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Our pass-and-play titles are ideal if you’ve one iPhone between you but fancy a less frenetic gaming experience. After all “tap your squares” is about as minimal a set of instructions as you could ever hope for.ĭownload Bloop Games for one iPhone and pass-and-play… And while Bloop is very much a one-note game, it’s enjoyable and presents a very even playing field. On iPhone, this shouldn’t really work, but the smaller screen if anything makes the game even more ridiculous. After each short round, the squares shrink in size, and you end up colliding with everyone else as you gun for your colour. This minimal effort looks very much like it was designed for iPad, in that it has up to four people tapping coloured squares that show up on the screen. It’s all very entertaining, and if you’re not much good at one game, you know another will be along shortly. The paid version of the game has a wide range of weirdness to contend with, including blasting massive space rocks at your opponent, zooming about in cars painting the ground behind them, and smashing cellphones blaring away on a table.

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To get started, you use the iPhone’s camera to create a personalised avatar with expressions (delighted, happy, and sad, which update during play as appropriate) you’re then pitted against an opponent in a varied selection of arcade tests. There’s a lot to like in Mucho Party, which enables you and a friend to battle in five mini-games – or 44 if you’re happy to pay the one-off IAP. Just watch out for the oddball power-ups, which can quickly turn a match on its head. The vibrant visuals and varied characters also make for an experience rather breezier than the typically staid competition. The closest game in this round-up to classic bat-and-ball effort Pong, PKTBALL has between two and four people smashing balls back and forth across a tiny court (although we’d argue on iPhone you’re probably best off sticking to two).įrom a visual standpoint, the game mostly resembles tennis, but the speed and controls transform the game into a kind of air hockey mash-up. Holes periodically pop up from the lake, housed on little islands – or the heads of presumably bemused giant wildlife.īattle Golf’s not exactly a nuanced game, but given that you can clock how it works within a few seconds, it’s ideal for speedy and fun two-player blasts – at least if you avoid beaning your opponent with a golf ball too often. Each player gets a single button, used to stop an oscillating directional arrow, and then with a second tap define the power of a shot.

This very silly sports game finds two golfers standing at the side of a large lake.

In the two-player mode, things get pretty interesting as you simultaneously try to clear the way in front of your turret and leave orbs right in front of your opponent’s ‘line of death’. They then get a number to denote how many subsequent hits are required to blow up the orb.Īs you might imagine, the game rapidly gets claustrophobic, with you increasingly having to make amazing shots that bounce between multiple orbs, in order to survive. Orbital finds your little turret firing orbs into a void, which once they’ve slowed to a halt expand until they touch something. Two modes are on offer – a duel where you must take care to not miss any fruit, and a rather looser and more arcade-oriented take that’s simply about slicing up as much fruit as possible before a timer runs out. In the single-screen two-player game, you and an opponent each get a tiny area in which to perform deft swiping.

Sometimes a scoundrel chucks a bomb into the mix, and needless to say hacking one of those in half should be avoided.

One of the iPhone’s most famous games, Fruit Ninja is primarily about using your finger as a virtual sword to slice up fruit that’s lobbed in your general direction. That’s why our selection of same-device games concentrates on titles with straightforward interfaces, short play times, and intuitive gameplay everyone can immediately understand. Also, it’s not fun if one person’s an elite gamer, obliterating the competition at every turn. Two or more people playing on a single iPhone can be cramped. Games for one iPhone and several players at once… For those who need their personal space, we’ll also check out a handful of pass-and-play classics, and three top titles for local multiplayer when everyone’s armed with their own device. The first half are all about playing on a single device, which can be cramped but fun and very silly.

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