iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

Fairway Solitaire is hella addictive.

^ otm

also, if youre into MAME, grab the game Gridlee before apple yanks it: it has a fully functional MAME system hidden away

I got an ipad last week.. anything essential I should know about? I have swords and sorcery and thats about it..

If you are a nerd, Prompt is essential for remote shells to your servers.

Oh this is the games thread.

lots of essentials! i loaded up my phone based on last years coint and plick among other things.

if you don't mind a bit of gore, the walking dead is the best game I've played on the ipad (and I'm not even a fan of the comic/series tbh)

infinity blade is another that takes advantage of the real estate

I don't care about zombies, don't mind gore but don't seek it out, have never seen the comic or the tv show & can't imagine that I ever will

for a jerk like me, then, what's so good about the walking dead game?

(I want to be sold on it!)

very well written, consequences feel significant + permanent

ok, recycling this tl;dr from one of my posts on the dedicated WD thread, but suffice it to say it is the most moving video game I've ever played:

not a fan of the show at all but fell in love with this game. rented it for xbox on a whim, expected some FPS zombie hunt cheap jollies. then when this point-and-click style adventure game started up I was like wtf? but the characters and story and ethical choices became really engaging. having a limited amount of time to choose how your character will respond verbally causes the thrills to come from decision-making rather than from battle. first person heated argument! the conflicting loyalties, moral dilemmas, self-worth issues, caretaking focus, and self-preservation cruxes are emotionally involving. good uses of ambient quiet moments, and real suspense.

got halfway through eps 2, then bought the rest of the series for the ipad. it's the best ipad video game I've played. since the controls are so limited the gameplay actually works better on a tablet. you don't have to scan the environment looking for objects - they're highlighted whether you're looking at them or not, which is good since half of them are usually garbage ("hmm what an interesting EMPTY BOX"). the puzzle-solving stuff was the most frustrating aspect on xbox, I scanned every inch of that goddamned drugstore twice before noticing the brick laying just outside the gate.

oops shoulda deleted that spoiler in the middle para

sorry dudes

also you can play the first eps for free (there are 5) so if you dl it and play it and can then restrain yrself from buying the rest I dare ya

I just played half-life 2 for the first time yesterday, and after hearing for years how great the plot on that is, it was like playing space invaders compared to the walking dead

going to be a lot of great recs in the new coint and plick results too. but my essential games right now would be Punch Quest, Subway Surfers, 1000000, any one kairosoft game, jetpack joyride, eyelord, wargames, tiny wings. lots of people rep for ticket to ride, and monsters ate my condo too, even though i don't really tend to play them. for deeper gameplay, waking mars is awesome.

this list is way tilted to 5 minute puzzler/matcher/runner stuff though. for ipad you can also get remakes of lots of videogame classics, plus things like all the gtas. depends what you're into.

new star soccer
stickman golf
king cashing

Drop 7
Dungeon Raid
SpellTower
Yaniv
Trainyard

¡ASSAF!

Rayman Run is pretty great too, kicking myself for forgetting to include it in my C&P list.

momonga pinball is really good, btw.

jet set radio is like 99c at the moment -- just grabbed it.

Is it playable at all on iPhone? I LOVED that on my Dreamcast.

it's touchscreen-fiddly but not terrible

mutherfuck I am playing a lot of Cook, Serve, Delicious! why because it is fun to make food. cut the fish! grill the steak! pound the chicken! lol. nachos! & you can get improvements to your restaurant! it is fun fun fun

Seems apple have let a game into the App Store which I guess is essentially malware, it's sending out game centre challenges without user permission and propagating itself that way. So if you're on my friend list and get a request from something called Hold 50 Sec then a) sorry and b) ignore it.

Ha that woke me up last night! All sound alerts now disabled.

^^^i got one from you!

fucking hell, cook serve delicious is stupid addictive
i know the 5 buck price is gonna make people scared off but it's basically touch screen cooking mama with heavy RPG elements based on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wF2RQaBMGs

Here. Are any peeps on that Simpsons thing?

I'm hygilx on that Origin thing.

Thanks thread for New Star Soccer. Missed two subways stops in the past week thanks to this.

Also I'm sofatruck in the Simpsons thing.

almost have a five star restaurant in Cook, Serve, Delicious!

pro tip: level up your wine as fast as you can, because it pays the truly big bucks

Err, meant the coint and plick thread.

polyphonique in the simpsons timewaster

Have contacted you both for BFF adventures.

Lords of Midnight on sale now, Speccy types
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-lords-of-midnight/id583644181?mt=8

Infinity Blade is free right now, it seems, for anyone who somehow has 624MB free on their phones!

btw, the new iOS 5/6 formatting of the app store is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally stupid. somehow they decided it was a good idea to make the icons 3x as large, and truncate all the text to 8 characters. let's see what the top selling games are today!

1. Clear Visi... 2. WhatsApp... 3. Minecraft ... 4. Angry Bird... 5. Haze 6. Fionna Fig... 7. Fruit Ninja 8. Need for S... 9. Arms Cart... 10. Clear Visi... 11. The Ama...

Infinity Blade is free right now, it seems, for anyone who somehow has 624MB free on their phones!

Sorry, I meant "Infinity Bla..."

top grossing:

1. Clash of C...

3. Candy Cru...

good lord where is kenneth williams

Totally addicted to Beastie Bay this past week.

This looks like it's going to suck, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEuxR7ICcs

man i love usagi but i don't need him in a hack n slash game
at least the art is reasonably true to sakai

The art made me watch the trailer twice. Gameplay looks asstastic.

Spooky 2D/3D adventure game Year Walk, based on Swedish folklore, came out this week. I'm liking the Contre Jour aesthetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbaZFBHd_qg

Oops. Wrong trailer. Not many games come out with a free companion app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch&v=tBRinjOlugk

Wasteland Kings looks good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBveo6Zni10

is wasteland kings an iphone game? i couldn't seem to find it.

wow, made in 3 days for the Humble Bundle Mojam this year

Another one from the same developer, Ridiculous Fishing, is awaiting Apple approval.

seems to have a top-down Cave Story feel