So I haven't touched iOS gaming for about the last year. Lately I've been itching for an RPG or two to have on my device for those times where I want to play a game on the go and I just have my iPhone with me. So i ask you, what are some of the best/must have RPG's that have released over the past year that I should look at? I have an iPhone 4S in case specs are an issue.
Here's my list: Bastion Ravensword 2 Final fantasy 3,4,5 ( wouldn't recommend 5) Horn ( best looking game everrr) The bard's tale ( lots of humor and fun) Infinity blade series Knights of Pen& Paper Wild blood( boring plot but great gameplay) Chaos rings series( best JRPG) Most anticipated upcoming IOS games: Oceanhorn ( zelda-like) Exile: Far Colony( from the dev of Ravensword and Aralon) Micromon ( pokemon!) Infinity blade: Dungeon and more.....
Consider also... Kingturn (SRPG) Dungeon Plunder (roguelike, slot based individual combat) QuestLord (first person turn based dungeon crawler) Partia: The Broken Lineage (SRPG) Nameless: The Hackers (sort of jrpg) Dark Quest (board game / roguelike) Dungelot ("casual" roguelike) Star Trader RPG (space sim) bitDungeon (action roguelike) TowelFight 2: The Monocile of Destiny (silly action roguelike) I'll be curious to see what you decide on and how you find it. Zzandreazz's recommendations are good too.
There are a lot of really great games listed, I can't say that these are necessarily the best, but ones I enjoyed/am enjoying: Battleheart (cartoonish, real-time strategy.. kind of? hard to explain, but awesome) Mighty Dungeons (promising new release, still a little rough but there's already an update being pushed) Battleloot (silly SRPG) Orc: Vengeance (dungeon crawler, you play an orc) Heroes Call (another dungeon crawler, freemium done right) I haven't played Horn, Lili, Pixel Defenders Puzzle but have heard good things about all three. I hope you find something you enjoy, lots of treasures mentioned here. ETA: Looking back, I think some of these may have been released more than a year ago - still worth checking out, though.
My picks from the past year til recent: The World Ends With You Ravensword 2 Chaos Rings (all 3 titles) Bastion Infinity Blade 1 and 2 Heroes and Castles Symphony of Origin (also check out other Kemco RPGs) Final Fantasy 4 and 5 Drakerider Puzzle Saga Dungelot Saturday Morning RPG EDIT: The top 6 i've listed are arguably the best in the list. The rest is not in any particular order.
Are you on drugs? It's $16 to unlock all chapters in Drakerider, and $6 for the Deluxe version of SMRPG which gives you all current and future chapters of the game.
Oh S I switched to Mexican App to look for some apps haha ( angry birds are $36 Mexican currency haha) Now how do I switch back to US store?
Go get all the games from Spiderweb Software: Avadon, and the Avernums. Average on graphics, but fantastic gameplay and story. I second the Chaos Rings games, Baldur's Gate, Bastion, Ravensword 2, and especially Kingturn. You might like Blazing Souls:Accelate, but that game is a tough cookie, insanely long, and not much fun without a walkthrough. The Infinity Blades are more like action games, not RPGs. Drakerider was so-so: nice, but nothing special. Horn was rather nice, especially the environments have some real jawdroppers. If you want a "slightly different" experience go check out Crow (not a real RPG, but very interesting setting and story), and King of Dragon Pass (the 5star luxury package, complete with whirlpool, music, and butler): extremely text-heavy, but an awe-inspiring experience, and tells one of the best stories I ever saw.
Um, the OP has an iphone 4S, so Baldur's Gate, Spiderweb games, etc. aren't applicable. I don't even know about Bastion - I adore it and it is universal, but does it work well on a small screen? I really like Bard's Tale, and it is less frantic than Bastion, so it may work on an iphone. Personally, I was somewhat disappointed in The World Ends with You - I finished it, but I didn't love it. Loved Final Fantasy III, though. I am currently addicted to Kingturn and the prologue is free, so I'd say try that. But what kind of RPGs do you enjoy, OP?
Think Bastion works very well on a smaller screen, granted its far better on the ipad but i travel a lot so i prefer playing games on my iphone/ipod
I highly recommend Bastion as well. I was originally going to wait to get a new iPad to play it but had read such rave reviews I couldn't resist, buying it on my iPhone instead (it is universal though). Simply put, AMAZING game. Two minutes into the game I knew I was in for something special, and I was right. One of my favorite games ever, I've since bought it on X-Box and it will definitely get another play through when I get my iPad 5 (intimately,with headphones). Edit: it played wonderfully on an iPhone.
+1 for the Bastion recommendation, but that isnt much of an RPG by definition, but more of an action adventure title. Here's a few more good RPGs i can remember for the past year. Symphony of Origin (all Kemco/Kotobuki Solutions RPGs are quite good) Dungelot Monster Adventures Costume Quest Spiral Ep1 SOL Stone of Life Heroes & Castles Quadropus Rampage SW:KOTOR Shadowrun Returns Infinity Blade 3 Bloodmasque Rage of the Gladiator Drakerider Chaos Rings 2 (was this this year or the last?) Ravensword Shadowlands Dungeon Plunder Horn (last year?) Iesabel ORC Vengeance