Best iPhone Games of 2021

The iPhone has incredible specs, and can handle a variety of high-end games without lagging or heating up too much, making iPhone gaming a huge success in the recent years.

If you’re looking for the best of the best iPhone games of 2021, then you’re in the right place. Below, we will be talking about 5 of our top picks, in 5 different categories of iPhone games.

Best Adventure Game on the iPhone

Overboard!

While your usual adventure game would have you swinging from tree vines and testing your dexterity with a pixelated gun, Overboard! has you use your cunning wit.

This choice-based adventure game developed by inkle follows the classic murder thriller, branching ending structure, only this time, YOU are the killer. After pushing your husband overboard while on a cruise ship, you need to figure out how to get away with murder, and live out the rest of your life luxuriously, and far away from the long arm of the law.

Click here to download Overboard!

Best Shooting Game on the iPhone

Steredenn

Crafted through beautiful pixel-art that adds a nostalgic air into a futuristic theme, Steredenn is a 2D  side-scrolling shooter game of epic proportions.

Developed by Pixelnest Studios, the game is filled to the brim with humor, super-cool animations and power-ups, and terrifying galactic bosses. With procedurally-generated levels, you are sure to never get bored with the gameplay, and keep destroying evil space monsters with your epic laser guns.

Click here to download Steredenn!

Best Racing Game on the iPhone

Grid Autosport

Yeah, it’s that Grid Autosport: the one on your PC and on your friend’s PS3. Developed by Feral Interact Ltd, this iPhone racing game feels nothing like your traditional mobile gaming experience, but rather like you’re playing the console or PC version straight on your phone.

You can play with driving aids for a more casual experience or go into a fully immersed simulation that pushes your virtual racing skills to the limit. Oh, just make sure you have an iPhone 7 or newer, along with 6GB of storage space to spare.

Click here to download Grid Autosport!

Best Sports Game on the iPhone

Desert Golfing

Are you a minimalist? Do you like golfing? How about games that are chill and can be played without much thought? If you’ve said yes to any one of those, then Desert Golfing is the game for you!

The game has no music while flaunting basic pixel graphics with a vast, one-tint desert in which you will be golfing, and that’s pretty much it. Captain Games Inc. has created the game to be calm, simple, and something you can just pick up and play during any time of the day without much thought, that certainly amazed us with how relaxing and fun it could be.

Click here to download Desert Golfing!

Best Platformer Game on the iPhone

GRIS

Devolver Digital has created a game so stunning that you will find yourself stop playing at times, just to properly soak in the mesmerizing visuals. The handcrafted art style combined with the masterfully composed background music truly engages all of your senses into the world of GRIS.

This 2D platformer will have you navigate a dreamlike world that will reconfigure your view on side-scrolling platformers, testing your dexterity, questioning your moral compass, and making you feel emotions you didn’t think a mobile game could illicit from you.

Click here to download GRIS!

And those were our top 5 picks for the best iPhone games of 2021. Do you agree with our picks? Which are some of your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!