

Best iPhone and iPad games: Papers, Please ( £7.99)Īs a border-control guard in the fictional Eastern European country of Arstotzka, it’s your job to check the documents of everyone wanting to gain entry. It’s won a huge number of awards, and was nominated for four BAFTA nominations. You’re cast as Jean Passepartout, Phileas Fogg’s loyal valet, tasked with charting a path from country to country in an effort to circumnavigate the globe. This pocket odyssey takes Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days and brilliantly reimagines it as a choose-your-own adventure. Best iPhone and iPad games: 80 Days ( £4.99) Worth the price alone for the beautifully stylised, cell-shaded design, the game’s five chapters are taxing enough to prove a challenge, but won’t leave you completely stumped on your morning commute. Like its excellent predecessor, Hitman GO, this game takes a popular adventure and whittles it down to a minimalist, turn-based series of puzzles. Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy is a tenacious gem from the maker of the equally frustrating QWOP.īest iPhone and iPad games: Lara Croft GO ( £1.99)

Come to peace with the fact you will want to smash your phone. Best iPhone and iPad games: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy ( £4.99) The gameplay is deeper than the first game, and the lightning-pace decision making just as absorbing.

“Should we go to war with the South?” “Where will you send your daughter to be educated?”, etc. Similar to the original Reigns, Reigns: Her Majesty plays out like a medieval version of Tinder, with choices made by swiping left or right. Best iPhone and iPad games: Reigns: Her Majesty ( £2.99) The script is excellent, if unsettling, and the game promises that no two individuals will have the same experience of Her Story. Billed as a real life crime story where you play detective sift through interview video clips from a 1994 murder case and attempt to solve the crime. Her Story is the critically acclaimed game by Sam Barlow. What with the legions of true crime podcasts at the minute (see: Serial, Casefile etc), it’s only right that we include a gaming counterpart.
