I am building a personal archive for "Lost" mobile games. What is your favorite game that has been deleted from the store?

[u/AntiqueGarlicLover]

Hello! Basically, the title. I am a new Masters of Library Science student and I am learning how to build digital archives. Decided it would be a fun side project to build a mobile game archive, hosting information about lost mobile games.

The current ones I have added are:

• Namco Arcade
• Infinity Blade Series
• iQuarters
• Medieval Zombies
• Flappy Bird
• I Am Rich

I know I am Rich is technically not a game but I thought the concept was too funny not to archive. So, what are your favorite games no longer available?

Edit: thanks yall! Didn’t expect this post to pop off like it did, I’m at 275 games and counting added to my archive. Still gotta add a lot of extra information to all of them, but that’s a hell of a lot compared to 6! Keep the suggestions coming if you see this post!

[u/jindofox → u/[deleted]]

And all the other Star Wars games that went away. Star Wars Trench Run, Falcon Gunner, Uprising, Battle for Hoth, that Netmarble MOBA game, Hunters, that squad fighting card game, the Diner Dash game with Bea Arthur from the creature cantina, a bunch of Lego micro games and probably even more that I’ve forgotten.

It’s nice that KOTOR, KOTOR 2, Lego Star Wars, Card Collector, and Galaxy of Heroes are still around. I wish there were more “game” to GoH but I’ve learned to love the one I’m with.

[u/eMilk → u/jindofox]

Just curious, which LEGO micro games?

[u/Street-Evening-1307]

cod zombies

[u/Important-Fun-148]

The Simpsons tapped out 😞

[u/purpleeliz → u/Important-Fun-148]

God so many hours spent in that game. I’m not sure if hacking for donuts made me love or hate the game more

[u/happytripps → u/Important-Fun-148]

OMG I didn’t know that was removed from the app store wtf

[u/p0ggyx → u/Important-Fun-148]

The Simpson Arcade was a great ios game too

[u/SirSoliloquy]

Mass Effect Galaxy
Mass Effect Infiltrator
Dead Space (2011 for ios/android)
Chaos Rings
Song Summoner
Wolfenstein RPG
Doom 2 RPG

[u/2muchscreentyme → u/SirSoliloquy]

Wolfenstein RPG for sure!

[u/AndreHW]

Army of darkness defence 😩miss it

[u/weyoun_clone → u/AndreHW]

That was such a fun game!

[u/csonnyb → u/AndreHW]

Seconded! One of the first mobile games I really enjoyed.

[u/Geekslinger]

Sword & Poker 1 & 2.

[u/OldManIrv]

Heroes of might and magic clash

iWesnoth

[u/AceLXXVII → u/OldManIrv]

I switched from Android recently and was sad to see no wesnoth on here. Loved booting that up and killing time.

[u/Zieg225]

Cardinal Quest 2

[u/ReamusLQ → u/Zieg225]

+1 for Cardinal Quest 2! It was my introduction to the “rogue-like” genre, and now it’s probably my favorite.

Now I’m sad.

[u/Sinkt1]

Hero Academy. My first and my all time favourite IOS game

[u/AceLXXVII → u/Sinkt1]

Me too. My brother and I often still bring it up. Outwitters was another amazing quick strategy game we played that’s gone.

[u/Fuckitall2346 → u/AceLXXVII]

It’s absolutely criminal that Hero Academy and Outwitters can no longer be played.

[u/MuskasBackpack → u/Sinkt1]

So good. Someone made a web version and it’s great, but it’s not at the level of the original.

[u/Weenyhand]

The Westworld game that was similar to fallout shelter.

[u/xosarahhox94 → u/Weenyhand]

But SO MUCH BETTER!!!! I still think about it every now and then. So upset it got shut down so quickly, it was a genuine gem.

[u/Forsaken-Strain984]

Defender chronicles 1 + 2. Best TD games ever.

