Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
16 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 ...
The Jackbox Party Pack
Jackbox Games, Inc.
The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...
Crossy Road
HIPSTER WHALE
A decade on, Hipster Whale's voxel hopper remains the gold standard for free-to-play arcade design — instant to learn, ruthless to master, and monetiz...
Chuchel
Amanita Design
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...
Prune
Joel McDonald
*Prune* is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...
Hidden Folks
Hidden Folks
A hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for something rarer — patience, craft, and 2,000 sound effects made wi...
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Clever Endeavour Games
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...
The Last Express
Dotemu
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 ...
Seterra
GeoGuessr
Seterra is a refreshingly lean, distraction-free map utility that trades modern gamification gimmicks for pure, unadulterated knowledge retention. It ...
Samorost 3
Amanita Design
Samorost 3 is a breathtaking piece of interactive art, a point-and-click adventure whose stunning visuals and atmospheric sound design almost entirely...
Journey
thatgamecompany
A decade after its debut, Journey remains a masterful, minimalist odyssey. It's less a game you play and more an experience that washes over you, prov...
Florence
Mountains
Florence isn't merely a game; it's an interactive novella that uses clever, tactile puzzles to tell a story of love, loss, and self-discovery with mor...
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...
Gorogoa
Buried Signal
Gorogoa isn't merely a game; it's a work of interactive art, a brief but profound journey that uses perspective-shifting puzzles to tell a story of qu...
PBS KIDS ScratchJr
PBS KIDS
PBS KIDS ScratchJr brilliantly leverages a universe of beloved characters to make coding fundamentals accessible and engaging for young children, but ...
Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy
Khan Academy Kids delivers a shockingly robust, genuinely educational, and completely free early learning suite that sets a new standard for the categ...
Sky: Children of the Light
thatgamecompany
A breathtaking evolution of the concepts that made *Journey* a masterpiece, *Sky: Children of the Light* redefines the multiplayer landscape as a gent...