21 Best Indie Games for iOS

Papers, Please or also known as Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller is a Puzzle video game by an Indie video game developer named as 3909. The game focuses on the Emotional Life of a character who works as an Immigration Officer. Set in the Dystopian country of Arstotzka, the protagonist goes through the Emotional toll every day while deciding about who to let in the country and whom to stop. The ultimate task of the player is to check the documents of people by using various tools and stop the Criminals, Smugglers, and Terrorists from entering the country. When certain discrepancies are discovered in the documents, the players investigates the individuals and tries to collect data about the ones with faulty or suspicious documents. The further investigation includes Full-body Scan, Fingerprint verification, demanding more information, and the decision of denying the entrance, etc. The full day shift of the player doing all the things goes on in real-time and the players does all every day in the game. At the end of every day, players get rewarded with money based on his performance (Less Penalties, Bribes Collected, Items Confiscated, etc.). The players are allowed to use the earned money on daily life expenses such as paying the rent, buying food, and other necessities. The game kind of looks like a Life-Simulation but it is a bit different from that. With a remarkably addictive and involving gameplay, cool 3D visuals and all the amazing benefits of working as an Immigration Officer, Papers, Please offers a brilliant Puzzle and Interactive experience to enjoy.

Stardew Valley is a role-playing farming simulation developed by Sickhead Games. The game allows the players to control a virtual character who inherits land and a house from his grandfather. It tasks the player to clear up the plot, throw away the boulders, cut down the bushes and unwanted trees, and rebuild the farm from scratch. The secondary task of the game is to grow crops, raise livestock and generate revenue by selling the products.

Once there is enough money in hand, buy more land and expand the farm, construct new buildings and facilities. The NPCs in the game are there as well, and the game’s social element allows the players to interact, engage in relationships, raise families, help them in farm-related matters, and get help from them. It offers a procedurally generated game world, beautiful 3D graphics, cool mechanics, and a great backstory that keeps players engaged till the end.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.

The Witness is an Adventure, Puzzle, First-person Perspective and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Thekla, Inc. The game offers a beautiful world where it takes place and has an exciting gameplay based on Exploration of the Open-Ended world like Myst. The tropical Island full of human-made and natural structures and the player must navigate the landscapes, interact with the environment and solve a variety of mind-bending puzzles based on interaction with complex mazes hidden within the specific areas. In the start, the player has to find the clues to complete each puzzle and recording spread around the globe. The player takes on the unnamed protagonist, who explores an island with various natural formations and numerous structures. The island is split into different sections, and each offers its unique challenges, a set of puzzles and more. During exploration, the player can experience the most beautiful world that he has never seen before. There are dozens of locations to manipulate with more than five-hundred puzzles to accomplish or solve. Each puzzle brings a new idea and challenge. With addictive features, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, The Witness is the best game to enjoy.

Oxenfree is a Single-player Graphic Adventure video game developed and published by Night School Studio for cross platforms. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, a teenager named as Alex, who is on a weekend to an Island. The game revolves around supernatural events and the protagonist and his friend must explore the environment to unearth the mysteries of the Island. The player navigates the world from an isometric perspective, who has unleash the paranormal force on the island mistakenly. The player and his fellows must figure out about the force and find a way to fend off it. The game gameplay centers on walk and talk gameplay. Speech bubbles appear on the playfield over the head of the protagonist, instead of dialogue appearing during cutscenes, enabling the player select between two or three choices what the player will say next in the chat. Oxenfree offers prominent features such as an Intelligent Conversation System, Unique Radio Mechanics, Original Soundtracks, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.

