It's the most wonderful time of the week, the time we round up all of the best new iOS game releases of the past seven days. If you even have any spare time for new games that is, considering the deluge of great games we get week in and week out. This week is no different with games like The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands, Read Only Memories: Type-M, The Sims Mobile, and Somewhere: The Vault Papers hitting the App Store. Not to mention that there's some exciting stuff that's not quite out in time for this posting like Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear and Keep in Mind: Remastered, so we'll be sure to give you a heads up when those titles finally arrive. For now though dig into the meaty list of new games below and let us know which ones you'll be picking up this week.
Block Off!
iTunes Description
Tap blocks and make things happen in this fast-paced addictive puzzler!
Block off! puts your mind to the test with 75 great levels to solve
Get the red blocks all to fall by popping, exploding, dashing, growing and tipping physics blocks
Simple one-touch controls mixed with fast fun game-play make for a unique and addicting puzzle experience
Get ready for something new and knock those blocks off!
Forum Thread:
Blocktactic
iTunes Description
Blocktactic is a strategic score attack game, merging together mechanics from block drop and match-3 type games.
Features:
-Unlockable Blocksets for high score chasers
-Original retro soundtrack
-No IAPs, contains banner ads
How high can you score?
Forum Thread:
The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
iTunes Description
Build, discover, craft and survive.
Build your settlement in a snowy encampment and manage workers and resource to survive monster attacks during nights. Slowly you will gain access to advanced buildings and crafting options, discover and trade with new civilizations and discover the secrets of the ancients.
Forum Thread:
Cotrio
iTunes Description
Feeling smart? Do you want more from your relax time? Cotrio is a visually stunning love letter to numbers and fuel that will fire up your imagination.
Solve puzzles based on a unique concept. Combine numbers to fill nodes with colors and avoid equal numbers next to each other. Play with numbers, colors, and your own mind.
Pause at any time and step into beautiful animated worlds. Uncover their stories with your touch and device sensors – all set to the soothing sounds of the original soundtrack.
Artfully crafted with attention to every minute detail over the period of two years, Cotrio is a relaxing experience for smart people – make it your own!
Forum Thread:
Disc Pop
iTunes Description
Use your fast fingers and reflexes to aim and connect two discs with the same color - Avoid other collisions!
Moving discs spawns from all corners and you can stop and control/aim any disc you choose.
If you enjoy fast-reaction arcade games, you will without doubt be hooked on Disc Pop!
Forum Thread:
Farm On!
iTunes Description
Grow crops, expand resources, and help your farm live long and prosper - all with just one hand! Interact with and care for cute pets and make delicious recipes! Manage your farm with the tip of your thumb!
Living organic on a farm has never been this convenient!
Harvest food, craft recipes, feed your cute animals and trade with neighbors!
Go fishing or start up a trade business! Keep your farm fresh and beautiful with whimsical decorations!
Farm On! is the perfect game for the multi-tasking, modern day casual farmer on the go!
Forum Thread:
Gravity Dash
iTunes Description
How far can you go?
Put your twitch skills to the test in Gravity Dash! Prove your worth by overcoming dangerous hazards such as spike pits, sawblades, and guillotines ... while dashing through a veritable gauntlet of randomly generated levels. Are you ready to defy the laws of gravity by flipping right-side up (or upside down!) to collect gems and unlock new characters?
Forum Thread:
Heir of Light
iTunes Description
A Dark Fantasy, Collectible RPG
Darkness has overtaken the realm, and the world is in chaos. The only hope to restore light and order lies with you, an Heir of Light. Embark on a crusade to renew a hope that has been lost for generations. Ready your weapon and journey to restore the light of the world!
Forum Thread:
InterPlanet
iTunes Description
Commander! We are waiting for your order to EXPAND our space base.
Your space base is ready for GALACTIC EXPLORATION & COMBAT your way through the GALAXY!
* CONQUER new planets with your Guild Members to mine new UNIQUE RESOURCES
* UPGRADE your battleships with a variety of PARTS
* DEFEND your space base using variety of TURRETS and MINES!
* LOOT other space bases for resources!
* UPGRADE your battleships and TRAIN your captains for victory!
* PLAN unique combat strategies with countless combinations of BATTLESHIPS and CAPTAINS!
