iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

scurvy scallawags free now

I paid for it & have played the shizzat out of it, excellent game

Spelltower is a cunt

anyone tried xcom yet? $20 ouch.

If it's as good as the console, that's a bargain.

It's apparently the same game, modulo polygons and texture resolution and some of the cutscenes. But I just PS+'d it so I won't be trying the iOS version anytime soon.

I am thinking of finally upgrading from my iPad 1 so I can buy it. It seems like a great fit for the touchscreen

anyone interested in board games would do well to check out Agricola. It's $6.99 and well worth it. I've played the real life version a few times and they did a very good job with the conversion to iOS. it's probably best on a iPad but i just have an iPhone and it still works well.

for those who haven't played Agricola irl, it's a european-style board game (decent learning curve, strategic resource gathering decisions, you're looking for the most victory points at the end, etc) that has been near the top of boardgamegeek's list of greatest games for years now. it's a lot of fun!

for people who just sort of dabble in those kinds of games but have only played settlers of catan - it's like settlers of catan but better

site note: every time i see Silby post i'm terrified that Morbs has found his way in here

huh i didnt realize they did an agricola for the ipad.

i have it at home but no one ever wants to play with me cuz its pretty demanding

I think it just came out! For those who might be new and scurred to try, I would add that it has excellent tutorials.

i was gonna whine about the $20 price tag, but eh, it's XCOM

if it were $20 on the mac i'd pick it up in a second. $50 for a copy of a game i already have on the 360 tho...

sad thing is that the PC version goes on sale <$15 all the time these days, but there's no crossplay Steam version

there's no cosplay version?

that's DLC

yeah, for some reason they didn't release it on steam on the mac.

my main concern is how xcom plays on the iphone (no ipad)

how is the computer opponent on agricola?

usagi yojimbo game went free - no idea if it's any good

Scurvy Scallywags has taken my soul! Make it stop...

Currently free:
infinity gauntlet II
where's my water
badlands
tiny wings
sword and sorcery

I went on a buying kick lately and got
ending
merchant to the stars
spiral episode 1
the nightjar
poker night 2
blockx3
zoombies
warhammer quest

the above are a mixed bag and i haven't played most of them because warhammer quest is unbelievably good after seven hours. needs a thread imo.

lol infinity gauntlet

I'm waiting for Infinity Abyss myself.

heh, i didn't even notice that; freudian nerd slip

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/8/4502810/ios-apps-and-games-go-free-five-years-after-app-store-launched

Sales from EA

Dead Space, $6.99 → Free

Dead Space for iPad, $9.99 → Free

Flight Control, 99¢ → Free

Flight Control HD, $4.99 → Free

Mirror's Edge, 99¢ → Free

Mirror's Edge for iPad, $9.99 → Free

Peggle, 99¢ → Free

Peggle HD, 99¢ → Free

The Sims Medieval,$2.99 → Free

The Sims Medieval for iPad, $4.99 → Free

I got frustrated with Warhammer Quest cuz I really wanted my grey wizard to be a pure caster dealing damage and it wasn't gonna happen. Also the way it calculates XP screws AoE casters over.

All I want is a game where my mage gradually turns into Raistlin. Since I'm not into JRPGs, I guess I should get Baldur's Gate ...

Oh and Sorcery! is amazing. Felt like I was eight, reading 1st ed D&D manuals in a wicker chair.

i love warhammer quest pretty unreservedly but i maxed out my guys fairly fast. is there a second quest after the first world?

there's DLC for $

of course there is.

just got hundreds free from a starbucks giveaway. so good.

kavinsky!!!

omg SUPER HEXAGON

it's liek tempest: the gritty reboot

Guys, get Knightmare Tower. It's great.

ffs got up early to go for a swim, saw it was drizzling, frittered away two hours building space stations in rymdkapsel.

