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Recent iOS fun
Nov. 4th, 2013 10:25 amFour freebies:
1. Ninjump Rooftops is free-to-play (but perfectly fine to play for free), and is yet another fun endless game. You play the same ninja from Ninjump, but this time you're running across a series of rooftops. It's basically a one-button platformer (think Canabalt or Robot Unicorn Attack), and worth downloading if you get the chance (Backflip Studios has a bunch of solid freegames in their catalog, including Army of Darkness Defense, Ragdoll Blaster, and Paper Toss).
2. Robbery Bob. A freebie from Chillingo (which has a habit of dropping their games to free after a while), this is a cute and fun stealth puzzle game. You play a crook who needs to sneak into house and avoid being seen.
3. Rita's Pearls. A cute puzzler from the same folks who made Move the Box, with the paid content built around providing hints. In this one, you have a bunch of bubbles filled with pearls, and when one reaches four, it pops, sending pearls in each cardinal direction. You need to figure out the right move to set off a chain reaction to pop all the bubbles.
4. Paint it Black. This is semi-free, or the old-school '90s shareware model (think Doom), with the first three "rooms" free, and the rest behind a paywall. It's well worth the three bucks for me. It's a picross/nonagram game (which I learned as "Paint by Numbers," thanks to Games magazine), with a fun sense of humor and a good interface. I always prefer these puzzles electronically, as I tend to make stupid mistakes a lot, and those are easier to fix electronically. Of the five games here, this is the one I've easily sunk the most time into.
And one paid:
5. Shifts. I got this one a few months ago when it was on sale for $.99, but it's totally worth the "full" price of $1.99 (y'all have seen the Oatmeal comic about iOS apps, right?). It's basically a single-player strategy boardgame, in which you do your best to manage a group of astronauts as they encounter assorted space crises and try to explore and colonize new planets. Each game tends to run twenty minutes or so, so it's a great game if you have a bus or train commute. I think this is iPad-only.
1. Ninjump Rooftops is free-to-play (but perfectly fine to play for free), and is yet another fun endless game. You play the same ninja from Ninjump, but this time you're running across a series of rooftops. It's basically a one-button platformer (think Canabalt or Robot Unicorn Attack), and worth downloading if you get the chance (Backflip Studios has a bunch of solid freegames in their catalog, including Army of Darkness Defense, Ragdoll Blaster, and Paper Toss).
2. Robbery Bob. A freebie from Chillingo (which has a habit of dropping their games to free after a while), this is a cute and fun stealth puzzle game. You play a crook who needs to sneak into house and avoid being seen.
3. Rita's Pearls. A cute puzzler from the same folks who made Move the Box, with the paid content built around providing hints. In this one, you have a bunch of bubbles filled with pearls, and when one reaches four, it pops, sending pearls in each cardinal direction. You need to figure out the right move to set off a chain reaction to pop all the bubbles.
4. Paint it Black. This is semi-free, or the old-school '90s shareware model (think Doom), with the first three "rooms" free, and the rest behind a paywall. It's well worth the three bucks for me. It's a picross/nonagram game (which I learned as "Paint by Numbers," thanks to Games magazine), with a fun sense of humor and a good interface. I always prefer these puzzles electronically, as I tend to make stupid mistakes a lot, and those are easier to fix electronically. Of the five games here, this is the one I've easily sunk the most time into.
And one paid:
5. Shifts. I got this one a few months ago when it was on sale for $.99, but it's totally worth the "full" price of $1.99 (y'all have seen the Oatmeal comic about iOS apps, right?). It's basically a single-player strategy boardgame, in which you do your best to manage a group of astronauts as they encounter assorted space crises and try to explore and colonize new planets. Each game tends to run twenty minutes or so, so it's a great game if you have a bus or train commute. I think this is iPad-only.