In short, the player drops chips labelled 1 through 7 into a 7-by-7 grid. I'm not even that good at Drop7, but it's simple and it can be played with one hand and one move at a time.

This is the only video game I've played at least once a week every week for over five years. Drop7 is it.' That's indie game developer Jason Rohrer praising Drop7. Simple, elegant, endlessly deep, and shockingly novel. 'It took 23 years for someone to design a Tetris-killer. The game tracks your score, but does the score matter if the game never ends? If the score doesn't matter and the game never ends, why play? And why play video games? Here you are on the 400th hole in a 2D mobile golfing game and the big question hits you: Why do anything? Sometimes the courses are extra hilly sometimes they're extra flat. At another point, the game unlocks GameCenter connectivity. But the golfing continues to 50 holes, then 100, then 300, and slowly the experience changes.Īt one point, a cactus appears. Maybe you're sitting on the subway or the toilet when you pull back the first swing and release. Thank you to 'turbinenreiter' for the help.ĭesert Golfing begins, like so many video games, as an escape from the banality of life. Update: We've added Google Play links for games that are also available for Android. Because no matter how hard we watch the ceaseless stream of iPhone releases, great games sometimes slip past us. Please let us know what treasures you've found in the App Store. And we will create a similar list dedicated the the iPad and games that make the best use of its larger screen. As exceptional games continue to be released on the iPhone, we will expand this list.

What follows is a list of the 21 games that should be installed on every iPhone. Curation has in large part been left to those who remain passionate about the phone as a gaming platform, despite Apple. After a game's launch, it sinks into the quicksand of mobile gaming junk until it's buried deep beneath thousands of free-to-play cash-ins. Too many of the best games for iPhone are victims of an out of sight, out of mind economy. Unusual and inspired games are left to fight for short stints on the coveted front page.

Farming simulations and clones too often dominate the App Store's best selling list. Unfortunately, they must be downloaded from one of the worst digital marketplaces. The iPhone is home to some of the best portable video games ever made.

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