Each month, the iOS GAF community hosts a thread for new game releases, rumors and discussion that define the fast-moving world of iOS gaming.
The OP will contain games that released both towards the end of the previous month and games that have released during the current month.
All the games listed will have been highlighted by the GAF community in one way or another. This way you can keep tabs on the best games and at the same time curate an excellent resource to look back on to find games you may have missed.
Also keep an eye out for the ‘GAF iOS Challenges’; events where GAF battle it out on the Game Center leaderboards of a chosen game for both fame and fortune (prizes donated by members of our community).
If you're a developer who wishes to have your game featured, please talk about your game in the thread and if the GAF community at large likes the game then your wish just might be granted. Please note that there's a difference between posting about a game you made and just advertising your game with no further interaction with the community, this thread is not for the latter and such advertising behavior is frowned upon.
So Goat Simulator really exists, the game is an obvious sign of the PC gaming apocalypse, a mindless lowest-denominator bug-riddled mess for the causal gamers who listen to Let's Play channels like sheep. Ignore the naysayers. Yes, Goat Sim is mindless, and it's bug riddled, but it's also stupid silly fun and what's wrong with that?
Any impressions of Goat Simulator would be lacking without acknowledging the game's origin. What started as a fun little jam experiment for Coffee Stain interns went viral and somehow become a real released game. I think that sense of fun and just doing it for the love of making games rather than trying to develop a serious actual experience just permeates all aspects of Goat Simulator. You can tell the developers had an absolute blast making the game and guess what, it's stupid and silly but so much fun. Even though the map is small, it's packed with cool little secrets and things to discover and the glitchy ragdoll physics never get old. Perhaps more than any game I've played since Just Cause 2, this is a true sandbox. Sure there are missions to complete, but the real fun is just equipping some of the crazy mutators and trying to accomplish some emergent goal and failing hilariously in the process.
This is a genuinely fun, funny game that revels in its stupidity and craziness and silly mindless fun, and that makes it an experience worth playing.
Short version: go buy it.
1 hour in I already bought the full package. It's an interactive story so far, with a killer audio-visual presentation...very touching and informative (tons of real life infos, Battle of the Bulge style).
I'm loving it so far, really loving it.
As for the gameplay, do not expect (so far at least) huge interactions or puzzles...you move from scene to scene uncovering this touching story (I already know I'll cry...I'm weak) with little interactions like throwing objects (Angry Birds style), distracting enemies, timing your movements etc. I doubt anyone will ever use the hints that are included apparently somewhere.
The package is incredibly sleek, on iPad it feels like a window on the First World War, represented by a melancholic and very serious cartoon.
Graphics are gorgeous in full retina, screenshots doesn't even do justice to the game, tons of cool animations.
iCloud supported too, and the game is fully localized (even in Italian, and very well too, something rare).
War is cruel.
It's kind of worse because games are so cheap.