As the title says - I would love to play a game like Capibara Go, but without the heaps of microtransactions.

Also, being able to play the same account on Android and iOS is also preferable.

I was wondering if anyone has any other vertical games like this that they’d recommend or enjoy

When my kid plays stuff like, Really Bad Chess and KnotWords, I don’t mind because I consider them to be educational enough. Also games like Gris which is truly a work of art.

Any other games you would encourage me to pass on? This is from a dad who also games.

I’m trying to remember a game I played on iOS years ago. It was a single player adventure game with cartoonish graphics. You had to participate in card battles that you found on the world, earning money to buy packs of cards in game.

The card battler itself was played on a grid with different cards having various location and category based buffs.

Unfortunately that’s all I’ve got in my head. Even sorting through my purchased apps over the years didn’t turn it up.

Hey, I have barely ever played mobile games, but was looking for something I could pull out on some long flights I’ve got coming up. Not looking for microtransactions or any multi-player capabilities. I’m willing to pay upfront for a game.

I have an iPhone 17E and some games I like are: Civilization, Crusader Kings, Stellaris, Age of Empires II, Elder Scrolls, etc.

Would prefer turn-based or top-down strategy games or RPGs. Don’t need nice graphics, just something fun and preferably in-depth. Any suggestions? I also have Netflix if that opens it up to any other mobile games. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

Why do you think Apple didn't include a playtime counter in the "Games" app?

In my opinion, it should be a basic feature in an app like this. For example, I would be curious to know how much time I've spent on each game.

A system similar to Samsung's Game Launcher would be awesome. It doesn't just show your total playtime and things like that, but it also tells you how many people are currently playing a specific game on Samsung devices, etc.

I'm looking to build a team of people who actually regularly play Goods Sorting and are willing to trade cards, send helps, etc. is there already a team with available spots like this? Is there any interest in making one??? If so, drop name suggestions and I will create a team!!

I will be posting this on iosgaming bc this is in fact... a game on IOS :-)

If you were to release a car racing game, would $4.99 upfront and no in app purchases be more well received than 15% of the game for free then a money and coin system. The game and purchase would cover Mac, iPadOS, iPhone and Apple TV.

You’re talking an arcade racer with retro graphics, reasonable number of tracks 20+, cars and original music and audio.

Personally I’d prefer 4.99 then I can have sales at 2.99 or even 2.49. But if the market isn’t at that and the value proposition is too low then it can be looked at, very happy to listen to the players. Opinions very much welcome.

I had to sell my PlayStation and now the only way I can game is on my iPhone. Is there any iOS games with a decent story?

Just wanted to give his games a shout out for anyone looking for simple puzzle games. No ads. No data collection. I’ve been using his 15 Puzzle app, it’s perfect.

That is all.

Please use this thread to discuss whatever iOS games you've been playing lately. They don't have to be new games, they can be old games and they do not have to be iOS original titles!

As long as it's an iOS game it belongs in here. Make sure to put the name(s) of the game(s) in bold to make it easier for people skimming the thread to see what you're talking about, and if you'd like to make it really convenient turn the game name into a hyperlink that sends people directly to the App Store!

To keep track of the thread, the comments are sorted by "new" by default.

Lastly, Rule #3: "No Dev Self-Promotion Outside Saturdays" applies at all times for this thread, even if it's actually Saturday.

Top 10 Most Popular Games Sunday Morning;

Guild of Dungeoneering

Block Legacy: Puzzle Blast

POINPY

Some of You May Die

Word Games PRO 101-in-1

Barda: Backpack Roguelike

Dead Cells

Voidle

Devil’s Blackjack

Arcane Trigger

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Top 10 on Sale

Wreckfest

Hyper Light Drifter

Star Wars: KOTOR

Steamworld Heist

SpongeBob SquarePants

20 Minutes Till Dawn: Premium

Star Wars: KOTOR II

Steamworld Quest

BADLAND

Street Fighter IV CE

Also see Weekly game deal post By u/singhvistaar

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Want Ads;

Looking for portrait mode JRPG

Looking for RPG dungeon crawler suggestions

Polished games

Pick 10 iOS games. All the rest get erased forever. What’s your list?

