Paid games are the best games on your phone.
Somebody should say so.

Collection

Twelve games where the price on the store page is the last money they'll ever ask you for. No energy bars, no ads, no second checkout.

Collection

Airplane mode on, seat-back screen off. Six games that need no connection, no account, and no mercy from row 34's Wi-Fi.

Collection

Death is the loop, mastery is the reward. Four games where losing a run at 1 a.m. only ever means starting another.

Every game we've covered

The whole shelf

$9.99

Balatro

The poker roguelike that ate 2024 alive, remastered for the phone it always belonged on.

4.7 ★ · 2M+ · Card

$4.99

Stardew Valley

Inherit a farm, leave your old life behind, and quietly play nothing else for a year.

4.6 ★ · 7M+ · Role Playing

$4.99

Papers, Please

You are a border inspector in a failing communist state. Stamp documents. Feed your family. Decide who you are.

4.6 ★ · 405K+ · Role Playing

$7.99

Dead Cells

A roguelike so fluid it makes console action games feel arthritic — and the phone port is shockingly good.

4.8 ★ · 2M+ · Action

$3.99

Monument Valley 2

An hour and a half of impossible architecture, and the most beautiful thing on your phone.

4.9 ★ · 3M+ · Puzzle

$9.99

Slay the Spire

The game that invented the deckbuilding roguelike — still the deepest version of the idea it started.

4.4 ★ · 2M+ · Card

$0.99

Mini Metro

Draw subway lines. Watch them fail beautifully. The best dollar on Google Play.

4.6 ★ · 4M+ · Simulation

$4.99

Terraria

A 2D world where everything digs, builds, burns, or bites — the deepest five dollars in gaming.

4.5 ★ · 7M+ · Adventure

$0.99

The Room

A haunted puzzle box you open with your fingertips. Still the best-feeling touch game ever made.

4.8 ★ · 3M+ · Puzzle

$4.99

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition

A gorgeous, gothic survival sandbox that kills you with a straight face and expects you to thank it.

4.2 ★ · 1M+ · Adventure

$3.99

Monument Valley

The game that made phones beautiful — ten years on, the illusions still land.

4.9 ★ · 6M+ · Puzzle

$6.99

Bloons TD 6

The tower defense game that outlived the genre — cheerful on the surface, bottomless underneath.

4.8 ★ · 7M+ · Strategy