iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

cannot stand tower defense type games

it's like yeah i know i'm wasting time playing games on my phone, but tower defense games really foreground the "busy-work" aspect of it

My problem is I like to play tiny wings with spotify playing in the background, but it is damn near impossible.

bejeweled 2 + swarm is free right now

You say that like it's a good thing.

Let's Golf 3 is pretty addictive but warning it is freemium so ymmv.

nb: I think my taste in games is pretty far removed from all y'all's

Just downloaded some new games for the weekend:

Sprinkle (water physics puzzler)
Radballs (matching game with Totally '80s theme)
Spy Mouse (99c, iPhone non-universal, from the guys who made Flight Control)
Enviro-Bear 2000 (updated for iPad)
Edge EX (never played the original; iPad update)
Aralon HD (marked down to 99c)

Aralon was too buggy to play when I tried it originally, let us know if it's fixed and I might reinstall it.

Yeah I don't know about Aralon. It's sort of sad.

Radballs is very cool. It's like Bejeweled + Lumines + DJ Hero + a dog wearing sunglasses / riding a skateboard.

had a good time playing Alchemy with my cousins the other day. done alone it might seem tedious (combining different elements to make ~300 new ones) but with five of us playing on our respective phones/pads/toouches and shouting out different combos, it was great.

thanks for the spy mouse tip polyph

All Big Fish games US$1. These games are the most awesome time-wasters and always beautifully rendered.

(mainly hidden object point & click)

I like those games, but I realized after buying like 15 of them that they release these all the damn time and if I didn't quit, I would give them all my money, bit by bit.

But if you're going to get just one, Drawn: The Painted Tower is still my favorite.

Yeah that one's great. Also I see what you mean about feeding them money like it's a god damned drip, I just impulse-bought 12 of them. For a buck I don't care, they're always worth it.

Yeah, I'll probably get a dozen or so...

Clockwork Tower is another good one, nicely designed and reasonably long. I don't remember any being as artistically impressive as Drawn though.

Hmm, can't seem to find that one.

Lost in Time: The Clockwork Tower

Wait, they've changed it to free download with full game unlock and it's not discounted, bollocks.

Wait why can't I find either of those

Oh bcz they're IPAD

Sorry. There are some iphone-only and universal Big Fish games too though.

Oh bcz they're IPAD

yeah I just had the same frustrating realization

But there are like 40 which one do I buy

Get one with loads of reviews and a high rating.

geared/geared 2 is free
gameloft/ea a bunch of others are doing 99 cent sales

so I have been playing Grand Prix Story

its just like every Kairosoft game ever and it is good but also disappointing

World of Goo (universal iOS, so ipads and iphones) is US$0.99. BUY IT

I still need to play that one. It's on my phone but I haven't started it yet.

how irritating is that to control on tiny iphone screen?

Pretty bad. I also have it on my ipad. :)

Cross Fingers is a deece sliding puzzle game, free right now.

Oregon Trail also free right now (slash fremium).

Oregon Trail is fremium? lol

Johnny will die of dysentery... unless you buy the cure for 2 Trail Bux

Scribblenauts for iOS is awesome

O_O i had no idea that made it to iOS

Getting a surprising amount of pleasure out of Settlers on iPhone.

Downside of Scribblenauts is that it is very short.

^^^^^ this

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/717612/skinvaders-is-the-creepiest-game-we-have-ever-seen/

just bought mage gauntlet. will report back but it looks great

liking mage gauntlet and temple run

Dark Meadow just like halved in price or something

Aquaria looks fucking awesome

What's that? Some aquarium monitoring shit comes up here

looks to be a fully fledged, pc tested metroidvainia that was just released in optimized for ipad format

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaria_%28video_game%29
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24420/

ooooh, also greed corp and wizardry just came out!

what +what!

Both from Touch Arcade:

"Simply put, Wizardry is just a hardcore game. Check it out on iOS, and you will find it is almost exactly like the PS3 version, with two small differences -- it's Game Center enabled, and the lovely detail of the art is more or less lost on the iPhone's tiny screen. I think the game would be much more enjoyable on the iPad if you chose to get it for a portable device, but if you had access to all options, PS3 would be the way to go. It's clear lots of attention and effort was put into the art, and it's a shame to see it all tiny and squished up on a little screen."

"Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy game that encourages players to engage in something one step shy of mutually assured destruction. You destroy the lands you harvest, and firing on your enemies crumbles away the ground beneath them.You win as long as you have at least a single unit on a single hex and your enemies don't. This brutally aggressive game first made its debut on Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network in the early months of 2010, but it's hardly aged in the time it's taken to arrive on iPad. It's also extremely well done for the most part, offering a natural touch interface and both single and multiplayer content."