Sword and Sworcery is an adventure game with an eerie storyline, stick-figure characters, and a soundtrack I still listen to at least once a week. I love the world-building that went into this game, and its various stories have stuck with me in the years since I first played. Speaking of robots… Want to build a robot army? Save the world from WWIII? Become one with the singularity? Choice of Robots, a text-based choose-your-own adventure game offers a peek into several visions of the near future, beginning with the building of your very own intelligent robot. Tracing patterns for points is nothing new in the mobile game sphere, but Twofold puts a new spin on the style by taking away the stress of a timer, replaced instead by a finite number of lives and moves as you shift and trace your way to glory. Though Twofold was a relatively recent addition to my iPhone's home screen, it's clever enough to warrant inclusion on this list.
Whatever my reason, I highly recommend finding your own by exploring this desert wasteland.įind Desert Golfing on the App Store Twofold Maybe it's because I want to see the "evil" hole myself maybe it's because the inherent physics puzzles, for all their trickery, still nag at my brain. (They didn't: Players have made it into the 60,000s.)Īnd yet, despite its strange premise and execution, I keep coming back to Desert Golfing. And those aforementioned procedurally-generated holes? They're often exceedingly difficult - so much so that the developer himself never built a proper ending, trusting that two nigh-impossible holes in the 2000s and 3000s would stop all but the craziest players. The reality is a bit more complex: The game has no way to restart (save for deleting the entire app), no par requirements on holes, and no way to fail. The premise is simple: Knock a golf ball into a procedurally-generated hole using the same sort of physics drag-and-swipe present in the Angry Birds franchise. One stroke of meditative reflection on the golfing genre, three strokes puzzle game, and 3287 strokes of digital trolling make up Desert Golfing, a title that's both genius and endlessly frustrating. The game's minimalist styling belies the complexity and delight of its many route options like many of the other options on this list, it's provided hours of head-scratching fun - and the occasional power-trip - sometimes even while riding my town's real-life metro.įind Mini Metro on the App Store Desert Golfing
With sequel Alto's Odyssey on the horizon, now is the perfect time to hit the slopes.įind Alto's Adventure on the App Store Mini Metroĭing ding! If you've ever dreamed of redesigning your city's train lines, Mini Metro provides the perfect puzzler solution. The gorgeous backgrounds and meditative music alone catapult Alto's Adventure up the indie game ranks, but it's the game's sweet and witty premise - a herder-turned-snowboarder flies down the alps while rounding up llamas and angering local elders - combined with a great challenge system and an array of delightful unlockable characters that make it one of my favorite iOS games. Best of all, you can always find new paths to pursue, new tricks to test, and new methods for matching the game is always different, though the numbers remain the same.
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