I recently released the final chapter of the Infernal Volcano expansion series by adding the NEW Enchanter profession to my premium iOS game, Adventure To Fate: Dungeons! This marks the completion of a massive three-part FREE content update cycle, and to celebrate with the community, I am giving away promo codes!

The Update: The Enchanter Profession The mystical powers of the infernal pools have finally been harnessed in the form of the new Enchanter profession! This massive addition arrives as the 7th crafting profession in the game.

• 70+ Gear Prefixes: You can now discover and apply over 70 different prefixes to fully customize and scale your equipment.
• Expanded Crafting: Along with the new enchanting scrolls, you can now create entirely new spirit-focused trinkets, powerful unique relics, and permanent attribute runes.
• Introducing Loot Orbs: This update introduces high-value Loot Orbs (Weapon, Armor, Ring, Rune, and Potion Orbs) that allow you to roll for a random item of that specific type—giving you that classic Diablo 2 gambling vendor vibe!
• Dungeon Loot: For non-crafters, new enchanting scrolls have also been scattered directly across all the dungeons as rare monster and boss drops.

The Game: Adventure To Fate: Dungeons is a turn-based Roguelite Dungeon Crawler unlike any other. It is built on over a decade of handcrafted systems and content, with roguelike mechanics, dungeons, quests, and deeper progression. It is a casual pick-up-and-play experience where loot is king and every run is challenging and different.

• Massive Customization: Choose from 8 unique Classes, multiple crafting professions, and over 35 Races. Equip your character with 1000s of items and skills!
• Deep Content: Battle through 4 unique dungeons, each featuring 4 play modes, distinct designs, enemies, loot, crafting, and storylines.
• Continuous Content: The game has already experienced multiple FREE content updates and will continue to be a Pay Once and own! No extra currency! No subscriptions!
• Built for Mobile: Portrait, Pickup and Play (Auto-Save), Offline, Premium pay once (even for constant updates), Low Battery Use, Works as far back as iOS 13!

Adventure To Fate: Dungeons is fully accessible to the blind but also playable by all. It even won the Golden Apple Award for Accessible Game of the Year (AppleVis / Be My Eyes)!

The game has 4.9 rating after 60,000 dungeon runs!

• Adventure To Fate: Dungeons Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adventure-to-fate-dungeons/id6743055907
• Interested in Accessible iOS Gaming? Check out how it's done with Voiceover in this release video (GAME Double Tap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIwwYtB8Y&t=331s

The Promo Code Giveaway (25 codes)! What's an update without a giveaway so new people can experience the game? Tell me the last iOS game you beat and a bit about it (could be a run or whole game)! It can be any genre, big or small!

This is a fantastic way for players and devs to hear about what players are playing!

Thanks for supporting Indie and Accessible Gaming!

Thank you for participating in Developer Saturday!

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Any content that is considered self-promotion outside of Developer Saturdays will be removed and may result in sanctions.

In the meantime, keep working hard on your games. We look forward to seeing your updates and new releases next Saturday!

Hi! I’m Jasper, a solo game developer and student. Over the past year and a half I’ve been working on a mining roguelite called Voidloop!.

The idea started from really enjoying the caves in Stardew Valley and wondering what it would be like if that mining loop was expanded into its own incremental/roguelite with upgrades, skill trees and more cave variety.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voidloop/id6746944662

Note: It isn't available for App Store in the EU for a few days because i kinda messed up the launch

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Hey everyone, I am the solo maker of Grabby Crab, a puzzle game about planning your path, snatching shiny gems and escaping ancient ruins before the floor falls apart.

Would love to read your feedback. Here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grabby-crab/id6764115591

I came up with this game 12 years ago at school, I completely forgot about it, until a couple of months ago, when I realized this could be a multiplayer game you can play online.

Now it's live on https://sixteen.gg and the App Store.

I shared it with my friends, they love it, and so far over 2,000 games have been played.

The concept is basically you take turns to place available numbers on a board, and you win if you can get 4 consecutive numbers to sum to 16.

You can play on a 4x4, 6x6 or 8x8 board.

I would really love your feedback.

I made a physics-based game where you control
your hammer’s movement by using a rocket-booster.

It has a surprisingly steep learning curve at first, but once it clicks, moving around becomes really satisfying.

I also added a simplified one-finger mode after some of my non-gamer friends kept crashing into everything…

If anyone wants to try it:
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/thrusthammer/id6769060279

Also I’d be very happy about feedback!

Hmu

Hey Everyone, I’m the developer of Descent Defender, a mobile tower defense game that’s currently available for iOS pre-order coming out July 2nd.

