Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

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...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

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 ...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

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...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

A hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for something rarer — patience, craft, and 2,000 sound effects made wi...

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...

Tarsier Studios turned childhood dread into a five-hour masterclass in atmosphere, and even its rough edges can't dull the terror. Short, punishing, a...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Amanita Design abandons its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze into fu...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...