Love iPhone games? Love free things? Great! As you'll see in our roundup of the finest zero-cost driving games, sports sims, puzzles and shooters, some of the best mobile gaming experiences don't cost anything whatsoever.
This feature outlines the 40 free iPhone games we consider the very best. If you don't love freebie gaming after tackling these gems, seek help.
New in our list this month: Ready Set Goat, Shooty Quest, Shadow Frog and Zombie Goes Up.
A quick note on IAP: Many free games make their money through the use of IAPs (in-app purchases). Sometimes these unlock cosmetic changes; sometimes it's almost impossible to play without them. Needless to say our 3picks are all good citizens in this regard, but our reviews provide more detail.
1. The Battle of Polytopia
At the start of The Battle of Polytopia, you find yourself in a little town, surrounded by the unknown, with a single warrior unit under your command. The game gives you 30 turns to explore, locate and ally with or attack other miniature empires, research technologies, and advance your civilisation.
Much of the game is based around strategising, making the best use of limited resource allowances. Would it be beneficial this turn to research hunting and utilise nearby (and tasty) wildlife? Or would the smart move be getting the technology to forge huge swords, subsequently enabling you to gleefully conquer rival cities?
In essence, then, this is Civilization in microcosm - a brilliantly conceived mobile take on 4X gaming (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) that betters actual Civ games that have appeared on iPhone. In limiting your turns and giving you a score at the end, the game also feels puzzlish, since you must figure out how to better your lot with very limited resources and time.
For more bloodthirsty players, there's also a 'domination' mode, where you play until only one tribe remains standing. However you play, it's an astonishing achievement, huge fun, and the best freebie game on iPhone.
2. Super Fowlst 2
Demons have broken through the barriers between worlds, but all the action heroes are busy. It therefore falls to a chicken to stop them all.
You are that chicken, in a game that is a demented mash-up of Flappy Bird, procedurally generated maze-like levels, shooty action, coin collection, and an awful lot of headbutting evil critters into oblivion.
The controls are simple: tap the left or right of the screen to arc in that direction. The trick is in the timing, getting it right so you smack into an enemy rather than their fiery demon breath. Fortunately, there are things to aid you: power-ups activated by an upwards swipe; between-game chicken upgrades like missiles you fire from your bottom; occasional mech suits, with which you can get all stompy.
The last of those proves particularly useful when it comes to the boss battles punctuating the game. Initially, you'll grin at the absurdity of battling foes like a sentient avocado that hurls his brother (the stone) your way - before you realise how quickly they can smash you into a fillet.
It's all great stuff - a superb slice of arcade action for iPhone, cleverly updated for the touchscreen.
3. Pigeon Wings Strike
Evil minions have taken over the city, and only pigeons in biplanes can save us. This is what budget cuts get you. Fortunately, these aviator avians are the business, zig-zagging through buildings, subways, and tunnels, and blasting drones and flying fortresses to bits. At least, when they're not flying into walls. Which happens quite often
Yep, Pigeon Wings Strike has a beak firmly planted in 'absurdly fast endless arcade game' territory. You belt along at insane speeds, wiggling your iPhone up and down to adjust altitude, holding the left of the screen to keep the throttle down, and prodding the right to boost when slipstreaming other pigeons - or unleash laser death when facing adversaries.
The tilt controls are pitch perfect, which given that they are, well, tilt controls is a bit of a shock. But then this is a freebie take on the already-confirmed-excellent Pigeon Wings, and so no-one should have expected anything different.
The only downside is the game's a touch one-note, but that doesn't really matter when it's as fabulous as this. And as an added bonus, do well and you can unlock all manner of critters for your hangar - a boost-happy frog; a speed freak skunk; a rabbit that encourages nearby pigeons to get all shooty. How can you say no?
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Thekoftte
This feature outlines the 40 free iPhone games we consider the very best. If you don't love freebie gaming after tackling these gems, seek help.
New in our list this month: Ready Set Goat, Shooty Quest, Shadow Frog and Zombie Goes Up.
A quick note on IAP: Many free games make their money through the use of IAPs (in-app purchases). Sometimes these unlock cosmetic changes; sometimes it's almost impossible to play without them. Needless to say our 3picks are all good citizens in this regard, but our reviews provide more detail.
1. The Battle of Polytopia
At the start of The Battle of Polytopia, you find yourself in a little town, surrounded by the unknown, with a single warrior unit under your command. The game gives you 30 turns to explore, locate and ally with or attack other miniature empires, research technologies, and advance your civilisation.
Much of the game is based around strategising, making the best use of limited resource allowances. Would it be beneficial this turn to research hunting and utilise nearby (and tasty) wildlife? Or would the smart move be getting the technology to forge huge swords, subsequently enabling you to gleefully conquer rival cities?
In essence, then, this is Civilization in microcosm - a brilliantly conceived mobile take on 4X gaming (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) that betters actual Civ games that have appeared on iPhone. In limiting your turns and giving you a score at the end, the game also feels puzzlish, since you must figure out how to better your lot with very limited resources and time.
For more bloodthirsty players, there's also a 'domination' mode, where you play until only one tribe remains standing. However you play, it's an astonishing achievement, huge fun, and the best freebie game on iPhone.
2. Super Fowlst 2
Demons have broken through the barriers between worlds, but all the action heroes are busy. It therefore falls to a chicken to stop them all.
You are that chicken, in a game that is a demented mash-up of Flappy Bird, procedurally generated maze-like levels, shooty action, coin collection, and an awful lot of headbutting evil critters into oblivion.
The controls are simple: tap the left or right of the screen to arc in that direction. The trick is in the timing, getting it right so you smack into an enemy rather than their fiery demon breath. Fortunately, there are things to aid you: power-ups activated by an upwards swipe; between-game chicken upgrades like missiles you fire from your bottom; occasional mech suits, with which you can get all stompy.
The last of those proves particularly useful when it comes to the boss battles punctuating the game. Initially, you'll grin at the absurdity of battling foes like a sentient avocado that hurls his brother (the stone) your way - before you realise how quickly they can smash you into a fillet.
It's all great stuff - a superb slice of arcade action for iPhone, cleverly updated for the touchscreen.
3. Pigeon Wings Strike
Evil minions have taken over the city, and only pigeons in biplanes can save us. This is what budget cuts get you. Fortunately, these aviator avians are the business, zig-zagging through buildings, subways, and tunnels, and blasting drones and flying fortresses to bits. At least, when they're not flying into walls. Which happens quite often
Yep, Pigeon Wings Strike has a beak firmly planted in 'absurdly fast endless arcade game' territory. You belt along at insane speeds, wiggling your iPhone up and down to adjust altitude, holding the left of the screen to keep the throttle down, and prodding the right to boost when slipstreaming other pigeons - or unleash laser death when facing adversaries.
The tilt controls are pitch perfect, which given that they are, well, tilt controls is a bit of a shock. But then this is a freebie take on the already-confirmed-excellent Pigeon Wings, and so no-one should have expected anything different.
The only downside is the game's a touch one-note, but that doesn't really matter when it's as fabulous as this. And as an added bonus, do well and you can unlock all manner of critters for your hangar - a boost-happy frog; a speed freak skunk; a rabbit that encourages nearby pigeons to get all shooty. How can you say no?
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Thekoftte
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