Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Yousician gamifies music practice into a compelling and surprisingly effective feedback loop, but it remains a sharp-edged tool, not a replacement for...

Lumosity offers a slick, engaging suite of daily brain games, but its value is fundamentally undermined by a history of unproven claims. It's a fun me...

Elevate delivers a polished and remarkably sticky suite of brain-training exercises, but its promises of cognitive enhancement should be taken with a ...

Khan Academy Kids delivers a shockingly robust, genuinely educational, and completely free early learning suite that sets a new standard for the categ...

Busuu injects a dose of academic rigor into the chaotic world of language apps, offering a structured, goal-oriented curriculum that’s powerfully augm...

Memrise excels as a high-tech flashcard system, using clever video-based immersion to build vocabulary. But it's a specialist tool, not a path to comp...

Rosetta Stone is the digital equivalent of a prestigious, old-school university. It offers a rigorous, effective, and deeply structured curriculum, bu...

Babbel forgoes gamified distractions to offer a structured, academically-grounded path to conversational fluency, making it the premier choice for ser...

A breathtaking evolution of the concepts that made *Journey* a masterpiece, *Sky: Children of the Light* redefines the multiplayer landscape as a gent...

RuneScape is a relic of a bygone MMO era that has miraculously evolved into a complex, rewarding, and deeply compelling experience. Its staggering dep...

Company of Heroes remains a masterclass in real-time tactics, a brilliant wargame that has lost none of its brutal elegance. Its transition to mobile ...

FTL is a masterclass in tension and tactical consequence, packaging a brutal, endlessly replayable strategy core into a deceptively simple starship co...

Papers, Please transforms the drudgery of a bureaucratic job into a riveting, morally complex thriller. It’s a masterwork of interactive storytelling ...

Mini Motorways transforms the mundane task of traffic management into a maddeningly addictive and elegant puzzle, proving that true complexity lies in...

Monument Valley 2 surpasses its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...

Monument Valley is less a game and more an interactive work of art, offering a serene, intelligent, and profoundly beautiful puzzle experience that ha...

Playdead’s INSIDE is a haunting, minimalist masterpiece of interactive fiction. It is an unnerving, unforgettable journey that sets a new benchmark fo...

GRIS is less a game and more a moving, interactive watercolor painting. It trades mechanical challenge for a profound, wordless emotional journey, cem...

An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...

The Room: Old Sins refines the series' puzzle-box formula to near perfection, delivering an engrossing, beautiful, and profoundly tactile adventure th...

The Battle of Polytopia masterfully condenses the sprawling 4X strategy genre into a potent, fast-paced format. It’s a brilliant exercise in strategic...

Cultist Simulator is a brilliantly infuriating puzzle box that redefines narrative gaming. It rewards intellect and patience with profound storytellin...

Northgard masterfully trims the fat from the real-time strategy genre, delivering a tense and elegant survival simulation that values deliberate plann...

Plague Inc. remains a masterclass in strategic thinking, packaging a grim, systems-heavy simulation into an unnervingly compulsive and elegant puzzle....