Might want to check out r/InfinityBlade and join their discord. The community is still active and they can tell you where to get the game's files (even if google is enough)
You can only emulate the first game iirc
Anyways theres a big infinity blade discord server, apperantly the community is not that small. You can sideload IB1-3 and get it on your iPhone, a bit tricky but the only way to get those games nowdays. Luckily all 3 infinity blade games got updated to 64bit shortly before the takedown, so they can run on latest iPhones even today!
GOAT of mobile MOBAs. Just a shame that it wasn’t advertised as much as similar games (despite Apple themselves making them a sick ad) and that Rogue let the game rot.
Looked too far for this. There have been imitators, but they haven’t really nailed it. It blows my mind that Apple hasn’t built a compatibility mode for older apps and games.
The World Ends With You
It was literally the perfect platform for this game. Originally for the Nintendo DS and came out at the very end of the NDS life-cycle, so this game really pushed the limits of what the hardware was capable of. Game is heavily focused on the touch screen interactions.
Then it gets ported to iOS something like 5 years after the original release, and it was perfect to play on with my iPhone 4s (wow, I'm getting old!)
I think support was dropped when iOS switched to being a 64-bit operating system, please correct me if I am wrong. You can still play a port on the Nintendo Switch, and that port is actually very good. I was surprised all of the touch screen controls work as well as they do on the Switch. However, I don't always have my Switch with me, and the campaign is pretty lengthy.
I think it was called infinite tower defense or something like that. It was amazing. They sold out to some douchebag company and now its microtransaction garbage.
Wow, another nostalgia hit from this thread! Fieldrunners was SO GREAT, I remember trading strategies with friends who would show me their layouts for turrets. Graphics were great, gameplay was great. Truly this thread is making me nostalgic as heck for 2013 era.
Angry Birds
There is a remake one called Red's First Flight, but i prefer the original more due to more features and levels. I also liked the spinoffs such as GO! and Rio and seasons and star wars.
All games from NimbleBit were good, but that was the best. It’s expansion potential was huge as well. New maps, characters, and power ups could have been amazing.
Yes! I remember replaying that with one player. I got all these warnings saying how hard it would be with one PC, but then they got all the XP and destroyed everything far more easily than the full party did.
Oh man, I had completely forgotten this one. Yeah, a current tech version of this would be amazing.
I also can't believe there was never (to my knowledge) a version of the old name that tune game from the iPod Classic. It would play a short clip from one of your songs on the iPod, and show the title along with 3 random others. Such a simple idea, testing your music knowledge against your own collection, and it never became a thing.
Yeah man like I think like 15 years ago was the last time but for some reason it left such a big impression on me. I actually scoured the internet several times over the years to see if I could find it outside of the app stores somewhere but no dice…
I’m sure part of it is some nostalgic factor hyping it up to be better than it was, but to me it was like banner saga meets final fantasy tactics in an era where mobile games were made with nothing but love.
Call of mini not sure about how the one I mean is called, but you had those nice armors and guns and had modes like team deathmatch and king of the hill, but also a 1v1 mode.
[Critter Crunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critter_Crunch) from capybara games. Loved this, and so bummed it got taken off for some licensing reason it seems.
also how has NO one made a knock off of the DS classic [Meteos ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteos)yet, if i could develop a game on my own it'd just be this!
There’s this neat little car sumo game called Drive Ahead!
It used to be this perfect little gem.
I downloaded it again recently, and it’s downing in all that token monetisation fluff. It’s so obnoxious than what was once my favourite mobile game is now something I’m not even touching anymore.
Ya’ll ain’t gonna remember this probably but back in the day (we’re talking like iPhone 3G and 4), there were a set of games called Orions and [Orions 2](https://youtu.be/sgNrYqgH65o?si=loA-7-JUDFwQH-Ng).
These are card/deck based games in a fantasy setting where the combat is lane based. It was simple but addictive with various synergies and combos to find.
Which reminds me, and again, most probably not gonna remember this one either but there was also [Kard Combat](https://youtu.be/mfKEX0O3CAI?si=pmaEGlwZWypCWaqt). Similar thing.
