iPad-ing the Roster: The App Store Gets a Slew of New Indie Games
Craving great indie games for your iPad? Check out tablet optimized versions of strategy faves, a new beat-em-up, an RPG puzzler, and even something for the kiddies.
Craving great indie games for your iPad? Check out tablet optimized versions of strategy faves, a new beat-em-up, an RPG puzzler, and even something for the kiddies.
The freaks are coming! As Archangel Mark Leung, use your heavenly weapons to slay hordes of creatures trying to board the Ark. This party boat is invite-only!
Board your spacecraft and venture into the Purple Void! There is loot to be had, and worlds to visit. Oh, and you only have 30 minutes to complete your mission.
Travel across America as you run from a ravenous throng of zombies. Make trades in cities to survive. Safe Haven is far to the west. Will you survive the trip?
A game that explores the Syrian civil war – Endgame: Syria – has been rejected by Apple due to App Store guidelines forbidding games that “solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity”. Apple say that Endgame: Syria, which explores a real news event and aims to show users the range of factions and peoples involved in the situation, fell into this category and so was rejected. It is available for Android.
We are going to keep this one short and sweet: There are simply hundreds of thousands of indie games available on the iOS and Android platforms so it is impossible to attempt to be comprehensive, let alone definitive. Instead, we are going to point out five that we spent a lot of time with and thought were as solid as could be. Here are IGR’s top five favorite mobile indie games of 2012
MegaCity HD, from indie developer Cole Jeffries, aka Cole{Powered is a surprisingly deep tile-based puzzler available for iOS and Android with some notable differences between platforms. Read the full review and learn why it’s a standout…
waking Mars from indie game developers Tiger Style had a very successful year, moving quickly from its initial iOS release to an improved PC port and then Steam via Greenlight. Discover why this game continues to earn new fans…
Quell Reflect from Fallen Tree Games is the successor to the simply named “Quell” – a contemporary re-visioning of a puzzler created a decade-and-a-half ago, wherein you navigate a circular object (originally a smiley face, now a droplet of water) to collect all the “gems” on a given level. Read the full review…
International Racing Squirrels from Playniac and Channel 4 spearheaded by Rob Davis is rodent-racer that is hiding something very special under the hood. Watch IGR’s interview with Davis at IndieCade 2012 where it was a finalist…
In “Girl With A Heart Of” you play as Raven, a young girl who is learning about the roles of her family members as well as the little microcosm of her town of darkness. Read the full review…
Don 2 is a third person action adventure game from Gameshatra for Android, iOS and PSN where you play moments from the Bollywood movie. Read the full review…
A review of Alien Rescue – Episode 1 – a top-down shooter from Romanian indie game developers RomBots team. A free game for Android devices.
In Xperiment SB1 from Interactive Exchange Company, you take on the role of some form of microorganism known as Furry Ball. Your life consists of floating around in fluid absorbing whatever comes too close to you. Read the full review…
Maybe the most important thing to note about Bleating Sheep Productions’ “A Divine Night Out” is that it isn’t actually a game. Read the full review…