Battleship: Alien Invaders app for iPhone is a gripping naval strategy combat game from Codespot. In this simple shooting game of strategy, you attempt to fire missiles at alien battle ships by predicting its radar coordinates before it could approach yours. Battleship: Alien Invaders iPhone app costs $0.99 at iTunes App Store.

How Battleship Alien Invaders App is played?

Battleship: Alien Invaders iPhone app is modeled on the theme of the movie by its name. It looks original on an iPhone screen. In this iPhone game app, you are supposed to look out for flashing lights on the radar. A flashing light indicates an approaching enemy, and you are required to fire missiles to the target before it could reach you. For most players, it will take more than couple of attempts to get the missile launch right. The trick is to keep an eye on the blinking missile launcher, as well as the enemy moving pattern to hit the target successfully.

In terms of strategy, you need to carefully observe every move of the alien warship to deploy your missile to wait for them and command it to fire at the right moment the ship comes by. As it takes some time for the missiles to hit the target post firing, you’ve got to have a sense of timing to balance the speed of the intruding ship and the speed of the fired missile. You got only 4 missiles for each level, and hence you can’t afford to miss the target many times. As you move up the level, the enemy begins to act smarter, and the pressure on you increases to hit the target without missing even once.

The simple yet strong graphics stands out on the Retina display, while the sound effects add to the feel of a real naval combat. You won’t have any trouble spotting alien ships on the easy-to-read radar screen.

Final Thoughts

Those who’ve already fed up with typical action games, and prefer a bit of brain scratching, will certainly feel at home with Battleship: Alien Invaders iPhone game app. It might be frustrating at first as you fail to hit the target repeatedly. But once you get hold of the semantics of the missile launcher, it turns out to be gripping and fun. The graphics and sound effects add a realistic feel to the game. Verdict: Try it out.

Dragons Rage is a fun arcade game wherein you are the fire breathing dragon, forced to defend itself against the many incompetent knights and archers who want to charge you for no apparent reason. Dragons Rage iPhone app comes as a free download for a limited period. Beyond that, it’ll cost you $0.99.

How Dragons Rage is played?

In Dragons Rage app for iPhone, you are the dragon which can’t fly away unfortunately. Also, you can’t move; the most you can do is turn 360 degrees and breathe fire upon your foes. This can be achieved by tilting the iPhone screen to take aim, and tapping on the ‘fire’ button at the bottom right hand corner.

So, to start with, you blow fire at anything possible. Red arrows on the edge of the screen indicate the direction in which the next wave of foes is located, with the aim of wiping out the people before inflicting damage on the dragon. Of course, there are different types of foes, like the ranged attackers and the ones that move faster than the others. The bottom line however is to destroy them all before they could get to you. If the foes manage to hurt you, and your life bar goes empty, it is the end of Dragons Rage game.

There is an occasional bonus level where you fly somewhere and light up few innocent people for bonus diamonds, weapons, and coins. In terms of game play, however, Dragons Rage application has failed to bring in any substantial variety in terms of game play. The challenge certainly increases as you progress in Dragons Rage iPhone game. But you’ll guess things within a matter of seconds, and it kills the excitement after you play the game many times. The graphics is basic at best. However, that does not hamper your overall gaming experience.

Final Thoughts

Dragons Rage app for iPhone is a great stress reliever. It’ll help you take your mind off for couple of minutes from the mad work schedules. On the downside, the game play is limited; a variety of foes and something like a weapon change would have worked wonders. At the moment, it lacks both. The graphics is also a bit of a downer. Verdict: A handy arcade game to take your mind off work; but it feels limited.

Retro Pinball app for iPhone is a rerelease of the famous 1993 shareware game with the same title. It includes three handpicked tables (Crash and Burn, Super Android, Pangea) from its original (original had 12), but with updated graphics and sound to enhance your gaming experience. Retro Pinball comes at a price tag of $0.99. As a limited time offer, Retro Pinball app is currently available for free from iTunes App Store.

How Retro Pinball is played?

Retro Pinball game app for iPhone gives you the classic arcade style gaming experience on your iPhone. You have three tables to choose from, each has an objective that the player must attempt to complete with their five balls. It goes without saying that you are supposed to score big, and in the process, beat your previous scores.

The controls are intuitive and incredibly simple. You’ll find two buttons at the bottom of the screen, on each side. Tap on the respective buttons to use that side’s flipper. On Crash and Burn table, you have more than a set of flippers, controlled by a single button. You must time your taps to send the ball up the required ramps, and to aim to hit the required targets. The scores are calculated once the player uses up all the five balls.