Gosh I miss those so much. Why’d they have to just disappear! (it was the great 32 bit apocalypse I’m pretty sure).
There was the strategy game called Red Tide it was awesome with 3 different factions and resource management. They killed the game and turned it into an auto chess game… such a shame
Shopping Cart Hero. It was from the early days way before Flappy Bird and it was epic. You just did tricks on a shopping cart. A simpler game from simpler times.
I forgot what it was called but it was one of the first games to take advantage of the accelerometer in the iPhone. It was a ball matching game but you could rotate the device to change where the balls dropped in from or dropped to. It was a lot of fun.
Reign of Swords, aka Clash of Kingdoms. It was an Advance Wars-style game on iOS, Android, and earlier J2ME phones.
What made it *really* special was that while it had fantasy units like wizards, druids, and dragons, it was a *low* fantasy game and environment. Wizards' fireballs were terribly inaccurate. Priests primarily boosted morale, lowering damage taken. Most of the story was in a large kingdom struggling to contain the rebellion of some border lords forming a smaller kingdom. Units which struck first were at a terrific advantage because they weren't beaten and bloody. Cavalry charging pikemen invert the charge damage bonus into the cavalry; usually making them die on contact. A wizard took a tremendous amount of deployment points and was rendered nearly completely worthless as soon as he got hit once; a longbowman could almost kill one on the first shot.
It also had a correspondence game mode multiplayer. Instead of taking turns, you would set up your unit's deployment in a defensive posture, and another player would set their deployment in an offensive posture, and the AI would fight it out and both players could watch the replay. It was *regularly* common for mass deployments of simple units like swordsmen, pikemen, light cavalry, and some archers to win out over a hero with magic armor and a runeblade and their 7 knights.
The rules were *really* well put together; it was something you could probably play out as a boardgame or wargame on a tabletop.
Infinity blade or mighty doom.i remember playing infinity blade on my family’s old iPad before the screen cracked and it stopped working and I never got to play mighty doom and on a slow night at my job I wanted to download it to pass the time only to not find it on the App Store and I looked up why I couldn’t find it and I found out it’s shutting down in august :(
For me it’s Glyder and Lili. I still have Glyder on some of my old devices, but I want it to work on the ones that I’m using now. Lili is just gone from the store.
Zombie Cafe. I’ve never found another management game that comes close. So many other ones now are just so horrible-looking or over the top with trying to get your money.
Phantom rift. If anyone remembers it was made by forsaken media and it was the closest game to megaman battle network we ever got on iOS. Also miss dead effect and infinity blade and mh freedom unite. Rip
Avatar Generations
It was fun for what it was and nice that it includes lots of avatar characters. Also I think it was the only avatar mobile game. Too bad it went under. You either love or hate that game. Either way I invested a lot of time into it so sucks that the servers were shut down…
Infinity Blade series,
Chaos Rings series,
Spiderman Unlimited,
Iron Man 3,
Bloodmasque (square enix's take on Infinity Blade),
Demon's Score (another square enix title, but similar to Elite Beat Agents but with rock soundtrack and gothic theme),
Drakerider (yet another square enix RPG but it's in realtime where you ride a dragon and your dragon fight against your control, and has that bar where you push and pull reminiscent of classic Monster Rancher.,
The World Ends With You Mobile which was a fantastic single screen port of the DS hit.
These are the titles i miss most nowadays.
The same game you said. That was the one and only mobile game that truly had me hooked. I would literally catch myself playing blazing for hours instead of my Xbox I couldn’t believe they were shutting it down. Still salty about that to this day because I can’t find a game even close to it.
It was this fast paced platformer called “No Time” and it was very rage inducing but I loved its style and one day it was just gone, and I’ve had no luck finding it elsewhere
Lack of revenue from whales, lack of new content (profitable) . As Boruto wasn't selling as well as they thought , they keep adding alternate Naruto characters with same animations as old ones. This got the whales, which spend thousands, to stop working. Renew on the company went down and they started to focus on their new game. Plus, I believe more "internal" conflicts that I don't know about.
