As the number "2" in the title indicates, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is the sequel to the amazingly popular (or is it so amazing, given My Little Pony) Adult Swim game Robot Unicorn Attack. And as a sequel, this one manages to keep what worked in the original game while adding just the right enhancements to differentiate without alienating fans.

Another day, another seemingly unsolvable mystery involving a lunatic in a mask! Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is inspired by Poe's original story and takes you to the town of Lumineux where city officials are disappearing. A strange gentleman in a creepy red mask is up to something, so you're called in to investigate. Grab your monocle and cane, it's time to play detective!

From the games of the Adelantado Trilogy, to Roads of Rome and even Northern Tale, it’s safe to say that publisher Realore has a firm grasp on the time management genre. Fans of those previous games have a new option in Viking Saga, but as you might expect, this one comes with some slight differences that make it both better and worse than other “identical” games.

Think your job sucks? Imagine if your vocation involved nothing except risking your life to grow a plant that will inevitably wind up munching on you. In They Need to be Fed 2 for iOS, you guide the main character through all manner of perilous traps, only to throw him in the mouth of Audrey II’s shadowy cousin at the end of each level. It’s a crummy destiny for the little dude, but it’s also a fun game.

Just because Telltale Games won eleventy million awards (seriously, I counted) for The Walking Dead doesn’t mean their developers went all grim and gritty all the time. To prove it, they returned to their humorous roots with Poker Night 2, a game they describe as “the unnecessary sequel” to Poker Night at the Inventory. Play poker against some true characters, unlock some goodies and get ready to laugh.

A few minutes ago when I sat down at my computer to start writing this review, I saw an enormous and terrifying spider crawl under my desk, and now I keep nervously glancing down at the floor around me every five seconds as I type this so I can scream and run away whenever he decides to come back out. In some ways, this is sort of what it is like to be scientist gentleman Wilson in the fantastic new survival adventure game Don’t Starve: always keeping one eye over your shoulder, your safety always in question, and never knowing when or where the next frightening creature is going to appear. It’s a good thing that playing this game is a whole lot more fun than sharing your workspace with an unwelcomed eight-legged guest.

I’ll admit I wasn’t really expecting much when I first heard that Zynga was coming out with a sequel to their smash mobile phenomenon Draw Something, the hugely accessible turn-based Pictionary game. I mean, besides adding more words, what else could they possibly do to repackage the same simple idea? Well it really shows how much that I know, because not only does Draw Something 2 come equipped with an impressive 5,000 new words, but it also introduces so many fresh and exciting new features that I’ve never seen a social game so fitting to earn that rightful sequel designation.

Sometimes in the recesses of my subconscious I hear Jon St. John’s gravelly Duke utter out “Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shootin’ up my ride” as his spaceship crashes in the distance. That might not even be the exact line, or the exact context it’s said in, but the memory has still stayed with me. I have fond memories of Duke Nukem’s charm, but not so much its gameplay.

Idol Words is a social word game that plays like an asynchronous version of Boggle. Face off against random opponents, friends or even bitter rivals as you work to spell words on a grid of letters as quickly as you can. Make clever use of a few special tiles and keep your tile-tapping finger moving and you just might outsmart everyone!

The App Rule of Four states that the best game ideas can be described in a four-word sentence, such as: fling birds into pigs.  Get water to alligator.  Run until you die.  Blendoku is the latest in this long but succinct line of four word brilliances: put colors into order. 

The ninjas of Ninja Village aren't exactly what you'd expect of deadly assassins. In keeping with Kairosoft tradition, they're tiny, pixellated and actually kind of cute, and they spend most of their time bringing in crops, cutting wood and hanging out at the local tea house. They don't dress in black pajamas and hoods, although you can buy and equip them with hoods if you like, and they won't be scaling castle walls or disappearing in clouds of magical smoke. Mostly, they're just people living their lives in a small village.

Narwhals are the Jedi of the sea, and they’re also pretty darn good at making sandwiches. Deep Sea Deli by PlayFirst is an iOS puzzle game that shows off the aquatic species’ lesser-known talent at assembling bacon, ham, and bread into something magically delicious. Like a solid BLT, Deep Sea Deli seems unimpressive at first taste, but after you take a couple of mouthfuls, you begin to enjoy how nicely all the ingredients come together.

I was pretty intrigued by the concept of FREEQ when I first had a chance to preview the audio adventure game for Gamezebo last week, and I loved the emphasis that Psychic Bunny put on the mysteriousness of those old radio detective shows from the early twentieth century. But how does the ambitious radio frequency storytelling hold up now that I’ve had a chance to listen in on the future for myself?

When Bird Mania was first released on the Nintendo 3DS eShop almost a year ago today, it received mix reviews from fans and critics alike. While some applauded the sharp visuals and fast gameplay, others criticized the severe lack of things to do in the game. Unfortunately, not much seems to have changed in this iOS port. At its core, Bird Mania is a simple endless runner game, but one that shows us that sometimes simple isn’t always necessarily better.

While games in the time management genre obviously challenge you to manage your time, there are also sub-genres within this space for players that want to focus on either strategy or speed. Strategy games may see you balancing the use of resources and workers, but Fitness Bustle: Energy Boost falls into the other category, as this is one game focused solely on speed.

TV Tropes defines Master Higgins Syndrome (named after the protagonist of the Adventure Island series)  as an in-game compulsion to consume or die. I define it as an overwhelming urge to play Alper Sarikaya’s  addictive island themed runner, Manuganu. Of course, I wouldn’t have died if I hadn‘t, but life’s a bit nicer now that I have.

The problem with the free-to-play (FTP) model is not that it exists. The problem is that some publishers who are in love with FTP implement the system in a manner that screws the player instead benefitting him or her. PopCap’s Bookworm Heroes is one example of a great game that’s dragged down by its FTP elements. It’s too bad we can’t just pay $1.99 and avoid stressing out over coins, pets, heroes, and the rest of it.

One might think that with their shared interest in deforestation, lumberjacks and beavers would be natural allies. However, as Lumber Jacked makes perfectly clear, their relationship is more of a bitter and violent rivalry.

Describing the indie creation of two-man team Sean Hogan and Jon Kittaka requires more than a single comparative line, and much more to understand it.  I’m still working on understanding it.  But the experience of Anodyne is The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening set inside a Hieronymus Bosch triptych.  While much of the adventure is surreal and abstract self-reflection, just as much is cemented in the concrete gaming mainstays of monster slaying, item collection, and puzzle solving.

Spanish developer Anima Game Studio’s Castlevania-ish side-scroller, Anima: Ark of Sinners, was previously released as a WiiWare game in 2011 to moderate reviews, and now iOS publisher BulkyPix is giving the game the iDevice treatment in the form of Anima: Ark of Sinner Advance. You are Celia, a mega-babe of a sword master who finds herself lost in the mysterious Ark City. You awake here with zero memories beyond having been separated from your comrade. You must explore the many districts and locales in hopes of finding your buddy while also attempting to regain your memory and find out how the hell you wound up here.