BEST
GAMES
of the
MONTH
January 2025
The weather outside is frightful, but gaming on the App Store started out the year hot. Here are the best new games that arrived in January.
LOK Digital
An Adorable Puzzler
LOK Digital is sure to put a smile on your face. The puzzler is a word game with much more. While you start out small, you’ll learn the language as you go and learn how each new word can change the world around you in unique ways. Each of the adorable LOK creatures can only live on blackened tiles, so when you solve each puzzle, you can expand their horizons and help their growing civilization thrive.
KOI Remake
A Healing and Mesmerizing Adventure
In KOI Remake, you’ll play as a little koi fish who travels all the way upstream to arrive at the dreamlike Starry Night Lake. While playing, you will solve puzzles, collect fragment of memories, and uncover the hidden past of the beautiful fish.
Next Station
Build Your Metro Network
Head to Paris to create the next beautiful Metro Network in Next Station - Paris. The latest addition in the Next Station series, you will use strategy to cross bridges and reach the city’s landmarks.
Hero Of Fate
Wicked Woods
Hero of Fate will talk you on a fantasy adventure through the Wychimire Wood. You’ll play as a daring hero whose journey is filled with battles, narrative choices, inventory, and more. The game also brings the thrill of classic tabletop RPGs with a d20 rolling mechanic.
Synquizitive
Ignite Your Love of Trivia Again
The sky is the limit with the new trivia game Synquizitive. Thanks to AI, you can easily test your knowledge on any subject imaginable. Along with that feature, the game is well designed and easy to play by anyone. To begin, you can start with a single player mode. You can select from a wide variety of popular categories like science, history, and sports. But the best feature is the ability to create quizzes on any category you can think of thanks to AI.
Nocturnals
Survive a Post-Apocalyptic World
Nocturnals combines a unique and harrowing adventure with puzzle solving. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, you’ll follow Ted as he navigates and explores the abandoned town of Ruddleside. He finds a single person, Diego, who helps him continue the search for surviving communities. In the game, you’ll find all of the town’s mysteries by solving puzzles and finding collectibles.
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
Criminally Fun
The felonious turnip is back and ready to move up from tax evasion. The career criminal is taking on a new battle in Turnip Boy Robs a Bank. In the comedic-adventure with roguelike elements, the turnip is steaming up with the Pickled Gang to rob the Botanical Bank. In the bank, he’ll be shaking down hostages, stealing precious valuables, and exploring the deep dark depths and the history of the bank. But before the law-breaking fun, the root vegetable will need to purchase tools from the dark web like a diamond pickaxe, C4, and even a radio jammer. While you might be prepared, robbing the bank won’t be easy as turnip and his friends will shoot it out with security guards, police, and elite veggie swat teams.