New Puzzle Games for Mobile in November 2026: Free and Paid Picks for Android and iOS

November brings a busy run of new puzzle games to Android and iOS, and there are free ones to start with: a crime-solving desk sim you can try before you buy and a food-hopping kitchen escape that costs nothing to download. Four more puzzle games arrive during the month, and a much-loved classic returns in early December.

The Operator and Oh, Snack! are the free picks, The Roottrees are Dead brings its 90s internet family-tree mystery to phones on 5th November, and KAMI 2+ joins Apple Arcade the same day. Further out, Cut the Rope Remastered leaves Apple Arcade for both stores on 3rd December.

Here's the full list.

New Puzzle Games for Mobile in November 2026: Free and Paid Picks for Android and iOS

Free Puzzle Games to Play Now on Android and iOS

The Operator

Release: October 2026

The Operator from Bureau 81 came to iOS and Android at the start of October, after its PC release, and it's free to try before you buy the rest.

You're a new recruit at the FDI, working from a terminal and helping field agents with their cases. That means murders, missing persons and cyber attacks, solved with a video and photo analyser, a citizen and vehicle database, ChemScan and a notepad. The cases lead towards a cybercriminal called HAL.

Oh, Snack!

Release: October 2026

Oh, Snack! is a physics puzzler from solo developer Tepes Ovidiu, and it's free to download on iOS and Android, with ads and in-app purchases.

You're trying to get out of a kitchen by hopping from one thing to the next. Drag to aim, let go to jump, and whatever food or object you land on becomes your new body, each one moving differently. Kitchen hazards get in the way, chained jumps build combos, and there are leaderboards for your best climbs.

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Walk The Frog

Release: 14th October 2026

Walk The Frog arrived on iOS, Android and Switch on 14th October. It comes from the German studio of the same name.

You get Froggo home by dragging hand-drawn sticky notes around to build a path. There are 18 levels to work through.

Hyphen

Release: 28th October 2026

Hyphen from FarSpace Studios is a precision puzzler that came to iOS and Android on 28th October for $3.99.

You steer a stick that never stops rotating through tight neon mazes without touching the walls, timing your way through narrow gaps and past moving obstacles.

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The Roottrees are Dead

Release: 5th November 2026

The Roottrees are Dead from Evil Trout comes to iOS and Android on 5th November, published on mobile by IndieArk. It's $9.99, and pre-registration and pre-orders are open now.

It's 1998, a private jet has crashed and killed members of the wealthy Roottree family, and their fortune of more than a billion dollars needs heirs. You piece the family tree back together using a recreated late-90s internet of old web pages, news stories and photos, working out who's really in line for the money.

KAMI 2+

Release: 5th November 2026 (Apple Arcade)

State of Play Games' KAMI 2+ joins Apple Arcade on 5th November, so there are no ads or in-app purchases if you're a subscriber.

Each puzzle is a folded-paper board, and the job is to turn the whole thing into a single colour in as few moves as you can. There are more than 100 handcrafted puzzles.

Hillthorn

Release: 10th November 2026

Hillthorn is Fool Moon's mystery game, published by Raw Fury, and it comes to iOS, Android, PC and Switch on 10th November.

You search a mountain for a missing child, and the locals don't trust outsiders. The story comes together through Clue cards that you collect and combine, and there are more leads than you have time to follow, so you have to choose.

Everlasting Curse

Release: 30th November 2026

Everlasting Curse is the next escape-room adventure from Dark Dome, due on 30th November with pre-registration open now.

You head into a witch's house to break a curse, finding and combining items to solve its puzzles. The new twist is switching between day and night, which takes you into parallel worlds where the same room can hide something different.

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Cut the Rope Remastered

Expected: 3rd December 2026

ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope Remastered has been an Apple Arcade exclusive, and on 3rd December it comes to the App Store and Google Play as a one-off purchase with no ads. Pre-registering gets you a launch discount.

It's the same idea as the original Cut the Rope: cut the ropes and get the candy to Om Nom.

Colour Away - Tap Block Puzzle

Expected: Soft launch, no global date yet

Colour Away - Tap Block Puzzle is a free block puzzle game from Easybrain, the studio behind Blockudoku. It's in soft launch on Google Play in a handful of countries, including the US, and Easybrain hasn't announced a wider release yet.

That's November. The Operator and Oh, Snack! are the ones to start with if you'd rather not spend anything. We'll be back with December's new puzzle games next month.