When a little physics-puzzle game about an alligator named Swampy who just wanted to take a shower hit the App Store in 2011, I don’t think anyone was expecting the colossal hit that was about to rock the world of mobile gaming. It soon became clear that Disney’s Where My Water? was simply too big to be held in that underground bathtub, so next players saw a licensed sequel in Where’s My Perry?, based on the popular Disney cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. Well now we finally know what’s in store for the future of Where’s My…? games, and that future is starring none other than Disney’s own Mickey Mouse!

Cling Thing is the latest physics-puzzler game from Chillingo and Atom-Soft, and this one is all about helping a cutesy little squish creature traverse through various levels by clinging to the sticky walls around him. But even though Cling Thing features a ton of puzzling levels and deeper incentives to keep you clinging and swinging back for more, its vague denotation of “thing” in the title proves to be just as vague and bland as the actual adventure that’s contained within.

There are blocks moving toward the bottom of the screen and when they get there, you’re done. CRUSH! is about as singular, straightforward, and intuitive as games get. While perhaps too determined to strip every atom of superfluity and chaff away, there’s a real challenge here for the right sort of people, and a fleeting distraction for the rest of us.

It’s time to grab your snorkel and get ready to do some deep sea diving for more colorful pearls! League of Mermaids is an upcoming underwater-themed match-3 game from Legacy Games, and a sequel to 2012’s Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep. In fact, the original game was so good that it earned the number one spot in Gamezebo’s own Best Match-3 Games for 2012, so you know this new installment is going to be good.

I had been playing Stickets for three hours straight without realizing it.  The doorbell rang, and I had to look away to the real world to answer.  Except I couldn’t focus; the outline of bright yellow and blue squares still clouded my vision, seared into my brain from focusing on them so long.  I returned to playing.  Didn’t I care who was at the door?  It wasn’t more Stickets, so no.

Considering the Scribblenauts series is published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, having the DC Comics characters show up to help or hinder Maxwell was probably inevitable. It'll soon be a fait accompli as Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure is set for release later this year, and even the early version on the E3 floor was dripping with comic geek goodness.

There’s an almost admirably masochistic aura around players who plow through room escape games like 100 Floors or DOOORS.  While some of their levels require creative thinking to reach discernible solutions, many end up feeling like a slideshow of designer dream logic mixed with gyroscope gimmickry.  Pixel Rooms avoids this pain point by featuring truly intuitive puzzles, but ends too quickly to leave its mark on the genre.

I like oranges. I mean, they’re not my all-time favorite fruit or anything, but I still think they’re pretty tasty, and it’s a shame they always seem to be given the shaft next to the grocery store’s poster boy: the apple. But do you know what I like even more than eating oranges? Oranges in video games. Well it’s certainly been a long time coming, and for most of us, we didn’t even really know this time was coming, but here it is nonetheless: Cover Orange 2 is happening, and the game is being released on iOS next week!

Kyubo begins with our eponymous protagonist chained to a dungeon wall, unsure of how or why he’s there.  Despite an appearance that should indicate an affinity for dungeons—Kyubo is either a reverse skeleton or a man in a bondage suit—our confused hero quickly frees himself with a nearby key and begins searching for a way out.  His journey outside will require platforming, puzzle-solving, and patience, but it’s an escape well worth making.

“If the gameplay resonates with you” is one of the more maligned phrases in game reviewing. It’s a cop out, like defining a word using the same word; but in some cases, like this one, it’s just unavoidable. So, if touch-based bridge building resonates with you, then you might like Bridgy Jones.