mobile games

Sliding tiles together until they reached a number. Made in a weekend, played by everyone for a month, and still installed on the phones of people who forgot.

A Roblox survival game — build a fire, find the missing children, survive the deer — that became the third of the summer's Roblox monsters after Grow a Garden and Steal a Brainrot. Known for the deer, which are not deer.

A climbing game in which each hand is controlled by a mouse button and a slip means a fall to the bottom, released in March 2024 by a Swedish YouTuber and streamed by the same people who had streamed Only Up! and Getting Over It, for about a month, until they reached the top. The record notes that the title is accurate, which by the standards of game titles is unusual.

The Roblox pet-raising game that launched in July 2017 as a role-play about adopting babies, pivoted to pets, and in 2020 held nearly two million concurrent players and a trading economy with its own scammers. The record's entry for the game that taught a generation the word 'legendary' meant 'expensive'.

A browser game in which you are a circle, you eat smaller circles and larger circles eat you, with hundreds of strangers in the same petri dish. Announced in a 4chan thread in April 2015 by a Brazilian teenager, it was one of the most searched games of the year and the record files it as the birth of the '.io game'.

Finding the impostor on a spaceship, two years after release and during a lockdown. Left the language a single word, sus, which is doing better than the game.

A slingshot game in which birds are fired at structures built by egg-stealing pigs. The record's entry for the first mobile game to become a brand: it was the most-downloaded paid app for most of 2011, produced plush toys, a theme park area and two films, then saw its original version removed from stores in 2019 and reissued as a classic in 2022, which is the record's definition of undead.

Respawn's battle royale, revealed and released on the same morning in February 2019 with no marketing beforehand, which reached ten million players in three days and 25 million in a week. The record's entry for the surprise launch as a strategy, and for the two weeks in which Fortnite was briefly not the only battle royale anybody talked about.