Best games on app store 2013

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Some elements were familiar — ie all the shooting — but new twists included the ability to swap between first-person action and a more tactical third-person view to plot your squad's tactics.

Clumsy Ninja was first shown off at Apple's iPhone 5 launch in , but took a while to reach the App Store. It was worth the wait though: it sees you taking ownership of a ninja and training him up with a series of activities: a virtual pet game, almost, but with startlingly-good character animation. Utterly charming. This was publisher Gameloft's official game for the Despicable Me movies, putting you in the shoes of a scampering minion for this Temple Rush-style endless runner.

Leaping, sliding and dodging obstacles while earning or buying costumes and power-ups proved hugely popular among children and adults alike. This game from Halfbrick Studios — the developer behind Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride — was an addictive treat this year. You skim colourful fish across the ocean, get rated by crabs, and unlock gems to build power-ups.

Which may sound strange, but it plays marvellously. It's nostalgia, yes, but the game still packs a mighty punch with its sandbox gameplay. It plays well with Bluetooth controllers too. Yes, modern smartphones and tablets can deliver graphical bells and whistles by the ton. Impossible Road was another example: a stylish ball-rolling racer that encourages you to bend the rules. Platformer Limbo was one of the creepiest, most atmospheric games currently available on any platform this year, let alone mobile.

With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure. You swiped your party of heroes to guide them through levels of increasing difficulty.

It's genuinely addictive. Rayman often gets underrated in the history of great game characters, but his mobile games have been top-notch in recent times.

This was the latest one: a colourful platformer with more than 75 levels to scoot through, and bags of charm. Out in time for Christmas, Republique justified its pre-launch hype: a stealth-action adventure with startling graphics, properly challenging puzzles, and a storyline that draws you in. Ridiculous Fishing IS ridiculous: you lower your bait down as far as possible while avoiding a variety of creatures, then haul it back up again catching as many as possible along the way, hurl them into the air, and blast them to bits with a shotgun.

Bad in real life, but fun virtually. The basic action across missions was really fun, but there's some extra strategy in upgrading your pilots with new skills as you go. Multiplayer was the icing on the cake.

BioWare's game was originally released in and still one of the best Star Wars games ever. It's an RPG where you get to learn to use the Force, wander through a succession of famous Star Wars scenes, and can even turn to the dark side.

Engrossing and epic in scope. Temple Run was one of the biggest "endless runner" games on mobile devices, and the sequel did a good job of bumping up the graphics and adding more depth to the gameplay.

At its core, you're still swiping to jump, slide and turn your way through paths to escape an angry giant monkey. Tiny Games is brilliant: an app that asks you where you are and how many people you're with before suggesting micro-games to play in the real world, using the objects at hand. There are hundreds to discover, and it's an ideal way to avoid anti-social mobile use when out with friends. Just ahead of releasing its Walking Dead sequel see below developer Telltale Games surprised us with this: based on the Fables graphic novels, you play Bigby, the Big Bad Wolf of fairytale legend reinvented as a sheriff.

Even a little way in, A well-crafted take on an already-characterful series. The Drowning tried to rethink the way first-person shooter controls work on a touchscreen. In a nutshell, you tap on the screen to walk to a specific point, swipe to look around, and tap two fingers to shoot — the bullets fire in the middle of them. This is another round of slinging birds at evil Empire pigs, with famous characters aplenty — and even some tie-in toys.

It's part first-person shooter and part tactical strategy game, as you switch between shooting and controlling your squaddies. Your job is to train him up to be less clumsy, including tossing him through basketball hoops like a rag doll. It sees cute monster Om Nom snipping more ropes in order to feed candy to relatives from down the years, to brain-testing effect.

It's a colourful affair featuring the characters and scenery from the film, with similarly riotous humour. An ostensibly simple puzzle game — trace lines and boxes of dots of the same colour on a grid — turned out to have ferociously addictive properties. A system of Panini-style cards to upgrade your squad added to the fun. New features this year included a revamped design, more detailed media interaction and the option to create your own club.

Ditching historical military themes for a Tron -style futuristic look, its 55 solo missions and multiplayer mode had lots of depth.

The gameplay was familiarly epic: big monsters, big loot and simple swipe controls. Your "conga line" winds its way round a series of levels attacking monsters, levelling up as they go. Quirkily good fun. It looks like a console game, packed with real-world vehicles and tracks to zip around. Regular updates kept players occupied too. Your job is to build a space base for your minions to scoot around collecting resources and fending off alien attacks.

It's hypnotic, challenging and a gaming treat. This second was based on mobile hit Tiny Tower , with the twist that you're now building a Ttiny Death Star, complete with businesses, accommodation and plenty of familiar characters moving in. It has a companion app to explain all the myths. It faces stiff competition from WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger but remains quick and slick.

The app's focus on quickly swiping to accept or reject potential matches nearby became a spectator sport, with friends eager to chip in with their views. It connects different websites and apps — for example automatically saving your Instagram photos to your Dropbox, or emailing you when a favourite eBay seller has a new item.