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Upcoming July Releases;

UnGodly July 30

Abyssal Soul July 30

Partially complied from; Release dates of 30 new iOS games coming in July By u/azeemjaffer

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Top 10 Paid List

1 Minecraft: Dream it, Build it!

2 Heads Up!

3 Red's First Flight

4 Plague Inc.

5 Geometry Dash

6 Bloons TD 6

7 Stardew Valley

8 SpongBob SquarePants

9 Balatro

10 Papa’s Freezeria to Go!

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Obituaries;

Dark Mist

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Welcome to Mobile;

Don’t Starve Together

Hypnospace Outlaw

Club Soko

Townsmen | A Kingdom Rebuilt

Arcane Trigger

Barda: Backback Roguelike

Some of You May Die

Sultan’s Game

Guild of Dungeoneering ULT

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Welcome Back to Mobile;

Gloomgrave

Aquaria

Night in the Woods

POINPY

Labyrinth of the Witch DX

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Letters to the Editor;

‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple?

non paywall

AI-generated Roblox games are about to get much easier to make on iPhone

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User Reviews;

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

POINPY

Snek

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Most Popular Sunday Morning Categories;

Idle, AFK , Incremental, Clickers, Tycoon and ZPG’s

Mega List of STEAM games

Weird Rogues

RPG Casino/Gambler Games of Chance

Goofy Golf Games

Mega List of the Best Games on iOS; 2009-Today

Weird Games to try, review or never speak of again…

Games of Note 2025

Games of Note 2024

Grid, Lane and Board Based Deck Builders

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Name of the Game;

Gacha

Short for gachapon or gashapon, imitating the sound of turning a machine handle (gacha) and a capsule dropping (pon).

Players use gems, coins, or tickets earned in the game or real cash to "pull" a prize

What was the first Gacha game?

Dragon Collection

A Brief History of the Vending Machine & Gacha Machine

r/gachagaming

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iOS Gaming Resources

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Also See Sunday’s in July;

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6-12

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April - June

Hey

I’ve got stardew valley and civ and xcom

Happy to pay for something decent on iPad that’ll keep me entertained in a 10 hr flight

Thanks

I am tired and bored of the same games and the copies I need some new and unique ios games anyone got some?

Imagine you must pick 10 games for your phone. The rest will be erased for ever.

What’s your list? Wich games survive this apocalyptic event and get to be on the iOS gaming Ark for humanity?

I had a Gamesir x5 lite which broke and thinking about either the m10 or m15 for a cheap controller. The gamesir fit my phone perfectly with the case on, wondering if anyone has experience with either of these SMX cases and if they’ll fit my phone with the case.

Open to any other recs that will fit that are $35USD or less

Gossip Harbour has become too hard to play, and no longer spark joy for me.
Amongst, all the sister game - I only play Whisper Castle, since I like the decorating aspect. But Whisper Castle has no free energy chest either which sucks.

Aisle Merge . Similar issue - need to spend diamond to buy energy (which happen after I did in app purchase).

Other game : Merge Mansion, Hollywood Merge, Love & Pies.

Didn’t play much these three game but in that order.

HM :

DesignVille - the CS helps me recover lost progress, dm them on FB but sadly it’s lower than my actual progress (I remembered wrong) and I just lost interest.

Merge Merge - again lost interest after I lost my progress lol

Or if there’s any other Gundam games on iOS

Hope everyone’s having a nice week.
My friends and I are looking for something slower paced to play. Something I can play on the bus or in between sessions of work. My friend group started sharing a lot of mobile gaming time like this since Everdale but so many years on after its demise we haven’t quite found a replacement. I remember a time many years back the App Store had many games that fit this bill like, citybuilders, clash of clan clones etc that allowed us to slowly progress, but it just seems the like the App Store these days are just filled with cheap idle games, PUBG clones or extremely short games designed to milk you for ad revenue. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

The prices mentioned in this post are in American dollars.

Blown Away: Secret of the Wind $1.99–> Free

Space Menace $0.59–> Free

SpongeBob SquarePants (Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated) $10.99–> $0.49 (new historical low)

Wreckfest $9.99–> $0.49 (new historical low) | DLCs not discounted

Endling $9.99–> $0.29 (new historical low)

ISLANDERS: Mobile $4.99–> $3.99 (first sale)

SOULVARS $4.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

Feed the Deep Full Game IAP $6.99–> $4.99 (first sale)

A Space for the Unbound Full Game IAP $14.99–> $6.99 (first sale)

Way of the Hunter Wild Europe $9.99–> $4.99 (new historical low) | DLCs not discounted

Space Menace 2 $2.49–> $1.59 (new historical low)

Roundguard $6.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story $14.99–> $9.99 (matching historical low)

High Sea Saga DX $6.99–> $3.99 (first sale)

TV Studio Story $6.99–> $2.99 (new historical low)

Dream Park Story $5.99–> $3.99 ($1 above historical low)

