A lot of people are getting gaming phones these days, but I still like my latest iPhone the best for gaming. With more than a million apps in the App Store, there are so many great games for the iPhone that it’s almost impossible to choose just one. iPhone games used to be just a simple way for me to pass the time on my way to work, while I waited for the kettle to boil, or even while I waited for my favourite video game, Destiny, to load.
But that was back then, and now it’s different. In case you didn’t know, today’s options are just as polished (and fun!) as many console games. Now that there are more games on the App Store than there are stars in the Milky Way, it’s important to pick the best ones. These iPhone games are a great way to kill time, whether you’re travelling, at home, or looking for a serious challenge. You can also talk to other players from all over the world, which is pretty cool. Below, we have mentioned best iPhone Games.
Best iPhone Games
PUBG Mobile
Fortnite may now be missing from the App Store as Apple and Epic Games settle their dispute over App Store fees. However, it is possible to get a taste of the battle royale fix with “PUBG Mobile,” a surprisingly good port of the popular shooter “Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds.
The iOS version of “PUBG Mobile” runs much more smoothly than the PC and console versions. There are familiar maps here, such as Erangel and Vikendi, but there is also a map made specifically for smartphones called Livik. Like other games in this genre, PUBG Mobile is free to download, and there are plenty of opportunities for in-app purchases. However, you can enjoy the game extensively without spending a dime, if you so desire.
Rush Rally Origins
Rush Rally Origins is both the latest entry in the series and a love letter to its past. It gives you the lauded and suitably weighty physics from Rush Rally 3 and combines that with a top-down view and more arcade-oriented feel. The result is an exhilarating mix of old-school racer and modern technology.
Visually, this is a stunning game, with gorgeous courses that zip by as your car kicks up dust while drifting around corners. The courses are tricky, but mastery reaps rewards as you chip away at time trial targets. You can also pit yourself against other racers, in multi-car scraps against hardcore computer opponents.
The entire product looks and feels the part and works superbly on iPhone. The icing on the cake is how configurable everything is, letting you adjust the on-screen controls to suit your preferences – and thumbs.
Genshin Impact
Genshin Impact is a messy open-world role-playing game in which you and your twin become interstellar travelers trapped on Teivat, a planet inhabited by gods and monsters. Forming a team of four elemental heroes, you explore the world, defeat monsters, and unravel the mysteries of Teivat’s history.
The game is bright and colorful, with a world comparable in size to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and much of this world has yet to be revealed, promising players many, many major updates before they will be able to explore it all. But the real driving force of the game is its charming, fully-voiced characters, each with their own intricate stories that intertwine with the main plot and the stories of the other characters.
Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale
Meteofall Krumit’s Tale is the ultimate evolution of the game, combining turn-based strategy, deck building, and RPGs and squeezing the resulting playfield into a small grid. Your objective is to defeat enemies in a 3×3 playfield by carefully utilizing your cards. However, cards are not dealt to your hand; they are bought or discarded with money.
Whether you acquire weapons, sell armor, or take on enemies, every decision is made by weighing the risks and rewards. At first you may feel overwhelmed and a few attempts may quickly end in failure. But you will find that “Krumit’s Tale” is a strategy game with great art, a wide range of game modes, and enough depth to keep you strategizing for months.
Pokémon Go
Five years and more than one billion downloads later, “Pokémon Go” continues to be one of the most popular mobile games of all time, as Niantic and The Pokémon Company teamed up to combine all the fun and nostalgia of the classic Pokémon games with real world Pokémon Go can be played from anywhere in the world, and the gameplay changes depending on where you go. The locations of activity in the game are all based on the real world, including small stores, museums, and landmarks, inviting you to explore the world around you through a new lens. Depending on the time of day and the weather, the appearance rate of Pokémon and the performance of your Pokémon will also change.
The driving force behind Pokémon GO’s success, aside from the almost universal affection for Pikachu and his friends, is how well Niantic has responded to the community. When the global pandemic began and it became very difficult to play Pokémon GO, Niantic revamped much of the gameplay, including the Pokémon GO Fest and Pokémon GO Community Day. Niantic really hit it out of the park with this one.
Kingdom Two Crowns
Kingdom Two Crowns is an iPhone game that begins with a monarch on horseback who uses the gold coins in his hands to subdue the locals. Once you have trained your archers, you can hunt local wildlife for dinner. Elsewhere, fences are set up and your crude campfire is transformed into a not-so-crude fortress. Because when the sun goes down, the Greedo will come to you.
