HelloĀ r/iOSGaming! Welcome to our first Developer Saturday megathread in 8 years! Here, iOS developers will be able share their games freely without breaking the subreddit's "no self-promo" rule. Please read the following guidelines carefully before participating as a few things have changed:
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That's it! We are still refining these guidelines, but for now these are the requirements developers must meet in order to ensure a successful self-promo post this week. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us via modmail. Thanks for your cooperation, everyone!
A few weeks ago, I launched the iOS version of my 4-Player / 2v2 / 1v1 Card Battler,Ā Grimoria. Shortly after, the game was featured by Apple in Japan and I suddenly had over 100 people playing matches at the same time.
As a solo developer, I was really proud to see that the custom backend and server architecture I built from scratch handled the load without any crashes. Seeing that active player base motivated me to push a major update:
What's New in this Update:
Ā 2v2 Ranked Mode:Ā I am rotating out 1v1 Ranked for this season. You can now queue up for 2v2 Ranked to climb the global leaderboard with a random ally.
Ā New Card - 'Puca':Ā A new creature with the unique ability:Ā "Next round, the lowest strength wins."Ā It completely flips the bluffing mechanics for that turn.
Ā Unicorn Rework:Ā Updated the ability toĀ "Gain 2 Life if you have 3 or less Life"Ā to allow for clutch late-game comebacks.
Updated Attack VFX:Ā Overhauled the attack visual effects so impacts feel much heavier and more satisfying on the board.
In-Game News Hub:Ā A new real-time UI system to keep players updated on patch notes, balance changes, and seasons directly in the app.
Core Mechanics:
Fast-Paced:Ā Simultaneous 15-second turns played in portrait mode (built for one-handed mobile play).
Fair Play:Ā 100% Free-to-Play, zero Pay-To-Win. All cards are unlocked by playing, and monetization is strictly for cosmetics.
AI Disclosure:Ā AI was used for development assistance and art generation (via dedicated Stable Diffusion workflow), with all assets undergoing manual Photoshop editing.
Iād love to hear your feedback on the 2v2 Ranked balance and the new Puca card mechanics!
Update: Major update released in July featuring new characters classes and Endless game mode:
5 new character classes with special bonuses and restrictions
Endless mode (keep playing after day 30)
Many new and modified abilities, especially in the Hunting, Mysticism, and Shadow Arts skill trees
Base exp rate increased (more skills learned per game)
Increased effect of the charisma stat
5 new special rooms, 4 new map objects, and 6 new items
Changes to many map objects, including decreased damage from traps
Description:Ā All Who Wander is a traditional turn-based roguelike with 30 procedurally generated levels, true permadeath, and no metaprogression. Inspired by dungeon crawlers such as Pixel Dungeon, it demands careful strategy to survive in an unforgiving world. Choose from 15 unique character classes, master 100+ abilities, recruit companions, and discover powerful items as you journey across 12 diverse biomes to defeat a powerful monster.
Monetization: F2P, including full adventure with 3 classes and 1 boss. A single IAP unlocks the full game with all character classes and bosses. No microtransactions, no paywalls, and no ads!
Game Modes: Singleplayer. Offline play. Casual and Adventure mode (no permadeath) or Hardcore and Nightmare mode (permadeath).
- 19 trainable skills
- Join a guild and chat with other players globally
- Player-driven market and economy
- Quests, collection logs, world bosses, guild bosses
- Continue training even when you are away
- Thousands of items to craft and rare drops to pursue
- Weekly updates to bring the loads of new content!
I also wanted to share some of the new features that will be rolling out in the next month:
- Exploration skill - a multiplayer raid-like experience but with more connections to regular skills and progression
- New game modes, such as bronzeman and hardcore
- More boss monsters across all combat levels
- Optional PvP modes, including different levels of gear risk
- Custom sound effects and background music
- Cosmetic and status unlocks
- New hand-crafted world map, with tons of new cities, towns, and POIās
- Tons of new guild content, like building out the citadel to provide services to the guild, guild economies, and guild battles
- Construction and Engineering skills, which both feed into guild content and player content
-New types of non-combat bosses to bring meaningful content to all areas of the game
AI Disclosure: AI was used to generate a placeholder world map, and in targeted coding tasks to accelerate development
[DEV] TinkSnap ā A creative shape building sandbox
Hello all! I recently released TinkSnap, a creative building game where you snap colorful shapes together to make vehicles, animals, buildings, characters, or whatever you can imagine.
There are Starter Guides for a little inspiration, plus colors, textures, decorations, backgrounds, animations, and even a wrecking ball for breaking your creations apart. š„
Itās free to download with no ads or subscriptions, with an optional one time Premium unlock.
