Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 113
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
Featured on Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Tearscape
Action gameTearscape has a coherent Souls-like skeleton and strong boss design, but a weak map, thin enemy variety, uneven difficulty and a combat model that lea...Mixed6.2Dobudex
Education gameLimited free scans, rarity tied to scan counts and card stats with no use make Dobudex hard to recommend beyond casual family walks. The Dex, offline ...Mixed5.9Your Chronicle
RPG gameA large catalogue of story actions and a smart offline-progression track can't fully offset a slow, grindy opening and a late game that leans on waiti...Mixed6.5Ten Dates
Adventure gameA well-cast live-action speed-dating romcom whose bite-sized dates keep every connection shallow and the package thin; the choice engine is clever, bu...Mixed6.1Out There: Ω Edition
Adventure gameOut There: Ω Edition is a bleak, well-written survival roguelike whose blunt randomness, opaque endgame and thin onboarding make it hard to recommend ...Mixed6.7Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Adventure gameOxenfree II: Lost Signals has sharp writing, a strong adult lead and a soundtrack that gets under your skin, but it sticks too closely to the origin...Good7.1Powder
Adventure gamePOWDER strips the roguelike down to its sharpest bones and fits it in your pocket. It trades the arcane depth of NetHack for something rarer on iOS: a...Good7.3
Stone Story RPG
Adventure gameStone Story RPG turns ASCII art into some of the most expressive animation in indie gaming, and it hides a real programming language under its idle-RP...Great8.2SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Candy Box 2
Adventure gameCandy Box 2 remains a clever bait-and-switch: a free, open-source ASCII RPG that unfolds from a single candy counter. We recommend the desktop browser...Good7.1Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Dawncaster
Card gameDawncaster is one of the more generous roguelike deckbuilders around — a sprawling card RPG that layers talents, gear and enchantments onto the Slay t...Great8.2Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3Legend 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 ...Great8.6Nowhere 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...Mixed6.6Sultan'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...Good7.8ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Adventure gameATOM RPG is the most faithful successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that anyone has managed in a quarter-century — a dense, funny, genuinely nonlinear Sovi...Mixed6.8Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Where Winds Meet
Action gameA generous, mechanically rich wuxia open world whose cosmetic-only model and strong campaign are undercut by a thin endgame and a punishing install si...Good7.5