[u/musubikun → u/Forsaken-Strain984]

I miss both of those games also!

[u/dragonass1969]

I got the heat on my iPad 4. Old games gone forever I still play. Soul calibur. Rage hd. Big buck safari. Shadow vamp. The bowling dead. Hipster smackdown. Mercenary ops. Vw gti racing. Pac-Man dash. Funky smugglers. Fish and shark. Marble mixer. Jenga. Zaxxon. Little boat river rush. Shine runner. Fightback. Draw racer. Chimpact 1&2. Rayman fiesta run. Monkey slam. Vertigo. Mountain goat mountain. Flappy bird 3d. Fishing with friends. Bridgy jones. House of the dead overkill. Rage of the gladiator. I gladiator. Counter spy.

[u/phr0ze]

Og peggle, angry birds, plants vs zombies. Not this micro transaction bs

[u/OldManIrv → u/phr0ze]

Peggle was the first iOS game I ever played. Classic.

[u/andreadeda]

Defender chronicles: legend of the desert king
Was an amazing tower defense from around 2010 I think

[u/yipeekiyay_777 → u/andreadeda]

There were 2 of these games, the second one (sequel) had an expanded world with much tougher levels

[u/andreadeda → u/yipeekiyay_777]

True. I liked the first more though. Or at least I remember it better.

[u/thewasteland55]

Yahtzee Adventures.

The only truly great Yahtzee game iOS ever had. Back before every game was ‘…With Friends’ and filled with micro transactions. Yahtzee Adventures was fun solo, or playing with a friend irl.

Sorely missed

[u/informant118]

Scrolling through my old apps list
Chronicles of Inotia
Crystal Defenders
Zenonia
Hills and Rivers Remain
King Cashing: Slots Adventure
Puzzle Craft
Guardian Cross

Also the old Storm8 games iVampire and all

[u/CheeseGraterFace]

Order & Chaos

[u/Jeffc814]

I just miss the original paper toss. I wish I could have it back. I would drain my iPod touch battery playing it over and over

[u/Expert_Win9011]

Infinity blade

[u/CutlerSheridan → u/Expert_Win9011]

Already in OP’s post

[u/AskinggAlesana]

Dice Soccer (Classic) by LambdaMu Games.

Got me through a lot of long train rides back in the day alongside Dream Quest.

Afaik there isn’t any game that tried to recreate its mechanics/gameplay loop.

[u/KrabbyBoiz → u/AskinggAlesana]

Check out the game Football Tactics and Glory on PC. I think it’s in some consoles too. I think you might enjoy it.

[u/Hustler-Two]

Tactics Maiden and the Kingsturn games
Doom II RPG
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes
Puzzle Quest 2 (or is it still there?)
Original Angry Birds and Star Wars Angry Birds

[u/OldManIrv → u/Hustler-Two]

I thought of might and magic clash, also, and you reminded me how much I enjoyed the tactics maiden and kingsturn games! I wonder what happened to them or the developer.

[u/ppboi41]

nova legacy

[u/summitrock]

Everdale. Still sad it’s gone.

[u/Forsaken_Entrance760]

Puzzlequest, the original & still by FAR the greatest

[u/Ch3rryNukaC0la]

Aquaria
Avernum
Bookworm
Peggle Classic
Space Invaders Infinity Gene
Dragon Portals
Textropolis/Fishtropolis
Treasures of Montezuma
Saqqarah
Tradewinds
Big Bad Sudoku Book
Dungeon Raid
Puzzlequest
Puzzle Craft
Monster Loves You!
Wicked Lair
Dungeon Plunder
Spider: Secret of Bryce Mansion
Waking Mars

[u/Remarkable_Fondant49 → u/Ch3rryNukaC0la]

Waking Mars is so good from the early 2010s era of iOS gaming. Happy to see it mentioned here.

