Checked 2 September 2026 — every listing, price and rating below was read from the US Google Play or App Store page, TapTap, or the Roblox API on that date.

Cultivation Games on Mobile: Android and iOS, Sorted Honestly

Two things changed in 2025 that most "cultivation games for Android" lists have not caught up with: the two big Steam sims got official mobile ports, and the idle-MUD shelf grew to the point where it is hard to tell the good ones from the reskins. So this page sorts the phone shelf by what you are actually buying into — a premium port, a free idle MUD, a gacha, a text sim, a Roblox experience — and lists each game's own top complaint from its store reviews.

The short version

The two real ports

Tale of Immortal (鬼谷八荒) — $9.99, Android and iOS

The genre's flagship open-world sim, ported by its own studio (WENXIN Games). Android has 50,000-plus installs at 4.4 stars from about 1,700 ratings; the iOS version arrived on 15 July 2025, is a 2.1 GB download, and sits at 4.4 from a small number of ratings. English, Korean and Chinese interfaces. The complaints are the ones you would expect from a PC game on a phone: a quest-blocking bug reported after 100-plus hours, touch fatigue with no controller support, and no in-game guidance for a system that assumes you have read a guide. It is still the only phone game on this page that is the full thing rather than a slice of it.

Amazing Cultivation Simulator (了不起的修仙模拟器) — $9.99 Android / $12.99 iOS

GSQ Games' sect-and-colony sim launched internationally on mobile on 3 June 2025 (China had it from December 2023), in English, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, with only cosmetic in-app purchases. Ratings are modest — 4.2 on Google Play from about 290, 4.4 on the App Store from a couple of dozen — and the complaints are launch crashes, a blueprint-save bug, and menus hidden behind the iPhone notch. If you liked the sect-politics chapters of the novels more than the duel chapters, this is the phone version of that.

The idle MUDs: free, huge, and monetised hard

"MUD" on a mobile store page means a text-heavy idle game, not a multiplayer dungeon. These three dominate the category, and all three are Chinese-developed imports published through Hong Kong or Singapore entities.

The gacha and "active-play" imports

• Immortal Clan: Grandmastery (Efun) — active sect sim, 100K+ installs, 4.2 on Play and 4.8 on iOS; reviews call it a money pit with paywalls and event spam.
• Renegade Immortal (HOWLYO) — gacha ("1,000 summons"), 4.6 from ~32,000 on Play; the iOS version is Chinese-only; complaints about accounts vanishing.
• AFK Immortal (HKFZ) — 4.5 from ~2,000; reviewers note ad removal costs $30 and that it is the third release of the same game under different names.
• Battle Through the Heavens: RPG (Cloudary) — licensed from the novel, idle plus gacha, 4.7 on iOS; reviewers call it a reskin.

Three big-name apps that come up in these searches are not cultivation games despite the word "Immortal" in the title: Immortal Rising (dark-fantasy idle), Immortal Awakening (a Diablo-like) and Idle Immortal: Mythic Clash (mecha-beasts). Skip them if realms and spirit roots are what you came for.

Text cultivation games on a phone

• Manhua Life – Life Simulator — English-first, solo developer, released 2026; a murim/cultivation text life-sim at 4.8 on the App Store from about 180 ratings. Google Play availability unverified.
• ImmortalLife: Word RPG — English and Chinese text cultivation sim, 4.1 on iOS from ~225, $4.99 to skip ads; players argue about the lifespan balance.
• Cultivation Simulator – I Want to Cultivate (修仙模拟器-我要修真) — a text reincarnation simulator with a built-in script editor, 10K+ Android installs at 3.4; the store description is English but we could not confirm the interface is, and the TapTap listing is Traditional Chinese only.
• Xianxia Simulator — the free Twine life-sim on itch.io plays in a phone browser, though its developer calls mobile "buggy". More on it in text-based cultivation games.

