If you enjoy "puzzle platformers," games that take Mario-style running, jumping and monster-dodging and mix it with a healthy dose of brain-teasing, then Adventures of Shuggy will feel like a little slice of heaven.
Maybe you've noticed, but life kind of sucks sometimes. It can be cruel, depressing, tedious, and terribly, terribly unfair. That's why it's so important for games like Piston's Gemibears to exist on iOS. It's a match-3 game featuring adorable bears, and that's good enough, but said bears have such an infectious laugh that it's hard not to smile along to their antics.
The Skittles candy has promised the same thing for nearly half a century: the ability to taste the rainbow. And while this modern rainbow treat is indeed tasty today, it seems the Jurassic era dinosaurs were able to harness the good stuff by absorbing rainbows directly into their skin. Also, dinosaurs could inflate up to several times their size. At this point, just throw away your history book.
There's something you all should know: I love puzzle games. It all started with Tetris Attack for Game Boy, a title I sunk hours into every single family road trip. Likely because of that experience, I've come to find that I prefer playing them on mobile platforms. They're perfect for playing in small doses, a perk that Ichi by Stolen Couch Games benefits from quite a bit.
Get ready to shake down your friends: it's time for everyone to form a circle, hold hands, and enjoy another "With Friends" title by Zynga. This time we're playing Matching With Friends for iOS, a number-and-block matching game that appears to be in the same wheelhouse as the well-loved tile-based game Qwirkle (which too, is destined for mobile devices soon).
Konami has decided that Facebook games are missing three important elements: Romance, epic villainy, and jigsaw puzzles. The company has resolved to give us all three at once with Puzzle Chasers, a game that challenges you to assemble jigsaws. And don't try forcing the pieces to fit: that never works well in real life, and it's not bound to work in the virtual realm, either.
With the Facebook game market getting more and more crowded, it's becoming increasingly difficult for developers to make their titles stand out. Maybe that's why Nexon has opted for a truly bizarre premise for their Match-3 puzzle game, Zoo Invasion: you, as an alien, stack animals and then abduct them. Oh, no! Simba! To be fair, playing as an alien with grey morals does give Zoo Invasion its own identity, and it's a pretty nifty puzzle game to boot.
You'll have to think fast and move fast if you want to win at Motley Blocks, an upcoming 3D puzzle game for iOS devices that's easier to play than it is to explain.