5. SLAY THE SPIRE
When the ultimate deck-building card battler came to mobile, it felt like it had finally come home. Plenty of other mobile games have lifted Slay the Spire’s formula wholesale, some of them quite successfully.
But Slay the Spire still rules the roost with its intuitive yet impossibly deep and varied card-based combat system.
6. ALTO’S ODYSSEY
If Jetpack Joyride represents the glorious past of the endless runner, then Alto’s Odyssey is its stylish present. The first thing you’ll notice is an art style so sharp and silky-smooth it belongs on the cover of a magazine
But it plays amazingly too, with an incentive-driven structure that keeps you coming back for just one more go.