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...

A Sharp has built the rarest thing in strategy gaming — a systems-heavy clan simulator that you play for the *writing* — and then wrapped it in enough...

Twenty-seven years on, King of Dragon Pass remains the high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic an...

Dream Quest looks like it was drawn during a boring meeting, and it plays like the smartest card game on either storefront. This is the roguelike deck...

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

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...

Twelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains the gold standard for turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars buys you a lifetime of two-m...

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 ...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

A staggeringly deep sandbox space RPG that rewards patience with hundreds of hours of emergent storytelling—if you can survive an onboarding process t...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

*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...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

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...

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...

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...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...