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05 May, 2014

Top Ten Best Free iOS Games of April

April may have come and gone, but the ten games below will last you for quite some months to come. We’ve done our best to pick through the fools in order to find the truffles for your gaming pleasure, the best part being that they will cost you nothing to experience. All you’ll need is an iPad or iPhone, a few hundred megabytes available on your data plan, and you’re good to go.

Word puzzling, first-person-shooting, looting and levelling, trail-bike riding, card slinging and weaponised ice-cream are the order of the day as we bring you another ten gratis games. You can also check out best free games from March, February and January.

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10. Breakfinity (Hassey Enterprises)
While it's certainly not the first Breakout inspired game on the App Store, Breakfinity is a well made entry into this quirky, old-school sub-genre. The controls are tight and precise, which is exactly what is needed for an arcade game descended from the DNA of one of the industry’s forefathers, Atari. It’s interesting to note that Apple-founder Steve Jobs himself worked on the original Breakout more than four decades ago. In this iteration, powerups will appear, offering benefits such as slow-mo, bigger paddles and even lasers that shoot from your paddle to destroy extra bricks.
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9. Isolani (Mobage)
Mobage continue to experiment with the FPS genre on our touchscreens with Isolani, their previous effort being The Drowning. With a title and theme that chess fanatics will recognise, the story concerns the death of the universe’s last sun and will be told episodically over multiple games. The visuals are smooth and crisp, and the shooting is tight, testing your skills in fast aiming, whilst letting your device auto-shoot. The controls are quick and responsive enough to allow the player to make use of the cover provided, whilst strafing to dodge and survive. A lot to like for fans of the genre.
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8. Word Explorer (AppyNation)
For lovers of solving anagrams, Word Explorer offers a lot of letter unscrambling. Tied together by a theme of world travelling, players are given clues to puzzles that, once solved, allow you to transport to other exotic dots on the world map. There are thousands of interesting factoids to learn, beautiful location photos to unlock, and it makes for an extremely interesting diversion from your typical Scrabble board.
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7. Dungeon Quest (Shiny Box Games)
All the tropes of the Action RPG genre are on display in Dungeon Quest - an isometric view, loot galore, levelling and various character classes. With lots of colourful spell effects, abilities and weapons to experiment with, this is a cartoonish, fun-sized, Diablo-inspired romp that will give adventurers plenty to discover.
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6. Tiny Dice Dungeon (Springloaded Software)
As a kid I spent countless hours rolling dice to defeat the monsters that lurked between the pages of my various Fighting Fantasy books. So for me, and I suspect many others, dice are more associated with gaming than gambling. If that sounds like you, than Tiny Dice Dungeon will be something you’ll enjoy. The pixelated art style tickles your nostalgia bone, while dice rolling to progress through the story and boss fights satisfies just as it always has.
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5. Trials Frontier (RedLynx)
The Trials series by RedLynx is known for its exacting trail-bike controls and physics. The games demand mastery of the rider’s weight displacement, acceleration and braking in order to overcome the crazily addictive stages in the best possible times. Bringing Trials to touchscreens was a risky move for RedLynx, and one that could have easily tarnished the franchise’s lofty reputation. But the transition has worked better than we expected as the touch controls cater well for the finesse the series is known for. The strange Wild West story is one that RedLynx admits is completely nonsensical, and it adds a surreal frame on which to hang proceedings. Tracks, missions and trials galore will keep you busy for some time before the IAP model begins to get on your nerves. No doubt there is a lot more in the RedLynx pipeline in the way of updates and DLC.
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4. Epicycle (Mykyta Gaydukov)
Mathematical puzzlers with a minimalist visual aesthetic are not in short supply on the App Store, yet Gaydukov’s entry is one deserving of some attention. Without any written instructions, it’s quite a joy to discover the rules by following the visual cues and inherent logic Epicycle presents. Spheres can only be slid in certain directions, and their numerical values tell the player which direction the combined sphere can travel once it consumes a smaller one. The idea is to reduce the number of spheres on the screen to one. Washes of electronica play in the background, combined with gentle colours and clean, sharply defined lines, making for a memorable puzzler.
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3. Robots Love Ice Cream (Dragon Army)
If Space Invaders, Missile Command and Defender got together in some old-school eighties romp, then bought a Kombi and hit the road with a suitcase full of hallucinogens, Robots Love Ice Cream might well be one of the many crazy ideas they had along the way. Firing weaponised ice cream from your upgradeable ice-cream van in order to fend off robots intent on stealing your planet’s dairy desserts is as much fun as it sounds on paper. Get some!
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2. Blackmoor (Mooff Games)
This sidescrolling 2D brawler with upgradeable RPG elements has enough character and style to make it stand out from an ever-growing crowd. In Blackmoor, players are slowly introduced to various fighting elements that add up to a satisfyingly deep combat system. Amongst the cartoon graphics, Mooff Games has squeezed in pop-culture nods and winks aplenty, including a boss fight against what might as well be Boba Fett. This is a joyous highlight amongst an already strong month’s lineup.
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1. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
Number one spot this month goes to a game from that little company called Blizzard Entertainment, best known for their obscure and well kept secret World of Warcraft. All jokes aside, Blizzard could have brought its much-loved universe to iOS in all sorts of cheap and easy ways, but then it wouldn’t be the well-respected arbiters of quality we know the studio for. With collectible card battling popularity being at an all time high, Blizzard has played an accessible yet deep ace with Hearthstone. Being cross-platform means iPad owners can play against their PC owning friends, deepening the pool of competition this title is sure to own for a long time to come. The F2P structure is respectful and benign, and the iPad’s touchscreen allows you to play a card onto the field with the satisfying swipe your move intends. Why are you still sitting here reading this? Go download it, and hours later you’ll know exactly where the time went.
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Have you collected all the episodes of Grab It?
   - Episode 1 - With The Making of République
   - Episode 2 - With The Making of Oceanhorn
   - Episode 3 - With The Making of Monument Valley
   - Episode 4 - With The Making of Last Inua

Writer:
Garry Balogh

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