While the you can play a huge number of AAA console-like games in your iPhone, the App Store gaming scene wouldn't be half as vibrant as it is today, if it wasn't for the games talented individuals and small development teams have created.
Indie games leaped forward in graphics and capabilities with the release of the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, and a whole lot of quality titles that make use of Apple’s latest technologies. Their way into the App Store over the last year have found some very noteworthy award winning indie titles, like / ESCAPE \ which won gold medals in the Fun, and Audio, and Overall categories in last year's Ludum Dare 21 competition, Lumi, the Dream.Build.Play 2010 grand prize winner, Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix & Her Nightmare winner of the Best Design award at the indiePub's 3rd Independent Game Developers Contest and World of Goo a drag and drop physics-based tower building game praised from a variety of different sites, magazines, and shows.
A mix of genuine innovation, offered from the likes rComplex a mystery game that will keep you on your toes as you dodge obstacles and run from the darkness, and charm, brought to you by Caverns of Minos a shooting/rescue game inspired by 8-bit cavern shooters, combined with great addictiveness like Super Crate Box an indie title so addicting even if you're bad at it, mean some of the seven games featured below are immediately grabbable and well worth the cash.
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