Missed Out On Flappy Bird? See Our Games Review & Get Addicted!
Yes, our iDevices are super awesome for organization, education, sophistication, communication and blah blah blah. This post is purely concerned with entertainment. Games, to be precise.
You may have heard the recent furore over the Games App ‘Flappy Bird’ being taken down from the App store by the creator.
The fact that the dude has since gotten death threats and iPhones with Flappy bird installed are supposedly selling on eBay for MEGA big bucks is testament to how seriously people take their iOS gaming!
And so do we. Here are our votes for the best games currently available on iOS and why you should go ahead and download them. What are you, like working today? Pfft. That’s right, PFFFT. Download these games and start playing, that’s an order!
Cover Orange
One word: Addictive. Essentially a puzzle game with super cute graphics and light bouncy music. The goal is to move different objects in different ways in order to cover one or more poor little orange dudes from the evil rainstorm that kills them. Kinda like fun physics. Kinda.
Simple to start, with an impressive number of levels – 400- that gradually gets more and more challenging. Incredibly frustrating when you just can’t work it out, there is also Cover Orange 2 available.
Mushroom Wars
This is an iPhone Antidote personal favorite. Just be warned, this might just take over your life- and that of your significant other. This beautifully animated game offers duel functionality, allowing multi level play against the computer and online multiplayer games.
You might find yourself yelling at the screen and saying how grossly unfair and stupid the game and everyone you’re playing against is but don’t worry- you’ll be back. Because it’s a really good game. It’s just that it can be really hard, and stuff, ya know?
You can play against the computer ad free as much as you like. For the multiplayer option, you get 5 free games that deplete as you play and lose. One game is replaced every hour and you can keep playing as long as you keep winning! If you do that, you move up the ladder. Just a warning, that ladder is hard, man.
Dumb Ways to Die
This game is actually born from an Australian public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, to promote rail safety. Which is weird, and cool and all, but it’s also really fun. Try to beat our top score of 3200!
The aim of the game is to avoid the dangerous activities that the funny looking cartoon dudes get themselves into throughout the campaign. You get three lives, which you use to do such heroic things as saving a dude from getting run over by a train, putting mustard on a bun so you can feed it to a snake so it wont eat you, flicking pirahnas away from a dude’s privates as seen above and other such delightful activities!
The longer you manage to stay alive the quicker each play gets until it’s all rather frantic. It is free and it includes the capability to tweet your death! Sweet!
Can You Escape
An interesting and perhaps momentarily captivating puzzle game where you must collect and use multiple tools clues to find objects which in turn lets you open locked cabinets and drawers within the room. The objective is to get out of the room and into the elevator, so you can enter and figure out the next room.
Extremely frustrating in a good way, it’s the type of game where you find yourself jabbing furiously at the screen. I KNOW these stupid keys go HERE! Until you realize that they don’t, actually go there, and you’re a moron.
Free from the App Store, but you can pay $0.99 for walkthroughs. (Loser!)
Sprinkle
This game was the winner of Best Casual Game in the 2012 International Mobile Gaming Awards so you know it’s gotta be good.
Hella cute graphics, and level based gameplay where the aim of the game is to aim your water gun correctly to put out fires before it gets to your little blue guy!
You get points for how much time and water it takes you to put the water out. Level up, more fires, more rocks to help or hinder the direction of the water, and more ways to move your giant water gun.
If you run out of water, everyone gets sad, or if you don’t get to a house in time before it burns down. Obviously. The game starts off super simple but it gets harder and more addictive as it goes along. You get affectionate with the little guys too.
Sprinkle has 46 levels, 22 of them are available from the start, and you can unlock the remaining 24 levels by scoring 5 Drops (stars) on the first 22 levels, or unlock them with an In App Purchase (this unlocks all previous levels as well).
Sprinkle Free available or for the full game , be ready to pay $1.99 in the App Store.
Robot Unicorn Attack 2
This game is by the classy guys over at Adult Swim, as are a few others in this collection. We might like them really a lot. They make well animated, fun, great looking games, usually with a dark edged twist.
Robot Unicorn Attack 1 was awesome. Yes sir, yes it was. Robot Unicorn 2 is… more awesome. That’s it, folks. It’s just as good, except better. A continuous running game, except you’re a Robot Unicorn. Obviously. Jumping through rainbow hoops, piercing rocks with your super awesome horn, and try to get as far along as you can while also trying to achieve the bonus level goals.
Super Monsters Stole My Condo
Another Adult Swim gold nugget!
Twisted and pretty, with overpowering graphics that are almost too much to take in, this game is pretty good if you can handle it. You have to match colors of precariously stacked condos to clear them and gain power-ups. Also? Angry monsters surround your condos and try to topple them, unless you feed them the matching color buildings, or clear three of that color.
Super Monsters Ate My Condo is actually a free sequel to Monsters Ate My Condo. It adds a time limit for games and boosts that can be activated with in-game currency. This game is highly addictive. Silly Condo eating monsters.
Subway Surfers
Another continuous runner game. This time, you’re running through a subway, away from a station guard/inspector, dodging trains, jumping, ducking, and moving left to right. Controls are easy, design is pleasant and colorful and the music is pretty catchy.
Throughout the game you can collect coins and earn or purchase game extras and boosts to help you achieve the goals presented to you by the game as well as trying to get as far as you can with as many points. Works best on the iPad, with many different versions out there.
Quiz Up
See our review here for this super addictive general knowledge game. Free from the App Store.
Major Mayhem
Go to the tropics, stop the dogs of war and save the world from mayhem! Great graphics. Easy to follow instructions. Great music, takes you inside the action.
You are given different missions to accomplish for each level. Your guy runs, then there’s ninjas which you have to shoot by tapping on the screen. You also have people you have to rescue- i.e, don’t shoot. With each mission more controls are slowly introduced, making it more and more difficult.
You get awarded with medals when you safely finish the level ‘mission’ and you get mayhem points.
Clayjam
ClayJam is another personal favorite.Beautiful claymation art bringing gameplay alive like few others can. And the game itself is fun, and addictive. Across a number of levels, you complete challenges using your one little clay ball. Collect clay through a variety of measures, rolling over a variety of awesomely unique objects and characters.
You are up against a red sea of clay follwing you at a quick pace, and objects much bigger than you that you bounce off and lose clay. The clay you have collected by the end you can keep to create further characters and unlock other worlds. Missions help with the addictiveness!
Very honorable mentions: Tiny Wings ( $0.99 from the App Store) & Sonic Dash ( free). Also- An iPhone Antidote Associate swears by the Simpsons Game ( Free from the App Store) . Give it a try.
Play on, kids.
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Tags: Apps, Clay Jam, Flappy Bird, Games, iOS games, iPhone, Mushroom Wars
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February 21, 2014 6:31 pm | 
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