The objectives of iPhone Retro Pinball app are not so easy to achieve. On the flip side, an unachieved objective is sufficient motivation to come back and try it again, and that is the beauty of Retro Pinball. There’ll be times when you might get stuck, and will be waiting for one lucky hit to happen from nowhere. If lady luck does not shine on you in such instances, the game could get a bit frustrating. But then what is the point in playing a game that is least challenging? The graphics successfully recreates the classic feel of Retro Pinball. The sound effects add a realistic touch to the overall gaming experience. The game play is good, and controls work just fine.

Final Thoughts

Retro Pinball iPhone game app recreates the best of the popular shareware game of old. On the iOS platform, the gaming experience simply stands out. The range of difficult levels is challenging, and sometime frustrating. But the game keeps you engrossed for most parts. Verdict: Worth trying out if you were a fan of the 1993 game.

If you think sliding blocks is fun, you’ll feel at home with Blocks Mania Premium Game App. Blocks Mania Premium is a brick-flinging puzzle game that is challenging as well as total fun. The game starts off simple and ends up complex; the transition is so smooth that you won’t even realize the transformation taking place right under your finger tips. Blocks Mania Premium iPhone app can be downloaded for $0.99 from iTunes App Store.

How Blocks Mania Game App Works?

In Blocks Mania Premium game application, you control a grumpy main block that can glide across the screen with ease, but difficult to stop. The only way to bring it to a halt is to smash it to a crate. The basic idea is to glide the main block to the exit, without it hitting something nasty things or getting flung out of the edge.

In order to move the main block, simply swipe in the direction you want to move to block. There are crates placed at various parts of the screen to stop the block from flying off the edge. The crates will stop you at certain points, and you have to slide it again to get to the next crate and so on until you reach the exit. Your job is to find the shortest or quickest route to the exit sans hitting anything nasty.

In the first few levels, there are stars you can collect. That will add to your completed percentage of that level, and you can unlock newer levels and packs by getting 100% scores for those levels. Many game play elements are added as you progress through the games 60 odd levels. For example, you’ll encounter tunnels, corners, fireball powerups, teleporters, one-way blocks, and keys and gates, to name few of them. The said elements are added slowly so that you won’t feel overwhelmed by them.

The graphics of Blocks Mania Premium iPhone game app is good, if not great. Some of you might feel it a bit dated. Players can choose between two themes: Pixel Art and Doodle. The former, which is also the default theme, looks better than the latter.

Final Thoughts

Overall, Blocks Mania Premium app for iPhone is a well-designed simple yet challenging puzzle game. There is no learning curve whatsoever, and it suits both short-duration gamers as well as those set for a game marathon. Puzzle buffs who are no blockheads might want to give it a try.

Cribbage has been popular for years, and now you get to play the same in your iPhone. For those who are new to the game, Cribbage is a 2-player game involving cards and a peg board, wherein the objective of the players is to get 121 points before your opponent could. Cribbage App for iPhone is a paid application and can be downloaded from iTunes App Store for a nominal $0.99.

How Cribbage Game App is played?

In Cribbage app for iPhone, the second player is the app itself. In other words, you’re pitted against an AI player, which makes the proceedings a bit tougher than playing against a human in real world. Unfortunately, the app does not provide a tutorial. If you still don’t know the game rules, you are left with no other choice, but to learn it from some other source, perhaps the internet.

The graphics part is impressive, if not great. Cribbage iPhone Games app performs smoothly, without any lag or jerk whatsoever. The cards are big for better view -ability. The app provides six card game plays, supports portrait mode, and game statistics to view your winning percentage any time (Byterun says a winning % of >50% indicates that you’re good). Further, there is an undo option for crib. And if a phone call comes when you’re in the middle of the game, don’t worry. The app auto saves the game on ring, and brings it back when the call is finished. Similarly, Cribbage auto saves an on-going game on premature exit.

At 1.1 MB, downloading and installing Cribbage app won’t strain your iPhone resources either. As it is observed, Cribbage does not drain the battery quickly either. Cribbage works with iOS versions 3.0 and higher.

Final Thoughts

Cribbage app for iPhone is a decent time killer application that would come handy when you’re waiting for your boss in a meeting or putting up with an inadvertent flight delay at the airport. The game needs some application of thought means that your brain warms up by the time you finish a quick game or two. On the downside, there is no tutorial to walk you through if you’re a first timer or a novice. Verdict: Cribbage iPhone app is a decent card game for time-pass.

Doodle Farm app for iPhone is an outrageous fun game wherein you breed and create new animals in your farm, and you start with a chicken and egg. Basically, your objective will be to figure out which two animals create a new one. iPhone Doodle Farm Game App may be downloaded from iTunes App Store for a nominal $0.99.

