Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

Nearly three decades old and still one of the most ambitious narrative experiments the medium has produced, *The Last Express* is a real-time mystery ...

inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...

Wylde Flowers is the rare cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully ...

A gorgeous, melancholic Metroidvania that turns exploration into a duet with the deep — hobbled only by fussy navigation and an ending that leaves you...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

Planet Coaster offers an incredibly deep, piece-by-piece digital construction set that redefines park customization but struggles to deliver a compell...

Simogo's Device 6 is a brilliant, unsettling fusion of novella and mechanical puzzle box that remains one of the finest achievements of mobile game de...

A masterful exercise in psychological restraint that proves your imagination is a far more terrifying rendering engine than any high-definition GPU.

Voodoo Detective is a masterfully crafted return to form for the adventure genre that trades on nostalgia without becoming a slave to it, offering a l...

A masterclass in tactile storytelling that transforms the simple act of erasure into a profound, heartbreaking meditation on identity and the courage ...

Tangle Tower is a masterfully crafted whodunit that respects the player’s intelligence, trading tired genre tropes for a sharp deduction system and wo...

Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Streets of Rage 4 is a spectacular masterclass in genre revival, blending hand-drawn artistic brilliance with a mechanical depth that sets a new high-...

Wytchwood is an atmospheric triumph that wraps a dark, Grimm-inspired fairy tale inside a gorgeous paper-cutout aesthetic. While its hypnotic crafting...

A gorgeous, sun-drenched lesson in localized environmentalism that prioritizes charm over challenge. While mechanically simplistic, its heartfelt mess...

A masterclass in narrative efficiency that turns the classic murder mystery on its head by casting you as the villain in a race against the clock. It ...

A meditative, character-driven experience that proves sometimes the most revolutionary act in a fantasy world isn't slaying a dragon, but serving a pe...

Brogue is a masterclass in subtractive design, proving that removing the bloat of traditional RPGs creates a more intense, tactically pure experience....