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As a busy adult who’s always on the run doing grown-up things — like paying bills and being tired — I’m not ashamed to admit that my iPhone is where I spend the most time playing video games. The best video game platform at all times is the one you have with you, so it goes without saying that if you play games on your phone, you should at least play excellently. That’s why we’ve put together this list of the best mobile games of 2022 so far.

In this article, you’ll find a list of mobile games that GamesHub staff (well, mostly just me) have personally spent an obscene amount of time on. Most are tied to mobile game subscription services like Apple Arcade and Netflix (and without in-app purchases), some are available with a one-time purchase, and some are free to play with optional microtransactions. But all the games here have been selected because we think they’re great to play as they are, and because they don’t require you to drop any additional cash to have a great time with them.

Did we miss something great? Be sure to let us know on Twitter.

Here are our picks for the best mobile games of 2022 so far:

If you’re looking for a list of what we think are the best games of 2022 in general, or some console-specific lists, head over to one of the following articles:

Poinpy

Poinpy

From the creator of the excellent Downwell, a game where you tumble endlessly down a pit, shooting weapons from your feet and doing your best to never touch the ground, comes Poinpy. Read also : 10 Video Game Villains I Honestly Think I Can Beat. It’s a game where you have to collect fruit with your juicer and feed it to a giant cat.

But it might as well be called ‘Upwell’, as Poinpy shares the same kind of excellent and compulsive action-platforming principles of trying to plot a course through the stage by bouncing off walls and enemies in an attempt to never touch the ground – which rewards you with the high by earning big score multipliers.

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An always satisfying ‘pull back and launch’ style touchscreen control scheme makes it a joy to interact with, as does Poiny’s squishy nature, as well as a variety of stage mechanics that help you overcome gravity to achieve constant upward momentum. Achieving a good run feels so dizzying because of the quick thinking required to do it and because of how quickly you can be stopped in your tracks.

Its announcement and sudden release was a nice surprise. The fact that it’s an exclusive game for Netflix subscribers makes it even more surprising, but it was certainly the first real winner in the video streamer’s new mobile gaming strategy. Best mobile game of the year so far? I say yes. – Edmond Tran

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Knotwords

Knotwords

Forget Wordle. Forget it! It’s just not the same since the New York Times bought it, says the pun hipster. Instead, focus your energy on the absolute best new mobile (and PC) word game this year, Knotwords from Zach Gage and Jack Schlesinger, both of whom have worked on incredibly designed mobile games like Good Sudoku and Spelltower, among many others.

Simple, elegant and incredibly clever, you can find playing Knowwords like solving a crossword puzzle, only it’s cut up into a variety of sizes, each with its own little pool of letters to use. Read also : Richard Sherman joins Amazon Prime Video’s “TNF” coverage, leaving the door open for the NFL’s return. Kind of like a sudoku puzzle, but with letters.

The fact that it’s not a straightforward anagram solution makes the sense of achievement that much sweeter – often you’ll have to piece the word together from multiple pools of letters. With the difficulty of the standard set of puzzles gradually escalating throughout the week, it’s an incredibly satisfying game to keep up with. Conquering the absolutely massive Sunday puzzle will make you feel like a genius.

Kudos must also be given to the game’s generous approach to daily streaks. If you forget to play for a day, all is not lost – simply start and maintain another 7-day streak and you’ll retrieve your old streak and stack the new one on top. It’s a very friendly and welcoming approach that makes Knotwords even more enjoyable. – Edmond Tran

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Marvel Snap

Marvel Snap

I’ve always liked the ebb and flow of trading card games, but I generally seem to reach a point where I lose myself completely in the depths of them. The strategies become too many, building a workable deck with 30+ different cards is frying my brain, and I often realize 3 minutes into most matches that I don’t have a chance in hell to win or improve. Read also : Amazon Prime Video launches League 1 promotion. Marvel Snap solves these very particular problems for me with its fast, focused, but no less complex game design.

