IOS Games

[[caption-width-right:350:Shooting zombies? There's an app for that!

Games (and similar apps) that can be played on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. A subset of Mobile Phone Games.

Here divided into three categories:
 * Relatively new games that were made for the smartphones, taking advantage of their interface.
 * Really old games that have made a comeback on the smartphones.
 * Games originally designed for a much larger computer that have a condensed port or mini-version for iPhone.

This index is for the iPhone platform only, because iOS users want to be able to use it to find games they can play. A game must have an iPhone/iOS version to belong on this list. Games that are only or also for Android belong on Android Games. For games on other smartphone systems, please create an index for that platform and replace this message with a link to the new index.

Most iOS devices (at least after the second generation iPod touch) share several characteristics: the most important are the accelerometer/tilt sensor and the touch screen. Many games for the platform are designed to use the accelerometer as a primary control. For example, driving games such as Pole Position Remix often have the player tilt the entire unit in lieu of providing a steering wheel, and other games use it to control an object's movement around the screen, such as a marble in a maze. The touchscreen also makes games involving tracing pathways (similar to many Nintendo DS games) possible alongside old-school PDA tap-and-drag games. The system's API (Cocoa Touch) is similar but not identical to the Cocoa toolkit used on Mac OS X, and uses the same XCode environment as Mac developers use.

Apple traditionally has somewhat of a love-hate relationship with the gaming community, going back to the first Mac and Steve Jobs' insistence that it be treated as a serious business machine. Though the Mac game market flourished in spite of Apple's ambivalence, games like Marathon and Glider that should have been world-shaking... weren't. For years, Apple's half-assed Pippin console was their only real attempt to court the game market...until the second generation iPod Touch came out. At this point, Apple decided to start leveraging the accelerometers they'd built into late-model MacBooks, which people had subsequently hacked into game controllers. Apple gave the Touch, followed by the next generation of iPhone, similar accelerometers, and positioned the Touch explicitly as a gaming system. Unrestricted by the licensing and hardware barriers of the Nintendo DS and Play Station Portable, game developers (especially small ones) responded in droves, making an Apple platform a serious contender in the gaming world for the first time since the Apple II line wound down.

New Full Games

 * Ace Combat Xi Skies of Incursion
 * Angry Birds
 * Angry Gran
 * Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage
 * Battleheart
 * Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night
 * Chaos Rings
 * Chaos Rings
 * Chaos Rings Omega
 * Chaos Rings II
 * Cut the Rope
 * The Dark Meadow
 * Dead Space (mobile)
 * Death Rally
 * Detective Grimoire sequel (forthcoming)
 * Doodle Jump
 * Doom Resurrection
 * Dragonvale
 * Elemental Rage
 * Epic Mickey lead-in
 * Eternal Legacy
 * Forget Me Not
 * Fruit Ninja
 * Gravity Well
 * Godville
 * Highborn
 * Hector: Badge of Carnage
 * Houkago no Kamishibaibu
 * Humf (UK only)
 * Hungry Shark
 * Hysteria Project
 * Infinity Blade
 * i Dork
 * Jetpack Joyride
 * Labyrinth
 * Love Plus iR, iM, and iN (Japanese only)
 * Mass Effect: Galaxy
 * Mass Effect Infiltrator
 * Mushihime-sama Bug Panic
 * My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day
 * Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries
 * Pocket God
 * Queen's Crown
 * Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard
 * Re Rave
 * Save Toshi
 * Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
 * Solomons Keep
 * Song Summoner
 * Space Invaders Infinity Gene
 * Space Miner
 * SpongeBob SquarePants Marbles & Slides
 * Strawberry Shortcake
 * Super Crossfire
 * Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP
 * Temple Run
 * Tiny Defense (known as Mini Robot Wars on the PC)
 * Tiny Wings
 * Top Gun
 * Tower Madness
 * Twin Blades
 * Unpleasant Horse
 * The War of Eustrath
 * Where's My Water?
 * Wolfenstein 3D RPG
 * Zenonia
 * Zombieville USA & Zombieville USA 2
 * Zombies Run