The small idle ones (so you can tell them apart)

XianPath: Idle Cultivation (indie, 4.6 from ~180, translation gaps and freezes) · Cultivation Simulator: Idle Qi (3.3, "good for an hour") · Immortal Simulator: Idle Game (2.9 from ~470, 50K+, a forced-ad "inner demons" gate) · Immortal cultivation idle game (Hedohaac, 3.4, and reviewers note it has no offline progress, which for an idle game is the whole point) · Idle Cultivation by Riverstar (3.5, UI cut off on phones). Note that the App Store app called "Idle Cultivation" ($0.99, an offline MUD by a solo developer) is a different game again, and neither is the $3.99 Steam game of the same name. The complete idle shelf across every platform is on idle cultivation games.

Roblox, if that is where your phone lives

• Cultivation: Mortal to Immortal — about 118 million visits, 94% likes, over a thousand people playing when we checked. The biggest cultivation game on any platform by player count.
• Soul Cultivation (~6.2M visits, 88%) · Immortal Cultivation (~5.2M, 93%) · A Cultivation Game (~3.6M, 95%) · Choices of Immortals (~1.3M, 73%) · Cultivation RPG (~232K, with an offline seclusion mechanic).

Free, nothing to install: browser text games on a phone

A browser tab is the one "platform" every phone has, and it is where the free non-idle options live. Blade RPG's Death Challenge (ours) is a text-only cultivation roguelike: an AI narrates, a separate engine holds your realm, HP, qi, satiety and injuries, your spirit root and four attributes are rolled once and locked, and once the engine records your death, that save is over — there is no reload button, and nothing in the Market raises your stats. It runs in Safari or Chrome on any phone, saves to the cloud, and gives 40 turns free with no card and no password. Don't pick it if you wanted something to leave running in your pocket — every idle game above does that and we do not. It is one of two modes in our English game: new accounts open in our free-form wuxia sandbox (if martial arts without the immortality is what you are after, see the best wuxia games); the Death Challenge is one tap away in the Hall — + New Avatar, then I'm not afraid to die. If you wanted to be able to lose, start here →

FAQ

What is the best cultivation game on Android?

If you want a real game rather than an idler, Tale of Immortal — the official mobile port of the Steam open-world cultivation sim, $9.99 on Google Play with 4.4 stars — is the answer, with Amazing Cultivation Simulator ($9.99) as the sect-management alternative. If you want free and idle, Immortal Taoists is the biggest (5 million-plus installs, 4.5 stars) but is monetised hard; Overmortal is the more polished idle. For something free with no install at all, browser text games such as Blade RPG's Death Challenge run on any phone.

Is there a cultivation game on iOS?

Yes. Tale of Immortal reached the App Store in July 2025 ($9.99, a 2.1 GB download) and Amazing Cultivation Simulator in June 2025 ($12.99). The idle MUDs — Immortal Taoists, Overmortal, Infinite Cultivation — are all on iOS and free with in-app purchases. Yi Xian, the cultivation card game, is on the Chinese App Store only.

Are there cultivation games on mobile that are not idle or gacha?

A few. Tale of Immortal and Amazing Cultivation Simulator are premium single-player ports with no gacha. Journey to Immortality is a free MUD-style RPG whose players specifically praise it for not being pay-to-win. Manhua Life and ImmortalLife: Word RPG are text life-sims. And browser text games — Blade RPG's Death Challenge, Xianxia Simulator — run in a phone browser with nothing to install. See the browser section.

Which mobile cultivation games are Chinese imports?

Most of the shelf: Immortal Taoists, Overmortal, Tale of Immortal, Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Infinite Cultivation, WuXia World, Immortal Clan, Renegade Immortal, AFK Immortal, Battle Through the Heavens and I Want to Cultivate were all developed in China and published through Hong Kong or Singapore entities. It matters mainly for translation quality and for how the monetisation is tuned. The English-first ones are small: Manhua Life, Path To Immortality, XianPath, the ChoiceScript works in progress, the Roblox experiences, and Blade RPG.

What cultivation games are on Roblox?

Cultivation: Mortal to Immortal is by far the largest, at roughly 118 million visits with 94% likes as of September 2026. Soul Cultivation (about 6.2 million), Immortal Cultivation (5.2 million), A Cultivation Game (3.6 million) and Choices of Immortals (1.3 million) follow. All are free and play through the Roblox app on a phone.

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