* CREATE or JOIN a guild with your friends to receive BIGGER rewards!
* FIGHT off space pirates!
* EXPLORE the galaxy and MIGRATE to a resource-rich planet!
Forum Thread:
[It's a TRAP!]
iTunes Description
5x5 tile turn-based puzzle. Make the strategy to not get trapped between enemies and kill them to save yourself.
The simple rule of the game is to fill all the tiles with either enemies or dead blocks created by killing enemies. Create as many blocks as you can to increase the score.
Forum Thread:
Mirror Land
iTunes Description
Mirror Land: The world of Summoning
Mirror Land', a new location-based summoning game
from Magic Cube, the creators of idea-based casual games
No need to search for monsters-
Just summon them to where you are!
A different Fingermon is summoned depending on your location.
Summon the most powerful Fingermon and save the world from the NS Fingermons.
Forum Thread:
Monster Merge
iTunes Description
Drag identical monster together to discover 30 unique species and upgrade your buildings in this highly addictive game! Play minigames to earn more coins, and expand your world.
Forum Thread:
Planet Commander: Space action
iTunes Description
Take part in interplanetary war in the distant future, when space flight is commonplace. You control a battlecruiser in fights with other users in multiplayer team battles.
In PLANET COMMANDER , you are the captain of an interstellar spaceship. Your galactic fleet starts out with a small cruiser, but as your space base develops, you’ll get to control battleships and even supermassive space cruisers!
Start with a small spaceship, but as your base grows and develops, you’ll graduate to commanding huge battleships and superheavy spaceships. Battle in a galaxy on fire online with real opponents in the multiplayer Space Wars game mode, and develop your space fleet.
Forum Thread:
Puzzle Page
iTunes Description
Exercise your brain with a new page of your favourite puzzles delivered to your device every day.
Each day brings a new assortment of word, logic, number and picture puzzles to complete.
You'll find Crosswords, Sudoku, Wordsearch, Codewords, Picture Cross, Picture Path, Kakuro and more!
Missed a day? Want to find more of your favourite type of puzzle? Use the Calendar view to quickly browse through previous day's pages.
Forum Thread:
The Quest - Macha's Curse
iTunes Description
The great wizard Cathbad has summoned you to the Red Branch Knights' Castle in the kingdom of Ulidia. Queen Maeve of Connacht has invaded Ulidia in search of the magical Brown Bull of Cooley. Her troops have been met by the famous Knights of the Red Branch, led by their hero Cuchulainn.
Both armies so far have suffered great losses but Ulidia's army has sustained the most. Macha, a vengeful goddess, has struck down many of their warriors with her curse because their King Connor caused her to race his horses, even though she was about to give birth.
The battlefield reeks of the blood of the slain and only you can stop the needless killing. This magical country needs your help. Equip your best gear. You've been chosen to be the Defender of Ulidia.
Forum Thread:
Read Only Memories: Type-M
iTunes Description
Read Only Memories: Type-M is a cyberpunk thriller that imagines the challenges of tomorrow through the adventure games of yesterday.
When the world’s first sapient machine falls in with a struggling journalist, the unlikely duo find themselves drawn into the dark places that hide behind the dazzling lights of Neo-San Francisco. The secrets they discover could shake the very foundations of society, and some people would stop at nothing to keep them quiet.
Explore a colorful future metropolis, meet fascinating characters, and uncover a deadly conspiracy. Think carefully about your choices—you never know how they will affect events further down the line.
Forum Thread:
Reed
iTunes Description
Reed is a tiny creature - the last creation of an old supercomputer.
The old supercomputer is now dying and all of his cubes. He’s getting much slower without them!
Without the supercomputer, the world is going to end.
Can you help Reed and save the world ?
Can you collect all the cubes in the levels?
It will not be easy!
Forum Thread:
Romance Club: Sails in the Fog
iTunes Description
Romance Club: SAILS IN THE FOG is a sweeping romantic story series about love, pirates and exciting adventures in the Caribbeans.
The life of a young and beautiful girl changes dramatically when she is forced to marry a Spanish nobleman, Don Diego. Helped by a group of rogue pirates, she must restore the honor of the family, take revenge on the offenders, and find a way to stop a mysterious Aztec curse that is about to plunge the world she knows into darkness and chaos!
