iPhone/iPod Touch Games Thread

Vesper · 2011-05-24T22:26:58.000Z

Neuroshima Hex is great. I have the board game as well as the iPad versions. I actually recommend you get the Puzzle version when trying to learn how all the tiles interact.

Also, there most certainly IS long term planning but it’s not about board position. Getting good at the game is hugely dependent on your tile management. Each turn you draw up to your 3 tiles and discard 1. Your decision to use/discard those tiles or save them for future use will determine how quickly new stuff will come up on future turns since you can be drawing between 1-3 new tiles per turn. Maybe you want to save an awesome tile for later, but you’ll be at a disadvantage to draw something else you may need, etc. Getting to know what tiles your army has helps a lot. (The real game comes with cool reference cards showing each of your possible tiles complete with quantities).

In any case, great game. I just wish the iOS one had asynchronous play.

Clay · 2011-05-25T06:42:16.000Z

Vesper:

In any case, great game. I just wish the iOS one had asynchronous play.

Ooooh… bummer. That’s not going to work for us, then. Any suggestions for something that a usually-non-gaming Carcassone player might get into?

nlanza · 2011-05-25T07:11:59.000Z

PeterGinsberg:

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is my app (thanks for the plug, peterb). 2 to 3 is really the sweet spot for age on the game, once kids start pushing 4 they tend to find some of the games too simplistic. We’re in the midst of working a sequel which will be focused around early math, which I’m hoping we can still keep fun, it might be an impossible task.

Digging back into the thread a bit, but I wanted to say that my two-year-old loves the hell out of MPL, so thanks for putting it together.

Kryten · 2011-05-25T11:38:59.000Z

Anyone have a recommendation for asynchronous Chess on the iPhone? I’ve got a couple of friends across the world that I’d love to play with and PBEM style games (Carcassonne, Uniwar) are absolutely perfect for us.

Clay · 2011-05-25T11:53:07.000Z

Isn’t there Chess With Friends that has a free version?

RobF · 2011-05-25T11:56:27.000Z

Yeah, Chess with Friends has a free version. Simple but it works.

Warning · 2011-05-25T12:21:20.000Z

Super Stickman Golf is free today. Free I say! Everyone should have this game, even if you don’t like golf. Plus it’s got great multiplayer and it’s free!

Harkonis · 2011-05-25T12:24:03.000Z

I’m up for Words with Friends and/or Chess with Friends

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2011-05-25T12:29:22.000Z

Warning:

Super Stickman Golf is free today. Free I say! Everyone should have this game, even if you don’t like golf. Plus it’s got great multiplayer and it’s free!

Not only do I not like golf, I don’t like stickmen or multiplayer.

Ben_Sones · 2011-05-25T12:40:48.000Z

Or Christmas. Or puppies.

Actually, I don’t like golf either, but oddly, I like some video games based on golf. Like Hot Shots Golf–awesome game.

Brakara · 2011-05-25T13:48:27.000Z

Harkonis:

I’m up for Words with Friends and/or Chess with Friends

I suck at both, but feel free to send me an invite (Brakara). Haven’t played either in awhile now…

Harkonis · 2011-05-25T13:50:53.000Z

I haven’t played chess in about 10 years and played my first game of scrabble in 25 years just today. :)

datter · 2011-05-25T15:18:55.000Z

Warning:

Super Stickman Golf is free today. Free I say! Everyone should have this game, even if you don’t like golf. Plus it’s got great multiplayer and it’s free!

Just started playing this (on the ipad) and its rather fabulous. Somehow it feels more like a puzzle game than anything else so if anyone is put off by the golf aspect give it a try anyway. Is good.

glangmead · 2011-05-25T17:28:13.000Z

Clay:

Ooooh… bummer. That’s not going to work for us, then. Any suggestions for something that a usually-non-gaming Carcassone player might get into?

Check out Reiner Knizia’s Samurai, one of the many adaptations of his board games. I’m about to start playing that asynchronously with my brother, having moved on from Carcassonne and Disc Drivin. You place tiles on a map to capture territory, if I remember my brief interaction with it a few months back on a long flight.

Misguided · 2011-05-25T18:00:51.000Z

Vesper:

Neuroshima Hex is great. I have the board game as well as the iPad versions. I actually recommend you get the Puzzle version when trying to learn how all the tiles interact.

Incidentally, NSH Puzzle is currently a buck (a steal if there ever was one) and the main game is $2.99.

Misguided · 2011-05-25T18:27:45.000Z

Warning:

Super Stickman Golf is free today. Free I say! Everyone should have this game, even if you don’t like golf. Plus it’s got great multiplayer and it’s free!

You know, I remember trying this on iPhone and I didn’t care for it, but it’s fun on the larger iPad screen.

Omniscia · 2011-05-25T18:56:45.000Z

Harkonis:

…[I] played my first game of scrabble in 25 years just today. :)

:O

That is all.

Really, though, 25 years?

Harkonis · 2011-05-25T19:32:02.000Z

Omniscia:

:O

That is all.

Really, though, 25 years?

yep, might even be my first COMPLETE game ever!

WhollySchmidt · 2011-05-25T19:37:05.000Z

Vesper:

There’s a cool new puzzle game out today called The Heist. It’s 60 puzzles where you are trying to crack open a safe. The puzzle types are “Traffic” sliding block puzzles, Sliding tile puzzles, Sudoku-like puzzles in a 5x5 grid, and Chips challenge block-moving puzzles. It’s really slickly put together, and when you finish the game you get a free Steam game (rollover for spoiler). $.99

The next time I’m about to buy anything with sliding tile puzzles in it, someone slap me. I hate those, always have. Bought The Heist, deleted The Heist.

(not blaming you for recommending it or the game for having them, just mad at myself for buying it when I know I hate that sort of thing)

Misguided · 2011-05-25T22:00:29.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

The next time I’m about to buy anything with sliding tile puzzles in it, someone slap me. I hate those, always have. Bought The Heist, deleted The Heist.

(not blaming you for recommending it or the game for having them, just mad at myself for buying it when I know I hate that sort of thing)

The puzzles get tough, too. There’s one I can’t get.