Frog Tale is an upcoming metroidvania about a frog curse that'll have us hopping around a royal castle.
It's played by tapping either side of the touchscreen to hop left and right respectively. That's all you need to dodge hazards and wall-jump up the narrow passages of this stone-slab palace.
As you explore, you'll collect items that give the frog new abilities that let you find new entrywa...
Today's free game is the really rather superb Jupiter Jump. It's a brilliant one-touch arcade game that came out earlier in the year, and it has one of the finest compulsion loops mobile gaming has ever seen.
The game is all about bouncing along an alien landscape, avoiding mines, and darting through gates. It's fun in all the right ways and if you haven't given it a try yet you really, rea...
Peggle Blast is out right now on the App Store and Google Play Store. It's Peggle, but free to play. Freggle. EA should have called it that.
The game plays a lot like regular Peggle (or Reggle), and sees you firing balls around levels, trying to destroy pegs and blocks and score points.
There are power-ups to buy and levels with different victory conditions. And quite often things go a b...
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is a great game. The iOS version of it is not. It's an average game that's hamstrung by a lack of concessions to the touchscreen control system.
Everything is just a bit too fiddly, a bit too cumbersome, and it leads to frustrating issues all across the board.
There's a brilliant game underneath it all, one that's brimming with great ideas and real heart, but it ca...
Love You to Bits is the spiritual successor to Tiny Thief. It's being developed by ex-members of Tiny Thief dev 5ants, and it's set in space.
You play a tiny explorer who's trying to find the broken parts of his robot girlfriend. Cue pointing, clicking, and plenty of adventuring.
It looks absolutely gorgeous, as you can tell from the video all the way back up at the top of the page. All ...
Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy is deeply beloved in its native Japan, but it's only ever achieved cult success here in the West.
I still remember playing and loving Astro Boy: Omega Factor for my Game Boy Advance a decade ago, an imaginative action game that successfully captured that niche appeal.
Sadly, Astro Boy Flight reflects the rather more recent, cynical exploitation of the brand seen in l...
Grid Rush doesn't pull its punches. Nor does it tell you how you're supposed to play it. You either need to read the App Store description or figure it out for yourself.
A grid of endlessly changing letters pops up, along with a word that you need to spell. You've then got a brief amount of time to tap out the letters in the right order.
Tap an incorrect letter and it disappears. If you don'...
Buffstone has today launched the sequel to its hit monster collecting game, MonTowers, for iOS and Android devices.
MonTowers2 features more of the same monster collecting fun of the original. You'll be facing off against opposing monsters on each floor of a series of towers. The difficulty quickly ramps up with each new tower you enter, however, and all monsters must be defeated before mov...
Ken Follet's best-selling novel, and award-nominated TV series, The Pillars of the Earth is becoming an adventure game.
It's Daedalic Entertainment, the German adventure game studio behind Edna Harvey and the Deponia series, that is developing it.
It's said to be a multimedia experience, which may be referring to the fact that Follet is working on another novel, or something else.
Th...
Right now we're not just looking back at the last month, we're looking back at the last year.
Sure, there have been some disappointments. And some promising games have slipped into 2015. But gosh, these last 11 months have supplied us with some incredible experiences.
And it's more than likely that some of the games below - which come from our reviews of iOS games released in November - will...
Team17 has updated the Silver Award-winning Worms 3 so that you can feel festive while blowing up tough-talking cartoon earthworms.
Rather than mines, there are now Christmas puddings that I presume also explode. Instead of weapon crates you arm your team from gift-wrapped presents.
Santa will also ride over the battlefield to deliver any strike-based attacks from the comfort of his bell...
Star Troll has an arcade heart. It's a one-try, one-finger shooter that sees you weaving through retro obstacles in an open top spaceship.
But that heart is decidedly cruel, and for your first few tries you won't even make it to the boss that punctuates the end of each level.
And for some that's going to be a massive put-off. But if you're willing to put in the practice, there's a reasonably...
Aviary Attorney is a bird lawyering game, by which I mean, it's about a falcon who is a defence attorney. You could say it's a mix of Phoenix Wright and Hatoful Boyfriend.
As Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, it's your job to gather evidence and present a defence case in court.
Your client is Lady Caterline Demiaou, a bourgeoisie kitten who claims to have been framed for murder while at a political b...
Brrr. It's cold and wintry, and also the 1st of December. That means Christmas is not far away now. And to acknowledge that, Rovio has updated Angry Birds Seasons with new butt-freezing levels.
