The 15 Best Mobile Games of All Time Will Fill You With Small-Screen Nostalgia
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Whether you're on team iOS or Android, games like Angry Birds and Temple Run have likely eaten days of your life.
Sometimes, doom-scrolling on your phone isn't enough. Enough for what, dear admirer of the Esquire Gamer Zone? To distract yourself from the pain inflicted by this burning planet and its inhabitants. To sedate yourself with light and images and words, until the death of it all clouds your head, until you are your phone and your phone is you.
Anyway! Doom-scrolling sometimes doesn't cut it. Right. When you need to really get away, sometimes trekking to the App Store and downloading a game or two will do the trick. Since we still see people on the subway grinding their fingers raw during furious games of Candy Crush, we thought it'd be a good time to declare the best mobile games of all time. In other words? The games that gave us comfort when we needed it. Just promise us you'll read a book someday. In print.
For years, I had Flappy Bird on my phone—and losing the game is one of the biggest regrets I have from updating said phone. I know there are copycat games out there, but nothing will ever compare to the strategic tapping of the original. RIP Flappy.—C.S.
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How angry are these birds? Would an Angry Bird brutally kill Flappy Bird if it had the chance? What are the pigs? Why are the pigs? I have questions. So many questions.—B.L.
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