Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 243
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
Myst
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...Good7.4Card of Darkness
Adventure gameZach Gage and Pendleton Ward built a genuinely clever risk-reward loop, then locked it behind a subscription wall. If you already pay for Apple Arcade...Good7.7Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9Expelled!
Adventure gameinkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...Great8.2CloverPit
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...Good7.6Chuchel
Adventure gameCHUCHEL is barely a game and mostly a delight — a brief Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away; if you ...Good7.1Storyteller
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
Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Adventure gameA quietly clever little RPG that reads your character by watching what you do, not what you say—and the results can land closer to home than any q...Good7.5Where 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...Mixed6.6Grimvalor
Action gameGrimvalor is a sharp, demanding action platformer that treats phones like real gaming hardware—no ads, no microtransactions, no compromises on difficu...Good7.9Death Road to Canada
Action gameA savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...Good7.7Broken 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...Mixed6.5Ball x Pit
Action gameBall x Pit fuses Breakout, Vampire Survivors and a city-builder into a roguelite with real skill expression and a deep build-crafting hook. A grindy l...Great8.2Highwater
Action gameHighwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure with a drowned world worth drifting through—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...Mixed6.2The 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...Good7.6Afterimage
Action gameAfterimage is a strikingly beautiful Metroidvania with design that doesn't always keep pace with its art. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, mechanic...Good7.1Fortnite
Action gameFortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...Good7.5Moonstone 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...Good7.1The 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...Good7.0Athenian Rhapsody
Adventure gameA solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...Good7.5Old 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...Good7.4Hidden Folks
Adventure gameA hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for patience, craft, and a huge library of sound effects made with a h...Good7.8Feist
Action gameFeist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, frequently mad...Mixed6.0