Greg's Top 10 iOS Games

 

1. GENSHIN IMPACT

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Genshin Impact is an free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. The game features a fantasy open world environment and action based battle system using elemental magic, character switching and uses gacha game monetization for players to obtain new characters, weapons, and other resources.

2. ALTO’S ADVENTURE

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Alto's Adventure is a 2015 endless runner snowboarding video game by Snowman. The player-character automatically moves to the right of the screen through procedurally generated landscapes. The player taps the screen to jump and perform tricks, and works towards goals, competitive high scores, and upgrades.

3. LIMBO

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Limbo is a 2D side-scroller, incorporating a physics system that governs environmental objects and the player character. The player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments and traps as he searches for his sister. The developer built the game's puzzles expecting the player to fail before finding the correct solution. Playdead called the style of play "trial and death", and used gruesome imagery for the boy's deaths to steer the player from unworkable solutions.

4. MARIO KART TOUR

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Mario Kart Tour is a kart racing mobile game, the fourteenth in the franchise in the Mario Kart series, developed and published by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. This game features biweekly, downloadable themed tours with different cups, each of which has three courses and a bonus challenge. In addition to courses which already appeared in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart Tour includes courses located in cities in the real world.

5. TINY WINGS

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In Tiny Wings, the player takes control of a bird whose wings are too small to fly. The goal of the game is to use hills in order to gain speed and flap as long as possible. This is done by tapping and holding the screen in order to make the bird drop. The game play mainly revolves around timing your taps so that the bird slides down hills and flies up them. The game features special missions to upgrade the player's nest and increase their score multiplier.

6. MAD SKILLS BMX 2

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Take on skilled racers in this side scroller motocross game. As you beat each rival, you will progress sequentially to a more challenging opponent. This is a very addicting racing game that is perfect to play if you have a few minutes to burn.

7. SOCCER STARS: FOOTBALL KICK

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With simple gameplay and great physics, Soccer Stars is easy to pick up and fun to play. In true competitive style, challenge your opponents all over the world for online table soccer matches.

8. POKEMON GO!

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Pokémon Go is a 2016 augmented reality mobile game developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with The Pokémon Company. After establishing a game account, players create and customize their own avatars. Once created, an avatar is displayed on a map based on the player's geographical location. Features on the map include 'PokéStops' and 'Pokémon Gyms'. These PokéStops can be equipped with items called 'Lure Modules', which attract additional wild, and occasionally rare, Pokémon.

9. OCEANHORN

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The gameplay and graphic design of Oceanhorn closely follows that of The Legend of Zelda video games, notably The Wind Waker and A Link to the Past. Players explore dungeons, fight monsters with various weapons, and throw pots and cut bushes to find hidden coins or hearts.

10. LABYRINTH 2

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Labyrinth 2 is a game developed by Illusion Labs for the iPod touch, iPhone, Android, and Labyrinth 2 HD for the iPad. Labyrinth 2 utilizes the iPhone's tilt recognition as with most other labyrinth games for the iPhone at the time. However, Labyrinth 2 adds many new elements to its gameplay, such as bumpers, cannons, slingshots, duplicators and many more. Players of the original Labyrinth could play five Labyrinth 2 style levels, even in the free lite edition.

Greg Wyatt