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Postknight 2 is the sequel to the wonderfully original delivery adventure Postknight. As with the first game, you travel from town to town delivering items and rising through the ranks

Tiny Island Survival is a wonderful little survival game, where you gather resources and gradually level-up your tools, as you progress across the island, eventually unlocking a dungeon (where resources

Minimal Dungeon RPG describes itself as a "simple dungeon crawler" but it actually has a good amount of depth and a cool combat mechanic. Each screen/dungeon room involves tapping on

Genshin Impact is a huge, graphically incredibly impressive 3D open-world RPG, and more incredibly, it's free. To give some perspective on the quality of this game, the soundtrack was performed by

Swarm of Destiny is a fun "fantasy idle" RPG, or a "semi casual Incremental Idle RPG" as its devs describe it, where you mine crystals and train up witches who

Labyrinth Legen‪d‬ is described as a "Dungeon Quest Action RPG". It features retro graphics and randomly-generated dungeons and loot chests. Each dungeon level is only around 6-10 rooms, and after

Survival Island 1&‪2 is an escape RPG where you collect and combine various items, gradually building better tools, until you can repair a boat and escape the island. Initially you

Quest Hunter is a marvellous RPG, full of puzzles with quite a few quests as well as a great main story. There are lots of "secrets" - often chests to

Survival RPG 3:Lost in time 2d is the third instalment in the excellent crafting-progression series, that begins with The lost treasure followed by Temple ruins. This time you switch between

9th Dawn III is the hotly anticipated sequel to 9th Dawn II. This instalment offers the same huge open world, but adds a "collectathon" element as well as fishing, cooking

Paladin's Story: Fantasy RPG is billed as a "classic RPG with a modern twist" which "offers old school roleplay experience, combined with snappy dialogue and timing-based combat". The combat is

Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is set a thousand years before the events of the original Oceanhorn, and is currently exclusively available on Apple Arcade. There's a 20+

The sequel to Cat Quest, Cat Quest 2 is currently exclusive to Apple Arcade. Certain features have been added since the earlier game, including "more explosive spells, expanded weapon options,

Swag and Sorcery is a new "streamlined RPG" from the creators of Graveyard Keeper. It involves hiring heroes and sending them out to different areas to kill monsters and come

The sequel to the no-longer-available Aralon: Sword and Shadow, Aralon: Forge and Flame is another high-end 3D open world RPG with plenty of exploration, quests, items and weapons. You can

Pascal's Wager is a dark fantasy 3D action RPG with incredibly high end graphics. It's fully 3D and you play as different characters throughout, each with different weapon styles. The

Moonshades is a stunning indie dungeon crawler RPG that's made by someone who's a clear fan of the genre. It has everything you could want, with loads of loot and

A super fun old-style dungeon crawler with the sophisticated enhancements that modern graphics technology enables - "an oldschool heart but a modern execution" - Legend of Grimrock is a beautifully

The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands is an achingly beautiful game. It's set in a desolate yet beautiful looking world, and the change of light as the sun moves across the world

Long anticipated, the first iOS version of an Elder Scrolls game is finally here. The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a 3D dungeon crawler/town builder, where you do jobs and quests

Throne Quest is a "language-less, seamless open-world Action Role Playing Game (ARPG)": Delve into the adventurous world full of dungeons and forts, fighting 90 types of vicious monsters and search

Essentially a retro-style action RPG, Stories of Bethem has beautiful, bright graphics and there's a huge gameworld. The story is amusing and there's a huge variety of things to do,

I wanted to love Evoland 2 because I adored the original instalment, Evoland, but unfortunately the sequel is as much of a platformer as an Action RPG - and it's

Oceanhorn: Monster of Unhcharted Seas is an enormously fun action adventure RPG, set in a colourful and sunny 3D world. The atmosphere of its gameworld really made the game for

Jade Empire is a game that I first played on Xbox, and greatly enjoyed. Set in ancient China, it's a 3D RPG with martial arts combat elements (fighting is realtime)

Cat Quest initially looked a bit "bouncy" for me, but it had such rave reviews that I gave it a go. Those reviews are well deserved - it's an amazingly

A side-scrolling button-mashing adventure, Postknight is a lot of fun with quite a bit of depth. There are four types of quests: story quests: these aren't too long, and unlock

Once again this is an absolutely superb, traditional RPG with hours and hours of gameplay. It is an amazing feat for a solo developer. That said, while it’s hugely enjoyable,

It’s hard to know where to start with a game like Exiled Kingdoms. Simply put: it’s the classic open-world Action RPG you’ve always dreamed of. It’s huge, and as an

Lowlander II: Lowerlander is the sequel to Lowlander, and is once more an absolutely wonderful retro RPG where you explore the (huge) world and save it from evil. There’s very

Aralon: Sword and Shadow is a high-end RPG with a massive world and at least thirty hours gameplay. It's rich in features such as lockpicking, herb gathering and crafting, acquiring

An iPhone/iPad update of the original 1993 Japanese game Holy Sword Legend 2, Secret of Mana is an action RPG offering dozens of hours of playing time. Control is passed

Galaxy on Fire is a space-shooter RPG where you carry out different missions to earn credits to upgrade your ship and its weapons and shield, avoiding the evil alien race

Mage Gauntlet is a wonderful, original action RPG designed for iOS, that is inspiredby 90s action RPGs such as Legend of Zelda. It deliberately has no fetch quests so players

Described as a "3D space-faring action/RPG", Space Miner contains far more RPG elements than many more conventional, fantasy-themed games. There is combat, there are sidequests, loot, gold, experience, different types

The Bard's Tale is an iOS port of the 2004 action RPG, itself based on an 1985 PC game. It's one of the biggest RPGs to arrive on the iPhone/iPad,

Ravensword: Shadowlands, the sequel to The Fallen King, is an epic 3D action RPG with stunning graphics and an amazing flight feature, which really adds to the game. Graphics and

Fairune is a cute little retro-style puzzle action adventure, where you control an 8-bit sprite to level up, solve puzzles (eg traps, buttons) and eventually save the world. Movement is

Knights of the Old Republic, aka KOTOR, is one of the biggest RPGs to arrive for iOS, and really shows how powerful the platform is now. Originally a 2003 Xbox

The Shadow Sun is an absolutely astoundingly beautiful RPG set in a desert kingdom of golden cities, sand and palm trees, with actual camels. Described as a "dark, heroic fantasy

Lowlander is an absolutely wonderful retro RPG where you explore the world and save it from evil. It’s quite a linear game with no real character customisation but the strength

Evoland is a fascinating and unique RPG that progresses you through different graphics styles: from monochrome to full 3D graphics. It’s actually worth buying for those early stages alone, it’s

This is an amazing game for those that like the Action genre. I had thought it would be more of a traditional, questing experience, but it’s more rushing around. It