Minimalist puzzle games are nothing new on iOS, but Linelight is among the cream of the crop. Describing it like this doesn’t do it justice, but this is a fun, varied independent game boasting 6 levels of varied action - from surfing a lava river to besieging and defending castles.Īvailable for: iPhone, iPad Cost: $2.99 Get it from: App Store Linelight You play as Sigurd, an old viking warrior who must journey through multiple levels to find the afterlife in Valhalla. After that it’s a matter of blasting through levels, capturing power-ups and more - all with gorgeous pixel art graphics.Īvailable for: iPhone, iPad Cost: Free (with one in-app purchase to remove ads) Get it from: App Store Die With Gloryĭie With Glory is an epic adventure game where the goal is to, well, do what the title says. This retro arena shooter has you playing as a middle-aged farmer who gets abducted by aliens, but manages to escape and grab one of his captor’s weapons.

The result is brilliant on every level!Īvailable for: iPhone, iPad Cost: $7.99 Get it from: App Store Get Me Outta Here Since launching, the game has been expanded massively - with a major update that added new atmospheric lighting (making it harder to see zombies in the dark), doorway barricading systems, 0 new weapons, 11 recruitable new characters, new locations, and a ton of other modifications that will enhance your gameplay experience. Quite possibly my favorite iOS game of 2017, Death Road to Canada is an utterly bizarre mash-up of randomly-generated zombie survival RPG, actioner, and text-based interactive fiction game. This means raising and lowering platforms to help the hero reach the end of the level intact, without crashing into a cliff, plunging into lava, or meeting an untimely demise in some other way.Īvailable for: iPhone, iPad Cost: $1.99 Get it from: App Store Death Road to Canada There are plenty of good retro platformers on the App Store, but Stagehand subverts the formula. Instead of controlling the character in the game, you instead control the stage. Wickedly good fun? You bet!Īvailable for: iPhone, iPad Cost: $2.99 Get it from: App Store Stagehand: A Reverse Platformer Your goal is to slide the unnervingly cute killer around hundreds of isometric levels, attempting to hunt down victims without accidentally plunging into a trap in the process.

As the player, you control a psycho killer with a penchant for camp counsellors. It’s a sliding puzzle game that owes more than a passing nod to the heyday of Friday the 13th, The Prowler, Prom Night and other legendary teen slashers. Previously available on Mac and PC via Steam, the game landed in the App Store this year. Fortunately, the one game that does combine both - Slayaway Camp - is brilliant. If you like your iOS puzzle games to have a certain amount of reverence for 1970s and 80s slasher movies, you don’t have a whole lot to choose from.

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