More than 6000 iPhone games now out

By Games Industry.biz Published 9 March, 2009

Puzzlers prove the most popular.

New data from analysts Mobclix shows there are well over 6000 games now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

At the time of writing there are 6276 games on offer, 1516 of which are free to download.

Puzzle games are the most popular genre, accounting for 17.9 per cent of games on the App store, while racing titles only account for 1 per cent.

The most popular free game at the time of writing is Tapulous' Tap Tap Revenge 2, while Pocket God by Bolt Creative is the top paid-for application.

What's your favourite iPhone game, readers? Ours is Pretending We're Not Jealous We Haven't Got an iPhone by Implying They're Only for Tosspots.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • andywilkie35 #1 3 years ago

    Well of course puzzlers are the most popular. They're they easiest thing to play whilst I'm having a shit at work

  • StooMonster #2 3 years ago

    +1 to andywilkie35

    Still got love for Trism and liking Zen Bound too.

  • tobsen #3 3 years ago

    Drop7, Zen Bound, geoDefense and WordFu are all totally awesome and more fun than I had with any PC game lately. The iPhone has become a nice gaming platform.

  • MyPointIs #4 3 years ago

    This sounds very enticing for potential Apple customers.

    Not so much for developers.

  • Sunyavadin #5 3 years ago

    Kind of a shame it's a better gaming platform than it is a phone or mp3 player, really....

  • jonsaan #6 3 years ago

    Tosspots? No? People with more money than sense? Maybe!

    It amazes me that the price of a PS3 is so constantly in the spotlight when the cost of an unlocked I Phone is so incredibly high.

  • Xerx3s #7 3 years ago

    Iphones are only for tosspots! \0/

  • jayayseekay #8 3 years ago

    Drop7, Fieldrunners, Tiki Towers and I Love Katamari - all great value for money.

    The "...for tosspots..." criticism and is an easy and obvious one to make - but I swallowed my pride and it never tasted better.

  • penhalion #9 3 years ago

    @Sunyavadin

    +1

    As a phone it's a big ugly metal blob.

  • Lebowski #10 3 years ago

    iPhone > PSP > Wii for games.

  • evilbert #11 3 years ago

    Over 6000 games and most of them are clones of each other. The app store really needs a revamp, in fairness. It's becoming almost impossible to navigate. I'd wager that Tap Tap Revenge 2 and Pocket God are popular because they somehow reached the top ten downloaded apps and people rarely look beyond that when looking for apps so they are consistently kept high.
    There's no way I'd wade through 6000+ games looking for something that *might* be good, let alone pay for most games given the lack of trialware and decent review. Most of the games I have on my iPhone I heard about through word of mouth or saw reviewed/recommended on EG.

  • UncleLou #12 3 years ago

    Kind of a shame it's a better gaming platform than it is a phone or mp3 player, really....

    If you can show me a device that does all the iPhone/Touch does, but better, while being just as portable, I'll buy it. Not a day has passed since I bought my Touch 1 1/2 years ago where I haven't used it as an MP3 player (mainly), to watch videos, play games, surf the internet, as a dictionary or as an e-reader. My DS hasn't left its drawer since I bought a Touch.

  • mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #13 3 years ago

    Oh god, here we go again.

  • Biggles #14 3 years ago

    Ok, I admit that the app store is crap for browsing apps, but at least the search functionality works. I'm getting a little fed up of devs assuming that apple should do all of their marketing for them. Why not get the word out elsewhere? There are plenty of sites dedicated to iPhone reviews now, such as TouchArcade. Go schmooze some journalists like everybody else, do some sales, play around with the pricing and press releases etc. Of course, none of that will help you if your game is shit.

    Or, go give ngmoco a call and ask if they'd like to help you polish and publish. Get a deal with them and you've got guarnateed spotlight coverage and a good chance at that coveted top 25 list.

  • Goffee #15 3 years ago

    Just hang on until it gets a SNES emulator, oh wait :( no buttons

  • Xerx3s #16 3 years ago

    UncleLou: Touch HD. Admittedly, the centralised app store is better on the Iphone (something that will be fixed this spring) but for the rest, it does it on par or better than the Iphone imo (each phone has it's own strengths and weaknesses).