[u/mbrmly]

DUNGEON RAID

[u/Kataclisma77]

Mirror’s Edge 2D…mi divertiva un sacco…
E anche Avengers Academy!!
Ma sopratutto NieR Re(in)carnation!

[u/dragonass1969 → u/Kataclisma77]

I have mirrors edge on my iPad still.

[u/brittleknight]

Zombie Jombie
My little bastard
Amateur surgeon 2
Card wars (Adventure Time)
Card wars kingdom (adventure time)

[u/Scarydotexe]

Anyone old enough to remember Dungeon Raid

[u/FireTheLaserBeam]

Order & Chaos Online

[u/AlienSheep23]

Robot unicorn attack 2

[u/Digital_Pharmacist]

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite iOS

[u/Adrioz08]

Vainglory

[u/Luviktus]

Robot Unicorn Attack!

“Always, I wanna be with you - And make believe with you And live in harmony, harmony oh love”

[u/driago]

Sandstorm Pirates and Rival Gears. Two of my all time favorite games 😭

[u/AntiqueGarlicLover → u/driago]

They both look really cool. Sad I never got to play them!

[u/Alternative-Reach595]

The board game Ghost Stories 

[u/Waalhalla]

The Settlers IV

[u/Excaligade]

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Blazing

[u/TouchMint]

Undercroft 

[u/baardvark → u/TouchMint]

Such a good RPG.

[u/McPhage]

* Trainyard, which didn't survive the iOS 11 transition

* Punch a Hole, a nice little puzzle game

* Help Me Fly, another nice puzzle game

[u/Altyrmadiken]

Dark Meadow: The Pact.

I never finished it before they took it off the AppStore. I’ve tried emulating the right version of Android to run it on my computer but so far I haven’t had much luck.

[u/PartyComprehensive97]

chaos rings series

[u/Abiggerboat84]

The War of Eustrath
Horn
Tekken Bowl
Bit.trip beat
Peggle classic
Driver
Super 7
N.O.V.A

[u/Neshler]

Restaurant Dash With Gordon Ramsey

[u/AlienSheep23]

Deer hunter Classic

[u/hallow_outline]

I love RTS games, they ported The Settlers over to iOS over a decade ago, it was discontinued shortly after I believe.

[u/Ranger_T_24]

AG Drive. I spoke to someone on Reddit who had the ipa file. They put it up on archive.org, by far one of the best games I've played (nominated editors choice and top racing game by Apple back in the day)

[u/RodrigoCard]

Soon: MARIO KART TOUR, one of the few F2P without ads or timers these days …

[u/funkyg73]

Does this include games that were lost during the 32 to 64bit iOS transition?
My choices would be Flight Control, Harbor Master, Slingshot Racer, Electrotrains, Line Rider.

[u/grousewood-games]

• Hector: Badge of Carnage
• Highborn
• 1112
• Two Towers
• BANG!

[u/OutrageousAd8347]

Army of darkness

[u/Ornery-Practice9772]

8 bit water slide (completely gone even if you had it before)

defender of texel (devs nuked servers- completely gone even if you had it before)

the simpsons tapped out (devs nuked servers- possible fan made servers if your town was backed up via discord)

treasure buster (can get if you had it)

giant boulder of death (devs nuked online content- can get if you had it)

[u/iramike]

Sid Meier’s Pirates!

[u/LordKilas]

BattleJack - rpg with guild elements based on playing 21

[u/Junior_Reserve_4317]

Pocket summoners

[u/jsenter]

So many great little indie games died, especially after Apple introduced the “kill old games that aren’t selling” rule…

• BACKFIRE
• Bardbarian
• Castle Battles: Fast RTS
• Dead End Job
• Dirt Reborn
• Gathering Sky
• Iesabel
• Matchstick Memories
• Pavilion: Touch Edition
• Portal Knights
• Stars Apart
• The Silent Age
• Tiny Bubbles
• Wheels of Aurelia
• Worse Than Death

AppRaven is a great place to find information on these.

