Little Kitty, Big City, Alto's Odyssey & 9 Kings
Five games joined the catalogue this week, and three of them are big PC and console names that only just made it to the iPhone. Those three use the same deal on the App Store: play the opening for free, then hit a wall and pay once for the rest. In these builds the wall is already down. The other two are a sandboarding classic and an anime action game. No subscriptions, no waiting. Download any of them as an IPA and install on your iPhone in one tap, no PC and no developer account of your own.
Little Kitty, Big City
Matt T. Wood’s indie team, Double Dagger Studio, released this one on PC, Switch and Xbox on 9 May 2024. It went into Game Pass on launch day and sold 100,000 copies in two days. You play a small black cat lost in a big Japanese-style city, trying to find the way back to its apartment. Along the way you knock things off ledges, climb into boxes and bins, catch birds, wear hats and trade shiny objects with a crow. PC Gamer compared it to Untitled Goose Game, and it was nominated for Family Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards.
The mobile version is free to start, but once you’ve handed 25 Shinies to Crow it stops and asks for a one-time purchase. Until you pay, the camera and AR features stay locked too.
What’s unlocked: the full game, so the crow never sends you to the checkout.
Alto’s Odyssey
Snowman and Harry Nesbitt’s Team Alto released the sequel to Alto’s Adventure in February 2018 for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and it won an Apple Design Award that summer. The snowy mountain from the first game becomes a desert of dunes, canyons and temples. It still plays with one finger: tap to jump, hold to backflip, and chain tricks together while bouncing off hot-air balloons, grinding on vines and riding up rock walls. It costs $4.99 on the App Store and has no in-app purchases. Coins you collect on runs pay for upgrades in Izel’s Workshop, and the better ones take a lot of runs to afford.
What’s unlocked: Free Store. The in-game shop no longer charges you, so you don’t have to farm coins for the next upgrade.
BLEACH: Soul Resonance
This is a different Bleach game from last week’s Brave Souls. Nuverse developed it, and it launched worldwide on 21 November 2025, published by Crunchyroll Games and A PLUS JAPAN everywhere outside Asia. It is an officially licensed action RPG that follows the anime’s story. Combat is built around Zanpakuto blade clashes where a split second decides the exchange, and you switch characters mid-fight to chain combos. Characters come from a gacha with a guarantee every 80 pulls.
What’s unlocked: no cooldown on abilities, infinite dodge energy, and enemies that turn dumb in a fight, so your timing matters less.
9 Kings
Sad Socket, a small studio from São Paulo and New York, put 9 Kings into Steam Early Access on 23 May 2025 through Hooded Horse. It sold more than 250,000 copies in the first week and 400,000 in the first month. Each run is a roguelike kingdom builder played with cards. You place buildings, troops and spells on a grid, take cards from the rival kings you beat, and stack effects until your army is absurdly strong. Each of the nine kings plays differently: one buys mercenaries with gold, another raises imps, another bends time. Playdigious brought it to iPhone, where the free download is a trial and one purchase unlocks the rest.
What’s unlocked: the full game, with that one-time purchase already made.
Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall
Brave at Night released the first Yes, Your Grace in 2020: you play King Eryk of Davern, and each week petitioners line up at your throne asking for help. Snowfall is the sequel, released on Steam on 8 May 2025 and published by No More Robots, with Noodlecake handling the mobile version. It’s still a kingdom manager built on hard choices. You split a small treasury between the petitioners, send agents with their own skills to deal with problems outside the castle, raise taxes and pass laws, and prepare for a war that’s on its way. The setting draws on Slavic folklore, and the agents have their own storylines, which sometimes cause more trouble than they fix. On the App Store you play the opening for free, and the rest of the game is a one-time purchase.
What’s unlocked: the full game, all of it available from the start.
How to install
All five install from builds.io the way a normal App Store download does: tap GET, install, play. No PC, and no developer account of your own to keep alive. The first time you add a device, Apple runs a one-time “processing” step. Most devices are ready within a day, and some take up to three while Apple works through the queue. It happens once, and every install after it is instant.
Last week’s new arrivals were a fantasy war, a planet builder and a different Bleach game: Songs of Conquest, Bleach: Brave Souls and TerraGenesis. For more games with the paywalls and grind taken out, see the best iPhone games with no limits.