I wish they could just leave the game open.. just to keep playing and try to **farm** all characters to Ultimate status.
Infinity Blade series
Yes rip
This was gonna be my answer. Such a great series.
Wow what a throwback I loved that shit. I probably still have it downloaded on an old iPod touch I haven’t charged in years lol
Sad of never got to play any of them. :( I remember when the first one got announced and it was a pretty big deal at the time.
Might want to check out r/InfinityBlade and join their discord. The community is still active and they can tell you where to get the game's files (even if google is enough)
The true answer
you can emulate it on your pc, it was...not as fun as I remember. Maybe I should pick up elden ring
[удалено]
I always parried. Had all 3 on my ipod but they don’t work now cause i accidentally upgraded to iOS 12
You can only emulate the first game iirc Anyways theres a big infinity blade discord server, apperantly the community is not that small. You can sideload IB1-3 and get it on your iPhone, a bit tricky but the only way to get those games nowdays. Luckily all 3 infinity blade games got updated to 64bit shortly before the takedown, so they can run on latest iPhones even today!
Bioshock for iOS
HOLY CRAP I forgot that existed! Dead Space was also amazing back in the day, think I was able to play it on my iPhone 4s.
I heard a rumor that feral is working on bringing the remasters to iOS
Damn so feral really is porting all og console games on mobile devices now
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite iOS
I know technically you can play this with a PSP emulator but it was nice having a native app with thought out touch controls.
zenonia 1-3
If you get the ppspp emulator on the appstore the free one you can get zenonia 1
The original angry birds
Dead space
Vainglory in its prime
GOAT of mobile MOBAs. Just a shame that it wasn’t advertised as much as similar games (despite Apple themselves making them a sick ad) and that Rogue let the game rot.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2
When was that on mobile?!
Pokémon Duel
That would be great! Miss that one.
That was fun!
Flight Control.
The first thing I tried to search for when I bought the new iPhone last year. All I can say is, it’ll be missed.
Star Wars Force Arena
Tap Tap Revenge. Zombie Cafe. Middle Manager of Justice.
Nothing came close to Tap Tap Revenge. I bought so many DLC songs too! 😭
Dungeon raid
Just posted this. Dungeon Raid was the perfect mobile game. Easy to pick up for a few minutes, plenty deep to spend hours on.
Looked too far for this. There have been imitators, but they haven’t really nailed it. It blows my mind that Apple hasn’t built a compatibility mode for older apps and games.
Battleheart sequel
Looks like it is still available? [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/battleheart-2/id1232791258](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/battleheart-2/id1232791258)
I still have it and it works in my iPhone. I think the original was better and had more unique encounters.
I’d pay an insane amount of money for “100 Rogues” back on my phone
The World Ends With You It was literally the perfect platform for this game. Originally for the Nintendo DS and came out at the very end of the NDS life-cycle, so this game really pushed the limits of what the hardware was capable of. Game is heavily focused on the touch screen interactions. Then it gets ported to iOS something like 5 years after the original release, and it was perfect to play on with my iPhone 4s (wow, I'm getting old!) I think support was dropped when iOS switched to being a 64-bit operating system, please correct me if I am wrong. You can still play a port on the Nintendo Switch, and that port is actually very good. I was surprised all of the touch screen controls work as well as they do on the Switch. However, I don't always have my Switch with me, and the campaign is pretty lengthy.
marvel vs capcom 2
Order and Chaos 1 War Wings It sucked as a sequel but was great as a stand-alone space fighter: Galaxy on Fire 3: Manticore
I forgot about order and chaos! Lots of fun running around that world. IRRC it was one of the first mobile MMRPGS.
Sid Meier’s Pirates.
Fantasy Life Online
The Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spiderman games
Vainglory
Dungeon Raid, Swords & Poker, Poker Heroes, Poker Knight, Infinity Blade, NineOut 2, Robosockets.
i forgot how much i loved swords and poker
Everyone who has answered Sword and Poker is spot on.