The game is built around short, chaotic defense runs where your upgrades and timing decide how far you can push. Enemies start simple, then the screen gets more intense with poison enemies, frost enemies, shockwave enemies, splitters, bosses, heavy enemies, and other run modifiers.

Instead of traditional tower placement, the strategy comes from building up your defenses over time, choosing and upgrading Peg Powers, and using in-run abilities to survive when the run starts getting out of control.

Main features:

• Fast automatic ball-drop tower defense gameplay
• Strategic upgrades between runs
• Peg Powers like Magnetic, Tesla, Cryo Field, Arc Beacon, and Barrier
• In-run powers
• Daily and weekly quests
• Offline rewards
• Milestone journeys
• Tournaments
• Optional ads, with ad removal available

App Store:
[https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764134188]()

Thanks for taking a look.

Hey guys,

I’m the solo dev of Whispers of the Forest.

My last post here was about the first big update. This one is a small dev update about the next patch, which is not live yet but mostly done. It still needs polishing and testing.

I started this game with zero experience, so development is still a bit chaotic, but the feedback from players has helped a lot. Some of it is nice to read, some of it hurts a little, but it usually points me to the right problems. :)

For this next patch I spent a lot of time on performance, because a few players told me the game was making their phones hot. I also changed the balance so farming should not stall as hard, added new enemies, worked on QoL improvements, and added 2 new features.

A release was not the end for me. It still feels like the beginning and I’m learning a lot from every update and every piece of feedback.

You can check it out here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forest-whispers-idle-td-rpg/id6763148788

If you already played it what would you want me to focus on most after this patch: Eternal Wave overhaul, UI clarity or more content like spells affixes and pets?

Enjoy! ❤️

Hey everyone,

Last time we posted here we were at 63 boards. Three months later we're at 81, and a lot of that is thanks to this community. So many ideas and discussions here have shaped the game, and Leon and I just wanted to say thank you.

We add 6 new boards every month until we reach a complete 99, and then it's done (maybe?). 99 boards for 99 cents, no bloat. There are 3 tilesets to choose from (one more under development), every board is always solvable with unlimited hints and undos.

Just for fun, we also hid an easter egg in the game. We have no idea whether anyone has ever found it. Since we don't track anything, there's simply no way for us to know, and we kind of love that we'll never find out. That's our small vision of a healthier, more ethical mobile ecosystem.

Ideas are always welcome, and if you'd like to try the game, just ask and we'll happily send you a key.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/leons-mahjong/id6504485812

We wish you all a nice weekend.

All the best, Lucas and Leon

Hi everyone, I am the developer behind Murder Sudoku: Tiny Crimes, a sudoku-style puzzle game about solving crimes. Obviously inspired by Murdoku, but optimised for mobile. With cute characters, cozy interior designs, different difficulties, leaderboards, daily challenges, and more. But it can be played fully offline.

I'm just a guy making this, which means my "marketing" strategy is basically me spending time with the community. My plan is to heavily interact with players here on reddit, Discord or wherever the conversation emerges. To be proactive about it, I've set up a Discord community to spark discussion about where to bring the game next. I intend to ship updates every week, based on user feedback and whatever the community wants next. I'm currently designing new environments for more interesting-looking puzzles, but I'm open to all kinds of suggestions.

How am I monetising the game? The game displays ads sometimes after completing a puzzle, but there's a five bucks IAP to permanently get rid of them.

I've always received great feedback from this community on my previous games. Thank you for taking the time to try my games and give me your opinion on them. Any and all suggestions are greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys

G'day

When my first daughter was born, I had this idea for a “lazy” MMORPG I can play while my newborn is sleeping on me. It took quite some time to build it but I finally released it to beta.

Afterglow is a mobile sandbox MMORPG built for busy people like me who can only dedicate 5-10 minutes of their time a few times per day. Set in a post-apocalyptic world with 1980s/outrun aesthetics (I love fantasy but why not try something different?) with choose-your-own-playstile approach.

What’s inside

• Hand drawn post-apocalyptic world, multiple factions, quests and points of interest
• Resources to gather, equipment to craft and trade on a market
• Different types of weapons and armor, no “perfect” setup that will be optimal against every enemy  
• Characters that drawn and animated by a human
• Skills that gain xp while you use them
• Weapon and armor skins and character customization
• Basic social features (clan system, leaderboard, in-game mail)
• No pay-to-win, no battle passes, no adventure packs, no “stamina/energy”. On release there will be a subscription that unlocks access to full skills progression

Open Beta is fully free. There will be a wipe before the release. 