If you liked Pirates of the Caribbean and you’re a fan of Pride and Prejudice, you’ll love this!
Forum Thread:
The Sims Mobile
iTunes Description
Express your creativity as you customize your Sims’ distinct appearances and unique personalities, giving them traits and having fun with fashion and hairstyles. Effortlessly build your Sims the perfect home, choosing favorite designs and décor, with more detail than ever before on mobile. Experience the rich and entertaining moments of your Sims’ lives as they accomplish career goals, pursue hobbies, develop relationships, and improve their Lifestyle. Party with friends, fall in love, and establish a legacy. What stories will you tell?
Forum Thread:
Somewhere: The Vault Papers
iTunes Description
You are tasked with helping Cat, a culture journalist caught up in a whistleblowing case.
She reaches out to you via text message, and your job is to guide her through a series of challenges and situations to help her investigate and...stay alive!
Search clues on the Web, face random events, help her find her way using navigation apps, but beware, your choices will have consequences!
The story plays out in real time during several days: you will receive notifications throughout your day as Cat is sending you new messages. You can directly answer or catch up later when you’re available.
Reach one of the different endings and then you'll be able to jump back to earlier points in the story, see what happens when you make a different choice, and explore different paths.
Forum Thread:
Sorority Rites Visual Novel
iTunes Description
'Sorority Rites Visual Novel' takes place 3 years before the events of 'The Last Yandere' and the award-winning horror game 'Dere Exe'.
Players get to enjoy a retro arcade game and aim for the highest score at the start of the game, then follow the journey of the main character soon after.
This kinetic visual novel game / arcade game hybrid centers around new school transfer Myles, an 18-year old nobody, and her attempts to succeed at a mysterious initiation ritual. She encounters Venice, the most popular girl on campus, and is forced to stay at a supposedly haunted mansion in order to pass the local sorority's initiation rites. However, things take a darker turn.
Forum Thread:
Spiky Box
iTunes Description
Every time the ball touches the geometric figure, the position and the number of spikes changes. Rotate the figure and don’t let your ball be broken by a spike!
Geometry and minimalism
Each level of the game opens a new geometric shape, inside which the ball will bounce: a square, a hexagon, octagon and more complex polygons. Catch bonuses, that will help to survive or on the contrary will make it a really hard game. Collect points by helping the ball to bounce through spikes, open up new levels and balls.
Forum Thread:
Squirix
iTunes Description
Squirix is a minimalistic logic puzzle game with handmade challenges where you have to colorize all hexagons to complete each puzzle.
A simple tap colorizes or decolorizes any hexagon. Sounds too easy?
What if all hexagons which are side-by-side to the one you tapped also toggle it's state? Still sounds too easy?
More gameplay elements are added as the game goes on. It's one of those games which is simple to play but hard to master.
Completing the challenges in fewer moves lets you earn more stars which could add you to the top of the gamecenter highscore list.
Forum Thread:
The Thief of Wishes
iTunes Description
The Thief of Wishes is an interactive book which will take you again into a fairy tale world - where "…and they lived happily ever after" is only one of many possible endings and nothing is as simple as it looks.
The gameplay is focused on traveling between two different worlds (a lovely old town and it's nightmare version) and choosing one of available actions/questions to make the story progress.
The main protagonist of the app is a brave and book loving girl - Catharine. Her goal is to defend the dream distorted by a mysterious monster, save the villagers, and reveal the secret of the magic Fountain.
Forum Thread:
uVu - yoU Versus Universe
iTunes Description
'Clicker meets Shmup! Keep on feeling everlasting "I MADE IT!"'
Ingredients : Bullets, Lasers, Bombs, Blades, Shurikens, Rapid Fires, Clones, SpaceBugs, Bosses, Coins, Princesses!
"uVu - yoU versus Universe" is a Growing Shoot'emUp with vast Incremental power Ups / size Ups / additional Weapons / time Extends, for iOS.
The player controls the unbreakable fighter against the universe to save his homeland.
Forum Thread:
Vortex Puzzles: Brain Puzzles
iTunes Description
This is the most interesting puzzle game you have ever had in your hands!
It gives you the power of the stars and gravity at your fingertips.
It is also the most advanced way to train your brain and keep your mind sharp!
Are your smart enough?