Created by former Hearthstone director and designer Ben Brode and several other Hearthstone veterans, Marvel Snap draws from the deep well of Marvel Comics characters to build a mechanically rich and varied deck, but one where matches are limited to just 6 total turns (taken simultaneously by both players) and decks are limited to 12 cards.

The goal is to gather the most ‘power’ in 2 out of 3 locations, which are randomized from a large pool of locations each match, with each match affecting the game in different ways – meaning you can’t necessarily play a deck you know inside-out on autopilot. That’s pretty smart!

The result is an incredibly snappy (heh) and dynamic card game where you’re at the forefront of the action in less than a minute, examining your possible moves, future setups, and how the placements on the board will help or hinder you this time. Before you know it, you’ve hit the high-stakes climax, the fight is over, and you instantly want more.

Being a free-to-play game, Marvel Snap ran into a bit of controversy surrounding a monetized event during its soft launch. However, the development team was quick to respond, scrapping future events like it, returning any currency players who had sunk into it, and handing out its prizes to everyone. The move bodes well for the future of the game. Personally, I haven’t felt the need to spend to progress yet – card acquisition is pretty much random for all players, with real-world money only giving you cosmetic card variations and extra in-game currency.

With the dozens of hours I’ve already poured into this, I have no hesitation in recommending Marvel Snap to the card game-curious. – Edmond Tran

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Wylde Flowers

Wylde Flowers

Can you really argue with an Apple Design Award winner? The Australian-developed Wylde Flowers is one of many life simulator games that have emerged in the wake of Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but thoughtful details (and a magical twist) in Wylde Flowers go a long way.

It has everything you’d expect – farming, animal husbandry, fishing, hunting, romance, etc. – all wrapped up in a lovely aesthetic. Streamlining certain activities makes the day-to-day tasks of maintaining your farm far less arduous (especially for a mobile game!), but it’s the game’s approach to narrative that really makes it stand out from similar titles.

Where games like this often have a sweet, light-hearted facade, as well as a mute protagonist to help with the pure, cozy escapism, Wylde Flowers actually turns that idea on its head. Throughout the game, the vocal protagonist Tara (who also happens to be a witch) actually encounters great prejudice from the inhabitants of her new home, and her struggle to be accepted mirrors her struggle to revive her family’s farm (as well as real life) problems). It’s a heartfelt story that brings real narrative stakes to the game – an extra hook for avid gamers.

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Wylde Flowers is definitely one of the highlights of the Apple Arcade subscription service this year, and definitely worth a look if you need a fresh new life sim to pick up and play anytime. – Edmond Tran

Into The Breach

Into The Breach

Into The Breach is, without a doubt, one of the best games of all time (at least according to me). It’s a perfectly distilled turn-based strategy game where every move you make has the capacity to completely turn the tide of a battle. In the game’s eternal war between giant mechs and bug-like kaiju (adorably portrayed), battles take place on an 8×8 chess-like grid, where every enemy move results in a devastating amount of destruction to buildings and your mech team – unless you can stop it.

Every upcoming enemy action is clearly telegraphed, as are the results of your possible actions, meaning there’s a lot of mental exercise going on in Into The Breach. The game features a large number of mechs and themed teams, each with their own, unique, unique abilities.

You will make tough decisions and sacrifices – block an attack and lose the life of your pilot, or sacrifice the citizens and risk losing the entire campaign? You’ll learn that pushing and pulling enemies is often far more effective than killing bugs outright. You want to examine every possible move to make sure the outcome of the effect is ultimately beneficial. You will somehow perform impossible ‘Hail Mary’ maneuvers by using your abilities in creative new ways.

Into The Breach is absolutely incredible. And it’s even better when it’s on a gaming platform you always have with you. Arriving in 2022 as part of Netflix’s exclusive mobile gaming offering for subscribers, it has joined forces with Poinpy to make Netflix gaming feel like an essential service – especially with its great touchscreen interface and all the new features in the game’s Advanced Edition- update.