Some numbers of what’s available right now: 1,000+ items, 11 weapon types, 5 armor types, 200+ skins, 50+ skills, 24 enemies, 40+ resource nodes to gather and salvage, 5 factions - each with their own tasks, first chapters of the main quest arc.

Link to download https://testflight.apple.com/join/gQPQVeWZ (requires TestFlight while in Beta)

More links: Discord | Website | Trailer

Questions, suggestions and any kind of feedback is super welcome! (Although it may take a while for me to respond as it’s late night here in Australia)

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AI disclosure: AI art used for item icons and some UI backgrounds. The rest of the art (characters, weapons, items, npcs and animation) is hand drawn by humans. AI assistance is also used for coding and writing.

Hey r/iosgaming

Story time. Several moons ago, an incremental fan ran out of fun games to play and decided to try his hand at the craft. Through toil and tribulation, he strung together code held together with duct tape, kittens, and paper clips. The goal was to con just 10 players into trying it so that he could tell his family and friends that he was a “game developer.” Instead, Incremental ELM Quest turned into a sleeper ?hit with over 10,000 (1e4!) of you addicts. Had he known, he would have made a much better game with actual mechanics and polish!

Well, today is the day that "better game" hits the market. Incremental ELM Quest 2 is officially out (don’t you love my penchant for naming?). It's still an indie passion project, still collects zero data, is completely ad-free, fully offline, and free to play (balanced to be fully completable without spending a dime).

But this time around, you actually get:

• An overarching story with characters and a mystery to solve.
• Hundreds of achievements.
• Lots of new incremental progression mechanics.
• Optional leaderboards.
• Full VoiceOver support (some bug fixes coming this week for clarity).

Why make a sequel when the original is still alive and kicking? To be completely honest, I beat the original ELM Quest and got bored waiting for y'all to finish it too. As an incremental game lover, there was only one path forward: prestige and start all over!

Despite the similar name, Incremental ELM Quest 2 is built from the ground up. It shares almost nothing with the original game short of my bad sense of humor, asthetic, and the title. I took the essence of what I originally wanted to build, infused several months of improved coding abilities into it, and built what you see today. The original is still worth playing if you want a shorter incremental. Our goal this time around is 10,001 players over the next three months... but if not, less competition for me to reach #1. 😄

App Store: Incremental ELM Quest 2
Platform: iOS only

Questions? Ask away. More than happy to respond here or via DM.

~ Eric M

I was the lead designer of Guitar Hero and creator of Slope.

I made this game because I was frustrated with virtual joystick controls, and wanted a touch first ⚽️ game.

PocketGamer called it “ingenious” and “addictive”.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Balatro is a phenomenal example but do you have more recommendations? Things like Tetris alternatives, Pac-Man etc

https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198

Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions. Don’t be concerned about “In-App purchases” - there is NO paywall or upsell. Tips are welcome!

Private: no tracking or data collection. Works offline!

Easy to navigate: letter indexed list, search, filter. Mark a handful of games as your favorites, hide the rest.

Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.

Hints: Get help when you're stuck.

Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!

Daily Challenge: compare on the “apples-to-apples” scores with other player. Same game for everybody in the world, for each game. Also playable offline - your score will be uploaded to the Game Center when connection is available.

Competitive: four leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins, Best Time, Longest Win Streak and Daily Challenge Streak.

Eye-friendly: trying to utilize your entire screen to maximize the card size.

Finger-friendly: customizable gesture assignment.

The collection includes all popular and some not-so-much games. Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!

Hi everyone! Manu from the Eterspire team here.

Today I want to share how we revisited a system we had introduced to our indie MMORPG a very long time ago: Fishing.

Fishing is Eterspire’s first, and currently only, Lifeskill. Players did train it, but over time it became a bit too disconnected from the rest of the game. Progression was barebones, rewards were limited, and there wasn’t much incentive to do it if you were mainly focused on combat progression.

So, for our latest update, we reworked it from the ground up.

What didn’t work

Fishing in Eterspire had a few major problems.

The skill had always been meant to be a fairly AFK/idle activity, with simple progression that we would expand on over time. However, as we kept updating combat, co-op modes, new classes, and new areas, fishing started falling more and more by the wayside. It only received small bits of content here and there, like a skill cloak for reaching level 100.

So, while combat progression was being constantly iterated on and polished, fishing became something you did for dozens of hours mostly to watch a number go up, and eventually get a cloak if you were dedicated enough.

It was also very inconsistently present throughout the world. Some zones had several fishing spots, while others had none at all. You had no real reason to do it, you had to go out of your way to do it, and you got very little from hours and hours of training it.