Forum Thread:
Will Hero
iTunes Description
Will Hero is an arcade, action, platformer and rogue-like in one game.
This is an exciting adventure, in which you can dive in any place and at any time!
When Princess gets in trouble, a REAL hero turns into unstoppable maul and makes his way with bombs, kicks and axe.
Forum Thread:
Block Off!
iTunes Description
Tap blocks and make things happen in this fast-paced addictive puzzler!
Block off! puts your mind to the test with 75 great levels to solve
Get the red blocks all to fall by popping, exploding, dashing, growing and tipping physics blocks
Simple one-touch controls mixed with fast fun game-play make for a unique and addicting puzzle experience
Get ready for something new and knock those blocks off!
Forum Thread:
Blocktactic
iTunes Description
Blocktactic is a strategic score attack game, merging together mechanics from block drop and match-3 type games.
Features:
-Unlockable Blocksets for high score chasers
-Original retro soundtrack
-No IAPs, contains banner ads
How high can you score?
Forum Thread:
The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
iTunes Description
Build, discover, craft and survive.
Build your settlement in a snowy encampment and manage workers and resource to survive monster attacks during nights. Slowly you will gain access to advanced buildings and crafting options, discover and trade with new civilizations and discover the secrets of the ancients.
Forum Thread:
Cotrio
iTunes Description
Feeling smart? Do you want more from your relax time? Cotrio is a visually stunning love letter to numbers and fuel that will fire up your imagination.
Solve puzzles based on a unique concept. Combine numbers to fill nodes with colors and avoid equal numbers next to each other. Play with numbers, colors, and your own mind.
Pause at any time and step into beautiful animated worlds. Uncover their stories with your touch and device sensors – all set to the soothing sounds of the original soundtrack.
Artfully crafted with attention to every minute detail over the period of two years, Cotrio is a relaxing experience for smart people – make it your own!
Forum Thread:
Disc Pop
iTunes Description
Use your fast fingers and reflexes to aim and connect two discs with the same color - Avoid other collisions!
Moving discs spawns from all corners and you can stop and control/aim any disc you choose.
If you enjoy fast-reaction arcade games, you will without doubt be hooked on Disc Pop!
Forum Thread:
Farm On!
iTunes Description
Grow crops, expand resources, and help your farm live long and prosper - all with just one hand! Interact with and care for cute pets and make delicious recipes! Manage your farm with the tip of your thumb!
Living organic on a farm has never been this convenient!
Harvest food, craft recipes, feed your cute animals and trade with neighbors!
Go fishing or start up a trade business! Keep your farm fresh and beautiful with whimsical decorations!
Farm On! is the perfect game for the multi-tasking, modern day casual farmer on the go!
Forum Thread:
Gravity Dash
iTunes Description
How far can you go?
Put your twitch skills to the test in Gravity Dash! Prove your worth by overcoming dangerous hazards such as spike pits, sawblades, and guillotines ... while dashing through a veritable gauntlet of randomly generated levels. Are you ready to defy the laws of gravity by flipping right-side up (or upside down!) to collect gems and unlock new characters?
Forum Thread:
Heir of Light
iTunes Description
A Dark Fantasy, Collectible RPG
Darkness has overtaken the realm, and the world is in chaos. The only hope to restore light and order lies with you, an Heir of Light. Embark on a crusade to renew a hope that has been lost for generations. Ready your weapon and journey to restore the light of the world!
Forum Thread:
InterPlanet
iTunes Description
Commander! We are waiting for your order to EXPAND our space base.
Your space base is ready for GALACTIC EXPLORATION & COMBAT your way through the GALAXY!
* CONQUER new planets with your Guild Members to mine new UNIQUE RESOURCES
* UPGRADE your battleships with a variety of PARTS
* DEFEND your space base using variety of TURRETS and MINES!
* LOOT other space bases for resources!
* UPGRADE your battleships and TRAIN your captains for victory!
* PLAN unique combat strategies with countless combinations of BATTLESHIPS and CAPTAINS!
* CREATE or JOIN a guild with your friends to receive BIGGER rewards!
* FIGHT off space pirates!
* EXPLORE the galaxy and MIGRATE to a resource-rich planet!
Forum Thread:
[It's a TRAP!]
iTunes Description
5x5 tile turn-based puzzle. Make the strategy to not get trapped between enemies and kill them to save yourself.
