Top 20 iPhone Games You’ve Never Heard Of

By Sarah Scrafford

There are hundreds of games available to play on the iPhone. Some are interesting, some are useless, but nonetheless, games are ubiquitous, so it’s easy to miss some of them. Here, we’ve highlighted a number of games available for the iPhone that you may not have seen before.

  1. Math Zombie: Math Zombie was created by an artist on Deviant Art. This game is part educational, part art, all fun.
  2. DrinkBuddy: This one’s a game to play in the bar or at a party. DrinkBuddy will use math to figure out just how drunk you are, based on what you tell it you’ve had to drink.
  3. Cow Toss: This game doesn’t do much, except allow you to use the iPhone touch screen to toss a cow. Although its functionality is limited, it promises hours (or minutes) of entertainment.
  4. South Park Imaginationland: This game is hard to understand at first, but fun. You’ll help Butters accumulate "imagination powder" and pick up rainbows to land on the goal and win this game.
  5. Zen Bound: In this game, you’ll play a rope simulation that creates unique and complex shapes. It’s great for game play that exercises your mind.
  6. Nine Inch Nails music game: Nine Inch Nails is reportedly developing their own iPhone music game based on TapTap Revenge, which will include a number of songs from their most recent albums.
  7. Rock Obama: Sad Ninja will soon release this game to promote their new musical by the same name, in which you’ll help boost Barack Obama’s popularity by dancing.
  8. Dizzy Bee: This game takes advantage of the iPhone’s accelerometer. You’ll guide the dizzy bee in this game through windmills, around baddies, and bumpers by tilting your iPhone or iPod Touch.
  9. Chain3: Don’t break the chain! This iPhone puzzle game requires you to make matches and keep going in a chain.
  10. PuzzleManiak: The PuzzleManiak game offers 15 different puzzle games for the iphone, including MinesManiak, DominosaManiac, PatternManiak, and UntangleManiak.
  11. Aqua Forest: Play around in this game that offers a physics simulator, puzzle mode, and more.
  12. Stroll Garden: Stroll Garden is a calming game that requires concentration. Take a stroll in this garden, and you’ll improve your sense of equilibrium by completing board objectives.
  13. Rolando: Designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Rolando is a physics-based platform and puzzler that will make you think.
  14. Solarquest: In this game, you’ll have to tilt and fly to attempt to avoid everything that comes in your path.
  15. Haunted Planet: This game offers lots of entertainment. In Haunted Planet, you’ll have to work to stop an evil scientist before he opens up a portal to nightmares.
  16. Hiqup: If you like old fashioned wooden games, you’ll enjoy Hiqup. In this logic puzzler game, you’ll play peg games that challenge your mind and wits.
  17. iSplume: The iPhone version of this game has you shoot a specific amount of splumes in a limited period of time, with the added challenge of dealing with gravity. The only downside is that there is that you’ll have to wait through the ads in which they advertise international real estate.
  18. Solar Blaster: Play this game that’s a lot like a 3D scifi take on Duck Hunt, where you’ll shoot down attacking ships.
  19. rRootage: This space shooter game has a ship at the bottom that you’ll have to maneuver through bullets and shoot the enemy.
  20. RastaMonkey: Reach the end of each level in RastaMonkey by swinging from one tree branch to another and collecting bananas along the way.