{"id":104934,"date":"2019-12-03T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-ios-games-2019-apple\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:40:55","slug":"these-are-the-best-ios-games-of-2019-according-to-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/these-are-the-best-ios-games-of-2019-according-to-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best iOS games of 2019 (According to Apple)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/these-are-the-best-ios-games-of-2019-according-to-apple.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">03 Dec 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p>Apple has released their 2019 retrospective, crowning not only their favourite games of this year, but also the most download games across Free and Paid. <em>Sky: Children of the Light<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/apple-celebrates-the-best-apps-and-games-of-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been crowned<\/a> the best iPhone Game of 2019, whereas <em>Hyper Light Drifter<\/em> is the best game on iPad.&nbsp;<em>Sayonara Wild Hearts<\/em> has also been declared as the best game of Apple Arcade so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/story\/id1484100878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As far as the most downloaded \u2018free\u2019 and \u2018paid\u2019 lists go<\/a>, it\u2019s a mixture of usual suspects and some interesting surprises. Here are the full lists:<\/p>\n<h2>Most Downloaded Free iOS Games 2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Color Bump 3D<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>aquapark.io<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Call of Duty\u00ae: Mobile<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>BitLife &#8211; #1 Life Simulator<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Polysphere &#8211; art of puzzle<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Wordscapes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fortnite<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Roller Splat!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>AMAZE!!!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Paper.io 2<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fun Race 3D<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Helix Jump<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Crowd City<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Roblox<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Draw it<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Words Story<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Traffic Run!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Run Race 3D<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mr Bullet &#8211; Spy Puzzles<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Most Downloaded&nbsp;Paid iOS Games 2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Minecraft<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Heads Up!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Plague Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bloons TD 6<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Geometry Dash<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rebel Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Game of Life<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Stardew Valley<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bloons TD 5<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Papa&#8217;s Freezeria To Go!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>True Skate<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pocket City<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Terraria<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kingdom Rush Vengeance<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pocket Build<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Trivia Crack (No Ads)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Donut County<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Exploding Kittens\u00ae<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely interesting to see what&#8217;s been popular, especially in the paid list. A lot of cool games in there that we\u2019ve reviewed, and it\u2019s good to see them getting the recognition they deserve especially when premium games seem to be in a bit of a weird spot right now.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be reflecting ourselves soon on 2019 in mobile gaming, but in the meantime, what do you think? What have been your favourite iOS (or Android, if you want) games of the year?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 03 Dec 2019 Apple has released their 2019 retrospective, crowning not only their favourite games of this year, but also the most download games across Free and Paid. Sky: Children of the Light has been crowned the best iPhone Game of 2019, whereas Hyper Light Drifter is the best game on iPad.&nbsp;Sayonara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}