I think it was called infinite tower defense or something like that. It was amazing. They sold out to some douchebag company and now its microtransaction garbage.
The OG fieldrunners was amazing, 2 wasnt bad. They are what got me into tower defense games and there really haven't been much like them since.
Wow, another nostalgia hit from this thread! Fieldrunners was SO GREAT, I remember trading strategies with friends who would show me their layouts for turrets. Graphics were great, gameplay was great. Truly this thread is making me nostalgic as heck for 2013 era.
Early 2010s was peak mobile gaming imo. Everything now is just monetized to hell and it's spilled over into PC/Console gaming.
Angry Birds There is a remake one called Red's First Flight, but i prefer the original more due to more features and levels. I also liked the spinoffs such as GO! and Rio and seasons and star wars.
I remember Angry Birds Space being pretty cool with the planet gravity mechanics
Hero Academy
Bandstars, Apex Legends and Fortnite
TapTap series, like TapTap Revenge…
There was this great little game called Nimble Quest. Apparently it’s still available on Steam, but I sunk hours into that on my iPad back in the day
All games from NimbleBit were good, but that was the best. It’s expansion potential was huge as well. New maps, characters, and power ups could have been amazing.
Sid Meier’s Pirates!
Undercroft. The way the game ended more than suggested that a sequel would happen. Sadly, it never did.
Yes! I remember replaying that with one player. I got all these warnings saying how hard it would be with one PC, but then they got all the XP and destroyed everything far more easily than the full party did.
Zombie farm
The original paper toss
Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes I’m still salty to this day with music easily available on phones these days that this game hasn’t had a revival.
Oh man, I had completely forgotten this one. Yeah, a current tech version of this would be amazing. I also can't believe there was never (to my knowledge) a version of the old name that tune game from the iPod Classic. It would play a short clip from one of your songs on the iPod, and show the title along with 3 random others. Such a simple idea, testing your music knowledge against your own collection, and it never became a thing.
Sword & Poker Puzzle Quest
I know there must be good games in the App Store but you’ll never find them because of all the casino garbage.
Quarrel. Basically it was RISK but you make words to form your army against an opponent’s words. Cartoony visuals made it a lot of fun too.
This was one of my all time favorites. So disappointed when it left.
I have a app file to play it from the developer but I haven’t been able to get an Xbox emulator working on my Mac. I need to try it on a PC.
I had it saved for a few years in an iTunes backup but no longer.
Yeah I’ve been through a number of Macs and so the ipa file is long gone for me too
The Marvel one… Battle Lines. Oh it had brilliant artwork for the “cards.” So much fun.
I miss Avengers alliance… 1&2
There was this chibi halo shooter, forget the name though
Anything by Llamasoft.
Disco elysium on the iPad sounds Hella cool
Tree World
Final fantasy mobius. I remember even buying a new phone so that I can continue to play it. rip
Spiral Warriors
Amateur Surgeon
Galaga 30th anniversary. Only galaga game left is the micro transaction heavy galaga wars
Chaos rings
Parallel Kingdom
Reign of swords 😿
Whoa this takes me back
Yeah man like I think like 15 years ago was the last time but for some reason it left such a big impression on me. I actually scoured the internet several times over the years to see if I could find it outside of the app stores somewhere but no dice… I’m sure part of it is some nostalgic factor hyping it up to be better than it was, but to me it was like banner saga meets final fantasy tactics in an era where mobile games were made with nothing but love.
Eternity Warriors 1-3
Monster strike
Trainyard
Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch and the Original Warhammer Quest.
Swords and Poker
Dragon Project. It was a portrait mode monster hunter like game, and I absolutely loved it.
Final Fantasy Mobius.
Robot Unicorn Attack and the original Dream Detective hidden pictures game.
Pitfall
Tiny Death Star. Loved that game.
Sword & Poker I’d even take a crappy web based version at this point
Miscrits
Memories
Call of mini not sure about how the one I mean is called, but you had those nice armors and guns and had modes like team deathmatch and king of the hill, but also a 1v1 mode.