How Doodle Farm App is Played?

In Doodle Farm Game App for iPhone, you’ll be given elements separated into groups, and you drag two elements at a time to see if there is a reaction. In the game, you’ve got 137 animals across 17 groups. Once you create a new animal, you can get more information about the said animal. The game play is based on logic and process of elimination. That is, you use your common sense to think of various combinations, and if some of them do not work, eliminate those possibilities and try again. The interesting part of the game is that some of the combinations that work may defy your logic. And it is fun to explore the combinations thought of by the game’s developers in an interactive manner. At any time, you can choose to view the full list of sorted animals in alphabetical order rather than in the group view. This feature comes handy as you might lose track of what elements go where after playing for some time.

The graphics is excellent so are the background sound effects. The latter may be adjusted to suit your taste even though we suggest that you leave it in default mode. There are no control options either. You combine animals by simply tapping on their pictures.
Doodle Farm game application has two playing levels: casual and expert. As the term itself suggests, the former is for beginners and casual gamers and the game play will be a tad easy. Those who need more challenges may opt to play the expert level. Also, Doodle Farm has leaderboards on OpenFeint.

Final Thoughts

Doodle Farm app for iPhone is a time-killer game application that would come handy while waiting in the airport lounge or taking the bus back from work. The game play is simple, yet fun and interesting. The graphics is topnotch, and the combinations sometimes logic defying. Overall, a decent package of fun and awe.

Draw Something is a fun online version of turn based Pictionary game from OMGPOP for your iPhone. Since its introduction, the app has become one of the most downloaded game apps in the app store, it being a paid app ($0.99) notwithstanding. Draw Something games app for iPhone also has a free ad-supported version.

How Draw Something App Works?

Draw Something iPhone app lets you connect with your friends through Facebook, email or username. Also, you can opt to play random online folks by selecting Random from the Create Game screen. The app also lets you have multiple games going on at a time. Draw Something is simple, yet intuitive. You choose from three options to draw: from easy to medium to hard. The harder the word, the more coins you earn, should your partner guess it correctly. You can use the ‘coins’ to buy new colors, or bombs that will remove unnecessary letters from the guessing plate. Once you’ve done with the drawing, your partner will be notified, and the said person in turn can view your picture like a recording line by line, color by color.

They have a letter bar wherein they could view the letters to the answer, as well as additional unwanted letters. If your partner has sufficient bombs, they can use it to wipe out unnecessary letters. Once they’ve done with their guessing, it is their turn to pick and letter and draw it, and the cycle repeats. Part of fun is in seeing how long you and your partner can go on guessing the word correctly. The same can be viewed as a streak.

Once you have finished playing, you can let the other player(s) know about it through the notification centre. Coins may be collected through in-app purchases; it costs anywhere between $1.99 for 400 coins to $24.99 for 10,000 coins. Color pellets and bombs can be purchased using coins. Further, bombs range from 10 for 400 coins to 50 for 1600 coins. Each round of quizzing/guessing earns a max of 3 coins.

For each match, you can check the statistics of that game play with your partner. By clicking on ‘stats’, you can view details such as how many coins you’ve earned playing against your partner, Average guess speed, average draw speed, and the coin distribution.

Draw Something iPhone game application got a simple user interface. The best part of the app is that it works across devices. What you might have drawn on your iPad will be properly displayed on a relatively small iPhone screen and vice versa.

Conclusion

Draw Something app for iPhone is addictive. It has enough variety in it to keep you glued to the screen for long spells. Verdict: Highly recommended if you love simple yet fun games.

There are lots of slashing and chopping games available in iTunes. But iSlash app for iPhone stands out in the way it keeps you engaged, even though the game play and rules are quite simple to grasp. iSlash iPhone app is a quick reaction game wherein you attempt to chop away at shapes on your iPhone screen, in an attempt to reduce it to a certain % of its original size. However, it is not about chopping away at will. While doing so, you have to avoid the moving ninja stars that have to be kept together always. If your finger touches the stars, it is the end of the game. iPhone iSlash game app comes with a price tag of $0.99.

How to play iSlash Game App?

In iSlash game app for iPhone, you chop away a shaped block with the intent to reduce its size. On top of the iPhone screen is a bamboo stick with a red tie attached to it. As you chop away at the shape, the length of the bamboo stick reduces, and you have to keep on chopping until the red tie is reached. But as you are supposed to keep an eye on the moving ninja stars, chopping won’t come that easy as it appears. It limits where you can cut on the shape at a given time. If you happen to cut down the stars, the level restarts immediately.

