The best mobile games of 2023 so far (December 2023)

Here it is: the list of the best mobile games of 2023 so far! We’ll be adding more reviews as the games get released, so make sure to bookmark this page and check it every now and then. You can also have a look at the best mobile games of 2022 if you’re feeling a little nostalgic!

All the mobile games we’ve reviewed in 2023

Every year, we review hundreds of new mobile games, picking out the cream of the crop for you to play. It’s not as easy a process as you might think. For a start, there’s definitely no time to review everything – our editors and reviewers look through the stacks of titles released each month and pick out those which we think have the most promise. There are tens of thousands of mobile games released every year, and we only have so much time.

So, even before games are reviewed, they’re filtered through on multiple levels before that selection. But, with us doing so many reviews each year, we thought it was sensible to create this resource, so that you can, at a quick glance, see the best mobile games of 2023 by review ranking.

We’ll let you in on what might be quite a well-known secret: the teams at Steel Media (that’s Pocket Gamer, Pocket Gamer France, 148Apps, App Spy, and more) really love mobile games – as well we should, because we’ve been reviewing them for over 15 years now, or, if you want to do that weird thing people do where they add up the collective years to get an obscene number, the sites have been reviewing mobile games for over fifty years collectively…

That means that there’s a lot of knowledge in these halls, and it also means that we are quite precise when it comes to picking which ones we do decide to review.

Below you will find – by awarded score and within that, alphabetical order – each of the games we’ve chosen to review this year so far. Decide for yourself which of them are the best mobile games of 2023!

5 Star – 10/10 – Pocket Gamer Platinum Award

4.5 Star – 9/10 – Pocket Gamer Gold Award

• Dawncaster review – August 30th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Dawncaster review – November 22nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Dragon Pow review – July 13th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Flash Party review – February 15th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Highwater review – March 15th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Hitman: Blood Money REPRISAL review – November 30th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Lacuna review – June 12th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Laya’s Horizon review – May 2nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Legacy 4 – Tomb of Secrets review – June 20th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Pickle Pete review – March 6th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Raging Bytes review – April 25th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Roundguard review – April 25th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Sands of Salzaar review – January 23rd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Sid Meier’s Railroads review – May 2nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out review – August 30th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Super Meat Boy Forever review – April 20th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Ten Dates review – February 14th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Ten Dates review – February 17th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Terra Nil review – March 28th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic In Gotham City review – June 26th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• The Legend of Tianding review – March 31st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• The Wreck review – October 10th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Valiant Hearts: Coming Home Netflix review – January 31st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari DLC review – April 22nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Wavecade review – January 18th, 2023 – 148Apps

4 Star – 8/10 – Pocket Gamer Silver Award

• Arena Breakout review – July 14th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Black Book review – May 15th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• BRIXITY review – August 24th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Brotato review – April 3rd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Coffee Golf review – June 21st, 2023 – 148Apps
• Coromon review – November 21st – Pocket Gamer
• Cursed Labyrinth -Hack & Slash review – March 9th, 2023 – 148Apps
• DERE Vengeance review – September 18th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Divinity Chronicles: Journey To The West review – May 25th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Dungeon Survivor.io review – August 21st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Geo Gods review – July 31st, 2023 – 148Apps
• Gomorrah review – February 24th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Happy Game review – February 7th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Hoop Land review – June 9th, 2023 – 148Apps
• How We Know We’re Alive review – March 20th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Kloot Arena review – June 24th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Lucid Lenses review – June 28th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Luck be a Landlord review – July 25th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Madness/Endless review – February 7th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Mighty Quest Rogue Palace review – April 18th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Motorsport Manager 4 review – September 14th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Netflix Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review – July 12th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Netflix The Queen’s Gambit Chess review – July 25th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Omega 13 review – January 25th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Par for the Dungeon review – November 21st – Pocket Gamer
• Perfect Grind review – January 18th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Pine Tar Poker review – January 19th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Postknight 2 review – March 23rd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Return to Monkey Island review – July 27th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Rocco’s Island: Pocket Edition review – February 22nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Roller Drama review – January 25th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Roundguard review – April 25th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Space Intern review – November 28th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Tangle Tower review – October 2nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Tap Shap review – February 17th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Teeny Tiny Town review – July 10th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• The Last Game review – October 5th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Tiny Shop review – May 26th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Tomb Raider Reloaded review – February 17th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Torchlight: Infinite review – May 14th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge review – January 18th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• TriviaLinked review – April 18th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Warhammer 40,000 Warpforge review – November 3rd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer

3.5 Star – 7/10 – Pocket Gamer Bronze Award

• Beecarbonize review – March 14th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Boxville review – January 30th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Bugsnax review – July 24th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Cuttlefish review – May 1st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• DC Heroes & Villains review – August 30th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Endling – Extinction is Forever (Utomik) review – September 22nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Eversoul review – February 23rd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Fireball Wizard review – June 29th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Galactic Defender review – July 7th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• How We Know We’re Alive review – March 21st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• IDEA review – March 10th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Illuminaria review – November 2nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Kingdom Eighties review – October 17th, 2023 – 148Apps
• LEGO Bricktales review – April 27th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Lost Words: Beyond the Page review – May 24th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Magic and Machines review – June 6th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Orange review – April 14th, 2023 – 148Apps
• PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo review – March 30th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Perfect Grind review – January 18th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Punch Kick Duck review – February 9th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Punch Kick Duck review – March 1st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Resident Evil Village review – November 10th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Reverse: 1999 review – October 26th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Rogue with the Dead review – November 13th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Roller Drama review – February 2nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Roto Force review – July 18th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Scenic Route’s Generations review – April 27th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Settlement Survival review – April 10th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Subpar Pool review – October 13th, 2023 – 148Apps
• The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story review – May 8th, 2023 – 148Apps
• The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story review – May 10th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Three Skies review – June 29th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• TriviaLinked review – April 18th, 2023 – 148Apps
• UFO99 review – January 24th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Ultra Blade review – March 2nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Undawn review – June 20th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Unpacking mobile review – September 2nd, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Vlobs review – March 22nd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden review – April 12th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Warcraft Rumble review – November 13th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Wizard of Legend review – November 15th, 2023 – 148Apps

3 Star – 6/10

• Avatar Generations review – February 7th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Delete After Reading review – March 17th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Domingo review – March 15th, 2023 – 148Apps
• EISEN review – March 10th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Legend of Keepers review – June 1st, 2023 – 148Apps
• Marvel Move review – September 26th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Mia and the Dragon Princess review – May 3rd, 2023 – 148Apps
• Paths: Beatrice’s Adventure review – April 21st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Torecower review – May 18th, 2023 – 148Apps
• Resonance of the Ocean review – January 6th, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Ultimate Sackboy review – February 21st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer
• Wish Us Luck review – August 21st, 2023 – Pocket Gamer

2.5 Star – 5/10

And that’s it for now – the best mobile games of 2023 so far. Be sure to keep checking back, either to the sites or here, because we’ll continue to pick out the best of the best going forward.