Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 3
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
Consume Me
RPG gameConsume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject playable rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...Great8.5CloverPit
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...Good7.7Chess.com
Board gameChess.com is the most complete chess product available on a phone — a sprawling, polished, occasionally exhausting ecosystem built to make you a bette...Great8.4Star Traders: Frontiers
RPG gameA staggeringly deep sandbox space RPG that rewards patience with emergent storytelling—if you can survive an onboarding process that feels like being ...Good7.7Iris and the Giant
Card gameLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...Good7.1Pocket 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....Good7.2Kingdom Rush
Action gameA decade-plus on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense remains one of the sharpest-designed games in its genre—tight, funny, and built with real care. We ...Great8.7
Nubby'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...Good7.8Wingspan
Board gameMonster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a faithful, gorgeous translation of one of the decade's best board games — calming, mechanically deep, and...Great8.0Coromon
Adventure gameCoromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes several of them. A stamin...Good7.4Niche - 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...Good7.6Beholder
Adventure gameA morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — oppressive, ambitious, and at times so punishing it forgets to l...Good7.1Amazing 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...Good7.5Solitairica
Card gameSolitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...Good7.3Card Crawl
Card gameCard Crawl takes the loneliness of solitaire and weaponizes it into a taut, brutal little dungeon crawler. It's a superb example of mobile game design...Great8.2Slayaway Camp
Puzzle gameA Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, Slayaway Camp smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...Good7.5Infinitode 2
Strategy gameInfinitode 2 is a mathematically dense, fanatically fair tower defense marathon that rewards obsessives and punishes the impatient. It's a solid, dist...Good7.8Gordian Quest
Adventure gameGordian Quest is a genuinely ambitious hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...Good7.3Kittens Game
Simulation gameA brilliant, uncompromising spreadsheet-style simulation that transforms simple catnip gathering into a sprawling, long-haul space odyssey. It earns a...Great8.1Planet 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...Good7.0Nova Drift
Action gameNova Drift is what happens when you cross-breed the frantic DNA of Asteroids with the obsessive depth of an ARPG skill tree. It is a deeply clever p...Great8.8Vault of the Void
Card gameVault of the Void is a rigorous, deeply rewarding take on the roguelike deckbuilder that systematically dismantles the RNG-heavy frustrations of the g...Great8.8Lichess
Board gameLichess remains the benchmark for digital chess — a powerful, ad-free, uncompromisingly free platform that puts commercial rivals to shame through she...Outstanding9.6