Her Story mixes the Psychological Horror, Adventure, Detective, Point-and-Click and Single-player video game developed and published by Sam Barlow. It is a mystery game, playing like a true crime documentary where the game enables the player go hand on with the database of police of live action footage. The game starts with a film actress named as Viva Seifert, Joe Gideon and Shark. In the game, the player takes on the role of the detective who must solve a variety of murder cases and experience a unique gameplay from start to finish. The player needs to find and collect evidence, interact with suspects, and progress through the story to solve complicated cases. It lets the player sits in front of the computer, logs into the police database to find out hundreds of video clips that covers several interviews from 1994, in which the women are interrogated about their missing husband. The player can manipulate the police database by typing words and watch the clips where the player needs to collect evidence. Her Story is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Five Nights at Freddy’s is a Single-players Horror-Survival and Indie Point-and-Click video game. The game is set in a Fictitious Pizza Restaurant named as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and allows the players to be a Night Security Guard. The only purpose of the game is to survive against the hordes of Malfunctioning Animatronic Animals. Five Nights at Freddy’s allows the palyers to use the Restaurant’s Cameras to track down the bloody animals and eliminate them before they reach to the player character. As the game is mainly about the Survival, Five Nights at Freddy’s lets the players use the Security Cameras to open and close the doors in order to lock the Animatronic animals. The players cannot leave the security room but they can trap the animals. One challenging factor of the game is that it lets the players to take care of the energy levels. If the energy is low and electricity is out, the doors will open and the survival of player will dangle between life and death. All the players has to do is to keep everything normal until the shift ends at 6:00 in the morning. If the players are able to survive through the night, the game rewards them with a number of items. Five Nights at Freddy’s offers five ridiculously challenging and horror filled game levels for five straight nights. IF a player is able to complete all five nights (Five levels), another sixth Level unlocks, with more horror and suspense. Five Nights at Freddy’s offers various game difficulty levels as well as a level editor and allows the players to create their own game levels and share them with other players online. Five Nights at Freddy’s with all of its Horror filled gameplay and depictions, is one of the most engaging and addictive game to play and enjoy.

Geometry Dash is an Arcade-style Action, Puzzle Platform and Indie video game by RobTop. The game allows you to control a Cube shaped character, and it allows you to go through a highly luminous, obstacles infested and quite challenging game world, and tasks you to complete different objectives in order to complete the exciting game levels. The rhythm-based game-play allows you to enjoy every tiny detail of the game. With super cool visuals, great setting, amazing objectives, cool background music and a totally fantastic game-play, Geometry Dash is a great Action, Puzzle and Platform video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played it and you’ll love it for sure.

Super Hexagon is a cool Action, Puzzle Platform and indie video game developed and published by Terry Cavanagh games. The game offers vivid graphics, super engaging game-play, minimal design and puzzles related to the Hexagons. Your task is to go through challenging puzzles and amazing obstacles and complete the game objectives in order to clear the game levels. Super Hexagon offers wonderful visuals, an engaging and immersive game-play, along with simple layout and easy controls. For an amazing puzzle-platform gaming experience, you should totally try this game out. It’s fun playing Super Hexagon.

Electronic Super Joy is a brilliant new Action, Puzzle Platformer and indie video game by Michael Todd Games. it takes you to an amazing musical world where you’ll have to Run, Jump, Fly and go through amazingly challenging obstacles all set up on some really difficult platforms in three different and quite unforgiving worlds. Electronic Super Joy offers over fifty challenging levels, 8 hours of purely entertaining gameplay, amazingly blasting Boss battles, loads of enemies, and features like low gravity, rotating worlds, humongous monsters and brimming missiles etc. With a great setting, engaging game-play, great visuals, regular content updates and loads of other exciting things, Electronic Super Joy is a best Puzzle and Platform video game to play and enjoy.

Bit. Trip Beat is a Arcade style Puzzle, Platform and music video game by Gijin Games. This brilliant Action-Adventure, Casual and Indie Platformer lets you enjoy amazing game-play packed up with great music, graphics and challenging puzzles. Once again, you get to play as Commander Video and you are tasked to fulfill your colorful journey by running, jumping, and going through amazingly challenging obstacles.Inspired by most of the Classics of this specific genre, Bit. Trip Beat lets you be part of a beautiful world where you’ll continuously run on amazing beats and all you got to do is to go through a number of different types of obstacles in order to reach down to the finish line. Once you are through to the finish line, you can jump onto new and a bit more difficult level and enjoy all the thrilling elements of the game. With super cool visuals, great background music, epic boss fights, and an immersive game-play Bit. Trip Beat is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Evo Explores is a fantastic new Indie Puzzle and Platform video game developed by Kyrylo Kuzyk. The game draws inspiration from the popular Monument Valley video game and offers a similar type of gameplay and mechanics. With all the Gravity Defying and Physics denying aspects, Evo Explores lets you control both of the elements with simply your imagination, explore a vast impossible world based on huge optical illusions, manipulate the structures and use them to solve mind-boggling complex puzzles and enjoy a totally unforgettable Puzzle gaming experience. The game lets you be a little Robot named as Evo and tasks you to uncover the secrets about the Planet Byte and all of its citizens. You can also construct a number of optical illusions yourself to build paths that will lead you to the finish line of each and every game level. Evo Explores offers 45 unique and beautifully designed game levels, surreal background music along with gorgeous graphics and a totally addictive gameplay.

