Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

SIGONO has built one of the most emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...

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...

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...

Twenty-seven years on, King of Dragon Pass remains the high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic an...

Michael Brough packed more strategic depth into a 6x6 grid than most studios manage in forty hours. Thirteen years after release, **868-HACK** remains...

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...

Michael Brough's Portuguese-language mystery-box roguelike turns *not knowing what your tools do* into the entire game — and it's one of the smartest ...

A gorgeous, genuinely affecting point-and-click adventure that proves premium mobile design still has a pulse. Short, occasionally obtuse, but the kin...

Vlambeer's cast-dive-shoot masterpiece remains one of the tightest arcade loops ever built for a touchscreen — a premium, IAP-free relic from mobile g...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

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, ...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Simogo's ocean-drift novella is one of the most confident acts of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular. Just unde...

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 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...

Cyan's 2021 Unreal Engine remake is the definitive way to play the most influential adventure game ever made — gorgeous, faithful, and smartly moderni...

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...

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...

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

inkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...

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...

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...

Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...