Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 3
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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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
Broken 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...Good7.4Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4Dungeon Munchies
Action gameA cooking-based progression system gives this side-scrolling action RPG a real idea to build around, even if clumsy platforming and a rushed final act...Good7.8Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Dungeons 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...Good7.8Sultan's Game
Adventure gameA ruthless card-draw RPG that turns moral compromise into a resource you spend weekly, Sultan's Game is an audacious narrative design held back by a...Good7.8Sonority
Adventure gameSonority makes music itself the level design rather than the soundtrack — a genuinely novel idea undermined by a control scheme that fights its own be...Mixed6.8Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Adventure gameClifftop Games took an already-sharp 2016 detective yarn and fixed nearly everything worth fixing — the ending, the pacing, the interface. What's left...Good7.3
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...Good7.7Huntdown
Action gameHuntdown is a lesson in execution over invention — a cover-based arcade shooter built like a lost Contra sequel directed by John Carpenter. It's short...Great8.4Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Kill 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...Good7.8The 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...Great8.4Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Blue 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 ...Mixed6.8Rift 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...Good7.8Primordia
Adventure gamePrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...Good7.8Heaven Will Be Mine
Adventure gameA dense, politically serious visual novel that treats giant robots as a language for talking about desire and self-determination — and mostly gets awa...Good7.4WorldBox - God Simulator
RPG gameWorldBox is a rare, uncompromising sandbox — a toy box of civilizations you can nurture for hours or vaporize in four seconds — held back by a late ga...Good7.5Nauticrawl
Puzzle gameNauticrawl hands you a stolen machine, no instructions, and a hostile planet, then trusts you to figure it out — and that trust produces one of the pu...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...Good7.8Yes, 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
