The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games — Part 5

Moving right along.

7. The Stone of Destiny

Yep, it’s another one of those find little picture games. This one is a little easier to use, and has great pictures. To be honest, I don’t know… they’re wildly popular, and I suppose they do kill time. I’ve played this one quite a bit, and it’s fairly entertaining in short bursts.

6. Enigmo

This one is a wild bit of fun that can get truly addicting. Sort of a spin on the old Wacky Machines idea, the object is to place tools in the path of the falling water drops so that they will make their way into the collection bucket.

You see in this screenshot that you have to maneuver the water drops around to the bottom left corner. Once you get a certain number in the jug, you move on to the next level. You can place your tools, then rotate them, stretch them, and in other ways get them to hopefully conform to your needs.

It’s a simple game that gets very complicated, but it runs great, looks very sharp, and has never given me any problems. What’s really great is that any particular level will only take a couple of minutes, and there are a lot of levels. You can eat up exactly as much time as your trying to waste.

5. MotoChaser

A fairly routine racing game, just with a motorcycle. I can’t say that there is anything that absolutely recommends this one as significantly superior to CroMag Rally, I just like it better. It’s a little slicker, and actually has a progression to it. You have to move up to the next race by doing well in the previous one, rather than just picking whatever you want.

It has pretty responsive steering, and the graphics are pretty good, but not great. It’s very fun, and will give you a nice break with a little bit more to it than some of the simpler racing games, without going all the way to anything really complicated.

4. AuroraFeint

I actually don’t have any idea why I like this game so much. Puzzle games are hit or miss for me, and if they’re a hit I’m usually over them pretty quickly.

This one is a puzzle game with the suggestion of some story, and something else going on, and maybe that’s it. At the heart of things it is your standard matching game. Get three or more in a row, and the boxes blow up, and then others fall into place to take up the space left behind.

That’s only where this one starts though.

Playing the regular game is called mining, and as you mine, you collect points for getting rid of each of the elements. After you mine for a certain amount of time, you level up. This gets you the opportunity to go to the store and buy things which improve your ability to mine in various ways.

Some things will make each element worth more, so that you are collecting that element faster, and some things will cause special blocks to come into play which have different effects on the board. You might stop time, explode blocks around the ones you match, etc.

Buying these abilities isn’t all there is to it though. Once buy the option, you have to go to either the smith or the tower to activate by solving a puzzle or mining a certain number of elements in a limited time.

Things move faster in the mine as you progress, but you’ve always got all these various game modifiers at work as you go.

Another feature that makes this game different is the ability to move the playing area. If things aren’t lining up well for you at a certain point, just rotate your iPhone to the side, and all the blocks fall to that side, and then you can match them from that direction.

Completely addicting.

3. DeBlob

This is a game that is also available for the WiiWii reviews. It’s a very weird creature this game, but it’s pretty fun and a great time waster.

You are a little blob, and your job is to return color to this strange world as you progress through more difficult levels.

You will run over little balls of paint, and then you turn that color, and get a little bigger. RunRun reviews over another one, and you change colors, and get even bigger. Run over yellow then blue, and you turn green.

Collect points by adding color to objects by running into them. Run into the poor colorless residents of the world, and they will come back to life. But, watch out for the little bad guys who will suck the color out of you.

There’s a good variety of things you have to do, and it’s pretty simple, mindless fun, but it’s really entertaining.

2. Field Runners

I don’t even like that I like this game. The whole defend the castle genre has pretty well eluded me, but I can’t deny that I keep playing this game. If you aren’t familiar with the general concept, basically you build these little stations or turrets, and as bad guys try to run to the other end of the field your turrets shoot them. That’s it really. You start with 20 hearts or life, and for each bad guy who gets all the way across you lose one life. Each round is some certain type of bad guy running across, whether its jeeps or grunts or helicopters, and if you make it past level 100 you win. It starts pretty simple, as you can see, and you have the choice of machine guns, rockets, some goo that slows them down, and an electric zapper. Each of these have varying costs, and each can be upgraded to be more powerful.

After a little while it turns into this–

and that’s only round 29.

There are also three levels of difficulty.

I almost hate to admit it, because this is such a goofy concept, but I can’t get past the hardest level, and it’s driving me crazy. This is the ultimate time waster, and it is surprisingly fun.

1. Asphalt 4

Part of me really doesn’t want this to be my number one game, based purely on the popularity the thing already has, but it’s just that cool. Just a driving game, but with an unbelievable number of options and advancements, and variety. Many different cars and tracks, and too many different things going on to even mention.

You steer with your iPhone like you’d expect, but there isn’t a gas, which is very weird when you first play. It just goes. It’s all about taking turns, not hitting things so that your speed will build up, and using the nitrous for boosts.

The graphics are great, and there is so much going on that it really pushes the envelope of what can be done as a mobile game. It’s really incredible.

You’ve made it through the whole thing!

To cap this off, I’ve created a buzzbite poll which will be seen here, but also wherever buzzbite users may put it throughout the web. If you look at all the apps and games on this list there is a wide range of prices. A lot of them are free, but some of them cost a bit, and there are others out there that are even more expensive. As things progress with the technology, and even bigger and better things come out, prices will go up, assuming there turns out to be a market for it.

So, I’m curious to know how much people will spend.

Cheers, and thanks for reading.

The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games — Part 1

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