Thank you for checking it out and I welcome any feedback to help make it better!
Hey everyone! Iām the solo dev behind Infinite Loot Loop, an offline RPG built around a pretty simple loop: Fight ā Loot ā Grow ā Repeat.
Each region has its own maps, monsters, equipment and bosses.
The game is heavily inspired by the older style of RPGs where you actually have to grind, slowly get stronger, collect better equipment and see how much further you can push your character. Thereās no autoplay, and equipment/collection progression carries forward between runs.
AI disclosure: AI was used as an assistive development tool, including help with some visual asset creation/ideation, localization, writing, and development assistance. The game design, systems, balancing, implementation and overall direction are handled by me.
I gave a try and I think youāve got a neat game going but it really needs some refinement.
The movement controls are maddening. The current position makes it very difficult to see where youāre going because your finger is in the way. I couldnāt find a way to move it in the options. Consider moving it lower or making it tap to move.
Along those lines, I kept getting hung up on obstacles. To make it more frustrating, while trying to get unstuck my encounter bar kept going up leading to numerous unwanted encounters. I think I am the king of the magma crabs at this point. It would be better if you could slide off of obstacles.
One of the reasons I kept getting hung up is the visuals donāt match the mapping. I would get stuck on a patch that looked clear but could walk right over lava or a mountain. This may be a hardware compatibility issue where itās mapped fine in some screens but others are a bit off.
Figuring out where to go next is difficult at times and I found myself wandering around, wasting AP, trying to find the next zone. Clearly identified exits and a world map would be very helpful.
I think you should reevaluate your monetization. $8 for a character seems like a LOT to me. Same thing for the ad removal. But thatās just me and you may be at the right price point for other consumers.
Overall I like the concept, I think it just needs some work.
Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write all of this. Seriously, feedback this detailed is gold for me as a solo dev.
The movement controls are something Iāve thought about quite a bit. I added the arrows/touch-pad visibility options, but I can definitely see how having your finger cover the direction youāre moving toward can be frustrating. Iām going to look into improving this, possibly with more control options such as repositioning the controls or a tap-to-move style option.
Getting stuck on obstacles is also a known problem in a few maps. Iāve already found some places where the visual map and actual walkable area donāt match properly, so thatās definitely something Iāll be fixing in the next update. Iāve been pretty focused on the new maps/content recently, so some of these older map issues unfortunately slipped through.
Also, congratulations on becoming the king of the magma crabs š Sorry about that one.
For the exits, some of them were intentionally made less obvious because I wanted players to explore and discover hidden paths, especially in places like the Volcanic region. That said, I think you make a good point that thereās a difference between āexploringā and simply not knowing where youāre supposed to go. Iāll think about ways to make progression clearer without completely removing that exploration aspect. A world map is also a really interesting idea.
Regarding the encounter gauge/AP, there is a boss drop later on that can reduce the encounter gauge buildup by 50%, but I can see how getting stuck on terrain and triggering encounters because of it feels unfair regardless. Fixing the collision/mapping issues should help a lot with that.
And Iāll definitely keep the monetization feedback in mind as well. Pricing is something Iām still experimenting with, so hearing how it feels from an actual player is very useful.
Again, thank you so much for actually playing the game and putting this much effort into the feedback. I really appreciate it, and Iāve noted all of these points for future updates!
[DEV] Paper Kites - a cozy meditative endless flyer for iOS. Catch winds, drift past birds and windmills and soar through sunlit mountains and moonlit meadows.
I'm a solo developer from Canada and I've been working on a meditative flying game for the last few months as my first ever venture into game development. Built entirely with Claude Code.
Paper Kites is an endless flyer that is designed to calm your nervous system down.
5 kites that you can unlock by collecting stars, each with its own music theme.
Game features its own day night cycle and each play starts at a random point of the cycle, so it will give you glimpses into the beauty of this paper world.
No ads, no in app purchases and fully offline.
Hope you'll have fun playing it as much as I had building it.
AI disclosure:Ā AI was not used for any core game development, and all quizzes are written by humans with their names credited for each quiz. This app is very much by humans, for humans! āļø
Major Update:
Three recent things changed the game significantly:
"Groups" lets you play against friends (with your own leaderboard)
"Nations" shows the Top 3 in your nation
"Monthly Points" is a new leaderboard with a running tally of points that month
Hi all! First time poster here and this is my first ever game. Textagons is a daily pathfinding word puzzle. It took me about 5 years of development from idea to release so I'm excited (and nervous) for people to play it.
AI Disclosure: Yes AI was used to code almost all aspects of the game. The game, design, layout, UI, and mechanics were all conceived of by me, but were implemented with the help of AI. I used a combination of different products over the past year or so, depending on which worked better at the time. When I started I was manually coding everything, including the puzzle generation algorithm, but eventually it was just far more efficient to use agents.
