Gaming

Stardew Valley. Loved to play it on long haul flights, doesn't need Internet.

Dead Cells! Best mobile port of a PC/Console game I've ever encountered.

As a Final Fantasy fan, I've been buying games on PC instead of mobile when I have the choice, but I just started Final Fantasy Dimensions the other day, which is exclusive to iOS and Android, and I'm having a good time.

Currently on my phone:

Civilization VI Civilization Revolutions 2 Into The Breach Mini Motorways Shovel Knight Dig Slay the Spire Grindstone

Shadow fight 2 (paid version) and also The Silent Age (thankfully Google bard reminded me of the name of this game)

The only mobile game I've spent any amount of time with was You Must Build a Boat. It's a bejeweled clone with dungeon crawling and RPG elements. It's dirt cheap and has no ads or in-app transactions. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I really like Data Wing. Cool top-down 2D arcade racing game with a cool story, free with no ads. It's obvious a heap of passion was poured into the game. Still my favourite mobile game.

EDIT: I use Android so I'm not sure it's on the Apple Appstore but I don't see why it wouldn't be

FTL plays great on the iPad

Osmos is a wonderful meditative game on iPad.

Dawncaster is excellent.

I’ve put quite some time into Bloons TD 6. Definitely addicting.

Slay the Spire has a decent iOS port

Worldbox, if you're into world-building and minimalist pixel art.

Juno new origins is a good game, just make sure your ipad doesn't light on fire

20 minutes till dawn. You kill stuff and build around your character trying to survive for 20 minutes.

Two dots.

Soothing and fun. The music is incredible, also

mindustry is my fav

it's a crazy good combo of resource management, tower defense, rts, and sandbox creativity

added bonus that it's open source and even has multi-player

Harry Potter: Magic awakened Looks to be pay to win, but that hasn't affected me yet. Kind of like Clash Royale

Legends of Runtera. Probably the most user friendly free to play card game. You don't buy booster packs, you buy the cards you want directly and can get enough recourses by simply playing often.

Pathos - Nethack Codex, a very playable traditional roguelike based on Nethack.

Unciv, an open-source Civilization V remake.

I really loved Data Wing.

Slice and Dice is a very fun strategy rougelike, kind of a mix of DnD and Yhatzee.

Waking Mars! An incredible short sci fi game with a nice story

I tried a lot, but what felt best was emulating Nintendo DS games that could be played entirely with a stylus. Touch friendly so feels native, but also has benefit of not having ads or attempts to up sell you on a bunch of items that has come to plague a lot of mobile games.