October 27, as the weather gets colder, we all tend to spend more time snuggled under blankets with our favorite gaming devices. Here’s a list of fall iOS games that look intriguing. (Well, some of them are scheduled for “before 2012,” but we’ll be lenient.) Each has its own appeal, so grab a cup of hot tea and stay a while to check out their trailers!
#5 – The cute attack: One Tap Hero:
One Tap Hero uses – get this – one-tap controls, and that’s it. The art looks great in the trailer, and the gameplay looks like a lot of fun.
The one tap hero is searching for gifts for his girlfriend, and food for her dog. Very straightforward, and from the people who made Finger Balance (Coconut Island), One Tap Hero looks promising.
- Release date: sometime this year
#4 - Coconut Island:
The arty take on an old standard: Kevin’s BREAK’EM
Kevin’s BREAK’EM is good clean fun: it’s a standard tilt game. The trailer is pretty freaking adorable and reflects the game’s arty, funky style. I’m sensing a bit of Wall-E about Kevin, and he’s what makes the game look like fun: a goofy, confident character as comic relief in an otherwise flat game. Yes, it’s basically brick-breaking game redone with kitchen items, but you can’t tell me you wouldn’t enjoy the sound of those dishes cracking. It’s out this week, so grab it in the app store on October 27.
- Release: October 27
#3 – The one with an unlikely hero: Mystery Ball:
Mystery Ball’s main man is FRED, a neurotic ball with amnesia. He’s in a world previously unknown to him, populated with creatures he only vaguely remembers. FRED’s got some serious fears to work through: aphephobia (fear of being touched), acrophobia (fear of heights) and chronophobia (fear of time). While rolling a ball around may not see thrilling in other games, Mystery Ball makes it challenging fun to help FRED conquer his fears.
More at the Mystery Ball site.
- Release: early November
The iOS version of the movie version of Tintin looks promising – the art is really appealing and it doesn’t seem to lack for action, either, according to the trailer for the console version of the game. Gameloft has packed three adventures into the iOS game. There’s not a ton of info about the actual gameplay, but with the big Spielberg movie tie-in, Gameloft probably doesn’t need to say much more than “Tintin.”
- US release: December 15
#1 – The one you’ll wait longer for: Pocket Heroes
A lot of iOS game enthusiasts have been waiting for Pocket Heroes for a while: we saw it at E3 in June of 2011, where the makers of Pocket Heroes, F5 Games, gave TouchArcade a preview of the turn-based D&D style game. They call it “D&D meets Worlds with Friends” – basically an RPG that you can play with your friends at any time, one turn at a time. It looks like a lot of fun and lots of players are chomping at the bit to try it, but the makers recently said they’re hoping for a pre-December release at the earliest.
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