Best iPhone and iPad games 2015 / 2016
We round up the best free and paid iOS games to play on your phone and tablet in 2015
Monopoly
Monopoly remains the classic family game and it’s available on the iPad in Tabletop Mode, recreating the regular gaming mode, only nobody has to be the banker and the iPad moves your playing piece around the board without knocking over any houses or hotels. For those that regularly get beaten, there’s a single-player Teacher Mode, where you can play against the computer and get tips and tricks on how to win. As of the recent version, the Cat is now available as a playing piece.
Price: £3.99
Trivial Pursuits
Trivial Pursuits is the all-time classic trivia board game, but the ‘real’ version suffers from a couple of problems: questions can get out of date and kids can struggle to join in and can find the questions very hard. On the iPad things are much easier and quicker, as you get more up-to-date questions and the multiple choice questions make it easier for everyone to join in. With a few additional quiz modes beyond the standard ‘collect all of the cheeses’ mode, Trivial Pursuit on the iPad offers a lot more than the board game.
Price: Free (in-app purchases)
Ticket to Ride
Released in 2004 as a board game, Ticket to Ride has become something of a classic. The aim of the game is simple: connect to cities on a map; the gameplay is simple to pick up, but strategy is everything. On the iPad, Ticket to Ride recreates the board game faithfully, but it also has in-app purchases, so that you can buy more maps, making it quickly expandable. If you’re going to try one new board game, make it this one.
Price: £4.99 (in-app purchases available)
Fringle
A bit like Twister for your fingers, Fringle uses all of the iPad’s multi-touch capabilities. A co-operative game, two players work together using their fingers to move their respective dots into the matching dotted square boxes. Sounds easy, but as the number of fingers you need to use increases and the dotted boxes start to move, it quickly becomes tricky and even more fun.
Price: £1.49
OLO Game
OLO Game is kind of like a cross between air hockey and boules. Your aim is to slide as many of your OLOs into the target area as possible, while your opponent does the same. You can bash your opponents’ OLOs out of the way, meaning the score’s always changing. It’s easy to pick up, easy to play and great fun.