    For a code tinkerer like me, being able to write your own apps in a familiar environment with access to .net is just a bonus.

    /just wrote a useless program to shake the phone into sleep mode ;p

  • miiiguel #17 3 years ago

    @ Uncle: Idk how you do all that, or it's my battery that it's not that good anymore. If I did as you do it would be off by lunch time.

  • Xerx3s #18 3 years ago

    Goffee: Just about every touch device I know off has a whole host of emulators. The Iphone, android, winmob, etc. all have stuff like snes emulators and scummvm.

  • N-Al #19 3 years ago

    PINBALL DREAMS

  • Stu #20 3 years ago

    For 59p, Drop7 might just be my best value games purchase ever...

  • Xerx3s #21 3 years ago

    "Oh god, here we go again. "

    Ah, so I take it that you will no longer post flamewar articles to bump clicks? No more Faceoffs then? ¬_¬

  • firm3d #22 3 years ago

    My favourite app is Stanza ... but that's for reading books. Favourite game? Rogue or Rolando, I can't decide.

  • Moonprince #23 3 years ago

    "Oh god, here we go again. "

    Ah, so I take it that you will no longer post flamewar articles to bump clicks? No more Faceoffs then? ¬_¬

    lol too true.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #24 3 years ago

    @ Goffee

    Just hang on until it gets a SNES emulator, oh wait :( no buttons

    [link url=http://www.icontrolpad.co m/
    ]http://www.icontrolpad.co m/
    [/link]

    ;)

  • Xerx3s #25 3 years ago

    Pac-man ate my wife: Pretty cool. Shame it's not dual joystick. :/

  • jamhead #26 3 years ago

    @UncleLou

    +1

  • GreyScale #27 3 years ago

    'Tosspots? No? People with more money than sense? Maybe!

    It amazes me that the price of a PS3 is so constantly in the spotlight when the cost of an unlocked I Phone is so incredibly high. '

    Dear jonsaan,

    Please google the prices of unlocked Xperia, Touch HD, Blackberry Storm, or pretty much any high end smartphone, and report back if you still think the iPhone price is proportionally high.

    Kind regards
    GreyScale

  • septimus #28 3 years ago

    Wild Guns, Pinball Dreams, Sneezies, Theseus, Ferrari GT and Slotz have been keeping some of my time.

  • mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #29 3 years ago

    ""Oh god, here we go again. "

    Ah, so I take it that you will no longer post flamewar articles to bump clicks? No more Faceoffs then? ¬_¬"

    Wow, what a reaching comment. I should point out that I'm a designer, I have absolutely nothing to do with articles the site runs.
    Edited by 1 at 09/03/09 @ 19:24

  • StooMonster #30 3 years ago

    Xerx3s: "Ah, so I take it that you will no longer post flamewar articles to bump clicks? No more Faceoffs then? ¬_¬" "For a code tinkerer like me, being able to write your own apps in a familiar environment with access to .net is just a bonus."

    You could use that familiar environment to write games and widgets for your Xbox 360!

    Having a mixture of Mac and PC makes it pretty easy to develop for iPhone, Apple give away all their development software for free on every Mac -- unlike those pesky MSDN licenses and their annual renewals I have to pay. Still, even if one insists on working in .Net and Visual Studio it's not exactly hard to write iPhone apps in C# and Mono (cross-platform and open source .Net).

  • paulf #31 3 years ago

    talking of which my first iPhone app has just been posted on the app store - so if you've ever wondered whether you are psychic here's where to find out. It's my first foray into iPhone apps so if you have any feedback please keep it constructive :)

    [link url=http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjec ts/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307111379&mt=8
    ]http://ph obos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSto...[/link]

    it's free by the way - and apologies for the blatent plugging :)

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #32 3 years ago

    "If you can show me a device that does all the iPhone/Touch does, but better, while being just as portable, I'll buy it."

    The LG Viewty does all the stuff you list, has a vastly better camera, is cuter, and costs £97 with no contract...

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #33 3 years ago

    Hey, if you're happy with a £300 phone and a £30 contract, go for it. Personally I don't need a dictionary, and I couldn't live with that pathetic toytown camera...