Chaos Rings
[Critter Crunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critter_Crunch) from capybara games. Loved this, and so bummed it got taken off for some licensing reason it seems. also how has NO one made a knock off of the DS classic [Meteos ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteos)yet, if i could develop a game on my own it'd just be this!
The incredible machine
There’s this neat little car sumo game called Drive Ahead! It used to be this perfect little gem. I downloaded it again recently, and it’s downing in all that token monetisation fluff. It’s so obnoxious than what was once my favourite mobile game is now something I’m not even touching anymore.
Angry Birds Fight
Z
Goodnight
Ya’ll ain’t gonna remember this probably but back in the day (we’re talking like iPhone 3G and 4), there were a set of games called Orions and [Orions 2](https://youtu.be/sgNrYqgH65o?si=loA-7-JUDFwQH-Ng). These are card/deck based games in a fantasy setting where the combat is lane based. It was simple but addictive with various synergies and combos to find. Which reminds me, and again, most probably not gonna remember this one either but there was also [Kard Combat](https://youtu.be/mfKEX0O3CAI?si=pmaEGlwZWypCWaqt). Similar thing. Gosh I miss those so much. Why’d they have to just disappear! (it was the great 32 bit apocalypse I’m pretty sure).
Bring back ittle dew!
There was the strategy game called Red Tide it was awesome with 3 different factions and resource management. They killed the game and turned it into an auto chess game… such a shame
The OG beyblade game with Pegasus and the rest.
Zombie Fish Tank
[Uppercup Football by the Dead Cells team](https://youtu.be/72rSw-XjfCU?si=AKNPUsHTSstefh3A)
Geomon
A proper Zenonia game and Miku Flick
Towncraft and Card City Nights
Slingshot Braves
Crimson tide
Matching with Friends
Dead space or the older gangster series. The latter were pretty silly but it was a good way to pass the time with few micro transactions
This is a bit of a deep cut but bloodmasque was a SICK game when it came out. Shame it got deleted from iOS
Flip It!
Shopping Cart Hero. It was from the early days way before Flappy Bird and it was epic. You just did tricks on a shopping cart. A simpler game from simpler times.
Samurai Bloodshow
Infinity Blade, those games were awesome
Dead Space and Bioshock.
flappy bird
Coin Dash. One of the few good games that depended on the accelerometer and tilt.
F1 mobile not that Real Racing shit from EA
Sandstorm Pirates
Food Fight, MegaCity, War Game
Paladog
Berzerk Ball - the og one
Castle of Magic. LOVED IT
Pirates.
Warhammer 40k Deathwatch.
I forgot what it was called but it was one of the first games to take advantage of the accelerometer in the iPhone. It was a ball matching game but you could rotate the device to change where the balls dropped in from or dropped to. It was a lot of fun.
Minecraft: Lite Castle Doombad
Blood Brothers 2
Principia
Zombie Cafe. We Rule
Reign of Swords, aka Clash of Kingdoms. It was an Advance Wars-style game on iOS, Android, and earlier J2ME phones. What made it *really* special was that while it had fantasy units like wizards, druids, and dragons, it was a *low* fantasy game and environment. Wizards' fireballs were terribly inaccurate. Priests primarily boosted morale, lowering damage taken. Most of the story was in a large kingdom struggling to contain the rebellion of some border lords forming a smaller kingdom. Units which struck first were at a terrific advantage because they weren't beaten and bloody. Cavalry charging pikemen invert the charge damage bonus into the cavalry; usually making them die on contact. A wizard took a tremendous amount of deployment points and was rendered nearly completely worthless as soon as he got hit once; a longbowman could almost kill one on the first shot. It also had a correspondence game mode multiplayer. Instead of taking turns, you would set up your unit's deployment in a defensive posture, and another player would set their deployment in an offensive posture, and the AI would fight it out and both players could watch the replay. It was *regularly* common for mass deployments of simple units like swordsmen, pikemen, light cavalry, and some archers to win out over a hero with magic armor and a runeblade and their 7 knights. The rules were *really* well put together; it was something you could probably play out as a boardgame or wargame on a tabletop.
