When you wish upon a star, you just might find a way to save your people from slavery. The trick is, you need to hang onto that piece of the cosmos or else you risk losing everything again. Teeny Green is a puzzle game that revolves around the retrieval of one such star, which sounds like a worthwhile rescue mission if there ever was one.
The farm isn't exactly seen as the toughest atmosphere in the social gaming realm. In fact, farms aren't really seen as anything but simulation games. So, when we found that Origin8's Tractor Trails was one of the deepest and most difficult puzzle games on the App Store, we were very pleasantly surprised.
There are warriors, and then there are Norse warriors. In MageMaze, an adventure-puzzle game for iOS, you play as a mighty Norse warrior named Svenn the Svaliant. Need proof of his pedigree? Well, Svenn can move through the monster-infested maze surrounding him—but he can also shift the maze around himself. Yowza! That takes some muscle power!
The gold rush of tabletop games to iOS titles continues unabated. As a board and card game fan, this has been most welcome. It's one of the main reasons I bought an iPad. Even better is by and large they've been well worth playing. Next to take a shot at impressing me is Take It Easy. Does it have what it takes to survive the dog eat dog world of my iPad's home screen?
Have you ever noticed that match-3 games are maddeningly, tremendously addictive? They're arguably the biggest time sinks in the puzzle kingdom. They're bewitching. They're mesmerizing. It's like they're…magic. If you think this is all nonsense, keep an eye out for Witch Wars, an upcoming iOS puzzle game by Com2Us. Mind yourself: you may wind up spellbound.
Diamonds Blaze feels Dungeon Raid meets Bejeweled Blitz. And while that combination sounds like an excellent mash up of RPG-puzzling, you know what they say: try to do two things amazingly and you do neither that well. Diamonds Blaze ultimately lacks much of the originality successful puzzle games tend to embrace, and feels full of half-measures throughout. Fortunately, there's still some fun to be had - for a while.
Chances are likely that sometime during your childhood, you've experienced the abomination of growing dinosaurs before. There are little things more frightening than dropping your rubber dinosaur into a glass, forgetting about it for a week, and then returning to discover an enlarged, mutated mess. If one is to believe the history of FDG's new physics puzzler, Expand It, it seems expanding dinosaurs had once walked the earth as well.