Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
15 reviewed
Featured on iOS
Enter the Gungeon
Dodge Roll
Enter the Gungeon is a masterclass in mechanical precision, proving that a punishing difficulty curve is entirely palatable when the core combat loop ...
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn't just a remaster; it's a surgically precise and hilariously subversive critique of video games themselves. It's...
Baba Is You
Hempuli Oy
An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...
Kingdom Rush
Ironhide Game Studio
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 ...
XCOM 2 Collection
Firaxis Games
The XCOM 2 Collection isn't just a game; it's a crucible. Firaxis Games has crafted the gold standard of turn-based tactics, a masterclass in tension ...
Isle of Arrows
Gridpop
Daniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced one of the most quietly clever strategy games on mobile — provided...
I Love Hue
Zut!
I Love Hue turns colour sorting into something close to meditation, and it does so with more craft than its simple premise suggests. The free version'...
Chessable
Chess.com
Chessable is the most effective structured chess study tool on the market, full stop. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-authored catalog ar...
Terraforming Mars
Artefacts Studio
Terraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while getting the presentati...
Root
Dire Wolf
Root is a superb digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...
Really Bad Chess
Noodlecake
Zach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and somehow produces the most accessible, replayable version of t...
Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com is the most complete chess product ever built for a phone — a sprawling, brilliant, occasionally exhausting ecosystem that will make you a b...
Two Dots
PlayDots
Two Dots is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games ever made for a touchscreen — and one of the most quietly persistent about separating you ...
Wingspan
Monster Couch
Monster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a near-flawless translation of one of the decade's best board games — gorgeous, calming, and mechanically ...
Magnus Trainer
Chess.com
Magnus Trainer succeeds as a visually stunning, habit-forming chess mentor, but its speed-focused mini-games and premium subscription price tag create...
Lichess
lichess.org
Lichess remains the gold standard for digital chess, offering a powerful, ad-free, and uncompromisingly free platform that puts commercial rivals to s...
Card Thief
Arnold Rauers
Arnold Rauers' **Card Thief** isn't just another mobile card game; it's a masterclass in strategic design, distilling the tension of stealth gameplay ...
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Steel Crate Games
An ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...
Flow Free
Big Duck Games LLC
Flow Free is a masterclass in minimalist design, proving that a simple, perfectly executed concept can offer more profound engagement than a hundred o...
Monopoly GO!
Scopely, Inc.
Monopoly GO! successfully translates the iconic board game's aesthetic into a compulsively playable mobile experience, but sacrifices all strategic de...