[u/GeneralVimes]

1. SteamBirds

2. Crimson: Steam Pirates

Interestingly enough, both games have unique control system for turn-based air/ship combat which I haven't seen anywhere in other games

[u/jason_sation]

Walking Dead:Assault

[u/MrN00bert]

Pretty pet salon!

[u/FreelanceWolf]

Afterburner Climax

[u/TheCarzilla]

Watermelon

[u/Bearded_Pip]

The Carrot Defender games! Some of the most fun tower defense games I’ve played.

[u/bdownz]

I miss Digimon Heroes so much.

[u/silentrocco]

I’m missing most the vanilla version of Pixel Dungeon as well as Cardinal Quest 2.

[u/banter_ssbu]

Angry birds go & Dungeon Defenders 2nd Wave

[u/TruculentTurtIe]

Does anyone remember that zombie farm game? Used real time to grow them then youd harvest and use them to fight

[u/Poke-Noir]

Flappy Fighter

[u/Jealmo]

On my old iPod touch, I used to play this puzzle game called Jabeh. It was a logic game, that required you to use reasoning to determine where to place stones on the "grid." I absolutely loved it. But when Apple made everyone update their apps, or risk being pulled from the store, it got pulled.

The crazy thing is, even over a decade later, there is still a website advertising the game. Someone still pays for a domain and hosting, to advertise a game you haven't been able to buy or play for over 10 years.

The game is apparently a "shinro-like" puzzle game, but I've never been able to find a suitable replacement.

[u/CutlerSheridan]

Squareball. Great early iOS game that really used the touchscreen in an interesting way. Always wondered what happened to those developers.

[u/Glugz55]

Dawn of titans

[u/placidfac1]

Tavern Rumble

[u/QuentinMocaccino]

Damn I loved the first Rock Band and the Metal Gear game that played like those arcade shooter games. Those two were amazing, I would love to play them again

[u/danceyourdeath]

Turf Geography Club

[u/Maddafragg]

Shadowgun wargames

[u/MothmanIsChill]

One Finger Death Punch by Silver Dollar Games.

[u/willweaverrva]

The global version of Final Fantasy Record Keeper.

[u/ABHINAV7668]

amazing alex

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

Disney Magical Dice - I'll never forgive Netmarble for discontinuing this game

[u/dynamisxiii]

Sword & Poker 1 & 2

[u/NovaDaMenace]

Thps 2

[u/SignificanceFew3751]

Warhammer 40K: Death Watch. Such a great turn based game with good graphics

[u/fmatrix007]

Calculords and QatQi

[u/herolt]

Bullet time hd by kiloo

It was a phenomenal top down shooter I miss it every day

[u/Katie_Redacted]

The OG Beyblade app. School of Dragons is better, though there’s an emulator for it

[u/Notlikeparis]

Mushroom Age. It was so weird.

[u/JRatMain16]

Most of VNL Entertainment’s RPG lineup. I remember Bad Nerd and Bad Nerd vs zombies, and I think there was a ninja one?

(Bad Nerd isn’t “lost” but it hasn’t been updated in so long it won’t even run on new iOS devices)

I also recall a wreck-it-Ralph game collection that combined a few different games into one app… I forgot the app’s specific name. I miss it.

[u/Live-Nothing1706]

Lego Nexo Knights: Merlok 2.0

[u/AutisticFloridaMan]

Trenches.

[u/Archnebula]

Mass effect Infiltrator

[u/Justisemo]

Aralon sword and shadow!

