Developer: Crescent Moon Games Price: $2.99/£2.99 Size: 688 MB Version: 1.0.1 Platform: iPhone & iPad Remortal With a name like Remortal: A Spiritual Journey, you might expect Crescent Moon Games’s latest effort to be a wellness app or a particularly meditative adventure game. One of the last things you’d expect it to be is a first person runner, but that’s precisely what we’re dealing with here. The narrative can get pretty heavy While the core mechanics call to mind something like Glitch Dash, however, Remortal’s controls make it feel quite different. Moving your character feels far mo ..read more

Developer: Capcom Price: $29.99/£24.99 [Free intro] Size: 31.41 GB Version: 1.0.0 Platform: iPhone & iPad Resident Evil 4 In a rapid double-tap to the head worthy of putting down a slathering zombie, Resident Evil 4 for iOS follows swiftly on from November’s Resident Evil Village release. That might confuse some, given that Village is also known as Resident Evil 8. Just know that this take on RE4 is actually a port of the Resident Evil 4 remake – a completely rebuilt version of the 2005 classic that arrived on console and PC two years after Village. RE4’s opening stretch is heart-stopping ..read more

Developer: Capcom Price: $15.99/£13 [Free intro] Size: 8.73 GB Version: 1.1.2 Platform: iPhone & iPad Resident Evil: Village Resident Evil Village doesn’t represent the first time a fully-fledged console game has made its way to iOS unabridged – GRID Autosport and Dragon Quest VIII spring to mind – but it is the latest and by far the most visually ambitious. Indeed, so advanced are the graphics in Capcom’s creepy survival horror, that the game will only run on a very small proportion of iOS devices. We reviewed it on an iPhone 15 Pro, and nothing else aside from the iPhone 15 Pro Max and A ..read more

Developer: Team17 Price: $5/£5 Size: 2.1 GB Version: 1.2 Platform: iPhone & iPad Worms W.M.D. Worms W.M.D: Mobilize is a mobile conversion of a 2016 console and PC game, but we don’t need to get into the weeds here. It’s a Worms game. You know the drill. Just in case you don’t, the Worms series has been plowing its unique furrow for approaching 30 years now, during which the essentials have largely remained the same. Opposing gangs of anthropomorphic invertebrates wage war across ultra-deformable 2D battlefields, taking it in turns to launch explosive artillery (and other, wackier weapons ..read more

Developer: Erabit Studios Price: $2.99/£2.49 Size: 183 MB Version: 2.0.40 Platform: iPhone & iPad 20 Minutes Till Dawn 20 Minutes Till Dawn is a rogue-lite survival game with top-down twin-stick shooter mechanics at its core. Each run sees your anime-inflected hero spawning into a shadowy arena, with an expanding swarm of hellish beasts converging on your position. Starting out with a humble six-shooter, you must fight an endless rearguard action, evading the swarm with your left thumb and shooting them with your right. The screen rapidly fills up with enemies Defeated enemies drop littl ..read more

We delve into gaming’s past and find out which renowned titles and series are fit for a future on your phone The history of gaming is filled with genuine classics. But unlike with albums and movies of old, playing pioneering games on your iPhone isn’t easy. Apple abhors emulation – iDOS 2 ($5/£5) being a notable exception. Even if it didn’t, a touchscreen isn’t always suited to twitchy old-school games that rely on fast reactions – nor more modern fare that expects your hands to be clamped around a gamepad. So how have famous gaming faces and brands fared on iPhone and iPad? Which ar ..read more

Developer: Crescent Moon Games Price: $4/£4 Size: 28 MB Version: 1.03 Platform: iPhone & iPad Knightin’+ Nintendo’s Zelda series celebrates its 35th birthday in 2021, and few video game franchises can claim to have had quite such an influence on the medium. Knightin’+ wears that influence even more openly than most. While it eschews Zelda’s free–roaming exploration, it closely mimics the puzzle-strewn dungeons and top-down action-RPG combat of 90s Zelda titles A Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening. There are some tricky block-pushing puzzles Each of its four themed dungeons consis ..read more

A playful, clear and straightforward platformer Price: $5/£5 Version: 1.0.3 Size: 269 MB Platform: iPhone & iPad Developer: Mobge Get Oddmar Update! Nearly three years on, we thought it was time to revisit this award-winning platformer. So what’s new? A couple bug fixes aside, the developers have left Oddmar untouched. But since we first reviewed it, its value – like a fine scotch – has only improved. Because we found upon revisiting it that Oddmar is even rarer than we first considered. It’s perfectly priced for what is a solid, IAP-less platformer whose grap ..read more

A remarkable renaissance tale Price: $4/£4 Version: 1.0 Size: 2.4 GB Platform: iPhone / iPad Developer: Joe Richardson Games Procession to Calvary The Procession to Calvary is a point and click style adventure game with a very unique twist: it’s set in the world of renaissance paintings. And while the dialogue-heavy game also lends some of the perceived archaic language, it’s delivered with the tongue very much in cheek. Old English insults and exclamations are bandied around as you attempt to make your way from the generic north to the south without committing any mur ..read more

Award-winning emosh-fest arrives on iOS Price: $5/£5 Version: 1.1 Size: 1.26 GB Developer: Broken Rules Interactive Platform: iPhone & iPad Old Man’s Journey Update! This multi-award winning narrative journey has been out for a few years now, has anything changed? So, what’s new? In short, nothing that really affects the gameplay. However, following its release, it won a number of awards and was selected as an App Store editor’s choice. Off the back of that, the developers released a console version which itself introduced a bunch of visual improvements a ..read more