The best classic card & tile games on mobile
Modern implementations of solitaire, mahjong, sudoku, and card-based puzzles.
Solitaire was the first great mobile game decades before mobile existed, and it remains one of the most under-celebrated genres on the App Store. Modern implementations have a lot to live up to: the format is well-understood, the rules are public domain, and the only real differentiator is execution. The games below get execution right.
The list collects high-rated mobile takes on the classic card-and-tile formats: Klondike and Spider solitaire, mahjong tile-matching, sudoku in all its variants, and card-based puzzlers that adapt the genre rather than copy it. We have weighted the cut toward titles where the developer has clearly thought about the small details — animation timing, card-flip sound, the speed of an undo. These are details that the casual player never explicitly notices but feels in the background of every session.
Most of the games here are free, with optional ad removal or cosmetic packs. We have been picky about which free implementations made the cut: anything with a forced-ad cadence that breaks a winning streak got dropped, regardless of star rating. What remains is, in our opinion, the best collection of digital card and tile games available on mobile right now — a genre that punches well above its share of editorial attention.