Beli replaces the tyranny of the 4.3-star average with a ranking engine built from your own comparisons, and it works better than it has any right to ...

Haiku, the Robot is a gorgeous, mechanically confident metroidvania that never quite escapes the shadow of the game it worships. It's an excellent 12-...

The Sims 4 gives away the most tactile character creator and building suite ever shipped in a life sim, then charges you like a car payment for the li...

Morbidware built a genre out of a pun and — improbably — made it sing. *The Textorcist* is a filthy, funny, mechanically vicious bullet-hell that asks...

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

A dense, brilliantly written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looki...

Beacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick actually works — but the six-hour runtime and a critical path that o...

9 Kings is the rare Early Access roguelike that already knows exactly what it is — a tight, vicious, twenty-minute engine for building combo machines ...

Ballionaire welds Peggle's physics to Balatro's escalating math and produces something genuinely new — an "autobonker" where you build the machine and...

Team Cherry spent seven years building a game that is bigger, faster, and meaner than *Hollow Knight* — and mostly better for it, provided you can sto...

Gaia GPS is the most serious backcountry navigation app you can buy, offering a depth of map data that shames dedicated GPS hardware costing three tim...

Copilot Money is the rare personal finance app that treats design as a feature, not an afterthought — a gorgeous, genuinely intelligent money tracker ...

Two Dots is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games ever made for a touchscreen — and one of the most quietly persistent about separating you ...

Pocket City is a small game with a big spine—a genuinely respectful, paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and refuses to r...

*Prune* is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...