Arcade

When I first saw Chasm Jump, it looked to me like a superhard platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. It advertised itself as a “one tap” jumping game, yet appeared to feature many dangerous-looking hazards which made me curious how it played. That curiosity led me through one …

Panic Drop is a classic arcade based game where you control what appears to be a ninja cube. The game has the cube sliding down icy slopes for the highest score in a fast paced non-stop reflex tester. The object of this game is to jump at the right times …

Growing up I played a ton of flash games chiefly about angling the trajectory of one thing and sending it sailing toward other things. Whether it was a man being launched from a cannon on to a safe landing zone, monkeys throwing explosive bananas at eachother, or the classic tanks-shooting-other-tanks …

What do you imagine is normal for a day in the life of a cartoon caveman? Well if Hungry Dan by Firal Interactive is any indicator, it’s an endless hunt for meat while climbing a rather peculiar set of bones. Hungry Dan is the type of mobile game that I …

The game Space for Two is meant to be played by two people on opposite sides of the screen with each controlling a spaceship which shoots lasers constantly. The graphics are simple and streamlined. It is easy to follow ship movements and enemies even when a lot is going on …

Rarely is the threat of a deadline relished, however Eraser seeks to put the fun back into the horrible chase of the calendar in a charming puzzle platformer. Assist your character, a stressed designer, as he flees the dreaded red highlighter across a backdrop of his own unfinished blueprints. Your only weapon …

Somewhere deep within the sparkling darkness of the cosmos, a miniature space ship circles endlessly around a brown voxel planet. Marooned in space with presumably malfunctioning circuitry, its only course of survival is to alter its travel speeds and avoid the incoming asteroids. Rory Pickering’s fresh approach to classic arcade games is …

What is it with the AppStore and spacey-spiralling circle games about little things trying to smash a big thing in the center? First Osmos, then Nukleus, now Save The Planet. Of course with such a non-specific name like Save The Planet, Reventador Games LTD’s second app store release could’ve been …

There are few iOS games that truly stand out when it comes to evoking the halcyon days of vector-based arcade games while still being relevant to the modern gamer. Such projects often make up for their minimalist graphical style with smooth gameplay and an abundance of content; both challenging feats …