Every new week seems to bring at least a couple of great App Store games to savor—extrapolate that out to a full year and the results are pretty amazing. In fact, choosing just 20 was a difficult task: We had to whittle down the final list from dozens of initial options.

But these are the games that really impressed us this year, and stuck with us for more than just a couple days or weeks. In fact, we’ve already written about many of these games over the course of the year, but we wanted to give all of them one last honor before we start digging into next year’s crop of awesome iPhone and iPad games. Without further ado, here are our picks for the 20 best iOS games of 2015.