Thomas Was Alone is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle-Platformer and Indie video game by Mike Bithell. The game is set in an Anti-Gravity environment and is about the friendships, jumping and floating together. Your duty is to guide a cluster of boxes through a series of obstacles by using your unique Puzle solving skills and finish the levels. Thomas Was Alone features great background music, amazing voice over and quite addictive and fun filled game-play. The boxes in the game are basically World’s first AI’s and this game lets you program them and perform different tasks with them to see if they have perfected or there is any need of redesigning. Thomas Was Alone includes some great features such as over a 100 challenging and addictive game levels, more than 10 cool player characters, super challenging and quite engaging game-play etc. If you really like to play Puzzle-Platform games, you should not miss Thomas Was Alone. it’ll definitely entertain you good. Do try it out.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is a Graphic Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer and indie video game by Caypybara Games. The game revolves around the character of Scythia and allows you to be part of the two super amazing worlds, one is the real world and the other is a dream world. You can jump from one world to another according to your states. For example, if you want to visit the dream world, you must sleep and if you want to get back to the real world, you must wake up. You can explore a massive sandbox type game world and interact with objects, find out the passage ways or you can eat the Red Mushrooms to boost up your energy levels to continue your journey. You can go on different quests to find the Trigones by traveling through the passageways. The story of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery seems kind of twisted one but it will surely engage you in some exciting Puzzles and Adventures and you will enjoy this game for sure. Do try it out.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun, developed by Big Fish Games is Match-3 Puzzle and indie video game that takes you to Japan and allows you to help Satsu save the ancient civilization. The game allows you to build a new Japanese village and everything in it by mixing-up 3 or more of the same kind of elements. You can start building from the smallest object and reach to the tallest buildings you can make. Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun provides with three exciting game modes and lets you win different challenges in every mode by matching up different elements and creating new ones. The relaxing background music, clean 3D graphics and a well written story-line are the best things included in the game. Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is one of the best Puzzle-RPG game that offers a unique combination of Puzzle and RPG elements with Turn-based game-play and enhanced mechanics. For a wonderful and challenging Puzzle and RPG experience, do try it out.

World of Goo is a beautiful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by 2DBoy. This wonderful Mix up of Indie, Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Point and Click elements allows you to build massive structures with nothing but Goo Balls. The game offers five main chapters all filled up with challenging levels, with unique music, graphic themes and a totally unique environment. The amazing multiplayer feature allows the players from around the world to build amazing towers using goo balls and enjoy competing against each other. With a super engaging game-play, cool visuals and sounds etc., World of Goo is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. If you haven’t played it yet, you should definitely try it out. It’ll make you an addict.

Clicker Heroes is a wonderful Idle Clicker, Indie and Strategy-based video game similar to a number of good Clicker and tapping video games. The game allows you to simply click on the Monsters, kill them and loot their Gold, Spend that Gold to buy new heroes and start killing more monsters. Clicker Heroes bases on how much you damage your enemy by clicking and the automated heroes together, so the more you click per second, the more you damage the enemies and the more you get the Gold. You can grow by the time and become more powerful with more heroes doing the job and enjoy an amazing gaming experience. With 35 unique hero characters to devastate the enemies, a lot of legendary figures from history (Athena, Amenhotep, and King Midas etc.), amazing visuals and a brilliantly engaging and immersive game-play, Clicker Heroes is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Monument Valley developed by an indie game company Ustwo is a puzzle video game in which you get to lead princess Ida through impossible puzzles, objects, and a game world full of mazes and optical illusions. The game world is based on Sacred Geometrical Maps and provides an amazing Isometric View. The task that the game puts you in is to explore the game world, interact with objects and find hidden passageways for Princess Ida to exit the realm of illusions. Monument Valley provides ten exciting levels of puzzle all based upon different central mechanisms and characteristics.

The moving platforms, animals like pillars, color-changing environments, and the Crow People are all the out-of-this-world things that make this game different from others. Monument Valley is one of the best Android and iOS video games that lets you experience an amazing game-play, designed to make you feel amazing while playing this super addicting and engaging game. Monument Valley offers beautiful visual details along with a great story and immersive gameplay to enjoy.

Slender Man is an indie Psycho-Horror and Survival game, featuring a faceless being (Slender Man) that is mostly found occupying some abandoned or haunted places. Playing this game is truly a different and quite exhilarating experience. Dressed in a black and white suit, the Slender Man is controllable by the game player presenting a First-person gaming perspective. The story of the game is about acquiring the clues to solve some deep end mysteries behind the most terrifying legends of all time. The game offers brilliant visuals, loads of dark and haunted environments, dark theme and all the excitement that you seek for. Because of being one of the most creepiest games, Slender Man takes you to the heights of entertainment. Do try it out if you love playing games with dark thematic and enjoy the ultimate fun, and thrill.