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The Jackbox Party Pack
Jackbox Games, Inc.
The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

LEGO Builder's Journey
Light Brick Studio
A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...
Blackbox
Shapes and Stories LLC
Blackbox weaponizes every sensor Apple ever crammed into an iPhone and turns your entire life into a puzzle board. It's the rare mobile game that's ge...

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Image & Form Games
Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

Bury Me, My Love
The Pixel Hunt, ARTE France, FIGS
A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...
The Sailor's Dream
Simogo AB
Simogo's ocean-drift novella is one of the most confident acts of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular. Just unde...

Happy Game
Amanita Design
Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

Lara Croft GO
Square Enix Montréal
Lara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and somehow loses none of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, but it remain...
Myst
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Cyan's 2021 Unreal Engine remake is the definitive way to play the most influential adventure game ever made — gorgeous, faithful, and smartly moderni...

Terraforming Mars
Artefacts Studio
Terraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while getting the presentati...
Card of Darkness
Zach Gage
Zach Gage and Pendleton Ward built one of the smartest risk-reward loops in mobile gaming, then locked it behind a subscription wall. If you already p...

Outlanders
Pomelo Games
Pomelo Games has quietly built one of the most approachable strategy games of the decade — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is...

Battle Chef Brigade
Trinket Studios
Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

Crossy Road
HIPSTER WHALE
A decade on, Hipster Whale's voxel hopper remains the gold standard for free-to-play arcade design — instant to learn, ruthless to master, and monetiz...

Alto's Adventure
Noodlecake
A decade on, Alto's Adventure remains the gold standard for premium mobile design — a one-touch snowboarding game that plays like meditation and monet...

Clash of Clans
Supercell
Fourteen years in, Clash of Clans remains the best-constructed compulsion loop on mobile — a genuinely strategic raiding game wrapped around a progres...

inbento
Afterburn
inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

Pilgrims
Amanita Design
Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

Hoplite
Magma Fortress
Twelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains the gold standard for turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars buys you a lifetime of two-m...

Consume Me
Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder
Consume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject *playable* rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...