![]() ![]() You’ll chuck spears at snakes, push blocks onto switches and, of course, raid tombs. Square Enix Montreal scaled down the Tomb Raider formula and repackaged it as a tabletop puzzler with Lara Croft GO. Not only does realMyst recreate the original’s environments, its remastered visuals gives them a facelift. The game, which tasks players with escaping from a puzzle-filled island, was a graphical trailblazer in its heyday and it’s easy to see why. Myst was a showcase title that ushered PC gaming into the CD-ROM age, and if it passed you by in the early ’90s, this mobile port will help you understand what all the fuss was about. Rovio went to great lengths to research how these physics might effect colliding spheres, and the results were fun and authentic in equal measure. The word ‘fad’ is bandied about a lot in conversations about the series, but the core concept of slinging birds at pigs, towers and pig-filled towers is still fun today, especially if you haven’t done it for a while.Īngry Birds Space was a high point for the series, as the introduction of zero-gravity elements expanded the formula in meaningful ways. Rovio’s irate aviaries once had a permanent nest at the top of the app store charts but they’ve since been knocked off their perch by other mobile franchises. The Angry Birds are no longer the dominant force they once were. Today, puzzlers on iOS and Android come in all shapes and sizes and many of the best ones are just as addictive as Snake. Who doesn’t have memories of playing Snake in the back of a uni lecture hall, or on a bus to work? Mobile puzzle games have been around since the age when Nokia bricks were the iPhones of their day. ![]()
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