[Updated] Top iPhone, iPad, and Android Christmas game sales
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Fist of Awesome, 911 Operator, Mini Metro, and more games added
If you've been with us for a while, you'll probably know that around Christmas times the sales tend to get a little nuts. From Smash Puck to Bury Me, My Love, to 911 Operator and Mini Metro, there are some interesting things going cheap and lots to get into.
By this time next week Christmas will already be over and we'll be recovering in some form. D'you know what's just perfect to aid in post-Xmas recovery? Playing lots and lots of mobile games.
While we'll be updating this list for the rest of the week don't forget that the App Store takes its annual break on the 23rd. That's not a bad thing for you, of course. It just means that prices will be locked in until everything's back online, hurrah!
As for now, let's have a look at what gems are on offer.
1
Mini Metro
- Platform: Android
- Price: £1.09p/99c
Planning out a subway route is harder than you think it is in this peculiar, minimalistic puzzler. What may start of pretty easy starts descending into chaos as more lines are added, trains are held up, and people start cramming into the lines. Oh the humanity!
2
Anamorph
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 99p/99c
Anamorph is a curious puzzler where you need to rotate a series of dots and figure out the puzzle hidden within it. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! It's actually quite challenging, so if you like that kind of thing you'll want to have a glance at this one.
3
911 Operator
Pop on your headset and get to work as an emergency dispatcher. That might sound easy, but your resources aren't unlimited and some calls might not be as deadly as they first appear. Whether a crisis can be dealt with by giving first aid instructions or whether someone's just playing a sick joke, it's up to you to handle the pressure and react accordingly.
4
Bury Me, My Love
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 49p/99c
Follow the story of Syrian migrant, Nour, and her husband, Majd, in this text-based narrative adventure. As Nour tries to make her way across Europe, Majd must stay behind in Syria and advise her as best as he can through her travels. There are different paths and different endings to experience, so be sure to settle down and enjoy the journey.
5
Icewind Dale
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
Beneath the Spine of the World something is stirring. Far more than just cave beasts and mountain monsters, evil is scheming and it's up to you to stop it. This Enhanced Edition gives you all of the goodness of the 2000 game with a little more 'oomph' for newer players.
6
Smash Puck
- Platform: iOS
- Price: F2P
Currently free to play, Smash Puck has you playing through over 120 levels and admiring some beautifully bright-coloured graphics. As a mix between Pool, Pinball, and Curling, this is a rather unique take on those more traditional games - and by that I mean they've thrown in portals, moving platforms, magnets, and all sorts.
7
Fist of Awesome
Punching bears in their big mouths is just the first step of being awesome. No, as a time-travelling lumberjack you get to travel through time and punch bears in their faces to stop them from taking over the world. Get involved for Streets of Rage-like combat, bear puns, and cool pixel graphics.
8
Into the Dark: Narakan
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £2.99/$2.99
This is a bit of an odd one to wrap your head around, but bear with me. After waking up lost inside a huge forest, you need to search for the child calling your name and avoid getting eaten for brunch by a manner of great beasties. If you dig strategic, turn-based games, you'll want to check this one out.
9
Hyperforma
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
Hyperforma is a hardcore cyberpunk arcade with 3D puzzle elements that push the boundaries of its genre. Dive into ancient networks, solve the puzzles standing in your way, and discover the secrets of a forgotten civilisation.
10
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £3.99/$3.99
After your red-headed protagonist, Max, gets into a spot of bother with his little brother, it's up to him to save the day and retrieve his sibling from another dimension. This is a rather unique platformer where you use your magic pen to build up the world around you to your benefit.
11
Grimvalor
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £2.99/$2.99
This tricky hack 'n' slash platformer will have you delving into the forgotten kingdom of Vallaris in search of its lost king. You quickly learn what's in store for you as you come toe-to-toe with a variety of guardians and try to make it out alive.
12
Chameleon Run
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 99p/99c
Jumping and changing from pink to yellow may seem like an easy enough task, but Chameleon Run is more complicated than you'd think. Sprint across the level and try to match the colours of the platforms by switching between one and the other.
13
Kingdom Rush Vengeance
Only a month or so after its release, Kingdom Rush Vengeance is celebrating the holidays with a tidy discount. You're playing on the bad guys' team this time around but you've still got to get those towers up. Build towers, deflect the enemy, and win the game.
14
PAKO 2
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 99p/99c
This arcade racing game will get your blood pumping as you screech around the maps. Pick up your crew from heist spots, outdrive the cops, and earn fat stacks of cash as you do so. Get in, get out, get paid.
15
Fireproof Games
- Price: 99p/99c - £1.99/$1.99
If you haven't had the chance to play any of The Room games, now's an excellent chance to do so. Surrounded by beautifully crafted environments and challenged by a variety of thought-provoking puzzles, this is a puzzler that should be in everyone's libraries.
16
Jade Empire
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £4.99/$4.99
Take on this award-winning RPG and enjoy an interesting mix of martial arts, action, and character-driven story. Whatever decisions you make and whatever path you choose alters the way you're seen by other characters in the game, so be as wise as you can.
17
Cytus II
Another one of Rayark's masterpiece rhythm games, Cytus II takes place in a cyber-style future where the real world and internet can be synced in a whole new way. With tons of songs to play through by composers across the world, you'll want to check this one out for sure.
18
Incredibox
19
Frost
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
Guide spirits to their home planets in this beautiful indie game, and watch your screens come to life. With thousands of individual particles on the go, there's far more to get involved with here and a wonderful story to boot.