Retro Games

 * Aleste
 * Ascendancy
 * Barbarian The Death Sword (circa 1987)
 * Battleship
 * Brain Dead 13
 * Double Dragon
 * Dragons Lair
 * Final Fantasy I
 * Final Fantasy II
 * Final Fantasy III
 * Flashback
 * Frogger
 * The Manhole
 * Miner 2049 er
 * Oregon Trail
 * Pac-Man
 * Paperboy
 * Pole Position
 * R Type
 * Rogue Touch
 * Secret of Mana
 * Shining Force
 * Space Ace
 * Space Invaders
 * Spot the Dog
 * Tetris
 * Commodore 64 emulator including
 * Alleykat
 * Nebulus
 * Paradroid
 * Stormlord
 * Uridium
 * The King of Dragon Pass

Games With Port or Mini-Version for iPhone

 * 11eyes CrossOver
 * Ai to Yuuki To Kashiwa Mochi (re-titled "Love Mochi")
 * Altered Beast
 * Amateur Surgeon port
 * Atari's Greatest Hits - a compilation that includes ports of:
 * Asteroids
 * Breakout
 * Centipede
 * Missile Command
 * Pong
 * Yars Revenge
 * Avadon
 * Battlefield: Bad Company 2]]
 * Battleship
 * Beneath a Steel Sky
 * Bit Trip
 * Bloons Tower Defense
 * Broken Sword & Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
 * Bubble Bobble Double
 * Bug Princess
 * Call Of Duty World At War: Zombies
 * Canabalt
 * Capcom Arcade - a compilation that includes ports of:
 * Final Fight
 * Ghouls N Ghosts
 * Magic Sword
 * Street Fighter II
 * Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
 * Carcassonne
 * CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
 * Chu Chu Rocket
 * Civilization
 * Cooking Mama
 * De Blob
 * Death Smiles
 * Do Don Pachi Resurrection
 * Doodle God
 * Duke Nukem 3D
 * Earthworm Jim port
 * Elebits Capture
 * Espgaluda II
 * Fancy Pants Adventures
 * Farmville
 * Final Fantasy I
 * Final Fantasy II
 * Final Fantasy III
 * Freddi Fish and the Stolen Shell
 * Game Dev Story port
 * Ghost Trick port
 * Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
 * Grand Theft Auto III
 * Gunstar Heroes
 * Harvest Moon Frantic Farming (mini-version)
 * Jewel Quest Mysteries
 * jubeat
 * i Love Katamari
 * Kira Kira port
 * Let's Go Find El Dorado
 * Lumines Touch
 * Madden NFL
 * Maple Story Thief Edition
 * MegaMan 2
 * Memories Off 6~T-wave~
 * Metal Gear Solid Touch
 * Mirrors Edge port
 * Monopoly
 * Mortal Kombat 3
 * Minecraft: Pocket Edition (Currently in Alpha)
 * Need for Speed
 * Pajama Sam: Thunder and Lightning aren't Frightening
 * Peggle
 * Phantasy Star Online 2 (Single-player only)
 * Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney port
 * Plants vs. Zombies port
 * Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
 * Puzzle Quest port (Along with ports of Galactrix and PQ2)
 * Rayman 2
 * The Red Star (forthcoming)
 * Resident Evil 4
 * Risk
 * Robot Unicorn Attack port
 * Scribblenauts Remix
 * Robot Wants Kitty
 * Secret of Mana
 * The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
 * Settlers of Catan
 * Shantae: Risky's Revenge port
 * Shift port
 * The Seventh Guest
 * Silent Hill The Escape
 * The Sims 3
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 4
 * Sonic the Hedgehog CD port
 * Spectre
 * SPY Fox in Dry Cereal
 * Stair Dismount
 * STEINS;GATE (Japanese only)
 * Street Fighter IV
 * Strikers 1945 PLUS
 * Super Monkey Ball iPhone
 * Trivial Pursuit
 * Vay
 * Virtual Villagers
 * World of Goo port
 * X-Men Arcade
 * Yoot Tower
 * Zombie Panic in Wonderland

Notable iOS Game Makers

 * Capcom
 * CAVE
 * Chillingo
 * Com 2 US
 * Electronic Arts
 * Gameloft
 * Square Enix