Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

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...

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...

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

Pomelo Games has quietly built one of the most approachable strategy games of the decade — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is...

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...

Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

Star Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums ever built, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible m...

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 gorgeous, razor-sharp 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for the most believable dialogue in games. If you can accept t...

Pocket City is a small game with a big spine—a genuinely respectful, paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and refuses to r...

*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...

*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...

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 rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

A staggeringly deep colony sim that welds RimWorld's survival math to Taoist mysticism—brilliant, obsessive, and almost hostile to newcomers. If you s...

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...

Wylde Flowers is the rare cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully ...

A brilliant, uncompromising spreadsheet-style simulation that transforms simple catnip gathering into a sprawling, multi-hundred-hour space odyssey. I...

FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

Planet Coaster offers an incredibly deep, piece-by-piece digital construction set that redefines park customization but struggles to deliver a compell...

Mountain is a provocative, ambient masterpiece that abandons traditional agency in favor of existential observation; it is less a game and more a digi...

TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

A brutal, uncompromising examination of social determinism that proves the most terrifying weapon in an RPG isn't a sword, but a ledger of your own fa...