![]() ![]() This time, though, it's more structured: you work through 85 levels with different challenges to complete, comparing scores with Facebook friends. Its follow-up, TwoDots, sees you tracing more lines of same-coloured dots. Photograph: PR TwoDots (Free + IAP)īetaworks' original Dots game remains one of the most simple-yet-addictive mobile puzzle games of recent times. Your job is to loot galactic booty (so to speak) in your spaceship, crafting weapons and upgrades to keep your fleet in shape, and plotting your space-battle strategy. ![]() ![]() Pirates in space is a theme that's been tapped by numerous games and TV shows in the past, with PlunderNauts an impressive update of the idea. You have to save your spaceship from disaster, repeatedly. It’s a super-addictive yet deeply challenging game of resource management, based on a popular PC game – complete with its expansion edition. Space-strategy game FTL is one of the deeper iOS gaming experience to be released in 2014. iPhone / iPad FTL: Faster Than Light (£6.99) It gets you to guide a colourful collection of characters to freedom using a glowing staff: a neon-infused delight. Kiwanuka sat alongside Monument Valley as a lovely puzzler for iOS this year, although the gameplay takes its cues from different sources: Lemmings, for example. The extra "Hard-core" mode once you finish the game is worth persisting for too. Spread across 24 varied levels, it doesn't outstay its welcome as you navigate fuzzy ball Leo through the game to recover his lost gold. This is lovely: a platform game with puzzles that's one of the most well-crafted iOS games released this year. But once you're sucked in, it's nearly impossible to put down. It sounds simple: swipe number tiles to make matches, adding 1s and 2s together to make 3s, then adding those. However, only Threes! could rival it this year for just-one-more-go addiction. iPad Threes! (£0.69)įlappy Bird isn't available any more, so I've left it out of this roundup. You bounce your way through a platform game as a rectangle named Thomas, but with a proper story behind the action. Thomas Was Alone is one of the most buzzed-about indie games this year – and before that, in its browser, PC and PS3 / PS Vita incarnations. Like those, this is a freemium game: you have to build an island base and invade those of other players, with a military theme and plenty of potential for strategic planning. iPhone / iPad Boom Beach (Free + IAP)īoom Beach is the third game from Supercell, the developer that has enjoyed huge success with its Clash of Clans and Hay Day games. It's a little bit Minecraft, in the way you craft buildings from raw materials, with elements of city-building and resource management games added on as you build a space-base, complete Earthling-rescuing missions and play and chat with friends online. Supernauts was the first game from hotly-tipped Finnish publisher Grand Cru. Escher, it’s a collection of impossible-architecture puzzles, which you twist to explore. Monument Valley really is beautiful though, almost as much an artwork as it is a game. The word “beautiful” is hugely overused in connection with apps: usually it means “has nice menus”. It's accessible, but a very deep rabbit-hole to go down once you get into its intricacies. It's a card-battling game where you build a deck of characters and spells, then lay waste (in theory) to other players around the world. This official spin-off from World of Warcraft started on desktop and crossed to iPad, where it appears to have found its perfect medium. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Free + IAP) One final note: if Android's more your bag, read the separate 40 best Android games of 2014 (so far) feature. Although please, before posting "Why have you left Game X out?" check that Game X didn't come out before 2014. Do contribute your own recommendations for games that should have been included (or left out) in the comments section. IAP means a game includes in-app purchases of some kind: from virtual items and currency being sold through to single-purchase unlocks for full games. Prices are correct at the time of writing (9 July) but bear in mind they may have changed if you're reading it even a few days later. With July already underway, it's time for a recap of some of the best iOS games to have been released in the first half of the year. Every week, The Guardian's Best iOS Apps column tracks new releases on the App Store, including games. ![]()
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