The Best Indie Mobile Games of 2013
After a banner year of great mobile indie titles, Indie Game Reviewer presents the 20 best titles available for your smartphones and/or tablets this year.
Review: Friendly Fire!
Using your GPS location, Friendly Fire! turns your neighborhood into a tower defense battleground. Create a base, and defend your home from would-be attackers around the world.
Indie-Game-Freak’s 10 Personal Favorite Indie Games of 2013
Indie-Game-Freak – editor of IGR, picks some of his personal favorite indie games of 2013 you may not have heard of.
Review: Spice Road
Spice Road explores the establishment of European trade routes with the East during the 18th century. It’s an important period of human history, yet one that’s seen few portrayals in gaming. That’s a shame, because it’s a concept rife with strategic potential—exploration, resource management, construction and trade in foreign lands full of military threats, political intrigue and cultural clashes could keep strategy fans engrossed for countless hours.
Review: Knytt Underground
You play as Mi, an ace spelunker on a quest to ring six bells to save the world. Mi also happens to be mute, communicating through two fairies that roughly align with the good angel/bad angel dichotomy.
Review: Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Ring Runners is a twin-stick shooter set in a rich sci-fi cosmos that offers up a ton of ways to play. Research new tech, and create the ultimate space fighter.
Review: Surgeon Simulator 2013
It’s not so much a simulator as a digital overhaul of the classic Operation board game with finger controls mapped to individual keys. The results are hilarious.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK
The classic trivia party game is back! Jackbox updates its hilarious buzz-in trivia game with new content while making use of the latest tech so anyone can join in.
Review: Guacamelee
Guide luchador Juan on a quest to save his boyhood sweetheart from Calaca, a villainous skeleton. Bring the pain to the baddies in this life, and the afterlife.
Review: The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable: What We Think I was first exposed to David Wreden‘s “The Stanley Parable” – when it was […]
Review: Signal Ops
Take command of the spies in Facility 7C. Make use of each operative’s talents, and control the world from behind the scenes. Please the Dark Father, or else…
Review: Risk of Rain
In Rogue-like-like Risk of Rain, Time is not your friend. Gather valuable loot, but know that if you take the time to do so, the difficulty level is ramping up.
Review - Savant: Ascent
Savant: Ascent is a collaboration between indie developer D-Pad Studios and Norwegian dubstep artist Aleksander Vinter aka SAVANT. This fast-paced rhythm based arcade action title is a bass wobbling thrill ride. Read the full review…
Review: Oozi Earth Adventure
Oozi: Earth Adventure offers a traditional side-scrolling platforming experience with impressive visuals and a focus on the core mechanics of the genre without any unnecessary gimmicks. Read the full review…
Review: Resogun by Housemarque Games
Take to the skies on distant, collapsing worlds. Fight off thousands of enemy spacecraft on your quest to save mankind (and your score multiplier). Read our full review.