Great puzzle games under 200MB
Highly-rated titles that won't fill up your phone.
Phone storage is the silent enemy of casual mobile gaming. You discover a great new puzzle game, you tap install, and the App Store cheerfully informs you that it needs 1.4 GB of space — most of which is high-resolution background art and an oversized advertising SDK. After three or four such installs your phone starts complaining and you spend an evening triaging which games to delete.
The list below is the antidote. To qualify a game has to come in under 200 megabytes, hold an average rating of 4.3 or higher, and have at least 500 App Store ratings to prove the score is real. The result is a slimmed-down library of titles that do real work in a small footprint — clean code, sensible asset budgets, and a respect for the platform that the bloated chart-toppers have largely abandoned.
This is also a useful list if you are running an older device, travelling on metered data, or just trying to avoid the constant battle with iCloud's storage warnings. None of these games will make your phone groan when they update, and most can be installed and tried in under a minute on a decent connection. If you find a game here that has bloated past the cutoff in a recent update, drop us a line — we re-evaluate file sizes on each refresh.