20
TAITO Corporation
- Price: £1.99/$1.99 - £4.99/$4.99
A bunch of Taito games are back on sale with their prices slashed down to a couple of quid, cor. If you're a bit partial on arcade shooting games, classic or crazy, it's a pretty sweet time to snap up one of these.
- Space Invaders - iOS/Android
- Raystorm - iOS/Android
- Rayforce - iOS/Android
- Raycrisis - iOS/Android
- Dariusburst - iOS/Android
21
Prune
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 99p/99c
As suggested by the name Prune is about growing and protecting your tree from harsh environmental factors. By swiping your finger across the screen you can grow and shape your tree into the sunlight and discover a subtle story of life.
22
Teslagrad
- Platform: Android
- Price: £2.59/$2.99
Play as a young boy in this cool, steampunk version of old Europe. Somehow, you end up right in the middle of an ancient conspiracy in this platform puzzler and, armed with Teslamancer technology which helps you control electromagnetic powers, you'll solve each challenge.
23
Sunless Sea
- Platform: iPad
- Price: £5.99/$5.99
Sail the sea, tackle challenging obstacles, try to retain your sanity, and maybe refrain from eating your crew if you can. Set in the compelling and award-winning Victorian Gothic 'Fallen London' universe, it's a cheerful game about discovery, loneliness, and death - lots of it.
24
Square Enix
- Price:£1.99/$1.99 - £12.99/$12.99
I mean, it just wouldn't be a sales list without a bunch of Final Fantasy and other Square Enix games going on sale, would it? So far only one of the series has cropped its prices on Android, but iOS is going all out with several of the classics making the cut. Which ones are you missing from your collection? Take a look.
- Final Fantasy Tactics: WotL - iOS/Android
- Final Fantasy IV - iOS
- Chrono Trigger - iOS
- Final Fantasy Dimensions II - iOS
- Final Fantasy III (iPad) - iOS
- Final Fantasy III (iPhone) - iOS
- Chaos Rings III - iOS
- Final Fantasy - iOS
- Final Fantasy Tactics - iOS
- Adventures of Mana - iOS
- Final Fantasy IX - iOS
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth - iOS
- Final Fantasy VII - iOS
25
Dig Dog
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
This roguelike platformer has you digging to discover treasures as man's best friend. It may be an odd world, but it's chocked full of stuff to pick up and tons of different pathways to take. Don't get too comfortable though, Fido, you're going to die quite a lot.
26
Animal Super Squad
27
Homo Machina
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
Inspired by the works of the somewhat eccentric scientist, Fritz Kahn, you need to solve intricate puzzles stylised as a 1920's factory. With me still? Good. Enjoy the inner workings of this narrative puzzler and its creative depiction of the human body.
28
GO Games
- Price 99p/99c
The Go games (no, not Pokemon) are something seriously special in terms of puzzlers. They've got the feeling of a board game with turn-based tactics enforced, but each brings the personality of its own franchise from aesthetic to unique mechanics. If you haven't picked these up yet you really should.
29
Double Fine Productions
- Platform: iOS
- Price: 99p/99c
DFP is a master at producing mind-bending and endlessly entertaining narrative games. From a mutated purple tentacle to a skeletal salesperson, these two games will keep you entertained all through the Christmas period.
30
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £4.99/$4.99
Sail ships solo or with a team of scurvy dogs in this real-time combat strategy game, and take on the many enemies awaiting you in the big blue. Whether you're fighting with traditional weapons or calling upon the supernatural, you'll have a (cannon)ball.
31
Suburbia
32
Sentinels of the Multiverse
- Platform: iOS
- Price: £1.99/$1.99
Got board game cravings this holiday season? Sentinels of the Multiverse is an experience worth having, that's for sure. Playing like a comic book come to life, you need to join forces with other players - or go at it solo - to take on the game's most evil villain.
33
Waking Mars
34
Atypical Games
- Price: 99p/99c - £1.99/$1.99
Both Radiation games are survival adventures where staying alive is your number one priority. One's on an island and one's on a city, but both titles are chocked full of zombies, mutants, and puzzles to solve.
On the other side of things you've got aerial/ground combat and lots of it. These are some of the finest war games you can find on the market, so do take a look if that's your bag.
- Radiation Island - iOS
- Radiation City - iOS
- Escape from Chernobyl - iOS/Android
- Sky Gamblers - Infinite Jets - iOS
- Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy - iOS
- Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders - iOS
- Battle Supremacy - iOS/Android
- Infinite Tanks - iOS/Android
35
Tin Man Games
- Price: £1.99/$1.99 - £2.99/$2.99
Tin Man Games has a couple of its awesome narrative adventures on sale today, so we hope you've saved room for content. Enjoy a solo RPG or multi-layered mystery just in time for Christmas.
36
Rusty Lake
- Price: 99p/99c - £1.99/$1.99
The Rusty Lake games are a real treat for lovers of awesome narratives and for those who enjoy things with a darker tone. Whatever title you decide to dig into (though I recommend all three), you'll fall in love with the art style and quirky puzzles for sure.
37
Bossa Studios
- Price: 99p/99c - £2.99/$2.99
Bossa Studios has a particular taste in games and range from the utterly hilarious to mildly infuriating. While we're missing Surgeon Simulator from the mix, you've still got some nice deals from living your life as a piece of bread to romancing cats.
38
Goat Simulator
- Price: 99p/99c
Goat Simulator is one of the weirder games you'll find on mobile to date and while it does what it says on the tin, you're not exactly just ambling about chewing on grass. No, throughout these few titles you run around creating havoc, floating through space, surviving the zombie apocalypse, and much more.
