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Four apps have taken over Lauren Weber’s iPhone home screen, and she’s not apologizing for it.

LaurenZside’s latest upload, “ADDICTING App Games (My Current Favorites),” ditches console gameplay for a rundown of the mobile titles she can’t stop opening between recording sessions. Rather than ranking a top-ten list, Lauren walks through four specific apps she’s actually logged hours into, showing real gameplay from each and explaining exactly why the loop keeps pulling her back in.

• Lauren highlights four titles by name: Pokémon Quest, KleptoDogs, Disney Emoji Blitz, and Cooking Craze.
• In Pokémon Quest, players manage voxel cube-style Pokémon on Tumblecube Island, cooking meals to attract companions and clearing expedition stages.
• KleptoDogs, made by HyperBeard as the canine follow-up to KleptoCats, has players adopt dogs that scavenge quirky household items out in the world.

Pokémon Quest’s Cooking Loop

Lauren opens with Pokémon Quest, the game where every Pokémon has been reimagined as a blocky little cube wandering around Tumblecube Island. The hook, as she demonstrates on camera, isn’t battling for its own sake — it’s the cooking mechanic. Players toss ingredients into a pot, and the resulting recipe determines which Pokémon show up to join the roster, turning meal prep into the actual progression system.

From there, expedition stages send that growing cube-shaped squad out to clear areas and pick up loot, which feeds back into better recipes and rarer companions. It’s the kind of tidy, self-reinforcing loop that fans of collection-based mobile games will recognize instantly, and it’s exactly the type of app that keeps showing up on lists like 10 Video Games That Will Consume Your Life.

KleptoDogs and the Scavenger Hunt Sequel

The second title Lauren shows off is KleptoDogs, HyperBeard’s sequel to the sleeper hit KleptoCats. The setup swaps cats for dogs but keeps the same premise: adopt a pet, send it out into the world, and wait to see what random, often absurd item it drags back home. Lauren walks through the adoption and care mechanics on screen, pointing out how the humor of the item drops is what makes checking back in feel worth it.

Cook a meal, adopt a dog, clear a match-3 board — that’s the entire loop Lauren admits she can’t put down.

It’s a low-stakes, low-friction design, the exact opposite of the punishing check-in systems Lauren has covered elsewhere, like in 8 Video Games That Punish You For Taking A Break! — KleptoDogs rewards curiosity rather than penalizing absence.

Disney Emoji Blitz and Cooking Craze

Lauren rounds out the video with two more casual staples. Disney Emoji Blitz, built by Jam City in partnership with Disney, is a match-3 puzzle game where clearing boards earns players digital emojis based on Disney and Pixar characters — collectibles that can then be used directly on a phone’s keyboard. She runs through a few boards on camera, showing how the collection angle gives an otherwise standard match-3 format its own hook.

Cooking Craze, from Big Fish Games, closes out the list as the fastest-paced entry of the four. It’s a time-management sim where players tap, cook, and plate dishes to serve international restaurant patrons before the order timer runs out, and Lauren’s gameplay clips show the frantic, ticking-clock energy that separates it from the more relaxed pace of the other three apps. For anyone browsing more casual titles worth a download, InfoSearched’s Gaming Apps section tracks similar mobile picks.

Between the four, Lauren makes clear Cooking Craze is the one demanding the most active attention span, while KleptoDogs is the one she checks on the least effort and still enjoys the most — which, for anyone hunting a new phone game this week, is probably the best place to start.