Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

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...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

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 surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

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

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 ...

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...

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

Golf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, then builds one of the most quietly brilliant mobile puzzlers of its generation. It's short...

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...

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

Solitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...

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...

Infinitode 2 is a mathematically dense, fanatically fair tower defense marathon that rewards obsessives and punishes the impatient. It's one of the be...

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...

Cosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a brilliant, uncom...

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

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