If our App Store Gaming Guide that we posted yesterday wasn’t a big enough list of awesome games worth checking out on your new iPhone 4, it would appear Apple has thrown their own hat in to the game listing ring with their The Best Games You’ve Never Played list.
50 games are included in said list, and while they cover quite a bit of games that we hit in ours, there are quite a few games we left out. Here are just a handful of the games from the Apple list that we think are worth checking out that we haven’t already mentioned in either the recent App Store gaming guide or our 2009 buyer’s guide:
Critter Crunch – This game was released all the way back in 2008, and I only discovered it recently as it’s made by some of the same guys behind Sword & Sworcery. Critter Crunch reminds me of classic Neo Geo stacking puzzle games, and gameplay amounts to feeding smaller critters to larger critters to score massive combos and clear the game board. (Review, App Store)
Dungeon Scroll – Developed by the same person responsible for the classic BBS game Legend of the Red Dragon, Dungeon Scroll is a marvelous twist on word finding games. In the game, you crawl through dungeons fighting monsters by casting spells. The strength of the spell you cast is directly related to the word you spell from your random tiles, creating an awesome amount of strategy as you save big words for tougher enemies and work out smaller words for weaker ones. (Review, App Store)
HECTOR: Badge of Carnage Ep1 – This point and click (point and tap?) adventure game really pushes the boundaries of the App Store approval process. Filled with dirty humor and raunchy references, Hector won’t take you more than a few hours to beat… But those few hours will be amazing. (Review, App Store)
Pix’n Love Rush – I really don’t think this game could come packed with any more stylized pixel art. With graphical themes ranging from the classic Gameboy to the Virtual Boy that change on the fly depending on your performance in the game, Pix’n Love Rush is a high scoring game that not only looks great, but is really hard to put down once you get going. (Review, App Store)
Robot Unicorn Attack – An iPhone port of Adult Swim’s extremely popular free Flash game, Robot Unicorn Attack preserves everything from the original, including the fantastic Erasure soundtrack. If you like survival platformers, you need to at least give the Flash version a spin. (Review, App Store)
These are just five of the fifty games included in Apple’s listing, so be sure to load that up in iTunes and give it a peek if none of these games suit your fancy.
