On this week's episode we kick the show off with a bit of a bummer talking about Simogo leaving mobile, pick things up talking about the new App Store preorder system, and a whole bunch of other news before moving on to talking about the avalanche of great games we reviewed this … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Two years ago now we launched our Patreon and since then while support from our community has been encouraging, we're still only half way to our goal to get back to firing on all cylinders. As you've likely noticed, there haven't been any new names on the site since Brad Nicholso … | Continue reading
While we're primarily supported by a mixture of Patreon, Twitch subscriptions and Amazon referrals these days, site sponsors go a long way in making up for the funding shortfalls of our Patreon never reaching its goal. To show our appreciation, we are now publishing these posts t … | Continue reading
Developer Dontnod's critically-acclaimed interactive narrative adventure Life is Strange [$2.99] made a semi-surprise appearance on the App Store on Wednesday. I say semi-surprise because the game's iOS version was outed by way of Apple's new pre-order system that was rolled out … | Continue reading
Clash of Clans [Free] update is coming soon, and this one is adding a new feature called Clan Games. Supercell has been teasing the Clan Games over the last few days, but a recent blog post gave us a bit more info on what to expect, although Supercell is still leaving it up to pl … | Continue reading
The weeks leading up to the annual holiday iTunes Connect freeze are always pretty wild, but they've been snowballing over the years to being these unbelievable onslaughts of new high profile games being sprayed on to the App Store. We had all hands on deck this week to review as … | Continue reading
When it comes to games that are never leaving my device, the Mos Speedrun games are most definitely on that list, and today I'm very pleased to see that both games are now updated for the iPhone X screen. The original Mos Speedrun [$0.99] launched in early 2011 and as its name im … | Continue reading
TAITO announces a massive holiday sale with some titles discounted for the first time. This sale is for both iOS and Android. Discountes go up to 80% off and even iMessage sticker packs are part of the celebrations. TAITO is a name many associate with retro gaming and if you’ve n … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the regular feature where we always bring a party. To be specific, welcome to the RPG Reload Glossary, where we sift through the piles of historical debris and messy semantics to try to make some sense of it all. This time aro … | Continue reading
As promised yesterday, Koality Games has released their new arcade boxing game Prizefighters [Free] on the App Store. It arrived too late to make it into our weekly roundup of new iOS games, but given the sheer amount of huge games that arrived on mobile this week, I'm sure Prize … | Continue reading
Threes! [$2.99] hit the App Store in early 2014 and was met with universal critical acclaim. (We loved it in our review.) About a month later, Ketchapp released 2048 [Free] and the rest is history. 2048 massively surged in popularity because it was way easier than Threes! and, we … | Continue reading
This has been a somewhat harrowing saga as we've followed along with Simogo as they've updated their entire mobile games library not once but TWICE in the past 6 months; first to be fully 64-bit compatible for the arrival of iOS 11 in September, and now to be fully supporting the … | Continue reading
The WWE has been raking it in on the App Store with their stable of casual, free to play games aimed at wrestling fans. Games like WWE Champions [Free], WWE Tap Mania [Free], and WWE Supercard [Free] allow us to collect all of the over-the-top characters us wrestling fans love by … | Continue reading
Winter is coming to Hearthstone [Free] everyone, so better get warm and cozy. Just like every year, Blizzard is bringing the Winter Veil celebration to Hearthstone, along with all kinds of fun little features. Winter Veil, which will run from December 17th until December 30th, wi … | Continue reading
When Life is Strange [$2.99] was originally announced back in 2014, it immediately shot to the top of my list of anticipated releases for 2015. Since then, I’ve played it multiple times across various platforms but had been constantly puzzled at the lack of an iOS version given t … | Continue reading
We've blasted through dungeons in 10000000 [$2.99], tried our hand as a shipwright in You Must Build a Boat [$2.99], and taunted other players in Smarter Than You [Free], but next year we'll be digging through puzzles in Photographs, the next title from EightyEight Games. Photogr … | Continue reading
