11 Recommended iPhone Game Apps: Indie Apps on the App Store (With Price and Supported iOS)

Published 2026/10/25 / by MASHIMARO produce

For anyone looking for game apps to play on iPhone, here are 11 games indie developer "Masimaro" distributes on the App Store, by genre. App names are our English translations of the Japanese titles.

Note: price, supported OS and age rating are based on the App Store listing as of October 27, 2026. They can change, so check the latest information in the store before downloading.

iPhone app basics (App Store listing)

• Price: all 11 introduced are 120 yen.
• Supported OS: iOS 15.0 or later (Seeker Guild: iOS 11.0 or later).
• Languages: Japanese and English (Isekai Henteko Dungeon and Meteor Merge also support Chinese).
• Size: most are about 5 to 12 MB. Stage Light is about 84 MB.
• Age rating: mostly 4+. Card Craft is 9+, Isekai Henteko Dungeon, Dungeon Shop and Midnight Road Drive are 12+, and Stage Light is 17+.

Roguelike and RPG

• Isekai Henteko Dungeon: A turn-based roguelike RPG where you dive with a single pickaxe. The terrain changes every dive, and whenever you take a step the monsters take one too. Dig through walls to make paths and craft with materials to develop your town. (App Store)
• Dungeon Shop: Isekai Shopkeeper RPG: A voxel-art shop-management RPG where, as a shopkeeper who can use neither sword nor magic, you grow a stall at a dungeon entrance into a large trading company. You run the gather, process and sell cycle while automating it. (App Store)

If roguelikes interest you, it's also a good idea to try roguelike games you can play free in the browser first.

Puzzle and escape

• Meteor Merge: Planet Merge Puzzle: A physics puzzle where you pull the screen back and release to fire meteors like a slingshot, using the sun's gravity to merge planets. You grow a meteor into the Moon, Mars, Earth and on to Jupiter. It has five modes. (App Store)
• Mine Digging 2048: Ore Match-3 Puzzle: A mining puzzle that mixes match-3 with 2048: swap adjacent ores to line up three, and the ore is refined and its number doubles. You grow 14 tiers of ore, from coal to rainbow crystal. (App Store)
• Puzzle Box Escape: A 3D escape puzzle where you turn an intricate three-dimensional puzzle box and solve the mechanisms hidden on its six faces in the right order. Four boxes are included. (App Store)

Horror and finding things

• Midnight Road Drive: Strange-Phenomena Horror Game: A horror game where a car drives itself along a night road and you only choose left or right at forks. "If you see it, go the other way." You compare the road a sign points to with the anomaly you saw, and choose. (App Store)
• Seeker Guild: Item-Hunting Fantasy: A game where, using the portrait on a request sheet as a clue, you find a person in a town crowd within a time limit. Confusing look-alikes are mixed in, but if you compare carefully you can always reach the answer. Ten stages are included. (App Store)

Idle, raising, crafting and management

• Card Craft: Craft & Survive With Cards: A one-handed, portrait craft-and-survival game where you tap a 5x7 = 35-card layout to gather materials and craft 87 kinds of items to survive. You travel through eight worlds with day and night cycles. (App Store)
• Fossil Dig Clicker: Idle Mining Incremental: An excavation incremental where you tap rocks to break them, and when you find a raw stone, carefully carve out the fossil. Hitting the fossil lowers its preservation, which directly affects its buyback price. (App Store)
• The Mole and the Lantern: A mining game where you dig underground relying on lantern oil that keeps dropping even while you dig. Ore also works as fuel. If you smash the core crystal and escape, you take home all the ore you mined. (App Store)
• Stage Light: An idol raising x agency management simulation where you lead a small talent agency to the top in 260 weeks (five years). Each week's "choice" moves the story. (App Store)

The browser version of Card Craft is free to play with no installation.

5 things to check before downloading

1. Price and content: check the price and whether there are in-app purchases on the store page.
2. Supported OS: can you play on your iPhone's iOS version?
3. Age rating: if a child will play, check the target age.
4. Developer name: on the official App Store, check that the developer is "masimaro".
5. Try the browser version: if you're unsure how it plays, start with the free browser version.

If you want to play on Android too

Six of them, Isekai Henteko Dungeon, Meteor Merge, Midnight Road Drive, Seeker Guild, Puzzle Box Escape and Card Craft, are also distributed on Android (Google Play). See Android game app recommendations for details.

Summary

For iPhone game apps, we recommend choosing by genre and play time. All apps are on the smartphone apps page (Japanese), and overall picks are in 17 smartphone game apps. For free browser games, see 96 free games to play now.

FAQ

Q. Which game apps do you recommend for iPhone?

A. There's the turn-based roguelike RPG "Isekai Henteko Dungeon", the shop-management RPG "Dungeon Shop" and the idol-raising simulation "Stage Light", among others.

Q. How much do the iPhone apps cost?

A. According to the App Store listing as of October 27, 2026, all 11 introduced are 120 yen. Prices can change with sales and the like, so check in the store before downloading.

Q. Which iOS versions are supported?

A. According to the App Store listing, most need iOS 15.0 or later, and Seeker Guild needs iOS 11.0 or later.

Q. Can I play on Android too?

A. Some apps are also distributed on Google Play. See the Android game app article for details.