Unlike Android, iPhones are quite powerful as they can manage to run smartphone games. Now you can connect Xbox Wireless controllers, PlayStation DualShock 4, and MFi controllers to iPhone. Games are truly awesome when played with game controllers and that is why we are here.
Here are the top iPhone games you can play with Game Controllers to get a console-like gaming experience with your iPhone.
Call of Duty: Mobile
COD: Mobile has tonnes of types of weapons, gears, outfits, and of course, tonnes of gaming modes from 5×5 deathmatch to 100-players classic matches. Playing a Call of Duty Mobile game with game controllers on the iPhone will surely maximize its experiences.
Key Features: HD graphics | Various game modes | Voice/text chat support | Tonnes of outfits, weapons, characters, and gears | Customizable settings
Download: Call of Duty: Mobile (Free, In-App Purchases)
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Fortnite
Fortnite is one of the largest battle royale games just like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile. The iPhone game offers stunning graphics and visuals allowing users to indulge in an epic battle with 99 other players at one go. Fortnite keeps you glued to it as it keeps you entertained from stuff including choosing your weapons to outfits to the game mode you can play.
Eliminate your enemy, become the last man standing to win the matches. The game is all about constructing walls, jump pads, poison gas traps, perches, weapons, and adrenaline-pumping gameplay. Plus, adding a game controller gives you access to the game like you won’t get playing with the on-screen controls.
Key Features: High-quality graphics | Tonnes of customizations | Tonnes of in-app purchases | Supports controllers | Cross-play
Download: Fortnite (Free, In-App Purchases)
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Asphalt 9: Legends
Asphalt 9: Legends is truly an epic car racing game that takes the gameplay to the next level. The iPhone game packs in all the hypercars you have heard of with mesmerizing locations from across the globe. Asphalt 9: Legends has a collection of 60 hypercars from Lamborghinis to Porsches to Ferraris. Go gravity and death-defying stunts in over 80 tracks inspired by real-world locations and more.
Club Asphalt with an external game controller and you will be unstoppable. Asphalt 9: Legends features regular events, Club Race where you meet like-minded people, and more. The game is all about speeds and its career mode offers more than 900 events to race on the tarmac at hyperspeed.
Key Features: 80+ real-world tracks | 60+ hypercars | Single and Multiplayer support | Manual and auto controls | 900+ events
Download: Asphalt 9: Legends (Free, Premium)
Madden NFL 21 Mobile Football
Feel the adrenaline rushing in your body with Madden NFL 21 Mobile Football. The iPhone game lets you customize your character and offers streamlined, fast-paced gameplay with an all-new story and gameplay that will leave you stunned. Build your team, play games, collect rewards and upgrade it further.
The game doesn’t see any serious frame rate especially on recent iPhones and there are no major bugs as well. The game is surprisingly in-depth although you will have to go through a learning curve perfecting it that’s the fun anyways. It has a great narrative and the game compensates for the few shortcomings it has on-board.
Key Features: Great narrative & gameplay | Difficult yet fun to play | In-depth storyline | Stable and reliable | Multiple modes to play
Download: Madden NFL 21 Mobile Football (Free, Premium)
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Lineage 2: Revolution
Have you ever played an MMORPG game yet like Final Fantasy XII? Lineage 2: Revolution is a high-octane MMORPG game where you are tasked with saving the new rune territory from monsters. The game offers 520 levels that will keep you glued to it. The iPhone game gives you an epic adventure combating against a total of 200 players in a single battle all on one screen.
Lineage 2: Revolution is compatible with all game controllers that support MFI standards. Meet a Ghost, Leopard, Beetle, and others in-between. Experience the rush in large-scale open-world combat powered by Unreal Engine 4 and witness the graphics like never before.
Key Features: 200-players real-time battles | Stunning graphics | Role-playing MMORPG game
Price: Free | Offers In-app Purchases | $0.99 to $99.99
Download: Lineage 2: Revolution (Free, In-App Purchases)
Dead Trigger 2
What would you do if the zombie apocalypse arrived? Dead Trigger 2 gets you virtually prepared to fight all those gut-splattering and blood-thirsty dead beings. Dead Trigger 2 gives you access to 33 different battlefields and 10 regions to unlock. The game has tonnes of weapons to choose including hammers, Katana, Bats, Wrench, Melee, and abundant types of guns to use.
Adding an iPhone game controller on top of it will give you an experience of a lifetime enjoying the first-person game up close on your controller. With more than 240 million players around the globe, Dead Trigger 2 isn’t an ordinary game so do check it out.
Key Features: Stunning graphics | 70+ types of weapons | 10 regions & 33 battlefields | Intensive story-driven gameplay
Download: Dead Trigger 2 (Free, In-App Purchases)
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
If you are a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) fan, you must have played or at least heard about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game has everything from crazy car chases to completing violent missions and more. GTA: San Andreas has been around for ages and now, you can play it with physical controllers attached to your iPhone as well.
Get access to 70 hours of gameplay (or practical infinite gameplay in normal mode) and you use dual-stick controllers to get around. The game has been remastered with high-end graphics for mobile phones. It is stunningly detailed with large maps, cars to drive and missions to complete. There are also multiple camera views if that interests you.
Key Features: Remastered graphics | 70+ hours of gameplay | Ginormous maps | Multiple languages supported
Download: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ($6.99)
Brawlhalla
Brawlhalla has managed to attract quite a following allowing up to 8 players in a single game. The game supports cross-play so you can play with Android users as well. The game has abundant modes to play including Bombsketball, Kung-Foot among others.
Brawlhalla is completely free and offers a low-latency cross-play online game experience. You get a training room to train before taking up matches with your friends or others. There are dozens of maps to play at and all are visually stunning. The best thing about Brawlhalla is that it offers excellent keyboard and controller support that makes the gameplay more interesting.
Key Features: Custom Room up to 8 players | Multiple game modes | Supports keyboards and controllers | Dozens of Maps
Download: Brawlhalla (Free, In-App Purchases)
Dead Cells
Playing Dead Cells will certainly keep you up on your toes. It is a rogue-like action game for iPhone where you are actually a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what went wrong on the island. Enjoy frantic 2D combat with keepers and enemies who will stop you from uncovering the facts.
The game has a non-linear progression where every time you die, you can choose a different path closing it to a different storyline. Don’t bother to use and master cutting-edge weapons fighting off bosses, biomes, and enemies. Dead Cells has custom controls as well as MFi external controller support that you will enjoy.
Key Features: Supports MFi external controllers | Custom Controls | Non-linear progression | Stunning 2D graphics and gameplay
Download: Dead Cells ($8.99)
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Hyperforma
Have you ever played Breakout? If yes, Hyperforma is something like that. There’s a node surrounded by blocks protecting it. You get a button to launch attacks and you are tasked with destroying the blocks surrounding the node. It is the only way to reach the core and eliminate it to cover the next level.
The game gives you breathtaking graphics and soothing soundtrack in the background that keeps you glued to it. Enjoy more than 80 levels of Hyperforma. Use your game controllers to get the best of it. Upgrade your battle skills like cloning your attacks to destroy blocks at different angles and so on.
Key Features: Breathtaking graphics | Soothing background music | 80+ levels
Download: Hyperforma ($4.99)
There you go. These are the best iPhone games you can play with game controllers. Note that there is a tonne of games available on the App Store with game controller support. The ones we listed above hold the upper hand in iPhone gaming and worth a shot for sure.