It's called the "On Finn Ice" update as it takes place in Finland, which as we all know, is where Santa Claus resides. Yes, Lapland is in Finland, if you didn't know.
Anyway, there are 25 new levels, ...
It's not often that an endless runner can make you smile from the get-go. But that's exactly what oh my giraffe does.
It's a simple game about extending a giraffe's neck to eat fruits while avoiding the attentions of the big cats that prowl around the pixel art savannah.
And it's about as delightful as it sounds. It may be a little shallow for some, but there's a fun, compulsive high score-c...
It's December! The year is on its last legs, it can feel the cold in its bones, and it's had a cough that it hasn't been able to shake since October! And all of that can only mean one thing.
That's right, it's time for the Pocket Gamer Advent Calendar. Every day between now and Christmas we're going to highlight a free game that you definitely should download.
It might be that the game's on ...
Updated on December 1st 2014, at 09:50: It's Cyber Monday! Another made up holiday that forces you to constantly refresh websites to see if anything worthwhile is going cheap.
The Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales are mostly still going strong, so we'll just keep adding to this list and telling you what's best to spend your hard earned iTunes gift cards on.
Original article follows...
...
Late last week, we headed to the Basque Country in Northern Spain to check out Bilbao's hoPlay gaming festival and hold our latest Big Indie Pitch.
As ever, this is a chance for developers to show their games to a cadre of games journalists. The catch is that they've only got three minutes to sell us on their game before they're whisked off to the next table.
The quality of these games was o...
King's sequel to the ever-popular Candy Crush Saga was unleashed upon the world this week, with the developer pushing its new Soda Saga promotion video to 100 million people in seven countries on its launch day. Intrusitve, costly, but no doubt effective.
Elsewhere, UA platform NativeX put Santa Claus to shame by launching a brand new promotion, with the Minnesota-based mobile advertising outfi...
Playcrab have today launched the exciting new action-RPG, Dynasty of Dungeons. The game is a little bit more hardcore than your average mobile dungeon runner, so for that reason we've come up with a list of seven tips to help get you started on your boss-stomping adventure.
Pick a strategy and train your demons with it in mind
Training your Overlord is relatively expensive, so it's wise to p...
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Frog Tale is an upcoming metroidvania about a frog curse that'll have us hopping around a royal castle.
It's played by tapping either side of the touchscreen to hop left and right respectively. That's all you need to dodge hazards and wall-jump up the narrow passages of this stone-slab palace.
As you explore, you'll collect items that give the frog new abilities that let you find new entrywa...
Today's free game is the really rather superb Jupiter Jump. It's a brilliant one-touch arcade game that came out earlier in the year, and it has one of the finest compulsion loops mobile gaming has ever seen.
The game is all about bouncing along an alien landscape, avoiding mines, and darting through gates. It's fun in all the right ways and if you haven't given it a try yet you really, rea...
Peggle Blast is out right now on the App Store and Google Play Store. It's Peggle, but free to play. Freggle. EA should have called it that.
The game plays a lot like regular Peggle (or Reggle), and sees you firing balls around levels, trying to destroy pegs and blocks and score points.
There are power-ups to buy and levels with different victory conditions. And quite often things go a b...
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is a great game. The iOS version of it is not. It's an average game that's hamstrung by a lack of concessions to the touchscreen control system.
Everything is just a bit too fiddly, a bit too cumbersome, and it leads to frustrating issues all across the board.
There's a brilliant game underneath it all, one that's brimming with great ideas and real heart, but it ca...
Love You to Bits is the spiritual successor to Tiny Thief. It's being developed by ex-members of Tiny Thief dev 5ants, and it's set in space.
You play a tiny explorer who's trying to find the broken parts of his robot girlfriend. Cue pointing, clicking, and plenty of adventuring.
It looks absolutely gorgeous, as you can tell from the video all the way back up at the top of the page. All ...
Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy is deeply beloved in its native Japan, but it's only ever achieved cult success here in the West.
I still remember playing and loving Astro Boy: Omega Factor for my Game Boy Advance a decade ago, an imaginative action game that successfully captured that niche appeal.
Sadly, Astro Boy Flight reflects the rather more recent, cynical exploitation of the brand seen in l...
Grid Rush doesn't pull its punches. Nor does it tell you how you're supposed to play it. You either need to read the App Store description or figure it out for yourself.
A grid of endlessly changing letters pops up, along with a word that you need to spell. You've then got a brief amount of time to tap out the letters in the right order.
