It has become socially acceptable to be tinkering around on your phone all the time. Checking the web, emailing, social networking, texting. All mostly portrait pastimes, it seems less rude than turning your phone on it's side and engaging in a full on gaming session. So here's a list of my favourite portrait titles, great for a bit of covert gaming when landscape just feels bad mannered! Edit: I will continue to add to the list with incoming suggestions 10000000 Punch Quest Scurvy Scallywags Ridiculous Fishing Tetris Pixel People Tiny Tower Temple Run (series) Spell Tower Disc Driving Touchgrind BMX Flick Golf Nimble Quest Game Dev Story Cut the Rope (series) Edge extended Beat Sneak Bandit Doodle Jump Drop 7 Dark Nebula (series) Tiny Death Star Duet Game Backflip Madness Spout Dungeonlot Blastrax Cavern Kingturn series SRPG The Blockheads Gurk III RPG QuestLord The Lost Treasures of Infocom Phoenix Wright Trilogy The Last Express SimpleRockets Indiana Stone the Brave and the Boulder New Star Soccer Nameless the hackers rpg Tower of Fortune (series) Dungeon Raid Surely there's more great portrait games out there? Let's find em all
Hah I never really thought about portrait being more acceptable socially but you are so right. But screw being socially acceptable! Drop 7 is so simple yet so good. Once you learn how it works, it hooks you. I think most of the Kairosoft games can be played in portrait. My favorite (aside from Game Dev Story) are Grand Prix Story, Pocket League Story, and Dungeon Village. They used to be a great studio for premium games but have recently caved to F2P.
Hehe whilst I'm a fan of screw the socially acceptable there's something a little exciting about playing a game whilst the person infront of you thinks you are mudanly txting away ... Ok I've made it sound like a perversion but what the hell. Shame when decend devs feel they need to go F2P to keep up. I've not tried the other Kairosoft games but I'll certainly give them a crack if they are as good as game dev! I love Drop 7 so much too, always been on my device!
Just had Dark Nebula 1 & 2 recommended to me and it's really good! Adding to the list. Even better, the HD versions have full iphone 5 support.
Cavern Kingturn series SRPG The Blockheads Gurk III RPG QuestLord The Lost Treasures of Infocom Phoenix Wright Trilogy The Last Express SimpleRockets Edit : Indiana Stone the Brave and the Boulder All these games I love too.
I have literally spent the day at work "checking my messages" but secretly playing Tiny Death Star. Loving how big this list is becoming, not sure my watch list can cope.
Added to list thanks! Glad it's not just me that's a covert gamer ... I'll try NSSoccer ... Sneakily .... Like Solid Snake pretending to check the weather before a road trip with his mum.
Portrait or not, I don't think anyone is going to be too 'stealthy' playing 10000000. Dungelot, on the other hand, was made for subterfuge gaming. I will add Dungeon Raid to the list, one of the greatest games to ever come out for iOS.
I've had dungeon raid on my watchlist for ages, but never really done anything about it, but if it's that good I'll not only add it to the list but I'll get it right now. Cheers