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SB Recommends iOS Games
Recommended
Canabalt
gatotsu2501: Slick, quick, beautifully simple, endlessly replayable and super cool. This is the model iPhone action game.
ElectroMaster
glosolalia: I'm not sure
ElectroMaster completely works but it's a charmingly weird attempt at fusing an 80s
Taito-y arcade game style with touch controls. Apparently there's a sequel called
HungryMaster I'll have to check out.
Gears
glossolalia: A ball rolling game which I guess there's a billion of but
Gears seems like it's probably the best. I love how breakable the level design is and the touch controls are solid. It's a 3D iOS game that makes the most of being in 3D and feels right on the iPhone, and those two things are rare enough alone. I guess
Zen Bound fits that description too.
Hardlines
another god: It's a really well done
snake game. I play it whenever I feel like playing a phone game.
Jetpack Joyride
gatotsu2501: Canabalt meets Balloon Fight, only with machine gun jetpacks and Mad Max motorbike powerups and stuff, all nestled within a meta-game goal/reward structure that's addictive without being underhanded. All of which is to say that it's, y'know, pretty sweet.
Sync Ball
colour_thief: A pretty fresh and enjoyable puzzle concept. It's a pure puzzle game, by which I mean there's no time pressure or randomness. Just carefully designed levels with a great learning curve, easing you into ever cleverer puzzles. It's not flashy to look at, but it's a really classy and elegantly done. There are very few game elements even by puzzle game standards, and the levels are minimalistic single-screen affairs. It's all so simple, and yet the solutions get pretty crazy… It'll take you a while to get through all the levels.
If that sounds like fun at all, you'll probably get at least a dollar's worth of fun at any rate.
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