The simple rule of the game is to fill all the tiles with either enemies or dead blocks created by killing enemies. Create as many blocks as you can to increase the score.
Forum Thread:
Mirror Land
iTunes Description
Mirror Land: The world of Summoning
Mirror Land', a new location-based summoning game
from Magic Cube, the creators of idea-based casual games
No need to search for monsters-
Just summon them to where you are!
A different Fingermon is summoned depending on your location.
Summon the most powerful Fingermon and save the world from the NS Fingermons.
Forum Thread:
Monster Merge
iTunes Description
Drag identical monster together to discover 30 unique species and upgrade your buildings in this highly addictive game! Play minigames to earn more coins, and expand your world.
Forum Thread:
Planet Commander: Space action
iTunes Description
Take part in interplanetary war in the distant future, when space flight is commonplace. You control a battlecruiser in fights with other users in multiplayer team battles.
In PLANET COMMANDER , you are the captain of an interstellar spaceship. Your galactic fleet starts out with a small cruiser, but as your space base develops, you’ll get to control battleships and even supermassive space cruisers!
Start with a small spaceship, but as your base grows and develops, you’ll graduate to commanding huge battleships and superheavy spaceships. Battle in a galaxy on fire online with real opponents in the multiplayer Space Wars game mode, and develop your space fleet.
Forum Thread:
Puzzle Page
iTunes Description
Exercise your brain with a new page of your favourite puzzles delivered to your device every day.
Each day brings a new assortment of word, logic, number and picture puzzles to complete.
You'll find Crosswords, Sudoku, Wordsearch, Codewords, Picture Cross, Picture Path, Kakuro and more!
Missed a day? Want to find more of your favourite type of puzzle? Use the Calendar view to quickly browse through previous day's pages.
Forum Thread:
The Quest - Macha's Curse
iTunes Description
The great wizard Cathbad has summoned you to the Red Branch Knights' Castle in the kingdom of Ulidia. Queen Maeve of Connacht has invaded Ulidia in search of the magical Brown Bull of Cooley. Her troops have been met by the famous Knights of the Red Branch, led by their hero Cuchulainn.
Both armies so far have suffered great losses but Ulidia's army has sustained the most. Macha, a vengeful goddess, has struck down many of their warriors with her curse because their King Connor caused her to race his horses, even though she was about to give birth.
The battlefield reeks of the blood of the slain and only you can stop the needless killing. This magical country needs your help. Equip your best gear. You've been chosen to be the Defender of Ulidia.
Forum Thread:
Read Only Memories: Type-M
iTunes Description
Read Only Memories: Type-M is a cyberpunk thriller that imagines the challenges of tomorrow through the adventure games of yesterday.
When the world’s first sapient machine falls in with a struggling journalist, the unlikely duo find themselves drawn into the dark places that hide behind the dazzling lights of Neo-San Francisco. The secrets they discover could shake the very foundations of society, and some people would stop at nothing to keep them quiet.
Explore a colorful future metropolis, meet fascinating characters, and uncover a deadly conspiracy. Think carefully about your choices—you never know how they will affect events further down the line.
Forum Thread:
Reed
iTunes Description
Reed is a tiny creature - the last creation of an old supercomputer.
The old supercomputer is now dying and all of his cubes. He’s getting much slower without them!
Without the supercomputer, the world is going to end.
Can you help Reed and save the world ?
Can you collect all the cubes in the levels?
It will not be easy!
Forum Thread:
Romance Club: Sails in the Fog
iTunes Description
Romance Club: SAILS IN THE FOG is a sweeping romantic story series about love, pirates and exciting adventures in the Caribbeans.
The life of a young and beautiful girl changes dramatically when she is forced to marry a Spanish nobleman, Don Diego. Helped by a group of rogue pirates, she must restore the honor of the family, take revenge on the offenders, and find a way to stop a mysterious Aztec curse that is about to plunge the world she knows into darkness and chaos!
If you liked Pirates of the Caribbean and you’re a fan of Pride and Prejudice, you’ll love this!