I heard about rymdkapsel from a podcast yesterday but they didn't bother to spell out the title and I spent an irritating ten minutes trying to search for it before I gave up.

rymdkapsel is very, very good.

for those who haven't played it, it's basically a streamlined resource management game. god, that makes it sound so terrible but it's really fun! the core resources are the reactor, which you can place anywhere) and the extractors, which must be connected to certain extraction zones that are placed throughout the map. those resources enable you to build other things, like the garden and kitchen, which generate food. food enables you to add more people to your crew (or replenish your crew when they die - more on that in a sec).

what drives the game and makes it exciting and tense are the alien attack waves that you have to periodically defend against. there's a countdown bar at the bottom of the screen that lets you know how long you have until the next invasion. in order to kill the aliens, you need to build weapon defense modules (which of course cost resources). you don't need to manually shoot at the aliens; you just assign your crew to the defense module. at first, the waves are really easy to beat, but as the game continues the difficulty really ramps up and the cyclical nature of the game really comes through.

broadly, the cycle is defend > expand your base > defend. on one hand, you're expanding your base so that you can generate additional resources so you can afford to feed more people and have more people to man the defense modules against the increasingly frequent and difficult waves of enemies. on the other, you're expanding your base to try to reach the four obelisks which are spread out in the four corners of the map. when you reach the obelisk, you can assign crew to research them. researching each obelisk takes a while, but it's essential because it gives you stat boosts (you can generate resources more quickly, or make your crew move more quickly, etc.)

so there's a nice tension between macro exploration (toward the obelisks and extraction zones that are spread throughout the map, and with the added element of tetris-like shapes that need to be strategically placed to maximize efficient exploration) and micro-management of the resources.

oh yeah, one last thing - the sound is EXCELLENT. there's a nice 5-6 minute ambient/drone loop that is pretty fantastic. i had the game on pause while i made lunch and enjoyed having the song on in the background. the graphics are similarly good. clean and simple, nice looking, very functional.

they really need to make a sequel and give it a better name. i think many more people would play it.

i guess i could have just posted this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsG95sWQiXw

one drawback - it's $3.99 (i think), and you'll "beat" the game in a few hours. there are 3 main objectives (build all the modules, survive to a certain wave, and research all the obelisks within 45 minutes), and once you finish that, you've beaten the game. if you're going to feel ripped off if you quit playing it after 3-4 hours, even if those hours were very enjoyable, then you should probably avoid it.

http://toucharcade.com/2013/07/31/rymdkapsel-review/

Yeah I really like it but feels like I'm never going to get past wave 22 or so, I seem to get to a point where I can't replace dead crew members before the next wave hits. I probably just need a bigger crew before I get to that stage, plus better food processing placement.

And yep, music is fantastic.

yeah, i'm having the same problem. i still haven't beaten it yet, but i've gotten close and i assume others (mordy!) will annihilate it. during my last runthrough, i ran into strange issues with the AI. in some cases the crew was choosing to grab resources from the opposite side of the base even though there were available resources steps away. that obviously wasted a lot of time, especially when it came to replacing dead crew members. i didn't really notice that issue the first time through - hopefully it's not something that commonly occurs.

nobody else on knightmare tower? I just finished and it was great.

i plan on playing it soon, but i usually just play one game at a time, and whatever the name of the game i'm playing is seemed more appealing on first glance.

i'm one of those losers who waits for a price drop. burrito bison was great tho.

currently playing Towelfight 2 which is a goofy dual-stick rpg-thing. I usually don't like dual-sticks but this one is goofy enough with enough weird weapons to keep my attention. They just released Quadroupus too, which is a rougelike arpg with some of the same gameplay feel.

I need a recommendation for something two player and questy/rpgish/fantasy but not hardcore resource mang and not mmorpg. Two player in the sense of passing the same phone back and forth would even be fine. Basically my wife and I are d&d nerds and I want something we can play together on one or both of our phones.

knights of pen and paper is great fun but its really just a one-player game. i could imagine divvying up party members and passing back and forth between their turns. but i don't think it would work particularly well :-(

xp how about some of the board game ports? my wife + i play small world on her ipad and it's a lot of fun.

My favorite RPGish game for the iPhone is still Dungeon Raid or maybe King Cashing, but that's not what you're looking for. Stuff like Warhammer Quest or Knights of the Old Republic are great but maybe a little more complicated than you're looking for. Mage Gauntlet was a fun NES/SNES style RPG. Or maybe Slayin'? Or Pocket RPG?