TouchArcade: After covering ports and remakes over the last month in these articles, I felt it was high-time to get back to an iOS original. This week, our featured game is Lava Level's QuestLord [$1.99], which hit the App Store in February of 2013. It's a turn-based first-person RPG in the style of games like The Quest [$4.99] or Dungeon Master, but it does some things that give it its own feel apart from those games. You play as a hero who is dubbed the QuestLord, a title conferred to those who, well, solve a lot of quests, I suppose. There are 18 of them in this game, to be precise, and solving all of them will take you around a pretty big world. While some of that time is spent in dungeons and caves, more of it is spent wandering the great outdoors. The variety of the locations is one of the game's strong points. What I really like best about QuestLord, however, is how well it balances between offering a deep experience and keeping the pace quick and easily digestible. It's common for games to go all-in on one or the other, and all too rare for a game that dangerously tries to ride the center line to be successful at it.
If you looking for a great Android RPG, we offer you the following lists of the the best Android RPGs You Never Heard Of.
I'm not big on phone games, but Lone Wolf and Atom RPG are great games and work well on a phone.
That said, it blows my mind they didn't include at least one Dragon Quest/Warrior or Final Fantasy game.
They have a great port for FF Tactics: War of the Lions damn it. Show it some love.
Indie games in Android land wax rather indie. I am going to tell you now that somewhere below the Android indie cellar is a sub-cellar wherein dwell solo devs and two-man teams—sub-basement Android indies. The freakish step-child of the gaming industry. But, as is true with any cadre of social misfits, some rather compelling stuff occasionally pokes its woolly head out of this outsider morass. If you’re looking to play rich, compelling RPGs on your phone, there is within said midden heap a small cache of absolute gems, which is, of course, what our list is all about. Beyond shining a spotlight on said hidden treasure, however, the criteria for the “You Never Heard Of” lists is the absolute best Android indie RPGs with less than 10K downloads. To be sure, the following indie RPGs did not receive the love they deserve, though, of course, our latest edition of the Ten Best Android RPGs You Never Heard of is, at the end of the day, for you.
For many, the premise behind a list of the best Android RPGs amounts to a contradiction in terms. Most of us who work and play in the mobile gaming sphere do in fact understand that our platform of choice is the red-haired stepchild of the gaming industry. Believe it or not, if you dig down a level deeper into the sub-cellar of small one, two-man indie dev teams, you have a subgenre that is the village idiot of the gaming industry. Thing is, as with the best social misfits, some genuinely compelling stuff has reared its wholly head out of the depths of gaming’s social underbelly.