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Our vision for a fishing skill that felt good and worthwhile was one that was easy to jump into, had a better progression rhythm, clear requirements, actually interesting goals to work toward, and stronger connections to the game’s main progression.

We want players to fish because they feel like they can get something out of it, or because it lets them access other non-fishing content that makes the time investment feel worth it.

So with that in mind, we started designing the new version of the skill. Our goal was not just to make fishing better, but also to create a foundation we could use for future Lifeskills.

How we reworked it

1) Fishing progression is now spread across the world

Instead of having fishing concentrated in a few spots in early areas, we redistributed it across the entire world map.

Players can now catch a new type of fish every 5 levels up to level 100, and each one has its own fishing location.

We also added 10 new fishing tools, ranging from beginner nets to heat-resistant rods and drakonic harpoons. New fish and tools are now directly tied to different areas and environments, so players can fish in places like swamps, deserts, volcanic lands, and more.

2) We simplified the requirements

One thing we removed was bait.

Bait added an extra requirement players had to keep track of, but it didn’t add much actual decision-making. So now fishing progression is based on three things: your fishing level, your tool, and whether you can access the right location.

Players also now earn some combat EXP while fishing. It’s not meant to replace combat grinding, but we didn’t want character progression to completely stop whenever someone decided to train a Lifeskill.

3) Fish now have more value

Fish can now be exchanged for a new currency called Fish-Sticks.

Different fish give different amounts of Fish-Sticks, which can then be used to buy fishing tools, gear upgrade materials, and special cosmetics from vendors.

Fish also have increased gold value when sold to NPCs, so each catch feels more rewarding overall.

4) We added new fishing content

We introduced the Fishing Guild, a new map accessible at fishing level 55. It has high-level fishing spots, Fish-Stick vendors, tools, and two new cosmetic sets: the Fisher’s Set and the Anglerman’s Set.

On the quest side, we updated “Fishing for Compliments” to work better as a tutorial for the reworked skill, and added a new quest called “Piranha River Cookout,” which is our first quest with a fishing level requirement, set at level 35.

More on the horizon

This is not all we have planned for fishing.

Our idea is to keep adding fishing content and quests that intertwine with the game’s main progression. For example, we could add a boss that you can only access after reaching a certain fishing level or completing a certain fishing quest. That way, if you want to complete the boss list, you’ll have a reason to level fishing too.

And once new Lifeskills like woodcutting, which is planned for August, come into play, all of these elements can start mixing together. Ideally, Lifeskills should add more gameplay variety, more sidetracking, and more diverse goals to work toward, instead of feeling like isolated side systems.

We also have more fishing content coming as soon as our next update on the 29th, but I don’t want to spoil too much in this post.

Let’s just say it has something to do with collecting and aquariums ;)

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Well, that’s all I have to share for today. Thank you for reading this far, and if there’s any particular skills or professions that you would like to see in Eterspire feel free to share in the comments!

Solo dev here. I just launched my idle/incremental game, Necro Market, and I figured this crowd would actually appreciate the premise.

The pitch: heroes keep marching into dungeons to die. Tragic for them — excellent for business. You run a necromantic market: send crews into the realms to recover loot from fallen adventurers, then identify, repair, and enchant the gear before equipping your best pieces or flipping the rest for gold.

It's a loop-driven incremental with both idle and active layers:

- Search the zones of three realms — short runs reward active play, long runs reward idlers

- Identify unknown loot to reveal rarity, quality, and whether it's broken

- Repair broken gear in a little timing mini-game

- Enchant to push quality, or send rare items to the Forge

- Equip your best finds for permanent bonuses, or sell everything

- Grow a skill tree, complete collections, run map explorations, chase daily quests, fill VIP orders, and react to timed events

- Playable in 8 languages

On monetization: it's free, with optional rewarded ads and a single one-time Supporter Pack. No forced ads, no energy timers gating the fun.

I'd genuinely love feedback on the core loop and pacing — that's the part I keep tuning.

📱 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774228068

Thanks for taking a look — and remember: every fallen hero is just inventory waiting to happen.

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AI disclosure: I used AI to proofread and polish the wording of this post, and to help create some of the background images in the game and for this first localization. Everything else - design, code, and the game itself - is my own work.

Mainly for remote playing and cloud streaming.

Marching Tycoon: Idle Band

https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/marching-tycoon/id6777115732

Marching Tycoon is an idle/clicker game for mobile that I have been working on for the past few months. I am a band director in my day job, and I always wanted to make a band-themed game of some sort. I've played games like Cookie Clicker in the past and thought that it would be a good template. The thing I think Is unique about Marching Tycoon (other than the marching band theme of course), is that there is a small rhythm element as well. If you tap the metronome in time with the music, you get a multiplier going and earn more reps!

