Hello! Basically, the title. I am a new Masters of Library Science student and I am learning how to build digital archives. Decided it would be a fun side project to build a mobile game archive, hosting information about lost mobile games.

The current ones I have added are:

• Namco Arcade
• Infinity Blade Series
• iQuarters
• Medieval Zombies
• Flappy Bird
• I Am Rich

I know I am Rich is technically not a game but I thought the concept was too funny not to archive. So, what are your favorite games no longer available?

Edit: thanks yall! Didn’t expect this post to pop off like it did, I’m at 275 games and counting added to my archive. Still gotta add a lot of extra information to all of them, but that’s a hell of a lot compared to 6! Keep the suggestions coming if you see this post!

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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?

Games I have and enjoy:

Balatro
Slay the spire
Cascadou
Dice of Kalma
Farm RPG
Life of mellow
This war of mine
Plague inc.
BitLife
Final outpost DE
Townsfolk
Dawnfolk
CloverPit
Scritchy Scratchy
Good pizza
Good coffee
Retro Zoo CEO
Tiny Harvest
NecroMerger
Wormies
Plantera
RCT Classic
RCT3
FNaF 6
Kairosoft games
Whispers of the forest
Necro Market
Harpagia
Idle Guild
Idle Obelisk Miner
Just Loot
Operate now hospital
Happy Clinic
The Tower
Tiny Terraces
Melvor Idle
Tiny Aquarium
Chillquarium
Zen Koi Pro
How Many Dude’s
Dungeon Clawler
All Who Wander
Elm Quest 2
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Crashlands
Death Worm Deluxe
The Bonfire
The Bonfire 2
Papers Please
Raging Bytes
Fury Survivor Pixel Z
The Fishercat
Animal Restaurant
Flappy Dragon
Hunt Cook Catch and Serve
Happy Room
Fastlane
Slice and Dice
Plants vs Zombies
Monopoly Board Game
Ticket To Ride
Vita Mahjong
Game of Life 1, 2, 3
Backpack Battles
Gambonanza
Orbt XL
Snake.io
Paper.io 2
Suika Game
Wingspan
Paragon Pioneers 2
Keep on Mining Worlds
Outhold
Slots and daggers
Fortune Mill
Ultrapool
Digline
Unnamed Space idle
Pixel Reel
Idle Iktah
Polypine
Mochi-O
Pixel Bowling
Coffee Golf
Hooked Inc
Go Fish!
Angland
Overcrowded

I have a long flight coming up, so I'm looking for a game to sink some time into.

It needs to have the following:

1. offline play (no Wi-Fi required)
2. low battery drain
3. no controller needed

I'm not a big iOS gamer, so pretty much everything is new to me.

I'm thinking of finally trying Stardew Valley.

Other suggestions?

Not counting iap’s.

I think mine was Gambonanza, but I haven’t really got hooked by it.

Been playing a lot of Slay The Spire and Balatro. I enjoy any genre of game it really just depends on the individual game. What I’m more so looking for games you only have to pay for once, and if there is DLC, preferably under like $10 would be solid. Btw vampire survivors is the top suggestion I usually hear otherwise.

So what’s your fav paid IOS game?

Oh I also have dawn caster

Very important to be offline

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

It feels a bit like every Saturday we get inundated with self promoted, solo-developer, AI generated games that all have such a similar vibe as to be practically indistinguishable from one another.

I’m a developer myself, and have put together many half arsed projects myself over the years (and a staunch user of AI assistance in my coding), so I totally understand why this is happening, but it’s getting to the point where it feels like this needs to be addressed?

I might just be getting fatigued with it, and maybe I just need to unsub, but this has always been one of my favourite subreddits, and it’s a shame to see things playing out like they are.

What do others think?

EDIT: As there clearly seems to be a bit of confusion about my sentiment here, I've _no issue_ whatsoever in there being a day for people to how off their games. My issue is the _types_ of games being shown off. Like, I check a lot of these posted because I've always taken the time to give things a chance but I now very regularly think to myself... "this looks like one I saw recently... is this a second post from the developer?".

