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 death is permanent — no reload, no revive for sale. 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. If you wanted to be able to lose, start a life →

FAQ

What is the best cultivation game on Android?

For a real game: Tale of Immortal ($9.99). For sect management: Amazing Cultivation Simulator. For free and idle: Immortal Taoists is biggest, Overmortal is more polished, and both are monetised hard. For free with nothing to install: a browser text game.

Is there a cultivation game on iOS?

Yes — both premium ports and all three idle MUDs are on the App Store. Yi Xian is on the Chinese App Store only.

Anything on a phone that is not idle or gacha?

Tale of Immortal, Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Journey to Immortality (free, and its players insist it is not pay-to-win), the two text life-sims, and the browser text games including ours.

Which are Chinese imports?

Most of them — see the databox. It matters mainly for translation quality and for how the monetisation is tuned; the English-first titles are all small.

Which cultivation games are on Roblox?

Cultivation: Mortal to Immortal (~118M visits) is the giant; Soul Cultivation, Immortal Cultivation, A Cultivation Game and Choices of Immortals follow.

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