Do you like the Square Enix Go series of games, but feel like they needed more crime? Congratulations, Vandals [$3.99] is the game for you. This turn-based puzzler unapologetically resembles the series that started with Hitman Go [$4.99] and applies a graffiti and street art them … | Continue reading
Put simply, 2017 has been an unbelievable year for mobile gamers. Between surprise ports of full-blown AAA games, countless indie titles, and everything in between, there has been no shortage of great new games to play. Following what has become our annual tradition here at Touch … | Continue reading
It is that time of the year once again. The iTunes freeze is happening later today and while many developers are trying to get updates out of the door, many are just relaxing and putting their catalogue on discount. This year, we‘ve had some amazing PC and console ports in additi … | Continue reading
Apple's new pre-order system is tricky to navigate for anyone shopping on the App Store, but it appears to also be a bit on the confusing side for developers. Man Vs. Missiles [Free] was supposed to release on Thursday, January 2018, but the developers accidentally released it to … | Continue reading
Capcom is showing no signs of stopping with Ace Attorney releases on iOS and Android. They literally just released Ace Attorney INVESTIGATIONS [Free] onto the App Store and Google Play earlier this month and it made me think it would be a few months before the sequel shows up. I … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the regular feature where we always have an adventure in our pocket. 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 … | Continue reading
SEGA Forever, the SEGA initiative to bring some of their classic library to mobile devices, has had quite the year. It launched in the early summer in a rather dismal state, faced a swift backlash, and has been trying to crawl its way back up ever since. While largely limited to … | Continue reading
You kids these days, with your augmented reality. Back in MY day we had to fake it the old-fashioned way, like in 2010's UFO on Tape [Free] from Revolutionary Concepts. This curious little game captured our imagination back then with its clever and wholly unique concept. Basicall … | Continue reading
Developer Long Hat House first reached out to us about their upcoming game Dandara back in May of last year, and it looked absolutely fantastic in that initial trailer. Dandara is a pixel art open-world platformer that uses a really interesting mechanic in place of the typical ru … | Continue reading
Albion Online for mobile officially started their beta test on November 23rd. It’s been a long road to mobile for Sandbox Interactive. As with any MMO, there have been plenty of changes, both within the PC version of the game and also on their plans for mobile. Initially it was s … | Continue reading
A few days ago, we wrote about 57° North [$2.99], an adventure game that utilizes the Merge Cube, and new AR peripheral, to tell the story about two cousins stranded on a remote island. 57° North has now released for iOS and Android, and you can check it out even if you don't hav … | Continue reading
Super Phantom Cat 2 [Free] gracefully leapt onto the App Store this past August, and while the original game was one of our most favorite mobile platformers, this sequel was an improvement in just about every way. The graphics and especially the animations are much better, there … | Continue reading
Back in 2016, we wrote about an upcoming racing game called Street Kart that was focused on multiplayer competition and as realistic a driving model as possible. That game has been in various states of testing since then, and I've had the opportunity to play it quite a few times. … | Continue reading
last night's release roundup, most people (ourselves included) pretty much assumed that this was it for the year. The iTunes Connect freeze hits this weekend, and historically speaking not many developers go for risky just under the wire last minute releases. Reason being, if the … | Continue reading
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books are great fun (and so was the show based on the books), so I've been looking forward to The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game, which releases January 7th. As we wrote a year ago, the game was Kickstarted with great success (made ten times the i … | Continue reading
Q4 of 2017 has, without a doubt, been absolutely absurd when it comes to high quality premium game ports on iOS. However, just as we were thought we were finished with the App Store game release rush that has become tradition each holiday season, Aspyr comes out of left field wit … | Continue reading