The best game ever, now on mobile? It’s an easy inclusion for one of the best mobile games of 2022. – Edmond Tran

Before Your Eyes

There’s no denying that we were pretty skeptical of Netflix’s foray into mobile gaming, but given that Before Your Eyes is the third Netflix exclusive on this ‘Best Mobile Games of 2022’ list, it’s fair to say, that streamer has definitely turned things around on this one. year and won us over.

Like Into The Breach, Before Your Eyes was a pre-existing game that was released to great acclaim and now seems like a perfect fit for mobile. An incredibly moving narrative game about looking back on life in the face of death, the truly remarkable thing about Before Your Eyes is that it’s a video game you control with your eyes.

As you remember the main character’s life events, you will interact with the world using your blinks. A blink, whether intentional or unintentional, will cause your flashbacks to jump forward in time, meaning your understanding of the incredible story may be different from someone else’s depending on how dry or itchy your eyes get.

It’s literally a game where life flashes before your eyes, and it feels particularly suited to mobile devices. After all, every smartphone these days has a camera, and we spend so much time staring at them and holding them so close to our faces that this method of storytelling in Before Your Eyes feels so perfectly organic. – Edmond Tran

Air Twister

How strange to have a brand new arcade game from legendary SEGA designer Yu Suzuki in 2022 – the mind behind 1990s classics Outrun, Super Hang-On and many more. And how strange it is that it is an Apple Exclusive mobile game.

The medium, and this style of arcade design, is actually a match made in heaven here: Air Twister is a shooter that feels best when you play through it once and leave it to give it another shot in the future. Kind of like visiting an arcade machine at regular intervals.

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Essentially a spiritual successor to Suzuki’s Space Harrier, Air Twister is a ‘flying forward’ style shooter where you fly through 3D stages and lock onto enemies to eliminate them (think recent titles like Rez and Panzer Dragoon). The aesthetic is like a 1970s retro-futuristic fever dream, with a soundtrack that channels its best Queen impersonation, complete with a falsetto vocalist who sometimes narrates what’s going on in the game through song.

Even though you’ll be playing the same stages over and over again, a long meta-progression track rewards you for coming back, helping you unlock new cosmetic outfits, new abilities and new weapons, evolving how you approach the same stages in an attempt to get to later levels faster.

It’s a weirdly endearing game, and part of me thinks this just wouldn’t fly with any other video game publisher or platform. So kudos to both of you, Yu Suzuki and Apple, for making this cool thing happen. – Edmond Tran

Dicey Dungeons

There’s nothing like a good mobile roguelike to keep you occupied when you start out half-watching a TV show on the couch and end up devoting 100% of your attention to what’s happening in the game as the stakes get high.

Dicey Dungeons was originally a PC and console game, but its simple mechanics, strategic thinking and bright, colorful aesthetic make it feel perfectly at home on a mobile device – even more so than my previous roguelike mobile go-to, Slay the Spire.

Working with the idea that you have to deal with the hand (or rather, the dice) you’re dealt, Dicey Dungeons is a dungeon crawler with turn-based battles where the power of your attacks and the effectiveness of your abilities are determined by the dice you roll at the start of each turn and how you use them.

It’s not just about rolling 6s – a number of character classes have unique abilities that may require lower numbers or a specific combination of numbers, and powers that manipulate the value of your die are very useful there.

There’s an innate satisfaction that comes with rolling a bunch of dice, and there’s also an innate satisfaction in putting the perfect number in exactly the right slot to deal a lot of damage to one of the many quirky enemies.

It’s one of those perfect pick-up-and-play games that you can jump into for a few minutes with no sound on, or spend hours jamming to the frankly excellent Chipzel soundtrack. – Edmond Tran

Are there any iOS or Android mobile games you think we missed on this list of the best mobile games of 2022? Let us know on Twitter: @GamesHubDotCom.

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