Apple has kicked off Indie Games Week on the App Store, a week of daily features and curated collections built around independent studios. The headline is a date: No Man’s Sky, the space exploration game from Hello Games, makes its mobile debut on iPhone and iPad on October 28.
According to Apple’s announcement, the mobile version includes every major content expansion released so far, up to the Cosmos update. That is close to a decade of additions for a game that has kept growing since its original launch.
Six games you can play today
The other six games in the line-up are already available on iPhone and iPad:
- Sifu, the kung fu brawler from Sloclap and Kepler Interactive, with custom touch controls and full controller support.
- Vampire Crawlers, a gothic card battler from poncle and Nosebleed Interactive and a spin-off of Vampire Survivors.
- Little Kitty, Big City, the open-world cat adventure from Double Dagger Studio.
- 9 Kings, a card-based kingdom builder from Sad Socket and Playdigious.
- Dome Keeper, the mining and defence game from Bippinbits and Raw Fury.
- Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall, a strategy game about moral choices from Brave At Night and Noodlecake Studios.
What Apple has not said
The announcement gives no prices for any of the seven games, and no end date for the event beyond saying that it runs all week. It does not mention device requirements for No Man’s Sky either. Those details should appear on each game’s App Store page.
Why it matters
The list stands out for what it is not. Most of these are complete games that made their name on PC and console, ported to phones and tablets, rather than titles designed around free-to-play. For players who want that kind of game on mobile, this is one of the strongest weeks of the year.
This article was written with AI assistance from the sources linked above.