Slashing is easy; just swipe your finger on the screen to enter and exit the shape, without slashing the stars. The game continues until the required % of the shape is slashed. The game has about 140 puzzles to solve. So, that is lots of challenges to keep you engaged whenever you feel bored in your work.

From iSlash app, you can connect to Game Centre and OpenFeint. You’ll have access to leader boards, and compete with other players online: another reason why you won’t mind having iSlash in your iPhone.

The graphics part of iSlash Game application is good, so is the overall quality aspect of the game. The user interface is very well laid out. The game play is also noticeably good, as the game changes subtly as the player moves up the levels to keep their interest up.

Final Thoughts

iSlash app for iPhone has in it what is required to keep you interested throughout the game play. It is simple, intuitive, and engaging all at once. You won’t regret to have bought this game for your iPhone; highly recommended.

Elder Sign Omens app for iPhone is an interesting game application, with a steep learning curve. It is also worth mentioning that it is rather easier to play the game and understand the rules in the process than explaining it in plain text to someone. Anyways, here is an attempt to tell the readers what Elder Sign Omens iPhone app is all about.

The Gameplay

Here is the premise: Azathoth, one of Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones, is showing signs of awakening. If it rises from its slumber that would basically be the end of the world. Your job is to choose from 16 investigators to form a team of 1 to 4 members, each with their own strength and weaknesses (for e.g. some with more stamina while some has sanity), to stop this from happening. Each investigator takes turn to explore the museum, where the action happens, attempting to overcome the many hurdles therein.

Once you enter the museum, you’ll face with a selection of missions/encounters. Each encounter is solved by conjuring a series of glyph icons by means of rolling the dice, and seeing if it matches the symbols required to defeat the nameless horror you face in the museum. If the investigator succeeds, you’ll win rewards such as equipment, clue tokens, and occasionally, the rare Elder Signs needed to seal the gateway. By using equipment or special abilities, extra dice can be won if required.

On the other hand, if the investigator fails to generate the required icons, they can try again after sacrificing a die. However this leads to a spiral of diminishing returns, if no results are obtained again. Once all dies are gone, you suffer a penalty (in the form of stamina or sanity damage), alongside accelerating the Doom Track, the time left before Azathoth awakens spelling doom to the world. The graphics is good, so are the sound effects.

On the downside, as mentioned, Elder Sign Omens game can be overwhelming at times for a beginner, but there is no tutorial or documentation to help you out if you get stuck. Video tutorial helps, but it is not comprehensive.

Conclusion

Elder Sign Omens app for iPhone is a game that is part strategy and part luck. In fact, it inclines towards the luck factor more; if you don’t manage to get the signs on the dice, there is little you can do. On top of the luck element, how you pick the investigator, how you keep him and his abilities alive, and pick the missions you think you can finish – the strategy – that makes or breaks the game. Verdict: A must have if you complex games is your forte, and you don’t mind spending few bucks to purchase a license.

Extreme Road Trip was originally released as a web browser game which is now available to download for iPhone. It is a balancing game which is very simple to play. Extreme Road Trip iPhone game app became very popular among the user and went to charts in terms downloads. This is very addictive fun game which is based on physics which gives pleasure to the user. Music is extremely good from SoulEyes. Intense aerial stunts with flips and wheeling’s. There are six different cars to choose from, also each cars has different characteristics. iPhone Extreme Road Trip game application can be played on any iOS device.

How to Play Extreme Road Trip Game

On the main menu page of the game the options appear, there is guide that shows how to play the game, language setting which can be changed to player preference, adjust audio setting etc. If it is free version, which is downloaded then only one car that can be selected known as FRAT. Rest of the cars is locked and small fee needs to be paid to get the other cars. The properties of the cars differs based on its performance like cars that can do more spins or cars that are more balanced etc.

Start of game, the car always is on the move and needs to be driven as far as possible without crashing. The car can be balanced by tilting the phone according to the movement and can do wheelie on each set of tyres by tilting the iPhone. When the car goes over a jump, need spin and perform stunts which would build nitro bar. This allows the car to go more faster on the next jump even higher to perform stunts. While performing the spins need to be careful not to crash. If the car lands on its wheel on jump the player gets an extra boost to car which will help the player in covering more distance. There are two buttons on the screen which helps the players to perform the spins in the air.

Conclusion

The goal for player is to cover maximum distance as possible. There is only limited amount of petrol in tank and once it runs out, the game is over. The players achievement is ranked with distance covered. Extreme Road Trip app for iPhone is a very simple game and the player can get the hang of the game with no-time at all.