BEST
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2024

Shifting Shapes

If you’re looking for a fun puzzler, make sure to check out Oberty. The game is easy to pick up and learn and offers a number of different color schemes for anyone with a visual impairment. To solve the more than 200 included puzzles, you’ll need to rotate and blend cards. On the main play screen, the center contains the puzzle area. You can see what you’ll need to create on the left while the different puzzle pieces are on the right. You’ll tap a part of the puzzle and it will appear in the center. Keep tapping and rotating the board until you solve the puzzle. While the game starts out simple, the puzzles will continue to get more difficult as you play through.

A Shift in Perspective

Expect the unexpected in the puzzler Superliminal. In the first-person game, you’ll begin by falling a sleep with the TV on at 3 a.m., remembering a commercial for Dr. Pierce’s Somnasculpt dream therapy program. The next thing you know, you open your eyes in a dream, the first stages of the experiment where perception is reality. With that start, be prepared for some weirdness. You’ll walk around while the world slowly unravels and subverts expectations.

The Adventure is Never the Same

The adventure never ends in the new roguelike RPG Loop Hero. In the game, the Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and never-ending chaos for the inhabitants. You’ll be wielding a deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique loop for the brave hero. After each loop, you can recover loot for each hero class to expand the camp of survivors and reinforce each adventure while taking steps to put the world back to normal. While playin, you can unlock new classes, cards, and guardians on the quest. Each loop is randomly generated, so you will always be able to enjoy a new run while playing.

A Royal Flush

Turn to the cards while playing the turn-based roguelike Zoeti. With a deck of cards, you’ll create combos, activate skills, attack foes, and defend your self during each battle. For example, you can use hands like two pair, a full house, or straight flush. Each ability is associated with a poker hand. The more complex the hand, the better the ability.

Chill and Relax

Comfort your sole and clean a mess in Perfect Tidy. You can interact with various mini games and healing puzzles. The game also feature ASMR sound effects and relaxing background music.

Be Prepared to Wait

If you’re tired of fast-paced games, you’re in luck with The Longing Mobile. Part adventure and part idle game, you’ll be controlling the lonely Shade who is the late servant who to a king who once ruled an underground kingdom. The king’s powered have disappeared, and he falls asleep for 400 days to regain his might. And it’s the Shade’s duty to stay in the palace until the King awakes. Time will pass as it does in the real world, so it will truly take 400 days. Once the game starts, there is a timer that will countdown on top of the screen.

A Bedtime Game

As anyone with kids knows, bedtime can always be challenging. But the new game The Bear can help make every night just little bit easier for kids and adults.The beautiful and relaxing game tells the story of the little one and the bear. They duo finds each other and go on an adventure. The scared bear is found by the boy in long forgotten caves and is almost too big to fit through the tunnels. But the little one helps him out and to the surface.

Master Mundane Messes

Cleaning up has never been as fun when playing the relaxing puzzler A Little to the Left. Instead of blocks, letters, or something else, this puzzler is all about organizing messy household objects into pleasant arrangements. You will be doing things like stacking papers, sorting jars, and rearranging cutlery. To help you keep coming back, there is a unique Daily Tidy that arrives each day. Originally for consoles, the game has been optimized for the smaller screen of the iPhone and iPad. You can pinch and zoom and pan around to help organize those different parts of the home.

A Puzzling Victorian Adventure

Ava Lovelace is considered the world’s first programmer. And in the new game Ada’s Study, you can dive into Victorian London mystery and discover an epic secret. Full of dust, it’s obvious that no one has been around for years. It’s full of desks, cupboards, books, and a huge number of notes. She has been hiding something, and you’ll need to work your way through all the challenges to find he answer. But you’re not the only person investigating.

Balance Offense and Defense

A storm is gathering. And only the Monkeys and Bloons can save the day. The team behind the iconic tower defense game Bloons TD 6 is taking the popular characters into a new direction with Bloons Card Storm. In the game, you can choose from four unique heroes, each with three hero abilities. There are more than 130 cards at launch with five different arenas to battle in. You’ll need to carefully balance offense and defense to come away with a victory. Monkeys can’t attack other monkeys, so you will need both Bloon and Monkey cards. You can send the Bloons at your foe and fend off rushes with Monkeys.

What Comes After

In the iconic App Store classic Plague Inc., players worked hard to destroy the world with a virus. Now you can rebuild what you destroyed in After Inc. Decades after the virus almost extinguished humanity, a few survivors emerge. You will build a settlement, explore, scavenge resources, and attempt to grow the society. It combines strategic simulation and city building. Set in the beautiful, post-apocalyptic United Kingdom, you’ll be forced to make difficult decisions to help move civilization forward. The narrative algorithm of the story will be shaped by those decisions.

Classic, Interactive Mystery

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Unforeseen Incidents is full of twists and turns, features more than 60 hand-painted scenes, and will keep you busy with a hosts of puzzles. In the adventure, small-town handyman Harper Pendrell find a dying woman on the street, stumbling onto a mystery that only he can solve. As an unknown disease is spreading across the country, and a reporter, scientist, and reclusive artist hold the key to stopping int. As Harper travels around the country, he must avoid a cabal of dangerous fanatics and fight with only a multitool.