Now this is how you do a remake. Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! [$7.99] is a rebuild of the original Oddworld game, Abe's Oddysee, and it doesn't do any of it by half-measures. The graphical improvements are obvious, but there's also a ton of new content and even some expanded mechanic … | Continue reading
Hidden Folks [$2.99] is pretty damn great. The hand drawn hidden objects or folks in this case game is on a number of end of year lists on iOS. Imagine Where’s Waldo but on a touch screen with superb interactions and hand drawn art and you get Hidden Folks. To celebrate the holid … | Continue reading
For whatever reason, it seems like the fourth quarter of 2017 has been an absolute golden age of ports hitting the App Store. Playdead's Inside [Free] was just released, and we were lucky enough to be able to play through the game beforehand. As far as the iOS port is concerned, … | Continue reading
Shooters on mobile can be hit or miss sometimes given the platform's limitations, especially when developers decide to go with first-person. Hero Hunters, by Hothead Games, is hoping to deliver a fun team-based shooter by focusing on third-person, cover-based action and adding so … | Continue reading
Playdead’s INSIDE [Free] has released early on the App Store. INSIDE was one of the few games that tipped us off on the new Pre-order system in place on the App Store. INSIDE is free to try and there’s a single full game unlock to play the full game. It is great to see Playdead | Continue reading
Being a series that has traded as much on story and dialogue as anything else, Ace Attorney has been able to get impressive mileage out of using the same basic structure for more than 15 years. The biggest change the formula has seen came with the 2009 arrival of the first offici … | Continue reading
While originally released in Japan only on the Xbox 360, Steins;Gate [$11.99 / $11.99 (HD)] was ported to almost everything soon after. English speaking fans have had to wait a long time for an officially localized release. September last year saw English iOS fans finally get a c … | Continue reading
Along with tonight's absolute onslaught of new iOS game releases was a pleasant surprise: An iOS port of Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty [$7.99]. Originally released on the PlayStation 4 in the summer of 2014, it seemed like New 'n' Tasty flew under the radar for whatever reason. It was … | Continue reading
Puzzle games are a dime a dozen on the App Store and most offer only slightly different iterations of the same ideas. Once in a while, though, you get some innovative puzzle games that introduce some intriguing ways of interaction, and Jason Roberts' Gorogoa [$4.99] is definitely … | Continue reading
Welcome to another one of our roundups of all the new games of the past week, and what a strange week it's been. Apple introduced the ability to pre-order games in the App Store, and the first batch of games was a handful of high-profile ports and highly-anticipated mobile exclus … | Continue reading
There's nothing better than getting into the spirit of the season, and by season of course I'm talking about new Star Wars movie season. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is hitting theaters this Friday (or rather Thursday night at midnight, if you're doing it right) and based on what I'm … | Continue reading
Just about a month ago, developer Koality Games revealed their upcoming boxing game Prizefighters, which looked to take the simple and arcadey mechanics of Nintendo's classic Punch Out! series and marry them with a meatier experience in terms of character and career progression. … | Continue reading
Sometimes silly ideas can make for fun games if you add some kind of competitive element into the mix, and Blind Luck, the upcoming game recently posted in our forums, is doing just that. Blind Luck simulates the worst game you could ever play with a friend, Russian Roulette, and … | Continue reading
Ankama's Drag'n'Boom [Free] is a pretty fantastic arcade game that we really liked in our review, and today it just got more content that should give you another reason to return to the game. The new update, which just went live, adds a new game mode with 50 new arenas that offer … | Continue reading
Originally launched back in April of 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade, Fez is a 2D platformer with puzzle elements that hinge around being able to rotate the game world in 3D space. Since its initial release Fez has been ported to practically every platform under the sun, and in the proc … | Continue reading