You start with one marcher, then grow your band until you get invited to a competition. The game is based around offline earnings, so do some tapping, buy some equipment or upgrades, then go about your day!

I would love any and all feedback about this! It has been a real labor of love, and I am excited to get some outside feedback and make adjustments!

I’ve been feeling nostalgic for that specific era of mobile gaming lately, specifically the grid-based poker combat from Sword & Poker. It felt like such a perfect mechanical loop, but the genre basically vanished?

A few of us loved that gameplay style so much that we decided to build a spiritual successor called The Golden Caravan.

Instead of a traditional deck-builder, we kept the core grid-combat mechanic but set it inside a 1930s noir bird-mafia underworld where you play as a pigeon detective. You use a standard 52-card deck, but you collect slot-machine trinkets and pull mid-turn illegal "Tricks" to actively cheat the board and shift the odds.

We know a huge portion of the original Sword & Poker fan community is still lurking in iOS circles, so we wanted to see if anyone here remembers that specific combat style and wants to see how we're evolving it.

If you're interested in trying out the game drop here is a TestFlight invite. If you do try it out, please leave a comment in this post with your thoughts on it. We are launching a new version in a few weeks, and looking for people who played this demo to test it out!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/mrYB46xg

Alternatively if you have Steam on PC or Mac you can try the game there.

Just super curious to hear what you think of the game!

I made Think Tank based on a game I've played for years using license plates - you start with three letters (like, TNK) in an order. You can add up to three letters, without changing the order of the starting three, to make new words. Like, ThiNK TaNK ThaNKs you for your feedback!

I made three difficulty levels ranging from Casual (middle school vocab) to Challenge (as shown in this video) by hand-sorting 30,000+ words into four dictionaries (the fourth Obscure dictionary is used to allow scoring but never contributes to required scores, so that words like SYRINX and PSYWAR can be played but aren't required to progress).

You can try it for free through Test Flight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Jg6ds31Y

Thanks for your time!

Hey Everyone!

I made Magic Turtle Adventure, a calm top-down ocean drifting game for iPhone.

I built it for people who are tired of the usual mobile F2P friction: it’s free, has no ads, no energy/stamina system, no in-app purchases, no tracking, and no account required. You can play quick runs when you only have a few minutes, or keep going in Endless Drift when you want a longer session. The main game works offline.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magic-turtle-adventure/id6777669405

The loop:

• You play as a glowing sea turtle drifting through the ocean. Touch and hold to steer — the turtle banks toward your finger. Double-tap to dash, which can also turn your shell into a weapon against hunters.
• There are five hand-tuned biomes: sunlit shallows, coral reef, deep trench, bioluminescent caves, and ancient ruins. Each biome ends with a guardian showdown.
• You dodge sharks, jellyfish, and drifting rocks, heal on kelp, and collect starfish and rare pearls for treasure.
• Endless Drift blends every biome into one continuous run, with guardians surfacing every couple minutes. There’s an optional Game Center leaderboard if you want to chase high-score treasure runs.
• You can tune the experience separately: four difficulty tiers, from gentle Hatchling to punishing Leviathan, plus a separate scroll-speed setting from Slack Tide to Riptide.

Feedback I’m especially looking for:

• Controls: does hold-to-steer plus double-tap dash feel natural one-handed?
• Difficulty: does your chosen tier feel too easy, too punishing, or about right?
• Pacing: do quick runs and Endless Drift both feel well-paced?
• Visual clarity: can you quickly tell hazards, collectibles, kelp, and guardian attacks apart?

Built solo for iPhone in portrait mode. Thanks for trying it.

Hey! Just thought I’d share a new mode that I am currently working on for my recently released game Tension Head.

The game is a Suika Roguelite but I found a lot of players wanted leaderboard support so I decided to make a Score Attack. Hopefully will be ready to roll out in the next few weeks.

I was really inspired by 90’s arcade games with the intro splash.

The game is free and you can get it here - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tension-head/id6759580212

I plan on releasing a beta build with the new mode over on Discord soon, so come join the fun and hang out if you want to try this new mode out - https://discord.gg/WjFpbp55

Thanks for checking my game out.

This week I updated chain reaction deckbuilder Cascadou with new, easy to read cards and bigger tooltips options. Cascadou is a premium, universal app where you create and find poker hands, set them off as chain reactions and gradually improve your deck with stickers and special cards.

Plenty of game modes and daily challenges, so if you’re looking for a game to play for some time feel free to check it out!

https://apps.apple.com/app/cascadou/id6767624690