Forum Thread:
The Sims Mobile
iTunes Description
Express your creativity as you customize your Sims’ distinct appearances and unique personalities, giving them traits and having fun with fashion and hairstyles. Effortlessly build your Sims the perfect home, choosing favorite designs and décor, with more detail than ever before on mobile. Experience the rich and entertaining moments of your Sims’ lives as they accomplish career goals, pursue hobbies, develop relationships, and improve their Lifestyle. Party with friends, fall in love, and establish a legacy. What stories will you tell?
Forum Thread:
Somewhere: The Vault Papers
iTunes Description
You are tasked with helping Cat, a culture journalist caught up in a whistleblowing case.
She reaches out to you via text message, and your job is to guide her through a series of challenges and situations to help her investigate and...stay alive!
Search clues on the Web, face random events, help her find her way using navigation apps, but beware, your choices will have consequences!
The story plays out in real time during several days: you will receive notifications throughout your day as Cat is sending you new messages. You can directly answer or catch up later when you’re available.
Reach one of the different endings and then you'll be able to jump back to earlier points in the story, see what happens when you make a different choice, and explore different paths.
Forum Thread:
Sorority Rites Visual Novel
iTunes Description
'Sorority Rites Visual Novel' takes place 3 years before the events of 'The Last Yandere' and the award-winning horror game 'Dere Exe'.
Players get to enjoy a retro arcade game and aim for the highest score at the start of the game, then follow the journey of the main character soon after.
This kinetic visual novel game / arcade game hybrid centers around new school transfer Myles, an 18-year old nobody, and her attempts to succeed at a mysterious initiation ritual. She encounters Venice, the most popular girl on campus, and is forced to stay at a supposedly haunted mansion in order to pass the local sorority's initiation rites. However, things take a darker turn.
Forum Thread:
Spiky Box
iTunes Description
Every time the ball touches the geometric figure, the position and the number of spikes changes. Rotate the figure and don’t let your ball be broken by a spike!
Geometry and minimalism
Each level of the game opens a new geometric shape, inside which the ball will bounce: a square, a hexagon, octagon and more complex polygons. Catch bonuses, that will help to survive or on the contrary will make it a really hard game. Collect points by helping the ball to bounce through spikes, open up new levels and balls.
Forum Thread:
Squirix
iTunes Description
Squirix is a minimalistic logic puzzle game with handmade challenges where you have to colorize all hexagons to complete each puzzle.
A simple tap colorizes or decolorizes any hexagon. Sounds too easy?
What if all hexagons which are side-by-side to the one you tapped also toggle it's state? Still sounds too easy?
More gameplay elements are added as the game goes on. It's one of those games which is simple to play but hard to master.
Completing the challenges in fewer moves lets you earn more stars which could add you to the top of the gamecenter highscore list.
Forum Thread:
The Thief of Wishes
iTunes Description
The Thief of Wishes is an interactive book which will take you again into a fairy tale world - where "…and they lived happily ever after" is only one of many possible endings and nothing is as simple as it looks.
The gameplay is focused on traveling between two different worlds (a lovely old town and it's nightmare version) and choosing one of available actions/questions to make the story progress.
The main protagonist of the app is a brave and book loving girl - Catharine. Her goal is to defend the dream distorted by a mysterious monster, save the villagers, and reveal the secret of the magic Fountain.
Forum Thread:
uVu - yoU Versus Universe
iTunes Description
'Clicker meets Shmup! Keep on feeling everlasting "I MADE IT!"'
Ingredients : Bullets, Lasers, Bombs, Blades, Shurikens, Rapid Fires, Clones, SpaceBugs, Bosses, Coins, Princesses!
"uVu - yoU versus Universe" is a Growing Shoot'emUp with vast Incremental power Ups / size Ups / additional Weapons / time Extends, for iOS.
The player controls the unbreakable fighter against the universe to save his homeland.
Forum Thread:
Vortex Puzzles: Brain Puzzles
iTunes Description
This is the most interesting puzzle game you have ever had in your hands!
It gives you the power of the stars and gravity at your fingertips.
It is also the most advanced way to train your brain and keep your mind sharp!
Are your smart enough?
Forum Thread:
Will Hero
iTunes Description
Will Hero is an arcade, action, platformer and rogue-like in one game.
This is an exciting adventure, in which you can dive in any place and at any time!
When Princess gets in trouble, a REAL hero turns into unstoppable maul and makes his way with bombs, kicks and axe.
Forum Thread: