Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 9
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
Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2TimeGuessr
Education gameTimeGuessr's two-axis deduction — where and when — is a genuinely smart twist on the GeoGuessr formula, but the app around it is a thin shell: no po...Mixed6.7Pokémon TCG Pocket
Card gameA gorgeous pack-opening ritual and a generous free daily cadence can't carry battles that come down to coin flips and a trading system that barely tra...Mixed6.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Rusty Lake: Roots
Adventure gameRusty Lake: Roots is the rare puzzle game that uses its puzzles as narrative grammar rather than filler, telling a generational horror story without a...Great8.2Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4
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...Mixed6.6Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!
Card gameA solitaire game welded to a horse racing sim by the studio that makes Pokémon, and the weld mostly holds. It's a strange, well-built career loop on A...Good7.6Moises
Music appMoises does one genuinely hard thing — pulling a finished record apart into playable stems — and wraps it in a strong set of practice tools. The engin...Good7.7Dungeons 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...Mixed6.8Arknights
Card gameArknights is a gacha game where the strategy layer isn't set dressing for the pull screen — it's the whole point, and it holds up. The price of admiss...Good7.8Descenders
Action gameRageSquid built a physics model strong enough to carry an entire genre experiment, and the result is a genuinely demanding skill curve in action sport...Good7.5Working Copy
Developer Tools appWorking Copy is the best Git client on iOS by such a margin that "best" undersells it — it's the load-bearing wall of the entire iPad development stor...Outstanding9.4UTM
Productivity appUTM SE is a genuine historical artifact — the first real PC emulator Apple let through the App Store door — and it's free, open-source, and honestly b...Mixed6.0Kathy 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...Good7.3Spirit 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...Great8.4
