Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile: the very BEST games in the Store

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Following on from AAWP's rather handy guide to the very best general applications and best camera/media apps for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile, here's an updated (end December 2017) version of our similar crowd-sourced guide the very best games on the platform. Enjoy!

See below the table for some helpful notes and general introduction!

Updated late 2020 (to remove some links to outdated software directory from 2012 era):

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Quick puzzles

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Strategy/RPG

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Story-based puzzles

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Tower defense

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Driving

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Arcade

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Flying

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Physics-based

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Hidden object

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Kids/Education

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Sports

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Trivia

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Combat/FPS

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Endless 'runners'

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Board/tile/dice/card games

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Word games

Please do comment if you can add game-hardened suggestions for this top selection, and I'll incorporate them into the table!

This bookmarkable page should be a useful aide-memoire after a hard reset if rebuilding a phone from scratch or, perhaps more appropriately, a great place for a new Windows 10 Mobile user to start. Some notes:

  • FAQ: I don't mark new entries as 'new' in any way because there's no point - you already know what they are as we've featured them on the front pages of AAWP over the last month. These reference pages are just that - for reference. For newcomers and for people looking up recommendations.
  • Where possible, I've included links to relevant reviews/features or to entries in the Microsoft Store. Where a review references a Store URL that seems not to exist anymore, I'm blaming Microsoft's reorganisations and occasional changes in name/ID by the developer. In such cases, try search instead on your phone - and watch out for fakes with similar names.
  • Note that in some cases titles may be only available for Windows Phone 8.1 OR Windows 10 Mobile - happily the vast majority of games here work on both!
  • Watch out for outrageous purchases in some freemium games - I've filtered the freemium titles in the list below to just the ones which have good ratings and reviews. Just be careful, that's all, when tapping to 'buy' within a game.
  • Please do let me know if there's a recommendation here that's no longer available or broken in some way on modern OS versions.
  • Implemented as a table, I've kept the width right down and only used two columns, in order to be really phone-friendly!
  • I've broken down our recommendations into categories, to be helpful. No doubt things may get tweaked in time!