Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 125
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
Spirit Island
Board gameHandelabra's adaptation of one of tabletop's most demanding cooperative games is faithful to a fault — strong rules automation and real depth, held ba...Good7.7Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Rift 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...Good7.3Sunderfolk
RPG gameSunderfolk turns four phones into four character sheets and, in doing so, builds a genuinely convincing digital board game night. It's strong with fri...Good7.8Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...Mixed6.0Yes, 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...Good7.8
Antihero
Board gameAntihero compresses a full night of board-game scheming into the length of a coffee break, with an economy of design few games in the genre match. Buy...Good7.5Timelie
Adventure gameUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...Good7.8Through the Ages
Board gameCGE Digital's adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil's civilization epic is the rare port that improves on its source material — a dense, brutal, brilliant stra...Great8.6Teamfight 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...Good7.7Isle of Arrows
Board gameDaniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced a quietly clever strategy game worth a look — provided you can mak...Good7.6Good Sudoku
Puzzle gameZach Gage and Jack Schlesinger took the most solved-out puzzle in human history and fixed everything around it, building a sudoku app that actually te...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...Great8.2Athena Crisis
Strategy gameSolid, systems-first grid tactics with one genuinely fresh idea — Invasions — held back by a short campaign, exploitable AI, and a cramped mobile inte...Good7.2King of Dragon Pass
Adventure gameDecades on, King of Dragon Pass remains a high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic and every decis...Great8.3868-HACK
Adventure gameMichael Brough packed remarkable strategic depth into a 6x6 grid, and 868-HACK still makes one of the sharpest cases that constraint — not content...Great8.5Cinco Paus
Adventure gameMichael Brough's Portuguese-language mystery-box roguelike turns not knowing what your tools do into the entire game — and it's one of the smartest ...Great8.6The Jackbox Party Pack
Family gameThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...Mixed6.9Terraforming Mars
Board gameTerraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while stumbling on presentat...Mixed6.5Outlanders
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...Good7.2Clash 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...Good7.7Hoplite
Puzzle gameTwelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains a benchmark-free but genuinely excellent take on turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars b...Great8.3
