Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 86
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
Yes, 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...Good7.8Absolute 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...Good7.8Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
RPG gameA Sharp has built the rarest thing in strategy gaming — a systems-heavy clan simulator whose chief draw is the writing — then wrapped it in enough r...Great8.2Bury Me, My Love
Adventure gameA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....Good7.4Outlanders
Simulation gamePomelo Games has built one of the more approachable strategy games around — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is the whole poin...Good7.2CloverPit
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...Good7.6Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7Storyteller
Adventure gameA clever narrative puzzle box that turns story logic into a drag-and-drop toy — worth $14.99 for puzzle players who want a mechanic they haven't seen ...Good7.6
Star Chart
Education appStar Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums around, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible map o...Good7.1Moonstone Island
Adventure gameA clever mash-up of Stardew Valley comfort and Slay the Spire tactics that mostly makes the fusion work—provided you play it with a controller, ac...Good7.1Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Simulation gameA sharp, well-observed 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for unusually believable dialogue. If "wandering and reading" c...Good7.4Pocket City
Simulation gamePocket City is a modest, principled city-builder—a paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and never reaches for your wallet....Good7.2Prune
Family gamePrune is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...Great8.0Tiny Bookshop
RPG gameTiny Bookshop takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into a quietly compelling management ...Good7.6Niche - a genetics survival game
Education appA clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — strongest on PC, rougher on consoles, and u...Good7.67 Days to End with You
Adventure gameA puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — clever, brief, and held back by its own repetition. Worth a look for the rig...Good7.7Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Simulation gameA staggeringly deep colony sim that welds RimWorld's survival math to Taoist mysticism—ambitious, obsessive, and almost hostile to newcomers. Worth it...Good7.5Wylde Flowers
Adventure gameWylde Flowers is a cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully voice-a...Good7.4Kittens Game
Simulation gameA brilliant, uncompromising spreadsheet-style simulation that transforms simple catnip gathering into a sprawling, long-haul space odyssey. It earns a...Great8.1FAR: Lone Sails
Action gameFAR: Lone Sails is a beautifully paced, atmospheric journey that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into something intimate an...Good7.6Planet Coaster
Action gamePlanet Coaster is a deep, piece-by-piece digital construction set that excels at park customization but falls short as a financial management simulati...Good7.0Mountain
RPG gameMountain is a provocative, ambient experiment that abandons traditional agency in favor of existential observation; it is less a game and more a digit...Good7.7Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Food & Drink gameTapBlaze's culinary sim strips away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as it is cha...Great8.1The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Adventure gameA brutal, uncompromising examination of social determinism that proves the most terrifying weapon in an RPG isn't a sword, but a ledger of your own fa...Great8.8
