a role-playing game from the studio Mobbles Corp.. The main publisher of the game is Mobbles Corp.. There has been no announcement of Mobbles for PC...

World Ends With You: Solo Remix

Arcade, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS → 27 August 2012

World Ends With You: Solo Remix is an arcade game with role-playing game elements from developers from h.a.n.d studios. Inc., Jupiter Corp. and Square Enix. The...

ASH 2: Shadows

Role-playing game, Top-down view

Game released: iOS → 19 January 2012

ASH 2: Shadows is a top-down RPG from SRRN Games. The main publisher of the game is Konami Digital Entertainment. In some circles, ASH 2: Shadows is also called ASH...

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Best Games in the Role-playing game genre of 2012 for iOS