Fans of touchscreen brawling are likely quite familiar with Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition [$4.99] which launched on iOS back in July, but if you're an iPhone X owner you've probably been pretty bummed that the game didn't support the full screen of the device. At least I kn … | Continue reading
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI [Free (HD)] just popped up on the App Store for iPads bringing the full game rebuilt for touch to the iOS platform. The last few weeks have been crazy on iOS with ports of big games and one massive scam game (I apologize for that once again). Today, As … | Continue reading
After unveiling the iOS 11 exclusive AR+ Mode, we have some more Pokémon GO [Free] news today. It is the season to be jolly and festive Pikachu will return from 1 PM PST. Pikachu will bring more Ice-type Pokémon in addition to Ice-type and Water-type Pokémon from Pokémon Ruby and … | Continue reading
Apple's App Store Review Guidelines is the law of the land of the App Store. Inside this document you'll find everything you can and can't do inside Apple's walled garden, and over the years Apple has modified it to stay on top of new trends on the App Store. If something problem … | Continue reading
Welcome to another roundup of all the best new iOS games of the past 7 days, and given the onslaught of high-profile releases last week, this week actually feels almost tame in comparison. And what's screwed up about that is there's a number of high-profile titles this week, too! … | Continue reading
Phew, what a mess that all turned out to be, right? The rule of the App Store, especially around Christmas, is that nothing is truly off the table. Even the media can be caught off-guard with surprise releases that weren't even whispered at before. But sometimes when things look … | Continue reading
I know that there are so many card games on the App Store right now, but that's because touchscreen devices are the perfect platform for them. And, also, card games aren't that hard to develop, although they are hard to make interesting and well-balanced. Rhino Games' Mythgard, a … | Continue reading
Krosmaga [Free], the fun collectible card game from Ankama, is getting more cards soon, and this time around the cards are coming straight out of the animated series Wakfu. As part of this cross-promotion, Krosmaga will get the "Brotherhood of the Forgotten," a group of character … | Continue reading
One of the most surprisingly enjoyable releases for me this year was Kingdom: New Lands [$4.99] from Raw Fury games. What looked to be a simple side-scrolling game with pixel art (GORGEOUS pixel art, I should add) was actually one of the more complex and deep strategy games I've … | Continue reading
Well, today is Games Day, which is fitting considering this might be the last release onslaught we'll see until next year. The iTunes freeze starts on the 23rd and runs through the 27th, which greatly limits the things developers can do on the App Store. It's possible we'll see a … | Continue reading
PAKO [$1.99], the isometric driving game all about avoiding cops and obstacles for the longest time possible, was one of my favorite games back in 2014 partly because of its entertaining levels but also because of its great handling. Today, I was happy to hear that developer Tree … | Continue reading
Back in August developer 4:33 Creative Lab in conjunction with DC and Warner Bros. announced their new superhero action RPG called DC Unchained. In it you'd amass a roster of famous DC characters and then set them up in teams of 3 to take on a multitude of bad guys throughout the … | Continue reading
Back in August of 2014 Sunnyside Games launched The Firm [$0.99], a twitch arcade game that had you frantically buying and selling stocks before they stacked up too far on your desk and your company fires you. You'd buy a stock by swiping it right and sell it by swiping left, and … | Continue reading
Around two and a half years ago, Sonic Team released their first (and thus far only) mobile game. Sonic Runners finally brought the famous hedgehog to a gameplay style that should have fit like a glove. It was a side-scrolling auto-runner packed with rings to grab, characters to … | Continue reading
Niantic and The Pokémon Company International just announced an iOS 11 exclusive mode that will leverage Apple’s ARKit in Pokemon GO [Free]. Apple introduced ARKit at WWDC earlier this year for iOS 11 and we’ve already seen many augmented reality games for iPhone 6s and newer dev … | Continue reading
Originally packaged as part of The Orange Box all the way back in 2007, Portal is easily among my all-time favorite games. The mechanic that powers Portal, if you somehow haven't played it by now, involves using a portal gun to fire blue and orange portals around a series of "tes … | Continue reading
