Apple has named the most popular games for iPhone and iPad in 2023: Minecraft, GTA San Andreas and Call of Duty Mobile are among them

By: Anton Kratiuk | 14.12.2023, 16:23

Apple has unveiled a list of the most popular games among iPhone and iPad users in the US.

In addition, the winners of the annual App Store Awards 2023 in various categories were named.

Here's What We Know

The most popular free games were:

for iPhone

  • MONOPOLY GO!
  • Roblox
  • Royal Match
  • Subway Surfers
  • Gardenscapes
  • Call of Duty: Mobile
  • Block Blast!
  • Makeover Studio: Makeup Games
  • Parking Jam 3D
  • Survivor!.io

for iPad

  • Roblox
  • Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game
  • Subway Surfers
  • Royal Match
  • Among Us
  • Duet Cats: Cute Cat Games
  • Stumble Guys
  • MONOPOLY GO!
  • Bridge Race
  • Gardenscapes.

The most popular paid games were:

for iPhone

  • Minecraft
  • Heads Up!
  • Geometry Dash
  • Bloons TD 6
  • MONOPOLY
  • Papa's Freezeria To Go!
  • Plague Inc.
  • Red's First Flight
  • Five Nights at Freddy's
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

for iPad

  • Minecraft
  • Geometry Dash
  • Bloons TD 6
  • Stardew Valley
  • MONOPOLY
  • Five Nights at Freddy's
  • Red's First Flight
  • Poppy Playtime Chapter 1
  • Plague Inc.
  • Garten of Banban 2

Best Apple Arcade games

  • NBA 2K23 Arcade Edition
  • Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
  • Bloons TD 6+
  • Angry Birds Reloaded
  • Sneaky Sasquatch
  • Warped Kart Racers
  • Hello Kitty Island Adventure
  • Snake.io+
  • Fruit Ninja Classic+
  • Solitaire

The list of winners of the App Store Awards 2023 looks like this:

  • iPhone game of the year - Honkai: Star Rail;
  • iPad Game of the Year - Lost in Play:
  • Game of the Year on Mac - Lies of P;
  • Apple Arcade subscription game of the year - Hello Kitty Island Adventure;
  • iPhone app of the year - AllTrails;
  • iPad app of the year - Prêt-à-Makeup;
  • Mac app of the year - Photomator.

Special mention should be made of the winners of the Culture Impact category, which features both interactive entertainment and apps:

  • Pok Pok Pok - an educational game for kids;
  • Unpacking - a meditative puzzle game in which you have to put things in their places;
  • Finding Hannah, a hidden object arcade game about a woman's life journey;
  • Proloquo - an app for alternative methods of communication;
  • Too Good To Go, an app designed to make sure unsold groceries from thousands of different shops don't go to waste.

Source: Apple, App Store