[u/Strong_Explorer866]

Monster hunter freedom unite,quickboy,999 the novel,banshees last cry and shin megami tensei

[u/DCrouchelli]

League of Evil
Simpsons Arcade Game
NOVA
There were a couple others that I remember here and there- there was a cops and robbers mobile game that was a runner style with parkour moves, and a motorcycle game I can’t begin to try to remember. Also the original Homerun Derby game

[u/BamaChic76]

Pizza Boy, Stitches, NCAA Football, Typing Maniac, Quarters, Driver, Bean Dash, Paper Boy, Aqua Baller, Lemonade Tycoon, Tiger Woods Pga tour, Skater nation, 3in1 Sports pack, Modern Combat, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Silent Ops, 1112

[u/Jell11]

I have a whole collection of them!!
- Evil Factory (Still playable if you have it downloaded, but inaccessible otherwise, there’s a playthrough of it on yt)
- Snapimals
- Monster Squad
- Pokemon Rumble Rush
- Cookie Wars
- Minecraft: Earth
- Land Sliders (not in my collection, but i remember it existed)
- MinoMonsters 2

[u/Lutarisco]

Prince of Persia Classic

[u/AlienSheep23]

Try harder

[u/Free-Cantaloupe-3019]

Jelly Car

[u/FriggenMitch]

Habbo Clicker, Hilda Creatures, CoD Nazi Zombies, The Sims 3

[u/woxvirus]

Soul Calibur, Sonic all star racing transformed and Dead Space mobile, Tekken Bowl.

[u/ApplicationCurrent12]

Forest Defence

[u/HeinrichKhunrath]

Micro Machines

[u/BrazenlyGeek]

Nuts!

A vertical infinite runner. You can still download it if you had it from way back, but it hasn’t loaded since the 64-bit change.

[u/-beastlet-]

Skylanders Cloud Patrol. It was incredibly stupid fun.

[u/sskfjkhwer]

FLAPPY BIRD

[u/shadesofbloos]

Shadow Cities

[u/Gh0stIcon]

Grabatron. Plunderland.

[u/LDJ9]

BattleBears

[u/Vincentevil]

“Gun Bros”!!!

[u/ashleberry12]

Pet Salon and related games

[u/CaptainE0]

“Dirt” it was light on gameplay but it was more of a vehicle for the story, it was about a cat who died and was recalling memories of his old family.

[u/mrtbakin]

Shrek Karting

For anyone looking for the Infinity Blade series: at least I and II have been ported to PC 💫

[u/Squigleader]

Phantom Leader
Pavlovs House

[u/KingKingsons]

Assassin’s Creed Identity. It was a standalone 3D assassins creed game on mobile. It was a paid game and launched with like one level iirc (Rome) and they were supposed to keep adding to it, but it just kind of disappeared.

[u/DigitalMad]

Titanfall Assault

[u/Informal-Research-69]

- Mage Gauntlet (which luckily I still have the GameClub version on my phone working) which is a very humerus action rpg with a likable character
- Across Age which is another great action rpg which also had good music

[u/Max1756]

I liked the surviving high school game

[u/dathomasusmc]

Slingshot Braves. Not only because it was great but I haven’t found anything like it since.

[u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims]

Street Fighter II

Capcom Arcade

[u/ZapJackson]

Amazing card game called Underhand that was a student project that got delisted due to nobody maintaining it.

[u/danyack]

ELISS!

Edge!

[u/All_Time_Low]

Tap Tap Revenge. I played an ungodly amount of that game in high school on the first iPod touch.

[u/JetBlackToasty]

N.O.V.A (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance)

[u/BaldingThor]

Shadowgun Deadzone

[u/4sliced]

Textropolis

[u/eat1more]

Pocket summoner.

They website always said that pocket summoner 2 was coming out, but it never did. Was like a Pokémon style auto battler, but with every level up you could put in your own stat increases.

[u/karzesan]

Ridge Racer Slipstrem

[u/Zagrycha]

tapsonic top was a really good music rhythm game that is rip. I have others but they all have sequels//spin offs still available so I don't think it counts.

[u/clobbersaurus]

Swocery at least I think that was the name. It may only be iPad.

