Games release schedules wind down for the summer, assuming everyone would rather be out basking in the blustery showers than spending money on PlayStation games. By contrast, anyone with an iPod, iPad or iPhone will be enjoying exactly the usual amount of fresh entertainment …
Swords & Soldiers
Send wave after wave of cheerful cartoon soldiers to their grisly doom. The trudge to victory is spiced up by an interesting progression of tactics, as you graduate from commanding Vikings to magic-wielding Aztecs and the rocket-happy ancient Chinese.
Chillingo, iPod & iPhone, £1.99, iPad £2.99
Feed Me Oil
Designed like a cubist painting, this features peculiarly sentient-looking levels whose eyes follow your fingers as you place fans, magnets and other bric-a-brac to guide a stream of oil towards its goal, the liquid as a mutable toy that you can tease into impossible shapes.
Chillingo, iPod & iPhone 69p, iPad £1.49
Zookeeper DX Touch Edition
Although sorting animal faces into lines of three or more doesn't immediately sound like something you'd do for fun, Zookeeper's addictive qualities are such that protracted play induces a trancelike state in which the animals almost seem to sort themselves.
Kiteretsu Inc, £1.49
daWindci
Interacting with your balloon in daWindci's tightly crafted little scenarios demands breezes, which you generate by swiping the screen in the direction you want to go. Negotiate obstacles and avoid spiky things while looking for hidden collectibles.
Reality Twist, £2.49
The Incredible Machine
Make Heath Robinson-style contraptions to trigger the various balls, anti-gravity fields and mouse-chasing cats in the right direction. Its insistence on appealing to all ages means elder gamers may find it patronisingly straightforward.
Walt Disney, 69p
Continuity 2: The Continuation
Part platform game, part Portal-esque spatial reasoning exercise, Continuity 2 has you hopping around blocky levels, before dragging those levels into new formations to gain access to a set of coins, a single key and the exit – all before your time runs out.
Ragtime Games, 69p
Moonlights
Tap the screen to add new nodes to wobbling, precarious structures that must maintain their shape for agonising seconds before you can move on to the next challenge, testing your construction skills and ability to hold your device perfectly level.
Jean-Philippe Sarda, £1.49
Anodia
70s classic Breakout meets 21st Century attention spans in this sped up, pinball-influenced, action-heavy take on breaking blocks, using balls and a slideable paddle. Power-ups, multi-ball and moving targets ensure few moments of quiet or respite.
Rafal Kozik, £1.49
Ticket To Ride
Although something of an acquired taste, the board game's winning mix of strategy and competition seems to translate unerringly to iPad, as does building colourful networks of railways across North America against the computer, friends or strangers online.
iPad only, Days Of Wonder, £4.99
Super Stickman Golf
With side-on 2D courses that defy both conventional architecture and the laws of physics, Super Stickman Golf is a beautifully made game of risk and reward. Played out on deviously angular nine-hole courses, it's even better in multiplayer mode.
Jordan Schidlowsky, 69p
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/30/ipod-iphone-ipad-games-round-up
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