To say mobile VR has been a bit of a disappointment would be ... an understatement. Google Cardboard seemed like it had loads of promise, as there's a variety of headsets available ranging from around $6 to $20 that use your mobile phone, a set of lenses, and a (as the name sugge … | Continue reading
While I've dabbled in MOBAs since the earliest days of DOTA, it was Riot's League of Legends (LoL) that finally sucked me in. I started playing LoL in 2009, and haven't really looked back since. Before Playerunknown's Battlegrounds was released, my PC was used exclusively to play … | Continue reading
Gunslinger Studios' Exiles of Embermark is easily one of my most anticipated games of 2018, and I was happy to hear that Wargaming Mobile, the newly formed division within the behemoth that is Wargaming.net, will publish this very promising game as well as other mobile combat RPG … | Continue reading
Sky: Light Awaits, the upcoming mobile game from the developer behind Journey, has soft launched in the Philippines, and you should probably go grab it right now because it looks like it's going to be a fantastic game. Sky is a "social adventure" that has you and your friends exp … | Continue reading
Augmented Reality games haven't yet exploded on the App Store, and might never do, but that doesn't stop some promising ones from finding their way to our devices and—by extension—our living rooms and kitchen tables. Orbu [], from a team mostly consisting of developers who worked … | Continue reading
Deep Silver has worked to bring the majority of the Animation Arts adventure games library to mobile over the years, and they're gearing up to bring the 2015 hit sequel Lost Horizon 2 to iOS this coming February. The original Lost Horizon first became available on mobile back in … | Continue reading
We've been following Arena of Valor for quite a while now, as in China the game is the biggest thing ever, and now they're boasting 100 million daily active players. That's a number that honestly, is difficult to wrap your head around, as any mobile game that has even a million d … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Tencent's mobile MOBA Arena of Valor for some time now. The game has become an absolute phenomenon in China, boasting 200 million registered users and 80 million daily active players. The game, which is called Honor of Kings in the East, even … | Continue reading
Top-down space shooters are a staple of the iOS platform since even before the App Store was officially around. With a genre that's so well-trodden, most new games try to add in complexity and features to try and mix up the formula somewhat. Which is great of course, but there's … | Continue reading
We've covered Apple TV games here and there over the years as it's pretty closely related to iOS gaming, but I think it's safe to say that none of us at TouchArcade have been terribly impressed with gaming on Apple's set-top box. When Apple finally (finally!) unveiled an Apple TV … | Continue reading
Indie developer Jeff Weber brought a great take on skiing to the App Store earlier this year with Just Ski [$0.99]. The game was built off of similar mechanics to his previous release Krashlander, which used some pretty realistic physics and skiing techniques to have you solving … | Continue reading
The Dark Souls series is an extremely popular game franchise that is infamous for its brutal difficulty, methodical combat, and merciless boss fights. I especially loved the series' "spin-off", Bloodborne on the Playstation 4. As usual, I enjoy discovering games on the App Store … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Twas the week before Christmas and all through the updates, holiday fixtures were arranged like rows of little cupcakes. A rush to get in before the y … | Continue reading
It's rarely a good sign when you wake up to an entire lock screen full of Tweetbot notifications. That was the case this morning when we posted that Cuphead launched on the App Store. It seems until the actual Cuphead developer started telling people this was a fake, everyone jus … | Continue reading
Update: This is an unauthorized repackage of the PC game as confirmed: It’s a scam. pic.twitter.com/kHtHfLd7L8 — Joachim Kläschen (@klschn) December 18, 2017 The fantastic Cuphead [$4.99] from Studio MDHR just had a surprise launch on the App Store. If you thought last week wasn’ … | Continue reading
Last week you may have seen us post the news that Reliance Games in partnership with the WWE launched a new swipe-fighter called WWE Mayhem [Free], which pits many of WWE's Superstars from both past and present against each other in one-on-one or tag team bouts. You also might re … | Continue reading