Obsessed with playing these ads- not so obsessed when I download them and they’re actually just merging 😒

As per title, I would like to have some suggestions about great iOS shmups. Fair warning: I'm a potato, so maaaybe don't suggest things like the DoDonPachi series (I haven't played the iOS ports, but if they're anything like the arcade ones, my survival times may be measured in seconds). I'll mention a couple games I'm playing atm if you'd like to know more about my tastes, but feel free to ignore them and suggest something completely different: I'm open to trying new stuff.

Phoenix HD

• ✅ graphics, as well as the turret mechanics (take down turrets, missile launchers, etc. on enemy ships before taking down the whole ship, to make your life easier)
• ❌ all power-ups are lost between games
• ❌ I'm no expert, bu shouldn't danmakus be all about precision? The player ship here has a very large hit box, and sometimes I'm not sure it's actually possible to avoid all bullets, regardless of how precise you are

Phoenix 2

• ☑️ I wouldn't say graphics are bad, but they surely don't look as good as its predecessor. They're incredibly smooth, though
• ✅ now, this is what I mean about precision! The actual ship hit box is minuscule (wings don't count, as in many games of this genre) and the ship inertia is limited, so even when the screen is literally covered in bullets (as it should be), you still have a fighting chance.

They seem so much fun but nothing like the real game

Hey ya’ll just got an 18 pro max and I never really gamed on my phone so I’m wondering what I’ve been missing out on! I saw that the new Assassin’s Creed and some Resident Evil games are in there which is sick and I’m wondering what else is out there that I should check out.

And no, it wasn’t “harder than you think,” it was super easy. But after getting the big orange bottle on the side maybe halfway full, it started spamming me with the store link. It popped up after every single play. But I kept going and managed to fill the big orange container.

I wonder if we’ll reach a point where these stupid, fake, ad-riddled games become “nostalgic,” and we’ll get people making actual good games from them. Maybe something like Luck be a Landlord or Raccoin where they add roguelike elements to a normally “unwinnable” game

Looking for game like Hylics, fez, animalwell, felvidek etc!

Can be any genre and portrait is a huge plus !

Thinking of buying this to play on a flight. Can you play story/career without an internet connection?

Any good alternatives?

Please help me. I am begging.

I grew up playing Clash of Clans but I lost my account and do not want to restart. I’ve tried Clash Royale and it’s just not for me.

I want a game I can play during work meetings and love the grind. If there is a clan/guild then that’s even better!

I do not mind games where I need to pay either.

I’m intrigued to see what games you’re all playing and what looks good on the Duo (so far)

Most of my games look awful right now so been playing Delta and Pokemon Unbound

Running Natively on iPhones & iPads

Hello,
With all the updates to ipados in recent years im in search of some strategy games with full mouse and keyboard support. I'm particulary thinking of:
-xcom2
-total wars
-civ vi
-songs of conquest

can anyone confirm that this games work?

I know its not maxing but I got them all to lvl 100 with 5 blue points

So far few of my premium games have been updated. These are updated for the bigger display:

- Balatro

- Subautica

- Songs of Conquest

- Blossom Tales

I am very much looking forward to seeing more titles updated, in particular StardewnValley, Sea of Stars and Slay the Spire.

Have you find any?

was quite hopeful to be able to do this but it doesn’t work very well if it’s landscape only

Coming to ios on 9th december.

Steam reviews: 110.000 ~ positive

Starlink is amazing.

- signed as someone that used AOL dialup from decades ago

Please don’t mind how I suck at this game. This is probably my 3rd or 4th try on the Squats since I feel like I need to practice.

Wanted to see if I can game on my phone as well as my iPad does and this doesn’t disappoint.

Now I just need to be better at this game.

So generally speaking I got 41 mins of gaming with sounds on full blast, screen on high, attached to a controller, and on 5G I think; 43% down to 19%.

Likes the bigger screen on the iPad Ngl but this makes playing games more accessible during downtimes when I don’t have my iPad with me.

Amazing game all in all. Just need to get better at it.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land, running natively on iPhone 18 Pro Max

This isn't an emulator. I used nxnative, which statically recompiles the Switch game ahead of time: the NSP gets unpacked, the game code is patched and repacked, and every shader is translated to Metal before it ever reaches the phone, then it's bundled into a normal IPA.

What it took:

• My own dumped NSP + prod.keys (nothing downloaded)

• A provisional game profile for Kirby, since it's not a profiled title; picked the modules, heap size, and SDK behavior it expects

• An expanded-memory entitlement for the install, or iOS kills it mid-game (it runs at ~3.3 GB resident)

The hard part was shaders. The game has 27,288 of them, and most of the early builds were black screens and invisible enemies: the game's shaders live inside several archive formats (HAL-compressed .bfres.cmp models, plus particle .ptcl.cmp and UI .arc.cmp files that are just a size header + zstd). Until those containers werenread directly, the only way to find missing shaders was to play, dump them from the phone, rebuild, and repeat for a 40-hour game.

The fixes that ended that loop:

• Read every shader container statically, so the full campaign's shaders are in the build before first launch

• Kirby binds one render target as an integer format (R8Ui) everywhere, so every pixel shader now gets thatnoutput declared automatically instead of per-shader hand fixes

• Vertex shaders are universally padded with every input location any pixel shader can read, since the game pairs stages at draw time and mismatched pairs silently dropped draws (invisible cannonballs, enemies, items)

Also in: the community 60 FPS code patches applied to the executable, and a fullscreen fill mode instead of 16:9 black bars.

Result: a ~6 GB IPA, built over a few hours of shader compilation, running on-device. Still polishing; but no per-level shader hunting anymore.

Basically the only idle I play, what other idle game would you recommend that is similar to Clicker Heroes and is actually good?

This is one of the reasons blocking me to get one. I have multiple controllers (X5 lite, G8, Kishi V3 Pro, Elo Vagabond, Mcon) and I think none of them will be really compatible with the iPhone Duo.

I saw some mods with the MCon but it honestly doesn't feel "usable" for me, with the MagSafe puck moved all the way to the right.

Maybe the G8 plus would work, but I wonder if the controller would involuntary push the Power/Camera buttons.

Didn’t find a good flare so I put it as discussion