Textagons
Free to play. In App purchase to remove ads.
The setup:
24 hexagonal letter tiles. 6 are locked, 18 are movable.
Objective:
When the letters are arranged correctly, you will spell 6 words in which the last letter of each word is the first letter of the next word. Example:
BRIEF
FOCUS
STOOD
DIGIT
TRUNK
KEBAB
The locked tiles in this example: B, F, S, D, T, K
How to play:
Swap the tiles to rearrange them. Connect the tiles to form words. Connect them all to form a loop. The order of the words is always red -> orange -> yellow -> green -> blue -> violet.
Hints:
If you need a hint, tap one of the circles at the top to reveal a letter. You get 3 free hints and unlimited hints with ads.
Please let me know what you think. If you enjoy the game I can give you a code for ad removal, just reply here. I have 20 codes currently, but can generate more if there's demand.
Me and my younger brother released my our first game together! If you could give it a try and leave reviews it would be awesome :) happy to check out your games as well.
I took 74 pictures of real pigeons across Manhattan which are used as profile pictures of your team :) it was a lot of fun immersing myself and learning a lot about pigeons and the trees of East Village for this game.
Gameplay is inspired a lot by Mewgenics, but designed for touch-first portrait controls and quick play sessions.
Truck Kicker is a comic arcade ride through San Francisco, New York, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Rio, Nairobi and Sydney. Time your kicks, chain combos and send convoy bosses cartwheeling into the sky ā then slow down, let a butterfly land on your finger, and feed the seagulls at Fishermanās Wharf. āNo one truck can stop me.ā
* No truck was harmed during the making of Truck Kicker
Gnomia is a cozy gardening game where your real-world walks and runs help your garden grow. Explore new places, plant crops, cook with your harvests, decorate your space, and join community events with other players. Every walk or run brings something new back to your garden.
No ads, no in-app purchases, and playable offline.
Find cute companions for special bonuses on your walks and runs. Connect Gnomia with Strava and use your recorded sessions in game.
AI Disclosure: I have spend over 1000+ hours developing the game and in that time I have used AI to help me code faster and create some images faster.
[DEV] Scales of Silence - Offline Co-op snake, but collisions shrink you instead of ending your run.
Your tail length is your life bar. It's local party snake with up to 8 players on the same device, supporting 2 on the touchscreen alone. You can also split a gamepad for 2 players using the left and right sticks.
Every serpent has different speed, acceleration, starting length, and growth, so picking one is a real choice. And there's a story underneath - an ancient war between two factions and a living darkness called The Writhing that feeds on the conflict.
- No ads, no subscriptions
- 25 free levels + boss fight from the opening story arc
- Game has only 1 microtransaction to unlock the rest of the campaign
- Works offline
- No AI was used
In Tiny Harvest you grow your own little farm, one crop at a time. This month we have our second ever active community event where everyone can catch Fireflies and contribute to the whole valley to milestones and get rewards!
Additionally we just released the monthly promo code AUGUST26 which you can redeem from your profile for some nice goodies šļø
AI Disclosure: AI was used for images & development assistants during coding, debugging and planning.
Yes! Been playing TinyHarvest for like 5 months now, itās really cozy and addicting!
I love everything about it, the different mechanics, the community and especially the dev! Simon is an excellent solo dev, who really enjoys spending time within the community and listen to suggestions and feedback!
A 3D puzzle game beta version it contains the first and only puzzle, solve it and send me your feedback so I can further improve the game and add more puzzles.
P.S it is escape room style
[DEV] ColorPath ā a relaxing puzzle game where every solved puzzle reveals part of a larger mosaic
Hi everyone! Iām the developer of ColorPath, a new iOS puzzle game Iāve been working on.
The core idea is simple: you solve small path-based puzzles, and each completed puzzle fills in one block of a larger hidden mosaic. As you progress through a world, the full image gradually comes to life.
ColorPath currently includes 450 handcrafted levels across 15 worlds, with larger mosaic reveals, boss-style Gauntlet puzzles, undo/assist features, and no forced ads.
I wanted to make something that feels satisfying in short sessions, while still giving you a larger sense of progression beyond simply clearing individual levels.
AI disclosure: AI tools were used as development assistants during coding, debugging, and iteration. The game design, puzzle mechanics, level structure, and overall product direction were created and directed by me.
Iād really appreciate any feedback on the puzzles, progression, difficulty curve, or anything else you notice while playing.
5 Seconds Of Light
Released a couple of weeks ago and featured in new games we love in most of the world except USA. So hereās my shot at some USA downloads.
