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Best Mobile Games for Long-Distance Couples

Phone games that make a long-distance relationship feel closer: shared gardens, cross-platform worlds and chat games for iPhone and Android.

By Cozy Couple Games Editorial Team · Updated

When you live apart, the hard part is often the in-between: the hours when you’re both busy and the days when calls are short. Phone games fit those gaps well.

Everything here has real shared play, not just a shared leaderboard.

  1. Our Flower Garden on iPhone: two players stand outside a small cottage above rows of red, white, purple and yellow flowers, under the caption “Grow a cozy garden together”.A greenhouse planted with rows of sunflowers, with both players’ avatars below and the caption “Plant, water, and harvest side by side”.

    1 Best for different time zones

    Our Flower Garden

    iPhone · Android · Free

    You each look after the same garden whenever you’re awake, so you wake up to flowers your partner watered.

    • Cozy
    • Mobile
    • Long Distance
    Read our Our Flower Garden review
  2. Two Sky players in blue and green capes sharing a glowing umbrella in the rain, looking toward a rainbow in a misty forest.

    2 Best for a call date

    Sky: Children of the Light

    iPhone · Android · Switch · PlayStation · PC · Free

    Meet up in the clouds, sit together and talk. Works across iPhone, Android and more.

    • Free
    • Mobile
    • Long Distance
    Read our Sky: Children of the Light review
  3. An iMessage chat where one person asks “Up for a little game?”, the other replies “Absolutely!”, and an 8-ball game invite sits above the GamePigeon game picker.A GamePigeon darts match inside iMessage, with a dartboard and both players’ scores at 301.

    3 Best for iPhone couples

    GamePigeon

    iPhone · Free

    Tiny games in your iMessage chat. A great running rivalry.

    • Mobile
    • Free
    • Long Distance
    Read our GamePigeon review
  4. A Minecraft landscape of blocky hills covered in pine trees and pink cherry blossom trees under a blue sky.

    4 Best for building

    Minecraft

    PC · Mac · Switch · PlayStation +3 · Paid

    Start a shared world on your phones and keep adding to it.

    • Building
    • Co-op
    • Long Distance
    Read our Minecraft review

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