Hey all. Well, another year is in the books, and it's arguably the biggest year for mobile gaming yet. Due to how many amazing original mobile games as well as multiplatform games and ports were released this year, we bumped up our normal Best Games list to 100 entries. That seems like a daunting number, but believe me, it could have easily been twice or even three times the size! Anyway, even with 100 slots it was still a VERY hard list to pare down, and a ton of great games inevitably got left off the list. So similar to what we did last year, I'm going to post the complete list of everything we had in consideration just as a reference for those who are interested or maybe were miffed their favorite game didn't make the top 100. This is a no frills list, no links to reviews or anything like that, but feel free to look it over and we welcome any comments about your particular favorite games that either did or did not make the top 100 as well as just some general conversation about the year that was 2016 in mobile gaming. THANKS TO EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR A GREAT YEAR! We do this all for you, and of course we wouldn't even be in a position to do this without you, so thank you from everyone at TouchArcade! GAMES THAT MADE THE TOP 100: Adventures of Mana Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Assassin's Creed Identity Assoluto Racing Atomic Super Lander Avadon 3: The Warborn Banner Saga 2 Batman - The Telltale Series Blitz Breaker Bullet Hell Monday Bully: Anniversary Edition Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre Chameleon Run Circa Infinity Clash Royale Crashlands Crypt of the NecroDancer Pocket Edition Dan the Man Day of the Tentacle Remastered Deus Ex GO Dog Sled Saga Don't Grind Dungeon Warfare Ember Final Fantasy IX Flappy Golf 2 Galaxy on Fire 3 - Manticore Goat Simulator Waste of Space Goo Saga Guild of Dungeoneering Guns of Infinity Hatoful Boyfriend Human Resource Machine I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Imbroglio Jade Empire: Special Edition Kathy Rain King Rabbit Le Parker: Sous Chef Extraordinaire LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Leap Day Leap of Fate Legend of the Skyfish Looty Dungeon Lost Frontier Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers Love You to Bits Lumines Puzzle & Music Mekorama Mikey Jumps Mini Metro Mr. Robot Exfiltration Nekosan Neo Turf Masters Neon Chrome Party Hard Go Perchang Pocket Mortys Pokemon GO Pumped BMX 3 Punch Club Really Bad Chess Reigns Retro City Rampage DX Road Not Taken Rodeo Stampede RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic Rome: Total War RunGunJumpGun Rush Rally 2 Samorost 3 Severed Shadow Blade: Reload Sky Force Reloaded Slide the Shakes Snakebird Solitairica Sorcery! 4 Space Food Truck Space Marshals 2 SteamWorld Heist Steins;Gate Steppy Pants Super Cat Tales Super Mario Run Super Stickman Golf 3 Survivalcraft 2 Teeny Titans Tennis Champs Returns The Bug Butcher The Quest HD The Walking Dead: Michonne Thumb Drift Time Locker Titan Quest Tomb of the Mask Treasure Buster Warbits Yankai's Triangle Ys Chronicles 2 GAMES THAT CAME OH SO CLOSE TO MAKING THE TOP 100: A Short Tale Abyssrium Adventure Company Adventure To Fate: Quest To The Future All is Lost Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards Asphalt Xtreme Astro Attack Back to Square One Batman Arkham Underworld Battle Champs The Battle of Polytopia Battleship Lonewolf Bejeweled Stars BlazBlue Revolution Reburning Bomboras Forever Bullet Force Burly Men at Sea Bushido Bear Card Wars Kingdom Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Caterzillar Cattch Choppa Combo Critters Conduct THIS! The Counter of Death Crashing Season Critical Ops Crush Your Enemies CSR Racing 2 Cubed Rally World Cursor: The Virus Hunter Cut the Rope: Magic DC Legends Dead Venture Demon's Rise 2 - Lords of Chaos Disco Dave Disney Crossy Road Dofus Touch Doomsday Clicker Drakenlords Dungeon Tiles Dungelot: Shattered Lands Dunkers Eggggg - The Platform Puker Egz Eisenhorn: Xenos Ellipsis Enyo Epic Flail Exiled Kingdoms RPG Exploding Kittens Extreme Gear: Demolition Arena F1 2016 Faily Brakes Fallen London Feral Fury Fieldrunners Attack! Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Fishing Break Flail Rider Flipped Out - The Powerpuff Girls Forbidden Desert Futurama: Game of Drones Galaga Wars Gear.Club Geometry Dash World Go Rally Grayout The Greedy Cave Halfpipe Hero Hammer Bomb Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories Hero Generations Regen Hero Slide Heroes of Loot 2 Heroes of Normandie High Risers Highway Runners Hovercrash Hungry Shark World Hyperburner I Keep Having This Dream illi Infinite Tanks INKS Invisible Inc. Iron Maiden Legacy of the Beast Island Delta Jasper's Rocket Joan Mad Run Journey Below Jurassic GO - Dinosaur Snap Adventures Kingdom Hearts Unchained Chi Lanota Lifeline: Crisis Line Lifeline: Flatline Lifeline: Whiteout Lonewolf Loop Mania Lost in Harmony Lost Portal CCG The Lost Shield Mars: Mars Marvel: Avengers Academy Marvel Tsum Tsum Maximum Car Mazes Of Karradash 2 Mercenaries Saga2 Midnight Star Renegade Miitomo Mixed Macho Arts Mobius Final Fantasy Momoka: An Interplanetary Adventure Moveless Chess Mr. Crab 2 My Horse Prince NBA 2K17 NBA Live Mobile Never Alone: Ki Edition Nightgate Oh Sir! The Insult Generator OK K.O. Lakewood Plaza Turbo One More Jump Onion Force Out There Chronicles Oz: Broken Kingdom Pang Adventures Patchwork The Game Pathfinder Adventures Peter Panic PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator Phoenix 2 Pianista Pinball Breaker Forever PinOut Pixel Cup Soccer 16 Pixel Machines PKTBALL Politaire Post Brutal Primordia _PRISM Prison Run and Gun Psycard Pull My Tongue Puzzle Strike Puzzlepops! Puzzlewood Quests Premium Rayman Classic RBI Baseball 16 ReDungeon Replica: A Little Temporary Safety ReRunners RETSNOM Return of the Zombie King Riptide GP: Renegade Rockabilly Beatdown Rocket Ski Racing Romancing SaGa 2 Rule with an Iron Fish Runaway Toad The Sandbox Evolution Shadow Wars Shoot the Dragon Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert Siralim 2 Sky Chasers Skyhill Smooth Operator! Snowball!! Space Grunts Spingun Splash Cars Squaredance Stellar Wanderer Submerged Super Arc Light Super Phantom Cat Super SteamPuff Swap Sword Swapperoo Tap Hero Tap My Katamari Telepaint Tentacles: Enter the Mind That Dragon, Cancer The Walking Dead: A New Frontier The Westport Independent Titan Brawl To The Throne Toon Shooters 2: The Freelancers Tower of Fortune 3 Traffic Rider The Trail Train Conductor World Twofold Inc. Ultimate Briefcase Uncharted: Fortune Hunter Venture Kid VOEZ Vulture Island War Tortoise Warcher Defenders Warhammer 40,000: Regicide Waste in Space Yakin Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble Zip Zap 7 Mages 9th Dawn 2
Glad to see Retsnom in there. One of those rare games which gripped all my spare moments till I completed it 100%. Great puzzle mechanic added to a solid platformer, with a thoroughly downbeat tone expressed beautifully in story, visuals and audio. I had it in my top 10 for the forum game of the year. Super Phantom Cat is the perfect antidote, though, if it all gets too bleak. What a wonderful game, so bright, so well designed. Look at that list though! Some really flipping good games didn't make the top 100. Poor Momoka got completely swallowed up in the Crashlands fervour, but it's a great Metroidvania. Vulture Island was slight, but a marvellous Dizzy-style puzzle platformer. 9th Dawn 2, Rom Saga 2, Demons Rise 2... One last mention for Planar Conquest, which didn't even make the long list but has a forum thread stretching over 150 pages. Phew...
This is the first year where i totally agree (about 90-95% of those i have played at least) to TA's list. Pretty surprised INKS didnt make top 100. But overall, it's been another great, great year for iOS gaming! Looking forward to another year of finding the awesome games and apps in the sea of... well... mediocrity and trash. LOL
When the mobile gaming world looks like some endless, bleak, free-to-play junkyard... Look to this list and take comfort. Amazing year.
Hatoful Boyfriend is in the top 100. This is all that matters. Truly, 2016 was a blessed year for mobile gaming.