Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

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...

*Tiny Bookshop* takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into one of the most quietly compelli...

A deceptively simple physics puzzler that turns dropping fruit into a compulsion. It's brilliant on Switch and PC, but the mobile port's ad-riddled gr...

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...

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...

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...

A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

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

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

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

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

A gorgeous, tactile puzzle box wrapped around a genuinely moving story—just don't expect it to last longer than a good film. This is comfort food that...

Card Crawl takes the loneliness of solitaire and weaponizes it into a taut, brutal little dungeon crawler. It's one of the finest examples of mobile g...

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

A brilliant, uncompromising spreadsheet-style simulation that transforms simple catnip gathering into a sprawling, multi-hundred-hour space odyssey. I...

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

A brilliant, hyper-addictive fusion of classic *Snake* movement and deep auto-battler drafting that turns tactical positioning into a chaotic, high-st...

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

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...

Mountain is a provocative, ambient masterpiece that abandons traditional agency in favor of existential observation; it is less a game and more a digi...

TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...