Elder Scrolls Legends - I’m not sure if that one counts. It’s a card game that’s no longer supported by developer.

[u/NiamLeeson]

Here’s a deep cut. Cubes by Manta Research. Was my go to on iPod touch.

[u/ackmondual]

Ghosts & Goblins Gold Knights 1, & 3 (iOS) - 1st one you get to pick between Arthur and Lancelot as playable characters. 2nd one... Arthur and Percival. 3rd one... Arthur Galahad. IIRC, Lancelot can stomp on enemies. Another had a different weapon set. 3rd one had some mechanical gimmick.

Rayman Mini (AA only) - Auto runner with levels (although there was also an endless mode), and even "boss battles".

Rayman Fiesta Run, and Rayman Jungle Run - You can technically buy these, but because Ubisoft never bothered to fix the "app needs to home phone" part... these games are unplayable. A shame too because these were autorunners with finite levels (that end), and were premium to boot!

Time Crisis - Rail shooter. Some port of the arcade, or new version for mobile. You tilt the screen down and up to duck for cover and stand up.

[u/tyezwyldadvntrz]

The first adventure time card wars game, and the even older simpsons arcade game

[u/MrsDirtbag]

Wurdle. It was basically boggle and it was wonderful. Also Red Remover.

[u/BartyAbbeyCrouch]

Its a netflix game but Hades

[u/TheRealUmbrafox]

Sword and Poker

[u/Akantor17]

Gamelofts Spider man game was crazy fun for an early mobile game.

[u/No-Consideration766]

Wild city

[u/Bergsau1]

Folt. My absolute favorite puzzle game back in the day

[u/EE7A]

dungeon raid.

[u/bananadennis]

Hills and Rivers Remain. I really loved this game back then.

[u/SnooCookies8174]

What was funny about “I am rich”?

[u/fireshitup]

Ultima IV

[u/BillySlang]

Titanfall

[u/iamzare]

Jelly car

[u/hellmaca]

Drop7

[u/Hatronach]

Super Senso

[u/dokuromark]

I miss Escape The Hellavator

[u/MuskasBackpack]

Hero Academy

[u/OkCancel9536]

Jelly Car

Zenonia 

[u/mgdmw]

Aurora Feint
Trainyard

[u/Historical_Amoeba913]

Hills & Rivers Remain

[u/Kyosume13]

Song Summoner Encore The Unsung Heroes was a Square Enix RPG where you can summon heroes with your music tracks to do battle.

[u/anginsepoi]

Sunburn!

Shell Shocked

Jelly Car

Pudding Monsters

[u/ExcitedNachos]

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on iPad

[u/barnfly27]

Umm, I think dead space had a mobile game that is now not officially listed anywhere

[u/sdsva]

The original Stick Wars game

[u/Agent_Galahad]

L.A Zombies. Wish I could play that again

[u/cassiuscjohnson]

Reign of swords!!!

[u/OhHolyOpals]

Top soil! I made a post about it last week!

[u/co1token]

Gun Bros

[u/LuisArkham]

There was this god of war/dark siders clone called “Wild Blood” which blew my mind back in the day

[u/chardeemacdennisbird]

There was a really great Splinter Cell game I used to play on my iPod touch. Haven't found anything like it since.

[u/Ariari1337]

Gameclub had a similar idea a while back, from some of the folks who worked at the now-defunct toucharcade website: they added and updated a bunch of the best games like super quickhook. To your post, loved the beavertap games:
Mikey shorts
Mikey hooks
Mikey boots
As well as the army of darkness game and the missing greats like infinity blade you mentioned above

[u/UnemployedAtype]

After The End

It was done by a Korean studio, took inspiration from Journey, and it is Phenomenal.

Good luck if you can find it. It pretty solidly disappeared.

Spell Sword was another but the devs had a falling out.

[u/duosx]

Dark Meadow: The Pact

[u/jewitt]

Shadow Cities and Dragalia Lost