Best Game Apps

Alto's Adventure ($1.99. iOS only) Many tech blogs and podcasts have raved about the beauty and design of this game. It is a one touch game where you snowboard in an Alpine environment and rescue llamas. The screenshots look amazing and the trailer is mesmerizing

http://altosadventure.com/

Monument Valley ($3.99. iOS, Android, Amazon) Featured in the show House of Cards, the game is like being trapped in an elegant M.C. Escher painting. An never-ending journey through a mind-bending landscape. Watch the trailer, it's simply beautiful http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/

Badland ($3.99. iOS, Android, Amazon, Blackberry, Windows) Game of the Year in many publications, it is now also available for gaming consoles and Steam. The game side scrolls a creature through a strange alien world where you navigate traps and obstacles to investigate. A visually stunning game but has had a lot of reviewers remarking about its in-game physics and music design. There are 80 levels in single-player mode, two packs of 20 levels can be purchased seperately, and there is a multi-player mode that allows up to four at once.

See more about it here: http://badlandgame.com/

2048 (Free. iOS, Android, and web) You start with three tiles that have the number 2 and when you slide together a pair of the same number they become the product, so in this case 4. Every time you slide the tiles another tile is added. The goal of the game is to combine like numbers until you get the number 2048. It sounds strange and easy but it is neither. You can play it online here: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ *I must also put that some people believe this to be a rip-off of another game "Threes"  which is very highly rated and reviewed available for purchase for $1.99. 

Limbo ($4.99. iOS and Android) This game is also available for other gaming devices PS3, PS4, PS Vita, XBox 360, and Steam. Winner of over 80 awards this monochrome mystery starts you off as a little boy in a forest. With no explanation you figure out traps and obstacles in your way. It's dark and foreboding, the music is so wonderful that they made the soundtrack available for purchase. Take a look at the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBwfZ8iAYU

Framed ($4.99 iOS only) Also available on Steam, this noir detective mystery is a puzzle solving game where you rearrange the panels to try to figure out who done it. Lush genre graphics and a peppy jazz soundtrack. Trailers and screen shots look fantastic: http://framed-game.com/presskit/sheet.php?p=framed

Knightmare Tower (Free or $3.99. iOS and Android) If you ever played Doodlejump, this is similar but has some really awesome additions. You're a knight that rockets upward through a tower trying to save the princesses. To navigate left and right you tilt your device and to use your weapon of choice you tap the screen. Cute graphics and addictive game play, also available on Steam. Check out more: http://knightmaretower.com/

Other Notables that I highly recommend:

Angry Birds Star Wars 2

Plants vs Zombies 2

Asphalt 8

Ridiculous Fishing

Device 6

Drop7

The Blockheads

Year Walk

80 Days (kind of an interactive book with game elements)

Hitman Go

Infinity Blade