Best iPhone Apps
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Review: Mash-Up Of Old-School Ideas And Modern App Sensibilities
| App Name: | Steve Jackson's Sorcery! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | RPG, Books |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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Long, long ago, before we had smartphones or apps or even 8-bit gaming consoles, game designer Steve Jackson released Fighting Fantasy, a series of single-player paper RPGs that played something like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with more rules. Now, developer Inkle has taken the first of these books and converted it into [...]
Mailbox Review: Clever, Intuitive Mail App That’s Great If You Only Use Gmail
When the Mailbox app hit the App Store earlier this Spring, the tech blogs exploded with joy. Here was mail done cleanly, intuitively, sleekly, better. Of course, there was the two-week wait initially to actually use the app, as the Mailbox team only slowly rolled out their server load. That situation has changed recently. Mailbox team [...]
Fish Out of Water! Review: Five Stars! A Pleasant Distraction with Endless Replay Appeal
| App Name: | Fish Out Of Water! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | action |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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If we had to think of some titles that have stood the test of time and become synonymous with iPhone gaming, chances are Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride would make the list. And what do these titles have in common? They were made by Halfbrick Studios—the same developers behind Fish Out Of Water!… In their [...]
Slayin’ Review: Combines Retro and RPG Into a Great Game
| App Name: | Slayin' |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Retro |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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Like retro? Like RPGs? Like simple, challenging games that tempt you into “one more try”? Then you’ve got to try Slayin’, the retro monster killing game from developer Pixel Licker and FDG that hits all the right notes. Slayin’ is a relatively simple game. You begin each game as a hero — Knight to begin [...]
Block Fortress Review: Goblins Must Die!
| App Name: | Block Fortress |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Tower Defense |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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As Minecraft PE has grown in popularity, the App Store has become home to a number of rip-offs and riffs on the sandbox survival game, each one trying to appeal to the Crafting crowd. Many of these are duds, but Block Fortress from Foursaken manages to tap the Minecraft genre and skillfully blend it with [...]
Badland Review: One-Button Physics Action Perfect for the Artistically Inclined
| App Name: | Badland |
| Platforms: | iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | physics |
| Price: | $3.99 |
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If you’re an iOS developer who’s about to release something that’s already been done in the App Store, you better hope your product at least looks better than the competition… In the case of Badland from Frogmind, the previous statement very much applies. Badland is a one-button physics game that feels part Tiny Wings and [...]
Nimble Quest Review: RPG-Based Snake Game Impresses
As I’ve done in the past with Massively Portable, sometimes I step back from MMORPGs themselves and look at the broader range of MMOs, RPGs, and games that would appeal to fans of those genres. This is one of those weeks, because I happened to try Nimble Quest, the new freemium game from creator NimbleBits, [...]
Year Walk Review: Eerie Puzzle Game Challenges and Frustrates
| App Name: | Year Walk |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Adventure, Puzzle |
| Price: | $3.99 |
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With the glut of Temple Run clones, Angry Birds clones, retro game ports, and obnoxious freemium titles in the App Store, it’s always a pleasure to discover something out of the ordinary. One such game is Year Walk, the spooky, sometimes frustrating adventure game from Simogo. Like most of you, the concept of the “Year [...]
Ridiculous Fishing Review: Yeah, You’re Gonna Get Hooked
Sometimes, an iPhone game enters your life at just the right time, and there’s little you can do to keep from giving it every spare moment you’ve got until you reach the credits at the end. A couple things came together to make Ridiculous Fishing just that kind of game for me. First, I picked [...]
Sonic Dash Review: The Hedgehog Is Right At Home In Endless Runner
| App Name: | Sonic Dash |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Endless RUnner |
| Price: | $1.99 |
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Sega’s development studio Hardlight, which did an impressively solid job on last year’s Sonic Jump, has once again turned Sega’s most successful franchise character into a popular mobile genre game. This time it’s Sonic Dash, a speedy, ring-infused take on Temple Run. Like Jump before it, Sonic Dash is a solid and playable effort that [...]