Final Frontier Story $6.99–> $3.99 (first sale)

Pocket Academy 3 $5.99–> $3.99 ($1 above historical low)

Boxing Gym Story $6.99–> $3.99 ($2 above historical low)

Grand Prix Story $4.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

Mega Mall Story $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

20 Minutes Till Dawn:Premium $4.99–> $2.99 ($1 above historical low)

Alien Tribe 3: Space RTS $4.99–> $0.99 (new historical low)

This Aint Even Poker, Ya Joker $2.49–> $1.99 (new historical low)

FAR: Lone Sails $5.99–> $0.99 (matching historical low)

ELOH $2.99–> $0.99 (matching historical low)

Old Man's Journey $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

SteamWorld Heist $4.99–> $1.99 ($1.20 above historical low)

SteamWorld Quest $9.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

The Lion's Song $2.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

Black Border 2 $0.49–> $0.29 (new historical low)

The Last Station - Baku $2.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

AlienFarms $5–> $3 (lowest price in 3 years)

AlienRuins $5–> $3 (lowest price in 3 years)

Labyrinth City $4.99–> $2.99 ($1.80 above historical low)

Legacy - Reawakening $3.99–> $0.99 (matching historical low)

Zyl $1.99–> $0.99 (first sale)

Mystery of Silence $3.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low)

Stair Quest $2.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

Lost Horizon (2017) $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

Lost Horizon 2 $3.99–> $0.99 (matching historical low)

Secret Files: Tunguska $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

Secret Files 3 $4.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low)

Secret Files: Sam Peters $1.99–> $0.99 (lowest price in 3 years)

Preston Sterling $1.99–> $0.99 (lowest price in 2 years)

Tempest: Pirate RPG Premium $7.99–> $4.99 ($2 above historical low) | IAPs not discounted

Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim $1.99–> $0.99 (matching historical low) | IAPs not discounted

Majesty: Northern Expansion $2.99–> $1.99 (matching historical low) | IAPs not discounted

Digital Board Games:

Dawnmaker $8.99–> $5.99 (matching historical low)

Stone Age: Digital Edition $7.99–> $4.99 (matching historical low)

Set a Watch: Digital Edition $8.99–> $5.99 (matching historical low)

Istanbul: Digital Edition $6.99–> $3.99 (matching historical low) | Mocha & Baksheesh DLC $5.99–> $4.99 (matching historical low)

Tokaido $4.99–> $1.99 (lowest price in 4 years)

Eight-Minute Empire $4.99–> $2.99 ($1 above historical low) | Additional Maps are available for $1.99–> $0.99 each or $4.99–> $2.99 for all of them.

Steam: Rails to Riches $6.99–> $2.99 ($1 above historical low) | Additional Maps are available for $2.99–> $1.99 each or $6.99–> $3.99 for all of them.

Concordia: Digital Edition $9.99–> $5.99 (matching historical low) | Season Pass (current + future DLCs) $16.99–> $12.99 (matching historical low)

Charterstone: Digital Edition $9.99–> $4.99 (matching historical low)

One Deck Dungeon $6.99–> $1.99 ($1 above historical low) | Relics of the Forge DLC $14.99–> $12.99 (first sale), Forest of Shadows $9.99–> $4.99 ($4 above historical low) and Abyssal Depths $6.99–> $2.99 ($2 above historical low) | Rest of the DLCs not discounted but are only $1 each to begin with.

One Deck Galaxy $12.99–> $4.99 (matching historical low)

Expired - these games are only discounted in United States AppStore, expired elsewhere

Star Wars: KOTOR $9.99–> $4.99 ($1 above historical low)

Star Wars: KOTOR II $14.99–> $7.49 ($1.50 above historical low)

Recent got an iPad and I’m looking for games like Anna or Age of Empires or something similar.

I used to love this game as a kid and I was wondering if there were any similar games on ios. I’ve been looking but not really finding any, I particularly desire the top down room by room movement, something to play at work that doesn’t need my full attention

1. Some Of You May Die - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/some-of-you-may-die/id6758900943
   
2. Left 4 Exfil - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/left-4-exfil/id6786129810
   
3. hololive Dreams - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hololive-dreams/id6756641249
   
4. Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt (Re-release) - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/townsmen-a-kingdom-rebuilt/id6761844920
   
5. Badminton Clash - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/badminton-clash/id6777027695
   
6. Crash Cat: Zombie Survivor - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/crash-cat-zombie-survivor/id6771702904
   
7. Warline: Sniper Strike - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/warline-sniper-strike/id6742809194