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‘Indie Games Festival 2021’ announces the best indie games for Android from Europe, Japan and South Korea

Last Saturday, September 4, the festival of independent games from Google Play on Europe, Japan and South Korea, where 20 indie games from each region they faced each other to be one of the three winners, or to be among the ten finalists.

Well, once the festival is over, we already have the three winners of the ‘Indie Games Festival 2021’ for each of the regions next to Top 10 of the best indie games for Android that have been presented to this festival.

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The winners have been selected by a jury made up of industry experts and Google representatives, where thanks to this annual festival Google Play will award a promotional campaign to give visibility to the winning indie games through different sections of the store, as well as others awardssuch as a Pixelbook Go for the three winners and a Pixel 5 for the top 10 finalists. Without further ado, these are the winners of each territory, sorted alphabetically:

The winners and finalists of the ‘Indie Games Festival 2021’

Europe winners

Bird Alone by George Batchelor, UK: A curious game starring the loneliest bird on the plane, in which every day the bird will ask us questions about life, death and the meaning of existence. Throughout this trip we will compose music, make drawings and poems. The price of this game is 3.49 euros.

Cats in Time by Pine Studio, Croatia: In this puzzle game we have to help the inventor of the time machine to find his cats, who have been lost in time. We will travel to houses from different eras to solve their puzzles and thus find their cats.

Gumslinger by Itatake, Sweden: This is an action game, full of shooter starring jelly beans characters, where you will play in games of 65 players from all over the world.

Europe Top 10

The Top 10 of the best European games presented at the Indie Games Festival on Google Play are completed by these seven games:

Beat workers by NaturalPad Games, France
Figment by Bedtime Digital Games, Denmark
Froglike: The Frog Roguelike by Jimjum Studios, Israel
Lyxo by Emoak, Austria
Psychofunk by Tommy Søreide Kjær, Norway
Sticky Terms by kamibox, Germany
Unholy Adventure by Dali Games, Poland

Japan winners

Mousebusters by Odencat: This is a pixelart-style adventure starring a mouse whose mission is to destroy all the ghosts in the building to save its residents.
Quantum transport by ruccho: Isometric view puzzle game that through its puzzles we have to use its space-time portals to take the merchandise to the goal. Currently it can only be downloaded from Japan.
Survivor’s guilt by aso:

Japan Top 10

The Top 10 of the best Japanese games presented at the Indie Games Festival on Google Play are completed by these seven games:

Archer Battle Online by Takuya Fujieda
Heart of sengoku by ZEN APP
Living in the Ending World by illuCalab
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files “Executioner’s Wedge” by HafHaf-Oden （Sukashiuma-LAB）
Numpurr Card Wars by Nukenin
Parasite Days by Zxima
Super Glitter Rush by tiny cactus studio

South Korean winners

Indie Games Festival Winners South Korea

CATS & SOUP by HIDEA: This is a simulation game starring cats, cats cooking soup in the forest. Here we have to create new recipes to sell. The game is not yet available.
Rush Hour Rally by Soen Games: Arcade driving game in which you have to drive at maximum speed to escape the police.
The Way Home by CONCODE: Retro-style dungeon game whose phases are automatically generated, so each game will always be new. Its price is 0.89 euros but currently it can be downloaded for free.