[iPhone] Any good games or apps out there?

[johnnype]

I don't really think of my iPhone as a gaming platform...yet. In listening to the Gamers With Jobs podcast one of the cast recommended a free game download called Aurora Feint The Beginning (stupid name, I know). Seeing as it was free and the guy certainly liked it I thought I'd give it a shot.

I'm no authority on handheld casual games but for the price this little game rocks. Think of it as a weird combination of Bejeweled and Tetris but with nice graphics and full sensor control (the tiles fall in different directions depending how you hold the phone). The game is a bit buggy but not enough for me to uninstall the thing. Give it a shot and tell me what you think.

If you have recommendations for other applications or games please let me know.

[hyphz]

Galcon's quite a bit of fun. Shame there's no multiplayer though.

[davidb]

I played Critter Crunch on an iPhone here from somebody at work. Great fun, a creative puzzle type game similar to tetric or bejeweled. Very addictive.

[Tenacious B]

Aurora Feint is very cool. I'm also partial to Tap Tap Revenge, a music game where you tap through beats and shake the iPhone left and right as arrows fall in tempo to music. The only downside is that you can't play through songs on your iPhone.

Super Monkey Ball is also fantastic, making excellent use of the iPhone's accelerometer. It has a 110 stages and great graphics.

[Whollyrandom]

I find that Super Monkey Ball gets too hard, too quickly. Level ... 6, I think it is, is a geometric step up in difficulty from the previous level since the rails are, literally, taken off.

I'm currently enjoying:

1. Bejewelled 2, though I really, really hope that they'll bring out Puzzle Quest for the iPhone (http://kotaku.com/367486/puzzle-quest-being-considered-for-iphone);

2. Trism (a tesselating triangle-based puzzle game where you make groups of at least 3 triangles which then vanish, and new triangles slot in from a direction determined by the angle at which you're holding the phone. Very neat);

3. Platinum Sudoku by Gameloft; if you like Sudoku at all, this is the one to get - puzzles of varying (and steadily increasing) difficulty, unlockables and, crucially, an interface that isn't dreadfully annoying.