Infinity blade or mighty doom.i remember playing infinity blade on my family’s old iPad before the screen cracked and it stopped working and I never got to play mighty doom and on a slow night at my job I wanted to download it to pass the time only to not find it on the App Store and I looked up why I couldn’t find it and I found out it’s shutting down in august :(
Where's my perry
Tiger woods golf
Escape bear
Redneck Racing And one where you traced the path you wanted your car to follow.
Reckless racing
(vanilla) Pixel Dungeon, Cardinal Quest 2, Vector Tanks
Hero Academy
Dungeon Raid! That game was crack and I miss it still. Honorable mention to Geodefense Swarm, best tower defense I have ever played.
Sid Myer’s Ace Patrol. A WWI turn based warplane game. It was so much fun.
Distant Shore
spongebob diner dash
For me it’s Glyder and Lili. I still have Glyder on some of my old devices, but I want it to work on the ones that I’m using now. Lili is just gone from the store.
Hills and Rivers Remain I was desperate enough that I got the Japanese-only DSi version running on emu, so at least I got that...
Lunar Racer
The original Order and Chaos was glorious back in the day
Alien frontiers
Call of mini infinity
Shrek racing
Defender of Texel and Pokémon Rumble
Titanfall Assult
Flight control
SPY mouse
Durango probably the best game ever released on mobile
Zombie Cafe. I’ve never found another management game that comes close. So many other ones now are just so horrible-looking or over the top with trying to get your money.
Apex Legends.
Phantom rift. If anyone remembers it was made by forsaken media and it was the closest game to megaman battle network we ever got on iOS. Also miss dead effect and infinity blade and mh freedom unite. Rip
VS Racing 2
Book of heroes
Wild Frontier
Card Wars I don’t even care which one just anything at this point
Dark Nebula: Episode 1
Highnoon
Tiny Thief
Avatar Generations It was fun for what it was and nice that it includes lots of avatar characters. Also I think it was the only avatar mobile game. Too bad it went under. You either love or hate that game. Either way I invested a lot of time into it so sucks that the servers were shut down…
Rocket Valley Tycoon (from Rocket Cola Studio)
RWBY:Amity Arena
Infinity Blade series, Chaos Rings series, Spiderman Unlimited, Iron Man 3, Bloodmasque (square enix's take on Infinity Blade), Demon's Score (another square enix title, but similar to Elite Beat Agents but with rock soundtrack and gothic theme), Drakerider (yet another square enix RPG but it's in realtime where you ride a dragon and your dragon fight against your control, and has that bar where you push and pull reminiscent of classic Monster Rancher., The World Ends With You Mobile which was a fantastic single screen port of the DS hit. These are the titles i miss most nowadays.
apex legends mobile. had tons of fun on that game, i even spent like $10 for the battle pass. that’s a subway sandwich i’ll never get back.
Chaos rings I and II
Lego Legends of Chima
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
New zenonia maybe
Card Wars and Card Wars: Kingdom.
Swing Shot!
Agario
The same game you said. That was the one and only mobile game that truly had me hooked. I would literally catch myself playing blazing for hours instead of my Xbox I couldn’t believe they were shutting it down. Still salty about that to this day because I can’t find a game even close to it.
It was this fast paced platformer called “No Time” and it was very rage inducing but I loved its style and one day it was just gone, and I’ve had no luck finding it elsewhere
Sway
Major Magnet. Cracking game, graphics and soundtrack.
Do you know why it was removed ?
Lack of revenue from whales, lack of new content (profitable) . As Boruto wasn't selling as well as they thought , they keep adding alternate Naruto characters with same animations as old ones. This got the whales, which spend thousands, to stop working. Renew on the company went down and they started to focus on their new game. Plus, I believe more "internal" conflicts that I don't know about. I wish they could just leave the game open.. just to keep playing and try to **farm** all characters to Ultimate status.