Lineage 2: Revolution [Free] is a huge game with a huge player base, and now that huge player base is about to go to war (well, even more war). The game's first major update will add the Fortress Siege and Open Siege modes, which will let you slaughter each other at greater numbe … | Continue reading
Well this is one heck of a weird week, we've already seen a bunch of great games pop up (Fez!!!), but the recent addition of pre-orders to the App Store has thrown a whole new wrench into the mix. We're expecting Life is Strange, Inside, Gorogoa, and some other surprises which ha … | Continue reading
For many years, you could set your watch to the output of Tin Man Games on the App Store. Their mission was to deliver gamebooks in the classic style, in the form of both real classics like the Fighting Fantasy books and entirely new works done in a similar style like the Gameboo … | Continue reading
We’ve been teased with FEZ for iOS beginning in 2012 when it was announced that 2013 would see Polytron’s FEZ hit more platforms. After that things were mostly silent until mid 2013 when ports were reconfirmed. The situation after that became dire and we didn’t hear anything abou … | Continue reading
Layton's Mystery Journey [$15.99] is pretty great. Having originally debuted on the Nintendo DS, it took a long time to get a mainline entry on iOS. Level-5’s newest Professor Layton game released in July and it follows Katrielle Layton. She’s the daughter of Professor Layton who … | Continue reading
Depending on which areas of the Hearthstone-niverse you find yourself wandering in, chances are you've seen some pretty harsh criticisms of the way Blizzard has structured their Hearthstone [Free] esports over the years. Pro players often complained about the uncertainty of what … | Continue reading
If you've been even remotely exposed to financial news in the last couple months, you've no doubt heard about cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is the biggest, but there's also Litecoin and Ethereum in the spotlight (along with countless other altcoins). They're all exploding in value ri … | Continue reading
Good news, fans of the turn-based strategy RPGs Demon's Rise [$7.99] and Demon's Rise 2 [$7.99]. Both games have been updated for the iPhone X and the infamous notch, so if you have one of those newfangled devices, you should enjoy the games better now. The update has also contin … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's [Free] Kobolds & Catacombs expansion appears to be a big success so far, but Hunter players immediately started complaining because Deathstalker Rexxar's Hero Power, which makes cute little Zombeasts, didn't include any of the new Beasts released in the latest expan … | Continue reading
Prepare to get electrified as Supercell's Clash Royale [Free] has just received a new update that brings all kinds of goodies to the game as well as some much needed balance changes. First of all, we are getting a new arena called Electro Valley, which is set at 3400 Trophies. Th … | Continue reading
Anyone who has been paying attention the last few years will be more than aware of just how jam packed the App Store is with free to play games that have you building bases, upgrading everything, and fighting other players. While that also describes exactly what you do in DomiNat … | Continue reading
I grew up in the Chicago area, and our weather can be notoriously extreme. We get some ridiculously hot and humid summers, then winters which are so often brutal that when a day rolls around where it's "only" 40º F out we'll be wandering around outside in t-shirts like it's the m … | Continue reading
Jam City and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment have just announced a new official Harry Potter mobile game. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery will see a release next year and it will be published under Portkey Games. This is a new label under Warner Brothers Interactive Ente … | Continue reading
Rusty Lake finally announced the release date for the upcoming and highly anticipated Rusty Lake Paradise. While initially aimed to release around Christmas, Rusty Lake Paradise will now release on January 11th for iOS and Android. The reason for the later release date is that th … | Continue reading
Over the last few years, many developers have tried different pricing models for their games on the App Store. While most still go with a freemium model or a free to play one, service based games have been adopting subscriptions. We’ve even seen these in some free to play games l … | Continue reading
Life Is Strange from Dontnot Entertainment and Square Enix is finally releasing on iOS. It was originally released beginning January 2015 on consoles and PC as an episodic release. At the time I was surprised to see it only launch on those platforms given Telltale’s success on iO … | Continue reading