What do you get when you combine Tetris with Sudoku? "A time-munching beast that will never let you see your family again" is a good guess, but why not find out for yourself? Square Enix is bringing the hit number-based puzzler, KooZac, to iOS and Android, and it has been described as being inhumanly addictive.
Where's My Water? is easily one of the most popular games available on the App Store. If you don't believe me, just gaze upon this assortment of merchandise Disney is rolling out to stores everywhere. Not content to stop there, Disney Mobile has announced that Where's My Perry?, a game based on the popular show Phineas and Ferb, will be coming to iOS and Android later this month.
It wasn't long ago that I was lamenting the dearth of platformers. It was a grim time, with one of my favorite genres struggling to maintain relevancy in the face of the dominant FPS. But digital platforms and smartphones have been a boon for the genre, providing us with platformers of all colors. The upcoming Pid for PC is one of the latest in this renaissance, and it's bringing a whole load of charm with it.
Still trying to decide what you should this this fall? Maybe you should save some big, big trees. FLY'N is a platform/puzzle game by Ankama Play that's coming to the PC later in 2012. Its gameplay revolves around the resurrection and protection of gigantic World Trees, so you can have fun while saving a virtual environment! Just don't pitch your real-world garbage on the ground as you play. The irony would kill us all.
Meet Max. He's an astronaut. He isn't the fittest, brightest, or most conventional space pilot out there, but everybody deserves their own story, right? When his rocket ship takes a turn for the worse by plummeting into an unknown alien planet, it's up to Max to defeat the mysterious aliens and make his way back home.
Sheep Up! is a game with a fairly simple premise: It's up to you to guide a toy sheep from the bottom of the box of old toys it now occupies to the open top, and to freedom! Freedom from what, exactly, isn't clear: Freedom from the attic/basement? Freedom from a yard sale or second-hand store, and a fate involving sticky child fingers?
I'm a big fan of match-3 games. Then again, who isn't? But despite their universal appeal, there haven't been many match-3 games that genre fanatics can play together. Witch Wars bucks that trend by creating a competitive multiplayer match-3 experience that's every bit as engrossing as the solo games that have come before it.
When I first started playing Oh! Cube, I hated it. I wasn't prepared for its brand of grid-based number logic, and certainly not in 3D. With a lot of help from my math-loving girlfriend (and a little kicking and screaming), however, I was soon bursting blocks like a pro. It's for that reason that I can't recommend this game enough: it creeps up on you, teaches you its ways, then makes you forget there was ever a time when you didn't know them.