Cinco Paus
Michael Brough
Michael Brough's Portuguese-language mystery-box roguelike turns *not knowing what your tools do* into the entire game — and it's one of the smartest ...

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

LEGO Builder's Journey
Light Brick Studio
A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...
Obduction
Cyan, Inc.
Obduction is the truest heir to Myst anyone has made — Cyan included — a gorgeous, cerebral puzzle box that respects your intelligence to a degree tha...
Blackbox
Shapes and Stories LLC
Blackbox weaponizes every sensor Apple ever crammed into an iPhone and turns your entire life into a puzzle board. It's the rare mobile game that's ge...

I Am Dead
Hollow Ponds, Richard Hogg
A gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory that trades challenge for warmth — and mostly gets away with it. Come for the inventiv...

Escape Academy
Coin Crew Games
Escape Academy is the rare video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands *why* people love the original. Its rooms are genuinely clever, ...
The Sailor's Dream
Simogo AB
Simogo's ocean-drift novella is one of the most confident acts of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular. Just unde...

Happy Game
Amanita Design
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 ...

Lara Croft GO
Square Enix Montréal
Lara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and somehow loses none of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, but it remain...

Rakuen
Laura Shigihara
Rakuen is a masterclass in narrative design disguised as a humble RPG Maker adventure — a hospital story that trades combat for compassion and lands h...
Myst
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Cyan's 2021 Unreal Engine remake is the definitive way to play the most influential adventure game ever made — gorgeous, faithful, and smartly moderni...

RiME
Tequila Works, QLOC
RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass
Sumo Digital
Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Battle Chef Brigade
Trinket Studios
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
Afterburn
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 ...

Hoplite
Magma Fortress
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
Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder
Consume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject *playable* rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...

English Country Tune
increpare games
English Country Tune is one of the most inventive puzzle games ever sold for five dollars — a serene, genuinely three-dimensional brain-mangler that d...

Golf Story
Sidebar Games
Golf Story takes a premise that shouldn't work — a golf RPG made by two people — and turns it into one of the Switch's most charming early exclusives....