Tap an incorrect letter and it disappears. If you don'...
Buffstone has today launched the sequel to its hit monster collecting game, MonTowers, for iOS and Android devices.
MonTowers2 features more of the same monster collecting fun of the original. You'll be facing off against opposing monsters on each floor of a series of towers. The difficulty quickly ramps up with each new tower you enter, however, and all monsters must be defeated before mov...
Ken Follet's best-selling novel, and award-nominated TV series, The Pillars of the Earth is becoming an adventure game.
It's Daedalic Entertainment, the German adventure game studio behind Edna Harvey and the Deponia series, that is developing it.
It's said to be a multimedia experience, which may be referring to the fact that Follet is working on another novel, or something else.
Th...
Right now we're not just looking back at the last month, we're looking back at the last year.
Sure, there have been some disappointments. And some promising games have slipped into 2015. But gosh, these last 11 months have supplied us with some incredible experiences.
And it's more than likely that some of the games below - which come from our reviews of iOS games released in November - will...
Team17 has updated the Silver Award-winning Worms 3 so that you can feel festive while blowing up tough-talking cartoon earthworms.
Rather than mines, there are now Christmas puddings that I presume also explode. Instead of weapon crates you arm your team from gift-wrapped presents.
Santa will also ride over the battlefield to deliver any strike-based attacks from the comfort of his bell...
Star Troll has an arcade heart. It's a one-try, one-finger shooter that sees you weaving through retro obstacles in an open top spaceship.
But that heart is decidedly cruel, and for your first few tries you won't even make it to the boss that punctuates the end of each level.
And for some that's going to be a massive put-off. But if you're willing to put in the practice, there's a reasonably...
Aviary Attorney is a bird lawyering game, by which I mean, it's about a falcon who is a defence attorney. You could say it's a mix of Phoenix Wright and Hatoful Boyfriend.
As Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, it's your job to gather evidence and present a defence case in court.
Your client is Lady Caterline Demiaou, a bourgeoisie kitten who claims to have been framed for murder while at a political b...
Brrr. It's cold and wintry, and also the 1st of December. That means Christmas is not far away now. And to acknowledge that, Rovio has updated Angry Birds Seasons with new butt-freezing levels.
It's called the "On Finn Ice" update as it takes place in Finland, which as we all know, is where Santa Claus resides. Yes, Lapland is in Finland, if you didn't know.
Anyway, there are 25 new levels, ...
It's not often that an endless runner can make you smile from the get-go. But that's exactly what oh my giraffe does.
It's a simple game about extending a giraffe's neck to eat fruits while avoiding the attentions of the big cats that prowl around the pixel art savannah.
And it's about as delightful as it sounds. It may be a little shallow for some, but there's a fun, compulsive high score-c...
It's December! The year is on its last legs, it can feel the cold in its bones, and it's had a cough that it hasn't been able to shake since October! And all of that can only mean one thing.
That's right, it's time for the Pocket Gamer Advent Calendar. Every day between now and Christmas we're going to highlight a free game that you definitely should download.
It might be that the game's on ...![[Update] The very best iPad and iPhone games on sale this Cyber Monday](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-qozshd_the-banner-saga-11_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on December 1st 2014, at 09:50: It's Cyber Monday! Another made up holiday that forces you to constantly refresh websites to see if anything worthwhile is going cheap.
The Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales are mostly still going strong, so we'll just keep adding to this list and telling you what's best to spend your hard earned iTunes gift cards on.
Original article follows...
...
Late last week, we headed to the Basque Country in Northern Spain to check out Bilbao's hoPlay gaming festival and hold our latest Big Indie Pitch.
As ever, this is a chance for developers to show their games to a cadre of games journalists. The catch is that they've only got three minutes to sell us on their game before they're whisked off to the next table.
The quality of these games was o...
King's sequel to the ever-popular Candy Crush Saga was unleashed upon the world this week, with the developer pushing its new Soda Saga promotion video to 100 million people in seven countries on its launch day. Intrusitve, costly, but no doubt effective.
Elsewhere, UA platform NativeX put Santa Claus to shame by launching a brand new promotion, with the Minnesota-based mobile advertising outfi...
Playcrab have today launched the exciting new action-RPG, Dynasty of Dungeons. The game is a little bit more hardcore than your average mobile dungeon runner, so for that reason we've come up with a list of seven tips to help get you started on your boss-stomping adventure.
Pick a strategy and train your demons with it in mind
Training your Overlord is relatively expensive, so it's wise to p...
