Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
98 reviewed
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Enter the Gungeon
Dodge Roll
Enter the Gungeon is a masterclass in mechanical precision, proving that a punishing difficulty curve is entirely palatable when the core combat loop ...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn't just a remaster; it's a surgically precise and hilariously subversive critique of video games themselves. It's...

Baba Is You
Hempuli Oy
An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...

Kingdom Rush
Ironhide Game Studio
More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

XCOM 2 Collection
Firaxis Games
The XCOM 2 Collection isn't just a game; it's a crucible. Firaxis Games has crafted the gold standard of turn-based tactics, a masterclass in tension ...

Type:Rider
Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

BOKURA
Outlaw Game design, James Scott
BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Bugsnax
Young Horses
A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

Moonlighter
Digital Sun
Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

Holedown
grapefrukt games
A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Phoenotopia: Awakening
Cape Cosmic
Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

FAR: Lone Sails
Okomotive
FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

Planet Coaster
Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac)
Planet Coaster offers an incredibly deep, piece-by-piece digital construction set that redefines park customization but struggles to deliver a compell...

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Funday Games
A brilliant adaptation of the co-op franchise that elevates the auto-shooter genre with tactical, fully destructible terrain and tense crowd-control d...

SNKRX
a327ex
A brilliant, hyper-addictive fusion of classic *Snake* movement and deep auto-battler drafting that turns tactical positioning into a chaotic, high-st...

Linelight
My Dog Zorro
Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Muse Dash
peropero
Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...

Streets of Rage 4
Dotemu, Guard Crush, Lizardcube
Streets of Rage 4 is a spectacular masterclass in genre revival, blending hand-drawn artistic brilliance with a mechanical depth that sets a new high-...

Nova Drift
Chimeric
Nova 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 masterclass in ...

Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
A masterclass in "anti-handholding" design, Drova - Forsaken Kin is a grim, rewarding throwback that proves friction is often the secret ingredient to...

Enter the Gungeon
Dodge Roll
Enter the Gungeon is a masterclass in mechanical precision, proving that a punishing difficulty curve is entirely palatable when the core combat loop ...

Invisible, Inc.
Klei Entertainment
A masterclass in tactical economy that ditches random dice rolls for high-stakes, information-driven tension. It is the thinking person’s heist simula...

Magic Research
R18DC Studio
Magic Research is a meticulously balanced, text-driven masterclass in incremental design that trades flashy graphics for deep, compounding systems and...

Dungeon Clawler
Stray Fawn Studio
Dungeon Clawler is a masterclass in skeuomorphic chaos, proving that the most dangerous weapon in a dungeon isn’t a magic missile, but a poorly calibr...

I Am Your Beast
Strange Scaffold
I Am Your Beast is a hyper-caffeinated, "all-killer, no-filler" revenge thriller that turns the FPS genre into a frantic puzzle of improvisational vio...

Shogun Showdown
Roboatino
Shogun Showdown is a masterclass in tactical restraint, proving that a single dimension is all you need for a deep, punishing, and utterly addictive s...

Zenless Zone Zero
COGNOSPHERE PTE. LTD.
Zenless Zone Zero is a hyper-stylized, kinetic masterpiece of action design that occasionally trips over its own experimental navigation systems. It i...

Super Hexagon
Terry Cavanagh
Super Hexagon is an exercise in minimalist perfection that weaponizes frustration into a pure, rhythmic flow state. It is a brutal, essential mastercl...

Brotato
Blobfish
Brotato is a masterclass in distilled complexity, stripping the "survivors-like" genre to its mathematical bones and proving that true depth doesn't r...