Tech giant Apple has announced the results of its official Game of the Year awards for iPhone, iPad, and other platforms. To the surprise of many, the iPhone Game of the Year award went to the developer Supercell's Clash Royale, beating arguably the most popular game of the year, Pokémon Go.

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Clash Royale, the app that won the biggest category award given to iOS apps, has players facing off against one another by dropping cards from their decks onto a battlefield, which then turn into units with various capabilities. Although the app can be downloaded free from the iOS app store, one can spend money in the app as well to improve one's deck, so that one can face even better players with better cards.

Niantic's Pokémon Go, the location-based game powered by Google Maps that has players catching digital pocket monsters in the real world, was the only mobile game to outgross Clash Royale on iPhone. However, according to Venture Beat, the game did not even make it to the Apple's iPhone top 10 games of the year. Below is the list of iPhone games that made it to top 10.

• Clash Royale
  

• Reigns
  

• Inks
  

• FIFA Mobile Football
  

• Klocki
  

• Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari
  

• Pktball
  

• Snakebird
  

• Twofold Inc.
  

• The Trail
  

Pokemon Go might have lost the game because many of its basic features remained broken for months. Additionally, its presentation looked cheap as compared to other games.

Below is the full Game of the Year list from Apple for each of its platforms:

Games of the Year:

• iPhone Game of the Year: Clash Royale
  

• iPad Game of the Year: Severed
  

• Apple TV Game of the Year: Riptide GP
  

• Apple Watch Game of the Year: Field Day