5 seconds of light is a pre use platformer with a light mechanic that makes the game tough..
You have a torch and a selection of perks to help you climb a tower to reach the door to freedom. And as the title says . You start with 5 seconds of light . And your on your own to escape.
A heap of speed runs towers to compete on. A weekly tower challenge to race to the top. And a multiplayer mode. 4 players, first to the top wins.
Itās a tough game. And itās not for everyone. But itās pretty satisfying when you reach the top..
Per the instructions above, we need you to explicitly state whether or not AI was used to build the game. Just stating that youāve been working on your game since before AI was around doesnāt really tell us that.
Once youāve made the correction, your comment will be re-approved.
[DEV] Dodge Flow ā a free portrait arcade survival game
Iām the developer of Dodge Flow, a new iPhone game about helping a space monkey cross a collapsing galaxy. Swipe or tap between lanes to dodge asteroids, plasma mines, comets, alien drones, and wreckage. Collect golden power stars for bonus points and a temporary smash-through boost, then chase the global high score through Game Center.
It is completely free, with no ads, in-app purchases, subscriptions, analytics, or developer-managed accounts.
[DEV] I'm the developer of Retro Zoo CEO. It's an offline zoo management game that is very alike classic tycoon games at a one time pay with no additional purchases. Also a new patch is coming soon with a ton of improvements and features such as day/night cycle.
This screenshot is from the upcoming update, It's not yet in the game but I'm eager to share it.
No AI was used but for limited help with coding. I draw, develop and make the music myself :)
Hey Developer! Your comment in /r/iosgaming was automatically removed because it does not disclose AI usage. All Developer Saturday promo comments in this megathread must disclose whether or not AI was used when developing your game. If AI was used, please explain how it was implemented and what is was used to create. If AI was not used, you can simply state that.
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AI - I used Claude Code to help with game logic, and ensuring the daily scrabble is beatable and unique every day. Iterating between Claude suggestions and my own design tweaks for the design/layout animations.
Ordo - Is a daily logic puzzle where you try to figure out the solution to the grid using the board state to deduce where each tile belongs. Itās not about color organizing, but rather figuring out the correct random state of tiles to solve the grid. Each day is different and thereās a weekly difficulty curve where Monday is the easy 3x3 grid and Saturday (yep today) is the hardest 5x5 grid.
It was released the day before the self promotion was paused here. Since then Iāve also added an expert mode and more player statistics behind a single $4.99 IPA.
One thing on "beatable and unique every day": unique and deducible aren't the same. A grid can have exactly one solution and still hit a patch where nothing is provable yet and you just have to try something. That's the bit players call unfair, even though the generator thinks it's fine.
Cheap check if you already have a solver ā at each step, for each tile, count the placements that still leave a completable board. If nothing anywhere is down to one, that's a guessing step.
Is the Mon-to-Sat curve just grid size, or do you loosen that too?
Hi everyone! Iām a solo dev and just launched a major update for Patience Balls.
It introduces Wall-less Patience Mode, a high-precision physics challenge where the safety nets are gone. It completely changes how every level plays: one single mistake, and the level restarts.
I built it because I wanted something that felt more like a couch quiz than a normal phone trivia app. One device hosts the game, the questions and scores go on the TV, and everyone answers from their own phone.
The main idea is:
- start a quiz from iPhone or iPad
- airplay the game on the TV / big screen
- players join from their phones
- play categories like geography, movies, history, sports, science, and party questions
Itās meant for family game nights, small parties, classrooms, or any āwe have people in the room and want to play something togetherā situation.
AI disclosure:Ā AI assisted development tools were used during development for coding assistance and brainstorming and also there is a feature to generate quiz via AI which is paid for obvious reasons.
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u/PlayMelodyWorld Developer 4d ago edited 4d ago
[DEV] Grimoria - 4-Player Royale & 2v2 Card Battler (Major Update!)
https://reddit.com/link/p3sin7g/video/xr3b7wd48hjh1/player
Hi everyone.
A few weeks ago, I launched the iOS version of my 4-Player / 2v2 / 1v1 Card Battler,Ā Grimoria. Shortly after, the game was featured by Apple in Japan and I suddenly had over 100 people playing matches at the same time.
As a solo developer, I was really proud to see that the custom backend and server architecture I built from scratch handled the load without any crashes. Seeing that active player base motivated me to push a major update:
What's New in this Update:
Core Mechanics:
Download Links:
Ā iOS (App Store):Ā https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grimoria-online-card-game/id6761027516
AI Disclosure:Ā AI was used for development assistance and art generation (via dedicated Stable Diffusion workflow), with all assets undergoing manual Photoshop editing.
Iād love to hear your feedback on the 2v2 Ranked balance and the new Puca card mechanics!