These creepy beasts are there to steal things. If they get their hands on a worker’s tool, you will have to spend money to upgrade it again. If they take your crown, your reign is over and your heirs will have to figure out how to defeat the Greedo. With its lush pixel art, expansive side-scrolling landscape, and smart mix of real-time strategy and action, Kingdom Two Crowns is a mobile masterpiece.
Among Us
Among Us is, at its core, a very simple game. Each crew, consisting of up to 10 players, is given a job to perform on a spaceship or alien planet. However, at least one of the crew members is an imposter, a monstrous alien who wants to kill the crew. If the impostor kills the crew members before the crew realizes who they are (and chases them out into space), they win.
If the crew can get rid of the imposters or complete their mission before they are outnumbered, the crew wins, kind of like a sci-fi “crew” game. The fun of this game lies in its simplicity: a single match takes less than 15 minutes, making it a great party game, but it can also be played randomly with players from around the world.
Peak’s Edge
Peak’s Edge joins a growing subgenre of shoebox turn-based strategy games that are gaining popularity on the iPhone. In this game, a small pyramid scuttles through a single-screen level, trying to beat its enemies to the finish line. Much of the strategy lies in the various power-ups scattered about. As you roll a power-up, that power-up is applied to the face of the pyramid. To defeat the enemy, it is important to correctly assess your position before attacking.
It soon becomes clear that Peak’s Edge is easy to get into, but difficult to master–with procedurally generated levels, 25 different skills, and 30 different types of armor, there is a lot to do. Though free to play, we treat this as a premium game. That’s because IAP removes the obtrusive ads and unlocks the unlimited undos you need to have the best experience possible.
Super Mario Run
If anyone knows how to make great games, it is Nintendo, but the giant ship rarely produces mobile games directly. Super Mario Run was one of the few games Nintendo offered on iOS and was the first mobile game to feature Mario. It builds on the basic side-scrolling fun of the classic “Super Mario Bros.” and is packed with modern graphics and fun new elements.
With the game’s up-to-date graphics and new ways to play, it’s no wonder it ranked in the top 20 mobile games of all time. Your Super Mario Run account is linked to your My Nintendo account, where you can earn lots of Platinum Points every day and redeem them for great rewards.
Maze Machina
Maze Machina” finds you, the rat, in a maze. Unfortunately, the maze is not a piece of cardboard with cheese at the end, but an intricate clockwork structure built by an upset robot to test his mini-mess.
The objective is to find the key and the exit. But every tile on the 4×4 grid serves as a power-up. As you swipe and move, other tiles follow suit. So you have to strategize to reach the goal without getting stabbed by a small stinging robot or having your key blown up by a bomb.
Every game feels like a new challenge with endless combinations. But the slide-based mechanics make it accessible. This game is an excellent example of “easy to play, hard to master,” condensing a large amount of strategy into a small space and a short game in a brilliant way.
Alto’s Odyessy
Beautiful art design and a rich, soothing soundtrack make “Alto’s Odyssey” stand out among the many endless runner games in the App Store. The game follows Alto, a llama herder, as he snowboards down mountain slopes around the world. With a challenge system and a variety of unlockable characters, this is a game that can be played over and over again.
Plus, Zen mode lets you fly down the highest mountains far and wide without losing points for crashing. You can practice your jumps with beautiful dynamic weather and lighting, mixed with the most relaxing music you’ve ever heard. Alto’s Odyssey is definitely one of the best iPhone games ever.
Starbeard
Starbeard is a game in which a clan of space gnomes tries to protect their garden from aliens that closely resemble garden pests. But to sting them, they must use their brains rather than their sword skills. That’s because “Starbeard” is a match-puzzle. In this game, you willingly follow conventions. You can only move items at the bottom of each row, and the key to killing bugs is the hero’s position in the grid.
Your attack, however, relies on actions that become available only when fully charged by matching specific items. Thus, “Starbeard” requires more than the usual gem matching game to be a few moves ahead. The game’s setting also requires a strategy that relies on brains rather than finger dexterity in order to beat the pesky bugs.
Final Words
A device’s operating system is a piece of comprehensive software that controls all of its memory and activities. In essence, it makes the hardware usable; without an operating system, it would be useless. iOS games is only compatible with Apple devices.
Android, a mobile operating system developed by Google that is adopted by several different tech manufacturers since it is open source, is its biggest competition. On the other hand, both of these software solutions have their own groups of supporters. Some might claim that its privacy and security settings are more advanced than those of the vast majority of Android devices since it receives updates superior too.
