The Best iPhone Games for 2022 - Part 2

No matter if you're a PC gamer, a console gamer, or an iPhone user who loves a cheap diversion, we all have one thing in common: We've all used the App Store to get at least one game.

After all, mobile games are all about ease of use and quick dopamine hits. Would you rather wait in line at the grocery store and read tabloids or start playing Crossy Road? It's an easy choice. It's not quite as easy to choose which games to download, though.

The Apple App Store is full of games, but it can be hard to stay away from the bad ones. Don't worry, we can help. We've picked out the fun, well-made games that you should have on your iPhone, especially since Fortnite is still nowhere to be found. You can feel safe downloading these games. And let us know what your favorite games are in the comments.

Crypt of the Necrodancer

This roguelike, dungeon-crawling game has a beat-matching feature that makes it both fun and hard to play. You can only move or attack by matching the beat of the music, which gives you more points when you do. The goal is not only to finish each level, but also to get better items and get better at each level.

Dead Cells

After doing well on PC and home consoles, this brutal roguelike game is now available on iOS. It lets you control a small creature that can take over the bodies of the dead. Your goal is to get out of prison by fighting enemies and getting power-ups as you move through random levels. When you die, you're dead for good, but you can use what you learned to get better at the next run.

Death Road to Canada

In Death Road to Canada, you have to survive a zombie apocalypse in an RPG where the story is made up on the spot. In your pixelated adventure, you can visit cities, hire characters, make choices, and try to stay alive.

Desert Golfing

Desert Golfing is a 2014 arthouse game that you'll love if you like the idea of playing golf in a desert. All the courses are different, and the ball doesn't move in a predictable way because they are all on sand. People have said that the game is easy to play, has great graphics, and has hard levels.

Device 6

Device 6 is a mostly text-based adventure game where players solve puzzles and follow a story to help the main character get off an island. People have said good things about the game's story, writing, and sound effects.

Downwell

Try Downwell if you want a game that really makes use of your phone's vertical screen. As you fall down randomly generated, black-and-white dungeons, hop on enemies and shoot them with your gun boots for as long as you can.

The Escapists: Prison Escape

In The Escapists, you have to figure out how to get out of jail. You can walk around the prison, find or make things, get jobs from other inmates, and level up your character. If you get away, you have to go to the next prison. If you get caught, all the work you have done will be lost.

Exit the Gungeon

In Enter the Gungeon, your goal is to get as far as possible into the lair of guns. The goal of Exit the Gungeon is to get out. No matter which way you go, you will have to kill a lot of projectile peons. When compared to using a controller, touch controls actually make the game easier.

Fallout Shelter

In Fallout Shelter, you are in charge of a vault, which is a safe place for survivors to live that is buried under the ground. In practice, it's a lot like the many other mobile games about managing resources. But clever and non-exploitative uses of in-app purchases and the unmistakable feel of the Fallout series make Fallout Shelter fun for both casual and serious gamers.

Florence

In Florence, players follow Florence Yeoh's story through 20 chapters of interactive, minigame-filled stories. The 2018 game only takes about 30 minutes to finish, but its story, character development, and art direction have gotten a lot of praise.

Framed

In this puzzle game with a story, you have to change the order of the pages of a noir-style comic book so that the player characters can get away from their would-be captors. Framed came out in 2014 and got a lot of praise for its great visuals, subtle story elements, and great music.

Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is a hugely popular action-RPG that blurs the line between mobile games and AAA releases. Explore the beautiful but dangerous land of Teyvat with a combat system that is both deep and creative. Even if you don't pay anything, you can have fun with the gacha game.

Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy

This is one of the strangest iPhone games you'll ever play. In Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, you play as a character whose legs are stuck in a pot and whose only way to move is with a hammer. You have to use the hammer to climb a mountain, but there are no save points, so if you fall, you lose all the progress you've made up to that point. The game also has voiceovers from the designer, Bennett Foddy, who talks about philosophical ideas, often based on what the player does in the game.

Gorogoa

Six years were spent making Gorogoa, but the final product, which was drawn by hand by developer Jason Roberts, is a work of art. There is no text in the game, so players have to solve puzzles and figure out what the game is about by themselves.