Connect IQ
Games for Garmin watches
Small games that fit a round screen and a spare minute.
A watch is not a phone: the screen is round and smaller than a matchbox, there are three or four buttons, and a session lasts exactly as long as someone is willing to stare at their wrist. So we do not port mobile games here — we build separate ones, with one-button controls and a round that ends in half a minute.
Every game in this section lives on the Connect IQ Store and installs onto the watch through the Garmin Connect app. Each game page lists the models it runs on: that list comes from the store itself and changes when the store does.
Right on your wrist
Games for Garmin watches
BlockMine
Dig a mine on your watch, craft better pickaxes out of the ore, build a tower from the bricks. A small crafting game for fans of Minecraft-style mining.
Demon Depths
Doom-inspired turn-based dungeon crawler. First-person corridors, demons that hit back, and a floor never the same twice.
Watchling - Virtual Pet
Watchling is a tamagotchi-style virtual pet that lives on your activity data: your steps feed it, Body Battery is its energy, a good night's sleep leaves it cheerful.
Bounce Break
A turn-based brick breaker for your watch: aim, fire your whole stack of balls, keep the wall off the floor.
Reel King
A fishing game for your watch. Cast, wait for the bite, then strike within a second.
Dungeon Dash - 2-Minute Roguelike
A 2-minute roguelike dungeon run on your wrist: ten rooms, one door at a time, a boss at the end.
Step Monsters: Monster Catch RPG
A monster-catching RPG for your watch: your steps power every monster catch.
Sea Strike - Naval Battle
Classic naval battle vs AI. Hide five ships on a 10 by 10 grid, then trade salvos with the watch until one fleet is gone.
Mini Cross - Daily Crossword
A daily 5x5 mini crossword for your watch. One grid, ten clues, one a day.
Quiz Ladder
A trivia quiz with a prize ladder, a minute a game. Ten rungs, 100 to 50 000 points, and the prize roughly doubles each rung.
WristHop
A one-button jump-and-run platformer for the watch, for fans of Mario-style classics. The ground scrolls left, START hops, and the rest is timing.
Hellwatch - Retro FPS
A first-person shooter on your wrist. Walk the corridors, shoot what charges you, find the way out.
TickHop - Retro Platformer
A one-button retro platformer for your wrist. Run, jump and collect coins across 12 levels.
AI Coach — Training & Recovery Advice
AI Coach turns your watch into an AI running coach: pick a question, and a large language model answers it from your own training data in a few seconds.
Monster Catching RPG
A monster-catching adventure for fans of Pokemon-style games, where your real steps hatch the eggs.
Ballz
A brick breaker where a turn is one shot, and the only thing you choose is the angle.
Cookie Clicker
Tap the cookie, buy the bakery, and let it bake while the watch is on your wrist.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Fifteen questions stand between you and a million. Answer them all, or take the money and walk.
Helix Jump
Guide a falling ball down a spinning tower of rings.
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How to install a game on your watch
- Open the game page and press the Connect IQ Store button — it opens the game in Garmin's own store.
- Press Download there. If you are signed in to your Garmin account, the game is queued for install.
- Open Garmin Connect on your phone and let it sync with the watch — the game shows up in the apps list.
Frequently asked questions
Which watches do these games run on?
Each game has its own list of models, shown on its page and taken straight from Connect IQ. As a rule it is Garmin watches with Connect IQ 3 and later: the Forerunner, fēnix, Venu, Vivoactive, Instinct and Epix families.
Do I need a phone to play?
Only to install. The game is installed through Garmin Connect on the phone; after that it runs on the watch on its own and needs no phone connection.
Are the games free?
Some are free, some are paid — the price is shown on the game page and in the Connect IQ Store. Payment and refunds are handled by Garmin.