Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 243
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
Severed
Action gameDrinkBox Studios took the most maligned control scheme in gaming—the touchscreen swipe—and built a genuinely tactile action RPG around it. The combat ...Good7.8Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5Powder
Adventure gamePOWDER strips the roguelike down to its sharpest bones and fits it in your pocket. It trades the arcane depth of NetHack for something rarer on iOS: a...Good7.3Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2Stone Story RPG
Adventure gameStone Story RPG turns ASCII art into some of the most expressive animation in indie gaming, and it hides a real programming language under its idle-RP...Great8.2INMOST
Adventure gameFor all its polish, INMOST is a solid but uneven package: a three-to-five hour pixel-art story with real emotional weight, held back by stiff combat a...Good7.4
SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Candy Box 2
Adventure gameCandy Box 2 remains a clever bait-and-switch: a free, open-source ASCII RPG that unfolds from a single candy counter. We recommend the desktop browser...Good7.1Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Lumino City
Adventure gameState of Play spent three years building a ten-foot city out of paper, card and miniature motors, then filmed it — and the result is a game whose art ...Good7.4Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8Sneaky Sasquatch
Adventure gameA cooler-raiding stealth toy that quietly mutates into one of the most generous life sims on any platform, with zero ads, timers, or microtransactions...Great8.5Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Rusty Lake: Roots
Adventure gameRusty Lake: Roots is the rare puzzle game that uses its puzzles as narrative grammar rather than filler, telling a generational horror story without a...Great8.2Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Broken Sword — Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Adventure gameRevolution Software rebuilt its 1996 classic line by line, and the writing, voice work and puzzle design hold up better than almost anything else from...Good7.4
