Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 127
Top rated on iOS
- 01AmphetamineAmphetamine fundamentally corrects macOS's energy management, offering professional-grade automation for a price that d…9.7Outstanding
- 02Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 03NetNewsWireFor anyone tired of algorithmic feeds and ad-choked reading, NetNewsWire is the cleanest way back to an intentional web…9.7Outstanding
Hitman: World of Assassination
Action gameNearly a decade of the finest sandbox stealth ever made, bundled into one package and playable on everything from a gaming rig to an iPhone. The alway...Outstanding9.4Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8Where Winds Meet
Action gameA generous, mechanically rich wuxia open world whose cosmetic-only model and strong campaign are undercut by a thin endgame and a punishing install si...Good7.5Rift Riff
Action gameRift Riff strips almost every source of frustration out of tower defense without stripping out the strategy — and then, bafflingly, forgets to explain...Good7.8Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Action gameBulwark Studios built a turn-based tactics game that punishes caution instead of rewarding it, and dressed it in some of the most atmospheric licensed...Good7.3Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Action gameCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a landmark game and this is the complete, uncut, ad-free version of it — but Konami bolted on a touch control ...Good7.5Feed the Deep
Action gameLuke Muscat traded the candy-colored dopamine of Fruit Ninja for cold black water and came up with something different — a taut, near-solo roguelike...Good7.8
ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Wuthering Waves
Action gameWuthering Waves builds some of the most skill-expressive real-time combat in the free-to-play action-RPG space and wraps it in an open world that trus...Good7.3Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1Teamfight Tactics
Action gameRiot's auto-battler is a deep economic strategy game that survives the port to touch largely intact — but years in, its interface still treats a 6-inc...Good7.7Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
Action gameA Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...Good7.5Wizard of Legend
Action gameWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...Good7.3Subway Surfers
Action gameFourteen years in, Subway Surfers remains a model of one-thumb arcade design — sharp input, disciplined live-ops, and a World Tour that keeps a 2012 f...Good7.3Tiny Wings
Action gameFifteen years after launch, Andreas Illiger's one-tap physics toy remains one of the purest expressions of mobile game design ever shipped — and its 2...Outstanding9.4Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Crossy Road
Action gameA decade on, Hipster Whale's voxel hopper is still the model for free-to-play arcade design done right — instant to learn, hard to master, and monetiz...Great8.3Alto's Adventure
Action gameA decade on, Alto's Adventure remains one of the strongest arguments for premium mobile design — a one-touch snowboarding game that plays like meditat...Great8.6Clash of Clans
Action gameA well-built strategy game with a strong clan layer and a progression system that asks for patience by the week. We recommend it to players who want a...Good7.7CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6Grimvalor
Action gameGrimvalor is a sharp, demanding action platformer that treats phones like real gaming hardware—no ads, no microtransactions, no compromises on difficu...Good7.9
