
Escape Academy
Coin Crew Games
Escape Academy is the rare video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands *why* people love the original. Its rooms are genuinely clever, ...
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...

Rakuen
Laura Shigihara
Rakuen is a masterclass in narrative design disguised as a humble RPG Maker adventure — a hospital story that trades combat for compassion and lands h...
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...

RiME
Tequila Works, QLOC
RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass
Sumo Digital
Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

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...

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 ...

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...

English Country Tune
increpare games
English Country Tune is one of the most inventive puzzle games ever sold for five dollars — a serene, genuinely three-dimensional brain-mangler that d...

Golf Story
Sidebar Games
Golf Story takes a premise that shouldn't work — a golf RPG made by two people — and turns it into one of the Switch's most charming early exclusives....

Rytmos
Floppy Club
Rytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a confidence few rhythm hybrids ever manage, and its world-music curriculum is genuinely enriching. A...

Lingo
Brenton Wildes
Lingo is one of the most quietly brilliant puzzle games on Steam — a sprawling, wordless-in-tutorial, word-obsessed labyrinth that trusts your intelli...

Chuchel
Amanita Design
CHUCHEL is barely a game and entirely a delight — a two-hour Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away. If...
Puzzmo
Puzzmo Inc.
Puzzmo is the smartest collection of daily puzzles on any platform, built by people who clearly love the form. But its slow squeeze on free players me...

Leap Year
Daniel Linssen
Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Railbound
Afterburn
Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...