A steady hand, a carefully thought-out strategy and perfect timing are the sole requirements to complete a rather different sort of puzzle game. Upside Down gives you full control over the action and however you want to play it. If at first glance, Upside Down is just your average maze-type game, the combination of tilt-controls and touch-screen will astound and give you a rather unique experience with a simple game that will flip your world upside down.

The game is set in the future, in outer-space, and it seems that your character, Bob the junk collector, has awakened an evil alien from his intergalactic slumber. Your task is to find Bob’s way out of the space station and onto safety and protection from the evil creature. To save Bob, you have to guide him through the 60 levels of increasing [...]

It’s no secret game simulators have had a big impact on the iPhone’s gaming development. Great titles such as iBowl or Waterslide Extreme, to name a few, have made it to the top of the App Store, and even if they don’t have a huge fan base, they still rely on a pretty stable user base. iFishing is simply one of these games that doesn’t amaze everyone, and couldn’t appeal to any gamer, but that clearly reels in, so to speak, quite enough users to live up to standards.

iFishing is a mobile fishing simulator that provides a realistic and in-depth fishing experience for the iPhone. To put it bluntly, your iPhone is your fishing rod, and the game itself is your pond. Any fisherman will tell you that’s all you need: a fishing rod, lure and water. Sure, luck does play its part in the real world, [...]

Definitely one of my favorite games as a kid was the first edition of Worms. I say the first edition because that’s all my 32MB of RAM and 400Mhz processor could take. But I pushed that computer to the limits with Armageddon and World Party. I can’t say I’ve taken a liking to the 3D version that much, even after upgrading to a much nicer system, but I can surely agree that I’ve really jumped out of my seat when I saw Worms available in the App Store. Finally, the game that I could play while waiting in line at the groceries and before going to bed as well, without getting bored. A game that provides me with something different every time I play it. Yes, these little guys have really infested my iPhone.

For those of you who don’t know what Worms is (shame on you!), the game is a turn [...]

Little boys and girls, prepare to be scared out of your diapers with this crazy soundboard of 32 creepy lines from all-timer voice actor David Sobolov, an awesome release under the name IMEvil, for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You might recognize David Sobolov from video game releases such as Halo Wars, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Transformers, or Call of Duty 4, where he voiced Lt. Vasquez. The list can go on, needless to say David Sobolov has been around.

With IMEvil, you have at your disposal 32 humorous one-liners from him, and the uses of this soundboard are only limited by your own imagination and creativity. You can either listen to it and amuse yourself, or play jokes on friends, co-workers and even passers-by. Get evilly creative with it! [...]

If a lot of people see the iPhone as a gateway to reinventing the wheel, there are others who just want to have fun developing simply amusing applications. They’re not after that dare-to-be-great situation by programming something unique and never before seen. Their games may be criticized for being copy-cats or adaptations. The truth is, some of these games are meant to be just that: simply amusing. Imagine a game where you don’t need to go through tutorials, rules upon rules upon rules, and several screens before you can finally experience game play. Imagine a game that is so simple that you’d want to play it despite it being so simple.

Such a game is Blots, an iPhone puzzle game developed to mix good fun with interesting brain challenges. Don’t expect IQ testers from this one though.[...]

Straight from the developers behind 1 to 25 came a new way of looking at Sudoku. Str8ts, developed for your iPhone and iPod Touch, is the next generation of puzzle games that would truly compete with Sudoku not only for market share, but for providing you with the most original and creative puzzles in a simple yet effective manner.

The puzzle is easy to learn, with simple rules and great replay value to give you the right dose of addiction. Mind you though, Str8ts is not your average number puzzle game you’d find loads of in any newspaper. With Str8ts you’re starring creativity in the face. The game has the look of a crossword puzzle, with white and black cells spread on the board at seemingly random places. It does however have rules similar to Sudoku, and it is indeed played with numbers. [...]

Starting from the all-acclaimed flash game Copter, the development team over at Cyan Soft came up with a great remake with its own creative touch.

In iHawky you play a young hawky guiding him on his dangerous flight over the mountain peaks and keeping under the clouds. There’s not much news in the controls. Simply tap and hold to keep the hawky flapping its wings and flying, and release to let it float downwards. One addition to note when comparing iHawky to Copter is the power bar at the bottom of the screen. Continuously flapping its wings to keep the young hawky flying high into the air will make it grow tired and you’ll eventually have to come down.

With rapid clouds coming at you and mountain peaks appearing when you least expect them, changing wind speeds will make the game even more interesting. [...]