Galactic Express is built around one premise: Gathering a bunch of Tetris blocks, loading them up on a bunch of cargo ships, and blasting them across the galaxy. This amusing idea is backed up by accessible gameplay, colorful graphics, and a pleasing soundtrack. It's not without a few issues, but Galactic Express provides great service and great fun.
There's no award issued to iOS games with titles that are "Most Likely to Make a Seven-Year-Old Grin," but if there was, Chillingo's Dingle Dangle would walk away with it in two seconds. This arcade/puzzle game is fully aware of its cheekiness, however, which sets the stage for a clever experience shot through with cuddly mascots and a wry sense of humor. Unfortunately, a couple of notable problems will keep Dingle Dangle from sticking to your heart forever.
Puzzle Retreat is a new puzzle game from The Vogel Agents, the folks who brought us the popular track-switching Train Conductor series. But while this new venture proves to be a solid touch-based puzzler that offers a brisk challenge for mobile gamers, there's nothing that really stands out about its presentation or controls, and its repetitive nature will leave most gamers feelings as cold as the ice blocks that make up each puzzle.
In a deep jungle, adorable floating idols are threatened by a purple blob-like creature that threatens to eat them all and destroy the fabric of space-time. At least, that's what we've guessed is going on in Rolling Idols, as this beautiful match-three game comes with little in the way of a storyline, and is fairly hit or miss when it comes to its actual gameplay.
Just when you think you've played every imaginable permutation of a match three game, along comes Tower of Elements. The creative concept from Frogdice couples a tile-swapping puzzle game with some light defense ingredients, allowing you to put your Bejeweled skills to use to defend helpless villagers from an invading army of evil.
TetDraw is an intriguing puzzler that attempts to combine the sophistication of graph paper puzzles with the spatial puzzles of Tetris and other similar games. It's charming in a fifth-period math class kind of way, chock-full of special activities to help you better understand the relationships between shapes and puzzle pieces.
No doubt there are plenty of people who deserve a cranial readjustment courtesy of some sports equipment: movie patrons that leave their phones on, commuters who have full-volume conversations on the train, and anyone who gets more than three samples at a crowded Baskin Robbins. For Tennis in the Face protagonist Pete Pagassi, that type of person is anyone affiliated with the creation, distribution, or consumption of Explodz Energy Drink.
Thieves are everywhere you look. Raccoons swipe our garbage; ants steal our food crumbs. It's the way of nature, whether we like it or not. And as some of you (sadly) know from experience, this pertains to humans as well. Some people are no-good bandits, as the upcoming Tiny Thief—published by Rovio and developed by 5 Ants—deftly reminds us. In fact, if you play the game, you'll be taking part in all sorts of burgling. Pardon me while I phone the police.