It's a beautiful day out. You're having a nice trip to the zoo. Hey, look over there, a giraffe! You saunter over to get a closer look, and-- is that dynamite in its mouth!? Quick, use the syringe! There is no syringe, silly. You're on top of a train, and you've got to put out a cabin fire. By peeing on it. No, you're not on a hallucinogenic trip. Even better: you're playing McPixel.
The puzzle-platformer parade is about to get a little more colorful with the upcoming release of Colour Bind, a 2D driving game based on colored gravity that's hard to describe, and even harder to play.
The Indiecade-nominated Tengami is a side-scrolling adventure game featuring a unique, pop-up papercraft version of ancient Japan that promises to be nothing short of stunning.
KooZac is a match-based puzzle game that seems to be selling itself as a combination of Tetris and Sudoku, which as a fan of both sounds awesome. You're dropping numbered tiles onto a playfield to add them up to a target number in order to clear them out and gain points. Unlike in Tetris, however, there are only squares - as opposed to varied shapes - to drop; and unlike Sudoku you're not trying to hit a set sum but a varying and changing number. So it's really not like those games at all, but is it still awesome?
Dietary statistics indicate that the average American doesn't eat anywhere near his or her daily recommended intake of fruits. Hibernum Creations has developed a solution, though the social games company probably doesn't know it. Playing Blockolicious, a unique Match-3 puzzle game for Facebook, will make you want to bite into a big 'ol juicy melon. It's pretty darned fun to play, too.
Cute Things Dying Violently is cute. And it's violent. It's not as terrible as it sounds, but if you've got an itch for a physics-based puzzle-platformer about loveable little creatures being gorily impaled and sliced into thick, meaty chunks, then this may very well be the game to scratch it.
Let's get one thing out of the way up-front: The Curse is a good game. That said, The Curse is also a game which could potentially make you angrier than any other game on the iPhone.
Whether in Triple Town, 10000000, or Puzzle Forge, the match-3 game has been put through its paces lately in mashups with other genres. With Toybox, developer Barrel of Donkeys tries to take things a step further, delivering two styles of play at once. And like the made-up, hybrid games of an imaginative child, the result is at once lovely and inconsistent.