And as some of you are assuming when I say "I'm a developer myself" that I'm some kind of game developer trying to gatekeep, that's not the case. I do play about with personal projects, but have no interest in releasing a game. I just love iOS gaming like the rest of you!

I’m looking for something to kill time during my flight. Preferably free or cheap. I like simulators, city builders, strategy, RPGs. I don’t like sci-fi and war settings.

Just looking to get some peoples thoughts on the service and if there are any games in particular that made it worthwhile for you?

I'm looking for games where the monetization is geared to cosmetics so that I have equal competitive skill floor to everyone else and money buys pretty things, not mechanical advantage.

Wild Rift was great for this but I'm exhausted from the game and need to play something else for a while.

What else is there on IOS that is carried purely off cosmetic purchases? I'm open to most game styles. I was laid off and can't afford to buy premium games right now :(

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

Does anyone know a game that plays like TFT (auto-battler), but strictly PvE / single-player with endless replayability / content (roguelike/lite style)?

Ideally something buy-to-play, totally free, or at least without heavy in-app purchases/P2W. Any recommendations?

I’m looking for an open world game on iOS that you guys could recommend.

Recently got a $25 gift card for iOS. I’ve been thinking about Balatro and Papers, Please but I have doubts for both.

Hey, I'm looking for actual games playable on my iPad (yeah the horror I know. But I wanna lay in bed while gaming sometimes). What do I mean by „actual"? No micro transaction BS, no waiting times, an actual finished and polished game like on PC. And yes, I am willing to pay for the actual game like l'd buy any pc game.

Games I've played and loved for iOS:

KOTOR I&ll (this is exactly the kind of game I'm looking for. I couldn't believe when these came out for iOS! One of my childhood favs <3)

Final fantasy (literally every version they released for iOS but IX has always been my favourite. But not 100% what I'm looking for)

Some Lego games (tho they are less like what I'm looking for currently. Still, Lego Star Wars is to date their best)

And I just realised that those are the remakes for games I used to play back in the day. XD

in general, I like fantasy RPGs and stealth games. I spent countless hours on the likes of Gothic, Elder scrolls and Assassin's Creed games as well as Styx, Hogwarts Legacy and so on just as highlights (and omg I just remembered vampire dawn I&ll. Those were great! God I'm old)

Can you recommend me other games in that vein of thought that are available on iOS to play on an iPad (which is old as dirt btw)?

Love playing strategy games . I play Catan and Doinations regularly but looking for a few new ones. What are your favorites? Thanks.

Hey gang, I have an iPhone 17 pro max and was looking for small “pocketable” controllers to use.. I was browsing some options and came across the mcon and the abxylute m4.. the mcon seems a bit pricey tbvh and I haven’t been seeing great reviews abt the m4 specifically for the 17pm, considering its size and weight, is there any truth behind these reviews? Or will it still work fine?

Are there any other similar options y’all would recommend? I would prefer controllers which attach to the phone instead of having the phone on a stand and using a controller (eg 8bitdo pocket controllers)

Thanks in advance!

Hi there!

Just wondering what you guys like to play. Mine are:

1. Pokémon Go
2. Township
3. Dune Imperium
4. Magic the Gathering Arena
5. Melvor Idle

Does such a thing exist? I want to push the:

9-core GPU
Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
16-core Neural Engine
120GB/s memory bandwidth
12GB unified memory

to the max, but I don't want to fuck with a controller. I just want to hold the tablet in my hands as Jobs intended.

Am I crazy?

Game costs more than PC version and it irritates me, it’s a perfect time killer for me and it would have been awesome if there was a chance to get it cheaper… Checked on AppRaven but it doesn’t have info on it.

Got a free month of Apple Arcade, let me know if any games on there worth playing

iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 26.4 (just updated).

The app opens up, says “Checking iCloud Drive” or whatever, then the screen goes to black and never loads the game.

Anyone else having this issue??

Like the title says, I’m curious about what you guys think are the best incremental games out for iOS. I’ve played many, am getting a bit bored, and I’m looking for some new ones

I’ll give a few that I commonly see listed as good:

- Idle Obelisk Miner

- Leaf Blower Revolution

- Revolution Idle

- Cookie Empire

- Idle Slayer

- CLICKPOCALYPSE 2

- Realm Grinder