The Iconic Series Continues

Kingdom Rush is one of the most iconic series on the App Store, and the latest title has just arrived: Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance. In the game, a formidable evil emerges. And an unexpected alliance, the warriors of Linirea and the Dark Army, will team up to stop it. Just like in the previous games, there is a vast number of Epic Heroes to help you defeat the emery. There are 12 heroes to select from, and you can even play with two heroes in each stage to and upgrade them to unleash their power and bolster defense. There are also 27 upgradeable characters to enjoy. And to compliment the heroes and characters, there are 15 towers with special skills. Players can create a wide range of strategies with archers, demon pits, and more.

Control Your Own Dynasty

The world is yours in The Elder Scrolls: Castles.In the game from the Skyrim and Fallout Shelter developer, you’ll take the reigns as the ruler of a kingdom who can control their own castle and dynasty. And you’ll be able to explore generations of the kingdom. Each real-life day covers a full year in the game.

Shine Your Light

Taking inspiration from old-school adventure games, it tells a story of two playable companions drawn together in a hand-animated puzzle. Be prepared to solve puzzles while immersed in the game. Each one is standalone and don’t require a hidden item or backtracking. Instead of complicated dialog, the game features cinematic that help unwrap the mysterious story in the ancient tower that stands at the end of the world.

Combining a Word Game and Roguelike

Letterlike is much more than just word building. The game combines your usual word creation with a roguelike with great results. In the game, you will advance through rounds by playing different words. Each level has three rounds. To keep moving through the game, you will need to earn enough points by submitting words. But you will need to watch out as you only have five words per round to earn enough points. And during the final round of a level, your options are restricted by a special ability.

Twisted Take on Poker and Solitaire

Jokers are much more than wild in Balatro. Combining poker with solitaire and more in a rouge like deckbuilder, you’ll combine various poker hands with unique Joker cards to create different builds and synergies. The game features 150 jokers each with their own abilities. And to make it even more interesting, there are five potential variants of each joker that add abilities.

Calm Your Mind

The game features more than 120 puzzles to solve. Gameplay is all about forming beautiful curves in a serene space. You will nudge, bend, and stretch all of the curves. Both the visuals and soundtrack will respond to the forms you create. Thanks to a flexible level progression system and great hint system, you can definitely play at your own pace and never feel rushed. There are no timers, scores, or anything else to pressure you.

Guide a River from Humble Beginnings

Sit back and relax in the beautiful game Roia. In the game, your goal is to guide a river from its humble beginnings all the way to the sea. You can sculpt the landscape by increasing or decreasing the terrain levels to create a perfect riverbed. The only obstacle is your imagination as the game offers a wide variety of options to explore. A beautiful bird will be your companion while playing and will lead you through a wide variety of landscapes like mountains, forests, and meadows.

Live in Kafka's Stories

Franz Kafka is well-known for his absurdists stories that transport readers bizarre predicaments while examining themes like isolation, anxiety, and more. And in the new game Playing Kafka, you can live in three of the author’s most influential works. The was created with leading Kafka experts and on the 100-year anniversary of his death. In the game, you will enjoy of fully voice branding story based on Kafka’s The Trial, The Castle, and Letter To His Father.

A New Dimension to the Popular Series

A new chapter has arrived for the always enjoyable Dadish series. And this time, everyone’s favorite radish father is adding a new dimension .Dadish 3D takes the gameplay from a 2D to 3D world. Once again, Dadish just happens to lose his children—all 49 of them (and a screechy possum). This time, they are lured away by some dubious pop-up advertising. So Dadish hits the road for another adventure. But don’t expect the road to be easy as there are 50 levels to defeat fast food themed foes and five big bosses. For some assistance, you’ll also be able to ride on the back of a hamburger who also happens to be a criminal.

Navigate the Landscapes of Arrakis

Dune: Imperium blends deck building and worker placement into an exciting strategy game and adventure. You’ll be dropped in the game as one of the leaders of the Great Houses and the Imperium who is struggling to control the desert planet Arrakis and its invaluable Spice. Each game features 10 rounds. Every round, you will battle in a conflict on the planet. Some battles will provide critical resources while other bring Victory Points to help propel you to victory. Make sure to choose your battles wisely because if you spread your forces too thin in different battles, the enemies will grow too strong to oppose.

Head to Paris

Midnight Girl travels back in time to provide a fun 2D casual point-and-click adventure. Set in Paris in 1965, you’ll play as tomboy Monique a cat burglar in the city. She heads to jail and meets someone with a perfect score—a huge diamond.

A New Adventure

In the wonderful story, you’ll play as Noor who is tasked with reducing the world from an encroaching darkness that could sallow her community is lost forever to the waves. Gamers will try to discover a new source of power and unravel an enigmatic entity, the Sacred Light. Just like the previous two games, you will enjoy a number of puzzles with optical illusions. You will need to rotate and manipulate architecture and environments to reveal hidden parts and solve the puzzles. Some of the beautiful art and minimalist world is inspired by architecture, experimental artists, and personal stories.

Enjoy Pokémon Cards Anywhere

Pokémon TCG Pocket lets you collect cards anywhere. You can open up packs every day to get cards. You might even see immersive cards with a 3d feel. You can show of a collation with binders or display boards. And since this is a Pokémon game, you can enjoy casual battles with friends or by yourself.