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
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Adventure gameA handsome, wordless point-and-click adventure with a real emotional idea behind it, held back by its brevity and a few puzzles that lean on guesswork...Good7.4LEGO Builder's Journey
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster — but at $19.99 for r...Mixed6.5Blackbox
Puzzle gameBlackbox weaponizes every sensor Apple ever crammed into an iPhone and turns your entire life into a puzzle board. It's genuinely original in a way al...Great8.6Lara Croft GO
Adventure gameLara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and keeps most of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, and while the difficu...Good7.8Myst
Adventure gameCyan's Unreal Engine remake of Myst is a solid, careful modernization of a foundational adventure game, with smart puzzle randomization as its one gen...Good7.4inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9Hoplite
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
Rytmos
Music gameRytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a clarity few rhythm hybrids manage, and its world-music curriculum is enriching. A shaky iOS port an...Good7.4Really Bad Chess
Board gameZach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and produces a genuinely accessible, replayable take on the game....Good7.8Puzzmo
Puzzle gamePuzzmo is a sharp, thoughtfully designed collection of daily puzzles built by people who clearly love the form. But its slow squeeze on free players m...Good7.4Railbound
Puzzle gameRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...Great8.3Storyteller
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 ...Good7.6Is This Seat Taken?
Puzzle gameA featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...Good7.4Where Cards Fall
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they rarely earn the "puz...Mixed6.6Broken Age
Adventure gameDouble Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...Mixed6.5The Gardens Between
Adventure gameA wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...Good7.6The Big Con
Adventure gameA charming, big-hearted throwback that leans on comedy and warmth more than mechanics — short, funny, and touching, so long as expectations don't incl...Good7.0Two Dots
Board gameTwo Dots is an elegantly designed puzzle game with a genuinely deep core mechanic — and a quietly persistent free-to-play economy that works against t...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...Great8.0Old Man's Journey
Adventure gameA wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that lands like a short story — affecting, if slight. The puzzles rarely push back, s...Good7.4Nubby's Number Factory
Puzzle gameA gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, Nubby's Number Factory turns bouncing a ball off pegs into a compulsive buil...Good7.8Pythagorea
Education appA ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. For anyone who wants to feel the logic behind a...Great8.2Type:Rider
Action appType:Rider is a beautiful, atmospheric history lesson—a striking platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up to the strength of its concept. W...Good7.1
