Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 142
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
Gibbon: 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...Mixed6.8Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Board gameA free-to-play game that declines to exploit you — no energy meters, no ad walls, no manufactured urgency — and that restraint is the most interesting...Good7.6Dicefolk
Action gameDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...Good7.1Gartic Phone
Design appFor groups that already exist, Gartic Phone is one of the better free party games on a phone — a Telephone-meets-Pictionary machine with eleven modes,...Good7.8Usagi Shima
Simulation gameA hand-drawn bunny sanctuary that treats your absence as a feature instead of a debt to be collected — a quietly ethical take on free-to-play design, ...Good7.5LEGO 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 ...Mixed6.9Sokobond Express
Puzzle gameA wordless, immaculately taught puzzle game that fuses two Draknek classics into a smart, well-crafted whole — solid, but brief and uneven enough that...Good7.1Luftrausers
Action gameVlambeer distilled the arcade shooter down to one plane, one ocean, and one impossible question — shoot or survive — and built a game of remarkable fe...Good7.8
Vectronom
Action gameVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...Good7.4Golf 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...Good7.2Pokémon TCG Pocket
Card gameA gorgeous pack-opening ritual and a generous free daily cadence can't carry battles that come down to coin flips and a trading system that barely tra...Mixed6.2Sonic 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...Great8.0Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Broken 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...Good7.4Dungeons of Dreadrock
Adventure gameA one-man love letter to 1980s dungeon crawlers that stands out in a crowded genre — 100 handcrafted puzzle rooms built on a single ruthless principle...Good7.8Poinpy
Action gamePoinpy was already one of the finest mobile games ever built when it was locked behind a Netflix subscription. Now it's completely free, ad-free, and ...Outstanding9.4Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Kill 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 ...Good7.1Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Adventure appThirty years on, Zoombinis remains one of the sharpest pieces of educational software ever shipped to consumers — a set-theory course wearing a blue r...Great8.6The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Card gameEight genuinely distinct solitaire variants — not eight reskins of Klondike — assembled with the same obsessive rule-design that built Zachtronics' re...Great8.4Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Arcaea
Music gamelowiro built one of the most mechanically inventive rhythm games on mobile by dragging the genre off its flat plane and into the air, then wrapped it ...Good7.7Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Adventure gameUrban Myth Dissolution Center is a strikingly original occult adventure with real writing chops, held back by deduction puzzles that never bite. Solid...Good7.3
