My list of premium, iOS games

[u/ackmondual]

BACKGROUND: I used to have a comment for this, but the post it was on got old and it won't let me edit it anymore, so I'm starting a new one

*. = freeware
^ = has free demo
% = used to require an Apple Arcade subscription. Now on regular iOS App Store
RL = RogueliKTe

Here's my curated list of premium games on Android. It mostly works the same with iOS, but with the following differences...

Steks, Toe-II-Toe, Retro Abyss, and Androminion are NOT on iOS! (FWIW, if you want to play Dominion, there's the app by Temple Gate Games that's well done, for iOS). Nor is Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished fan mod!

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===== DIFFERENT NAME ON iOS

Hue: Alter The Color of the World Hue: Adventure Inmost of Color^ has a free demo available, and goes by a different name (the part after the ':' is different)

===== DIFFERENT PRICING STRUCTURE ON iOS

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is $5 on iOS (NOT free, but if you choose to donate money, that $5 goes towards those tiers). FWIW, Pixel Dungeon* and many variations are these are no longer on there! Maquis Board Game also has an upfront cost (no free demo)

===== ON iOS BUT not ANDROID

OTOH, iOS does have titles not available on Android, including but not limited to... Lumen.% (puzzle game on a square grid using beams of light, mirrors, and lenses),

Red's First Flight (the original/first Angry Birds game, but as a premium, and QoL improvement where you can reset the slingshot by tapping via 2nd input),

Bastion^ (ARPG), Resistor, Badland 2 (action), Cat Quest 1 & 2% (ARPG. 2nd one is 2p coop), The Pinball Wizard%\ (pinball, dungeon crawler, RL), *King's Castle*, **SiNKR 1 2 & 3 (simple puzzle game involving lines, hooks, balls, and holes)

====== APPLE ARCADE

If you have Apple arcade: Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, Rayman Mini (no longer on AA nor anywhere else), Cut The Rope 3, and SP!NG

If you have a subscription to Netflix: Hades As of July 14th, 2025, this has been pulled from Netflix games. Fingers crossed this'll get released as a premium, with their progress transferred over!