85 indie games in this list, released 2014–2026, from developers such as Blue Bag Gaming And Publishing - FZCO, SIV Games, OONY TEAM. Pick one to read our editorial note and jump to its store page.
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By Blue Bag Gaming And Publishing - FZCO · United Arab Emirates
Stack Blocks - Block Puzzle is a drag-and-drop block puzzle for mobile. Players place pieces on a grid to complete rows or columns, which then clear, and chain clears together to build combo multipliers. Besides the endless Classic mode, a Stack Clear mode asks players to clear stacked grids layer by layer. There is no timer; a round ends when no piece fits. It is developed by Blue Bag Studios, operated by Blue Bag Gaming and Publishing FZCO in Dubai, UAE.
Sweets Tile is a tile-matching puzzle game with a bakery theme, where players match cakes, cookies, tarts and macarons to clear hundreds of levels. It includes boosters and power-ups and can be played offline in short sessions. SIV Games, a studio based in Tunisia, developed it and released it for Android phones.
The Circle Move is a free first-person puzzle adventure set in a strange world. You explore without fixed routes, collect tools and clues, interact with the environment and solve logic puzzles while the story unfolds through the surroundings with a touch of horror. It supports English and Arabic and was developed by OONY TEAM, a Saudi indie studio; IsaKaba also lists it as a Saudi game.
The Trials 1 is a puzzle exploration game set on an island divided into seven main areas. Players use three abilities: recording a box's movement and playing it back, switching between two parallel worlds, and dropping a teleport station to return to. More than 30 side puzzles award gemstones that unlock new areas. It was the first game from Blue Life, a studio identified as Syrian, which followed it with The Trials 2.
The Trials 2 is a puzzle and exploration game set across a series of islands. It builds on the first game with new skills, including teleportation, time manipulation, gravity control and moving between alternate worlds, which players combine to solve intricate spatial puzzles. There is no combat. It was developed by Blue Life, a studio from Syria, and was one of the titles shown at the Arabic Games Conference 2025.
Tom and Jerry Blast is a mobile tap-and-blast puzzle game featuring the classic cartoon cat and mouse. Players clear colourful levels, trigger boosters, collect characters and take on daily challenges, and the game was designed to work offline. It was developed in collaboration with Warner Bros. Games by Steer Studios, the Riyadh-based studio owned by Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group.
By BLUE BAG GAMING AND PUBLISHING - FZCO · United Arab Emirates
Tricky Blocks - Block Puzzle is a physics-based stacking game for mobile. Players pick blocks from a tray of three in any order and drop them onto a growing tower, where weight and friction decide whether the stack holds. A shadow preview shows valid placements, there is no timer, and three lives are allowed before the run ends. It is made by Blue Bag Studios, the brand of Blue Bag Gaming and Publishing FZCO, a mobile game company in Dubai, UAE.
Carto is a puzzle adventure from the Taiwanese studio Sunhead Games about a girl named Carto trying to find her way back to her family. Its central idea is that you rearrange the map itself, moving and rotating pieces of the world to open new paths and solve problems. A calm, friendly game with a genuinely original core mechanic.
Engare is a puzzle game about motion and geometry by Iranian designer Mahdi Bahrami. You trace the path of a point on a moving object to recreate a target shape, a little like a Spirograph, and a separate free-form mode turns the same idea into a drawing tool. Its design draws on Islamic art and sacred geometry, which makes every solved puzzle look like a pattern.
Mini Metro is a puzzle strategy game from the New Zealand indie team Dinosaur Polo Club about designing a subway map for a growing city. You draw lines between stations and keep adjusting them as new stops appear and passengers pile up. Its clean look borrows from real transit maps, and its sound is generated by your network.
Only If is a surreal first-person puzzle adventure from Creability, an independent studio that was based in Dubai. The game plays with the idea of turning figures of speech into literal, walkable spaces, which gives its puzzles a dreamlike logic. Released for Windows, macOS and Linux, it is an early example of an indie PC game coming out of the United Arab Emirates.
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure from the Thai studio Urnique Studio in which you control time like a media player, scrubbing forward and back to plan a safe route past hostile robots. A girl with the power to see the future and a mysterious cat work together to escape. It was named Game of the Year by Thai gaming publications and events.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules themselves are pushable blocks of words. Break the sentence that says a wall is solid, or rewrite what counts as winning, and a level that looked impossible opens up. It rewards lateral thinking over reflexes, and it grew out of a game jam prototype into one of the most inventive puzzle designs of its era.