Dandara Trials of Fear Edition, $3.99 – [Review] – [Forum Thread] – While originally conceived as a mobile title with its unique touchscreen movement control scheme, eventually Dandara hooked up with publisher Raw Fury to bring the game to all platforms and incredibly launch them all simultaneously at the exact same price point. As fantastic as a Metroidvania-style platforming experience as Dandara is on any platform you choose to play it on, in our opinion it feels most at home on mobile. Dandara plays with gravity in ways that there never really is a traditional up or down, and wrapping your head around the twists and turns of the envrionments is one of the best parts about the game. – JN

Oddmar, $4.99 – [Review] – [Game of the Week] – [Forum Thread] – While mobile is home to many high quality ports, it’s much less frequent to see a big budget title developed specifically for mobile. At least not a free to play game, that is. Well Oddmar is one such unicorn, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a 20 or 30 dollar title on platforms like Nintendo Switch or Steam. Absolutely gorgeous art and animations make it feel like you’re playing a cartoon, and with charming characters and fully voice-acted cutscenes you actually find yourself caring what happens when you’re not running and jumping through the game’s impressive environments. – JN

see/saw, $2.99 – [Game of the Week] – [Forum Thread] – When it comes to platformers on mobile, they typically fall into two categories: Traditional platformers with virtual buttons or auto-runners with simplified controls that work well on touchscreen. Developer Philipp Stollenmayer wondered if he could boil down free-movement platforming to a simple two-button control scheme, and the result is the excellent See/Saw. You simply run back and forth by touching either side of the screen, and let the physics and your momentum (and some well-placed springboards) do all the aerial stuff for you. It’s a lot trickier than it sounds though, and the challenges in See/Saw call to mind the classic platforming tests of the cult Flash hit N+. – JN

Slime Pizza, Free – [Review] – [Forum Thread] – Slime Pizza is a very typical Nitrome game in that it has great pixel art, a generous free to play system, good music, and a basic gameplay mechanic (in this case, flinging yourself around as a slime) that they expand into all sorts of different weird ways. After your spaceship crashes, it’s up to you to collect all the slices of pizza (don’t worry, the story/premise are kind of irrelevant) through some surprisingly difficult puzzle platforming levels. If you remember the old flash game Slime Factory 2, this is a spinoff of sorts of that. -EH

Spike City, Free – [Game of the Week] – [Forum Thread] – You can pretty much put any and all of Nitrome’s games on any “best of" list, but one in particular that they launched this year that really grabbed me was Spike City. It’s something of a vertical platformer where your character has the unique ability of driving his head into a surface and staying there until you let go. You’ll use this to navigate your way through tons of challenges, all wrapped up in the colorful art style and high production values you’d expect from a Nitrome game. For whatever reason this one seemed to fly under the radar since its launch in May, but it’s definitely one you should be checking out if you haven’t already. – JN

Spitkiss, $1.99 – [Preview] – [Forum Thread] – Spitkiss is one of those weirdo indie games that won loads of awards when it was still in development, so you know it’s got to be good once it’s finally out. It’s a single-screen puzzler that feels oddly reminiscent of a Donut Games title where you’re flinging your spit around levels to complete each of them. Also, one of the features of the game is “Organic progression and pee challenges." We need more of that on the App Store. -EH

Super Cat Tales 2, Free – [Game of the Week] – [Forum Thread] – Super Cat Tales 2 is in large part more of the same, but when a game is as good as the first Super Cat Tales, that’s in no way a bad thing. And whatever nitpicks you could find with the first entry have been thoughtfully massaged away in this sequel. With plenty of cool cats to use, excellent touch controls, and the most dangerous, colorful locales this side of the Mushroom Kingdom, this is one mobile platformer that’s hard to beat. Meow. – SM

Super Fancy Pants Adventure, $4.99 – [Review] – [Forum Thread] – One of my all-time favorite platforming games is Fancy Pants Adventures, which started out humbly as a Flash game more than a decade ago and eventually made its way to the iOS platform way back in the spring of 2012. That version has long been defunct, so it brought me great joy to see them release the latest entry in the series, Super Fancy Pants Adventure, on the App Store at the beginning of this year. It brings with it more levels, improved visuals, and a cool new ink pen mechanic that let’s you glide and wall ride all over the place. For a stick figure game there’s a ton of personality in Super Fancy Pants Adventure, and more platforming challenges than you can shake a stick at. – JN

Suzy Cube, $3.99 – [Review] – [Game of the Week] – [Forum Thread] – While 2D side-scrolling platformers are plentiful on the App Store, full-blown 3D platformers are a rarer sight, and even among the ones that are released most don’t get the details right. Suzy Cube is a years-long passion project of doing a mobile 3D platformer right, and it nails it in every way. The controls are simple and accessible, and the camera’s movement has been thoughtfully engineered so as to never mess up your view so you can just concentrate on your 3D platforming. After playing many mobile 3D platformers that missed the mark, Suzy Cube is like a breath of fresh air and it’s filled with well-designed challenges and tons of charm. – JN

Teslagrad, $6.99 – [News] – [Forum Thread] – A beloved indie hit for years on both consoles and PC, it only makes sense that Teslagrad would also make its way to mobile. This puzzle platformer has a huge focus on solving puzzles related to electromagnetism, and because of that it actually translates extremely well to a virtual button control scheme as you’re typically sussing out the solution to a puzzle rather than engaging in fast-paced antics. Beyond its extremely brain-twisting puzzles, Teslagrad also features a compelling storyline with some of the most beautiful character animations I’ve seen. The entire game has a tremendous atmosphere that really sets it apart from your typical physics puzzler on mobile. – JN