In this week’s Tuesday Best Of, I thought we’d have a look at the best runners on mobile. I don’t know why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

The endless and auto runner genre is often full of really terrible games, but these ones aren’t terrible. In fact they’re really good. Which is why they’ve made it onto this list. Makes sense if you stop and think about it.

All of these games are well worth a play, so whether you’ve never picked them up before or you’re a veteran, why not spend some of Tuesday poking your screen while these games are happening on the other side of it.

Boson X

A wonderful chase through a particle collider, Boson X is as tricky as they come, but utterly brilliant at the same time. The world morphs and collapses around you, and split-second timing is the order of the day.

The game has its own unique style, and there’s a slickness to everything that it does that makes your inevitable deaths spur you on to greater achievements. It’s level based too, and a brilliant addition to any homescreen.

Race the Sun

Okay you’re not really running in this one, but it’s still a magnificent example of the auto-propelled genre done fantastically. And it’s got a couple of twists up its sleeve too. Both of which are really interesting.

Firstly you need to stay in the sun to power up your craft. Spend too much time in the shade and you’ll stop moving. Second the world changes every 24 hours so there’s always a new challenge waiting for you.

Jetpack Joyride

There’s something about Jetpack Joyride that keeps people coming back to it over and over and over. It’s a gorgeous cartoony game with a heart of black ice that wants to kill you all the time. Which is great.

You can play it with one finger, and it came out years before all those games that you can play with one finger. It’s compulsive, it’s clever, and it puts an awful lot of the arcade games that have come out since to shame.