Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

Riot's auto-battler is a genuinely deep economic strategy game that lost nothing in the port to touch — but seven years in, its interface still treats...

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

Fourteen years in, Subway Surfers remains the gold standard for one-thumb arcade design — a masterclass in input responsiveness and live-ops disciplin...

Fifteen years after launch, Andreas Illiger's one-tap physics toy remains the purest expression of mobile game design ever shipped — and its December ...

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...

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...

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...

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

CloverPit takes Balatro's number-go-up alchemy, locks it in a rusting prison cell, and wires it to a horror story about debt and addiction. It's grimy...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

A ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a small classic; on ...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

Alto's Odyssey doesn't reinvent the endless runner—it perfects it. This is a mobile game built for people who think they hate mobile games, and its Ze...

Feist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, occasionally m...

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...