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...

Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

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...

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...

Athena Crisis is the most rigorous grid-tactics game released in years, and its Invasion mechanic is the first genuinely new idea the genre has had in...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

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

Consume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject *playable* rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...

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...

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...

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...

Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...