Here are Cult of Mac's picks for the best games of 2016 for Mac and iOS This was a great year for Apple users who like games. When it comes to games, Apple trails behind Microsoft and the broader.
Given how utterly exhausting and demoralizing the entire president election season was, regardless of your affiliations, now might not be the time to play a game about a ruler of people. On the other hand, ($3) is so light and clever that it might be the perfect antidote to these frustrating times.
As the newly-installed medieval monarch, you must make critical decisions to guide your people through hardship—but you’ll do so with a Tinder-like swipe of a card. Army attacking from the north? Strange plague in the city? Swipe one way or the other to make your broad choice. Each decision affects the people, the army, church, and treasury respectively, and failing to balance those needs.
But then you play as the next king. Looking for a one-of-a-kind puzzler for your iPhone or iPad? ($5) takes the art of subway creation and turns it into, in which you’ll have to link together new stations that appear on the super simple-looking map to keep riders moving ahead to their desired destinations.
You’ll get new trains, lines, carriages, and tunnel/bridge components over time, but randomly linking together lines and stations won’t keep your system from being overloaded by demand. Mini Metro forces you to make smart decisions and create an efficient transit network to stay afloat, otherwise passengers get angry and the game ends. And then what? Well, you do it all over again—and try to learn from your mistakes.
It’s Mario—on your iPhone and iPad! Nintendo’s star plumber for the very first time, and ($10 via in-app purchase) is a smart adaptation of the classic formula. While still a side-scrolling, platform-leaping, enemy-stomping game at heart, everything has been streamlined to make this a fully one-handed play experience. You won’t need to fuss with virtual buttons or complex inputs, since a tap is really all you need to navigate these stages. And since it is a premium game (the free download gives you a taste), you don’t need to worry about obnoxious free-to-play elements. This is a true Mario game, albeit one built for touch devices. ($7) is an old-school, first-person dungeon crawler with a grotesque twist: as heroine Sasha slays the imposing beasts she encounters along the way, she’ll slice off limbs and body parts and then use them to upgrade her own abilities.
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That’s gross, right? Sure, but it’s also fair payback. See, Sasha’s family has been taken from her, and so has one of her arms. But you’ll put her other arm to excellent use by swiping the screen to swing your blade while trying to outsmart and outwit these dangerous foes.
Accessible touch controls and a cartoonish look help keep Severed reasonably approachable, but this is that hardcore players will also appreciate. Given its heritage as a spinoff of, we certainly expected that (free) would be popular—but we didn’t anticipate being so. Clash Royale brings together elements of card-battling games, real-time strategy affairs, and tower defense action to create a one-on-one combat experience that is incredibly addictive. You’ll build a deck of your best cards—goblins, knights, witches, and cannons alike—and then drop them into the battlefield as resources allow, all with the goal of demolishing your foe’s base before he/she can take out your own. Constant rewards and a really friendly free-to-play system help fuel the competitive fun here. Ever wanted to learn to code software?