In this gorgeous interactive tale, players follow the exploits of our titular character Florence. Trapped in a hum-drum job and failing to find joy in life, everything changes when she meets a handsome stranger on a fateful night.
Exquisitely drawn and featuring a slew of clever interactive touches, Florence feels like a graphic novel come to life. Thanks to brilliant writing and an incredible soundtrack, this is one of the most heart-warming stories we’ve experienced in any medium.You can’t really mention mobile games without the mighty Pokémon GO, can you? Launching in 2016, this augmented reality title instantly became a global phenomenon. Using real-world geographical data, this ambitious app transformed your local park into a mysterious locale filled to the brim with exciting Pokémon.
It’s a game that encouraged people to go out and explore areas old and new (in order to hatch their Pokémon eggs, of course) and forged many real-life friendships as people would regularly gather in real-world locations in order to take over Pokémon gyms. In other words, Pokémon GO is utter dream fulfillment, turning millions into the real-world Pokémon trainers that they’d always dreamed about.
Thanks to a steady expansion of content, Pokémon GO has grown into a feature-rich and utterly delightful behemoth. Who knows, you may even lose a few pounds while playing it, too.
At just $0.99, this is an utterly essential experience. Don’t blame us if you end this one feeling a bit teary-eyed…
When it comes to games tailor-made for mobile, few can match the mighty Hearthstone. Taking the best elements of classic trading card games like Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, this competitive deck builder is as engrossing as mobile games come.
Featuring fully-fledged single-player story campaigns, as well as an online competitive scene that spawned its own esport, Blizzard’s card battler is an utterly essential gaming experience.
Taking things back to a slightly happier place, we have the usTwo-developed Monument Valley. When it comes to art in mobile games, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything that tops this.
In this staggeringly pretty puzzler, you are tasked with solving a slew of increasingly charming levels, rotating its wonderfully rendered structures until you find the right perspective to line up the correct paths for protagonist Ida.
Monument Valley’s puzzles are fiendishly brilliant, resulting in both the kind of game you can pick up and play for a few minutes or lose hours to. If puzzles, architecture, or cutesy art styles are for you, don’t sleep on this gem.
Originally launching on the Nintendo DS way back in 2007, The World Ends With You is nothing short of a classic.
Putting you in the shoes of moody teenager Neku, you find yourself roaming the streets of Tokyo’s achingly cool Shibuya district. Suddenly unable to interact with the people around you and with strange monsters roaming the streets, it’s up to you to solve Shinjuku’s mystery and battle your way back to normality.
Helmed by key Final Fantasy designer Tetsuya Nomura, this charming Japanese RPG features an incredible story, toe-tapping beats, and a frantic real-time battle system.
When Tetris was released in 1984, it instantly became an overnight sensation, shifting a staggering 35 million copies on Gameboy in its lifetime. Now, 37 years later, this piece of puzzle perfection is available on smartphones.
Taking the form of a new version courtesy of The Tetris Company, both its free and premium versions are incredibly well-realized. Even three decades on, this is still one of the greatest games of all time.
So, why don’t you try setting a new Tetris world record on your iOS or Android phone today?
When it comes to RPGs, there are few more hardcore than Divinity: Original Sin II. Earning a reputation for being one of the most engrossing role-playing titles on PC and console, many were shocked to learn that it was coming to mobile. The even greater surprise? Just how brilliantly it runs on the iPad. Here, the excellent combat, full voice acting, and many many agonizing decisions have made it to iOS intact.
Despite the II in its name, it may as well be a standalone adventure, telling a gripping story in its own right. Thanks to Divinity’s hugely demanding scope and graphical prowess, the one caveat is that this only runs on iPad, not mobile. For those lucky enough to have an iPad that can play it, however, this truly is role-playing perfection.
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