The iPhone’s built-in accelerometer has opened up a new world of mobile
gaming, introducing fun, engaging, and interactive applications from virtual golf to racing games, mobile beer pong, and
more.
Here are over 100 free and paid apps that are worth checking out, especially if you’re
looking for ways to waste some time, say in line at the grocery store, or in the car on your way
to some holiday festivities this year.
Tell us about your favorites in the comments.
Free Apps
You can get these apps for free, no strings attached. You can also find some “lite”
versions of some paid applications.
Top Rated
Cube
Runner (4.5 stars) – In this game, you “fly your ship across a
landscape whilst avoiding the many treacherous cubes which lie in your path.” It’s
like a flight simulator where everything is made of cubes.
PapiJump
(4 stars) - Tilt your device to move Mr. Papi to the left and right to get him higher and higher
towards the goal.
Touch4
(3.5 stars): Remember Connect 4? Here it is in all its iPhone/iPod glory. It’s multi-player
and works over Wi-Fi. Okay, so the only accelerometer feature is shaking out the pieces, but
that’s a game in itself, right?
JellyCar
(3.5 stars): Possibly one of the hardest but addicting games that uses the accelerometer. In this
game, you guide a little squishy car through squishy worlds trying to reach the exit.
Pretty Cool
iGolf
(3 stars): Swing your iPhone like a golf club and the accelerometer gauges how fast you swung and
how far your shot will travel.
Snowball (3
stars): Tilt your device to slide a penguin across some ice to keep him alive. The goal is to
collect as many snowflakes as you can.
Space
Path (2.5 stars): Use the accelerometer to stay balanced on the “space path”
while you watch out for space junk and meteorites.
Scroll
Driver (2.5 stars): Navigate your car along a straight road while avoiding obstacles
– without crashing. The car points in the direction of the tilt when moving
forward.
Square
Jams (2.5 stars): Use the accelerometer to guide balls into hills. The description says it
will “test your surgeon-like skills and patience.” Now that’s
marketing!
Oh
My Egg! (2.5 stars): Use the accelerometer in this game to guide a fat little chicken named
Jack who can’t jump or fly and needs to collect eggs.
Silkworm
3-D (2.5 stars): Steer a silkworm using the accelerometer so that it can eat apples before
the silkworm gets too long. Similar to the TiltSnake app, but with better graphics and more
challenges.
iThrown
(2.5 stars): The “game” in this app is trying not to destroy your iPhone while
testing how fast you can throw a ball. Just hold onto your iPhone for dear life and throw a
pitch.
Two-Up
(2.5 stars): Gamble like the Australians when you use your device to toss two coins in the air
and bet on the results.
Fire
Tail (2.5 stars) - Capture different parts of your game “territory” to win in
this game. Use the accelerometer to move or use the touch screen.
Worth a look
PocketHoops
(2 stars): This is a simple physics-based basketball game that uses the accelerometer to
influence gravity and bounce your ball off walls and perform trick shots.
Apache
Lander (2 stars): Use the accelerometer in this game to land your helicopter safely on a
heli-pad before you run out of fuel.
TiltSnake
(2 stars): Modeled after the time-proven arcade game “Snake,” the accelerometer is
used in this game to pilot a snake that needs to eat food in order to grow. As the snake gets
bigger, you have to move faster, you remember the game.
Handy
Snake (2 stars): Another “Snake” app. You use the accelerometer to control a
snake who’s trying to catch rabbits while avoiding spiky creatures and a hungry mongoose.
iSKBan3D
(1.5 stars): You are a cube of smiling ice in a space-world. The goal is for you to use the
accelerometer to move along a path and push stones to where they belong on the path.
Beer Pong
PRO (1.5 stars): This game utilizes the accelerometer to capture your arm motion when
throwing the ping-pong ball. It’s multi-player too, so who needs a ping-pong table and
plastic cups when you can just flick your wrist and take a swig from the bottle?
Apocalypse
(1.5 stars): You are Go Go, an eye creature who must collect crystals while flying around
avoiding falling enemies (by tilting) on his hoverboard.
Paid Apps
These apps range from $0.99 to $9.99. Most of them have free equivalents, but look out for the
ones that have a “lite” version.
Top Rated
HupplePupple
(5 stars): Tilt your device to guide a jumping smiley face around different worlds trying to
collect hearts to bring to his girlfriend.
Shock
Ball (5 stars): Protect your “Energy Orb” from obstacles and hazards by tilting
your device and dodging “Shock Balls” to survive
Crazy Egg
Jump (5 stars): You’re an egg and you must tilt your device to navigate your way into
empty flying nests.
Python
(5 stars): One of several “Snake” replicas for the iPhone where you use the
accelerometer to move your snake around while eating fish and avoiding your own tail.
2079
(4.5 stars): This spaceship shooting game plays like the famed “Geometry Wars” and
uses the accelerometer for movement.
Gaia
(4.5 stars): Rotate your device to eliminate blocks that come into your way while playing through
20 hand-illustrated nature themed puzzles
Zone
Warrior (4.5 stars): Part space flight, part arcade action, use the accelerometer to guide
your spaceship in this game.
Scoops
(4.5 stars): Stack your cone high into the sky by tilting your device left and right, catching as
many scoops as you can and avoiding falling vegetables.
iTexun
(4.5 stars): Navigate a 2-D environment by tilting your device to guide your ship through space
while avoiding fiery pursuers.
Dashball
(4.5 stars): Destroy colored blocks by controlling a bouncing ball with your accelerometer.
iSnake
(4.5 stars): Tilt your device to play the classic “Snake” game that has graphics with
a little more pizazz.
Bubble
Bang (4 stars): Tap 2 or more bubbles of the same color that touch each other to let them
explode. Re-sort and stack the bubbles by tilting the device.
Hairball
(4 stars): Guide yourself as a hairball through an endless clogged pipe trying to keep pace with
a continuous onslaught of filthy sludge.
Block
Breaker Deluxe 2 (4 stars) – This brick breaking game lets you use the
accelerometer to re-arrange and rotate brick formations by tilting the device.
Crash
Bandicoot Nitro Cart 3D (4 stars) - This is a 3D kart-racing game where you tilt your device
to get through 12 different tracks.
SolarQuest
(4 stars): A space game where you “explore, duck and dodge” your way around to escape
the planet’s gravitational pull.
Alien
Attack (4 stars): Defend the earth from alien invaders by tilting the device from left to
right in order to move your spaceship.
Asphalt
4: Elite Racing (4 stars): Use your device as a steering wheel to become the “ultimate
VIP of urban racing”.
Kitten
Jump (4 stars): Tilt your device to help a kitten jump from cloud to cloud while eating up
butterflies and counting stars. Yup, I’m not kidding.
Beer Pong
U (4 stars): A beer pong game that uses the accelerometer for aiming and throwing to
“play beer pong on the go.” Because that’s what beer pong was made for, right?
De
Blob (4 stars): Using the accelerometer, you can swoosh around as a blob and grow in girth,
weight and speed as you devour paint pellets. Then use the pellets to paint the monochromatic
world in bright colors.
Pass the
Pigs (4 stars): This is a dice game using pigs as the device. Using the accelerometer, you
can “shake shake shake” and roll your pigs as you try to reach 100 points
3-D Vector
Ball (3.5 stars): Battle your way through an electronic labyrinth and use your accelerometer
to serve, deflect and spike your way to glory.
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