Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
76 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 ...

Pythagorea
HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
A ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. If you've ever wanted to *feel* the logic behind ...

Type:Rider
Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
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...

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
Draknek
Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...

Silt
Spiral Circus Games
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...

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

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

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

Holedown
grapefrukt games
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
Heaven Brotherhood
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...

Assemble with Care
ustwo games
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...

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

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

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

Linelight
My Dog Zorro
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...

Knotwords
Noodlecake
Knotwords is a masterclass in subtractive design, stripping the crossword of its dusty trivia and replacing it with pure, spatial logic. It is the mos...
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...

A Little to the Left
Max Inferno
A Little to the Left is a masterclass in minimalist puzzle design that elevates the mundane to the meditative, though a few unintuitive logic leaps an...

Snakebird
Noumenon Games
Don't let the primary colors and chirping birds fool you; Snakebird is a punishing, brilliantly designed logic engine that will leave your brain bruis...

Please, Touch The Art
Thomas Waterzooi
A minimalist masterclass that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a...

Euclidea
HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Euclidea is a rare triumph of educational design that treats geometry not as a chore to be memorized, but as a series of increasingly elegant puzzles ...

Return to Monkey Island
TECOPARK
*Return to Monkey Island* isn't merely a nostalgic rehash; it's a meticulously crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confi...

Grindstone
Capybara Games
Capybara Games' *Grindstone* is a deceptively deep, compulsively playable puzzle game that transforms simple chain-linking into a strategic dance with...

Mushroom 11
Ubisoft - San Francisco, Ubisoft - Osaka
Mushroom 11 defies conventional puzzle-platforming by transforming destruction into creation, offering a cerebral and often maddeningly brilliant expe...


Slice & Dice
Valve Corporation
*Slice & Dice* isn't just another roguelike; it's a masterclass in probabilistic combat, meticulously blending the capricious whims of dice with profo...