AFK Journey
The best-looking hero-collector on mobile pairs a genuinely thoughtful formation-based combat system with a gacha economy that turns its own leaderboards into the biggest reason to spend.
7 / 10
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108 games we have reviewed that run on iOS, best first.
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Clicker Heroes
The clicker that turned clicking optional — ascension, Hero Souls and the Ancients tree came from here, and the idle RPG genre never really left. A retrospective look at whether the game that built the template still deserves a slot in 2026.
7 / 10
Clickpocalypse II
A nearly decade-old mobile idle RPG that still gets one thing right that most of its modern competitors don't even try — a completely fair, no-IAP, no-gacha monetisation model — and undercuts it with technical rough edges that have apparently never been fully sanded down.
7 / 10
Farm RPG
A menu-only farming MMO that has quietly run since 2021 with no ads and a genuinely optional shop, propped up by a community wiki so thorough that half the game's actual strategy lives outside the app.
7 / 10
Hero of Aethric
Orna's class-and-gear rulebook, unplugged from GPS and pinned to a handcrafted continent instead. The systems survive the transplant; the thing that made its sibling famous doesn't.
7 / 10
hololive Dreams
hololive's first official mobile game pairs a genuinely solid rhythm engine and a surprisingly deep theme-park builder with a fair, transparent gacha economy — then ships a Steam port with kernel-level anti-cheat and keyboard controls that never should have left the touchscreen.
7 / 10
Idle Planet Miner
Tech Tree Games' 2019 space-mining idle has outlasted most of its mobile peers by giving the genre's usual ore-and-upgrade loop a manager layer, a reset-friendly prestige system and weekly ranked tournaments — then undercutting some of that goodwill with a loot-box-flagged IAP menu and a persistent offline-tracking bug.
7 / 10
Keep on Mining!
A NZ$7.39 mining incremental that sold 100,000 copies in seventeen days, is finished by three quarters of the people who buy it, and spends its second half padding a two-hour game past the refund window. Its own reviewers name the trick.
7 / 10
Legends of Idleon
A solo developer's four-and-a-half-year Early Access project about running up to eleven characters at once — genuinely one of the deepest class-and-skill webs in the idle genre, sitting behind a shop that has gotten harder to ignore.
7 / 10
Once Human
A genuinely strange free survival MMO whose defining flaw — seasonal servers that wiped everything you built — has quietly been fixed, while its veterans have moved on to a different argument entirely.
7 / 10
Revolution Idle
A free incremental built around filling concentric, spinning colour rings instead of the usual bar chart of numbers — genuinely huge in scope, openly derivative in structure, and popular enough to have accumulated over seven thousand English Steam reviews doing it.
7 / 10
Soda Dungeon 2
A free auto-battling dungeon crawler that lets you script your party's behaviour instead of just watching it fight, undercut on desktop by menus that never stopped feeling like a phone app and a save file that a bad crash can wipe outright.
7 / 10
Summoners War: Sky Arena
The mobile gacha RPG that the rest of the genre was quietly built on top of is still running twelve years later, and the direct ancestry to Raid: Shadow Legends' gear system makes it the rare case where reviewing the original after the imitation actually changes the verdict.
7 / 10
Sword x Staff
Boltray's "Third Way RPG" genuinely earns its hybrid pitch, blending exploration and auto-battle strategy with idle progression, but its skill-gacha economy and paid-only enhancement currency pull hard once the early zones stop carrying you for free.
7 / 10
Tap Titans 2
Game Hive's decade-old idle RPG builds its whole second act around clans and scheduled tournaments — a structure that gives its artifact-and-relic progression somewhere real to point, but also turns a genre built for "check back later" into a calendar commitment with a very tall premium-currency ladder sitting next to it.
7 / 10
Wizardry Variants Daphne
A dungeon crawler that resurrects the original Wizardry's cruelty almost intact, then wraps it in a gacha character-summoning economy that never quite earns the same trust.
7 / 10
Archmage Idle
A free-to-play idle RPG built around a wizard guild where every skill quietly multiplies every other skill — a genuinely clever synergy system undercut by a one-worker-at-a-time bottleneck and a VIP purchase ladder players have to climb tier by tier.
6.5 / 10
Bit Heroes
A ten-year-old pixel dungeon-crawler that never quite decided whether it wants you clicking through fights or leaving them to auto-battle, held together by a four-currency stamina economy that structures every session it doesn't quietly monetise.
6.5 / 10
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
An idle clicker that spends its entropy on the entire history of life and technology instead of lemonade stands, with genuine scientific content dressing up a tech tree that is more linear than it looks and a monetisation stack that leans harder every year it stays alive.
6.5 / 10
CookieRun: Crumble
Devsisters folds its 300-million-player Cookie Run cast into an idle auto-battler with genuinely tactical positioning, then hangs the whole thing on the same gacha currencies that turned Cookie Run: Kingdom into a case study in monetisation backlash.
6.5 / 10
Delta Force
A generous, well-made free shooter whose most-upvoted review isn't about the shooting at all — it's about the kernel-level anti-cheat that reviewers say keeps running after the game is uninstalled.
6.5 / 10
Firestone: Idle RPG
A hero-collecting idle RPG with real longevity behind it — five years in Early Access, fifteen-plus progression systems and no priced Steam DLC — undercut by a currency count that outgrows the player's patience and a guild structure that quietly punishes anyone without an active group.
6.5 / 10
Forager
The gather-craft-expand loop that launched a hundred imitators, and one of the most effective opening hours in any game of its type. It's also been abandoned since 2020 with a promised multiplayer mode that never arrived — and it still sells at full price.
6.5 / 10
Idle Apocalypse
Grumpy Rhino Games' 2018 cult-tycoon idler turns its tower into an actual production chain instead of an upgrade list, and its Idol-summoning prestige loop still holds up — but the studio has settled into bug-fix-only maintenance, and there's little new to chase for anyone who cleared the tower years ago.
6.5 / 10