Unique, innovative, creative games

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  1. Red1

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    #1 Red1, Mar 27, 2011
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    There's heaps of similar games on the AppStore, but some games really stand-out for being unique and creative. Examples:

    Vetica: A shoot'em up based on the font helevetica.

    Edge: An awesome game where you control a rolling cube.

    Beyond Ynth: Reach the end of the level by tipping shapes over.

    Sword & Sworcery beautiful pixel art experience.

    Shot Shot Shoot Minimalistic 2-player game.

    The creativity of these games makes them more of an experience. What other games are unique and innovative?
     
  2. crex

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    Robot Wants Kitty - Try name another game out there that revolves around a robot wanting a kitty. Thats right. There isn't.

    Karoshi - Your goal is to kill the main character instead of saving him. Brilliant!

    Puzzle Agent - The story revolves around a murder at an eraser factory and short red gnomes. Doesn't get more unique than that.
     
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    Ting Wings
    great stylish art and super easy control.
     
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    Give me Helsing's fire , Cut the rope , Land-A Panda , Infinight , Tilt to live , Papa Sangre , Oddy Smog , Portaball , Shibuya , Osmos , Pocket God .
     
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    SOMEWHAT UNIQUE BLENDS

    Perfect Cell- perfect blend of several genres

    Battleheart- intuitive controls for a great blend of RTS and RPG

    Bug Heroes- the greatest blend on iOS!

    UNIQUE-ISH GAMES

    Collision Effect- intuitive and challenging

    Osmos- creative game based on Newton's laws

    Envirobear- nothing like it

    Flight Control- still a great and unique skill-based game

    Fruit Ninja- the best and first food slicer on the app store

    Helsing's Fire- among the best puzzlers available (light-based, which is cool)

    Rocketcat's Hook series- great swinging mechanic

    iBlast Moki- another great and unique puzzler

    Jelly Car- a car made of jello!

    Infinity Blade- one of the best sword fighting sims on ANY platform

    Lego Harry Potter- great 3rd person adventure combined with Lego fun

    Ninjatown- the best vertical climber with very intuitive gestures for control

    PAPA SANGRE- COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY UNIQUE

    Slice It- a great puzzler that feels like Geometry class, but is still fun

    Wispin- What is it?

    All Gameloft games ;)
     
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    Thanks. Hadn't heard of Shibuya before...
     
  7. SuperWeird

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    #7 SuperWeird, Mar 27, 2011
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    All of these games are very unique, innovative and creative.....

    Undead Attack: pinball zombie gate defense
    Orbital: the best game you will ever play
    Bungee Ball: bungee ball/number game
    Halogen: beyond description...
    Enigmo 2: 3D space puzzles
    Esfera: 3D spherical chess
    Circular Tic Tac Toe: taking it to the next level
    Rings of Saturn: 1-4 player space checkers-like game (but not really)
    ArcSpin: circular Tetris-like game
    Quads: 4-way Tetris
    Bumper Basher: bumper car soccer + more
    Marble Mixer: marbles for the 21st century
    Vector Ball: 3D pong
    Znipball: dual finger air hockey-like game
    Air Hockey Arcade XL: the king of air hockey games
    Air Soccer 2011: air hockey soccer with real teams and world tournaments
    Decoloro: color matcher labyrinth
    Edge: cube action puzzler, one of the most amazing games ever made
    Jumpy Ball: draw lines to move up and avoid enemies
    Collision Effect: whatever it is, it's unique
    Osmos: amazing
    Jelly Car 3: jelly car action puzzler with amazing creativity and gameplay
    Soosiz: 360 rotating platformer, one of the funnest games you'll ever play
    Berserk Blobs: giant alien monsters destroy a 3D america
    Land A Panda: panda shooting puzzler
    Burn the Rope: rope burning puzzler
    Big Boss: tables have finally turned
    Max & the Magic Marker: platformer drawing puzzler
    Silverfish: bugs avoidance and attack game
    Tilt to Live: vector avoidance and attack game
    Spirit: destroy enemies by creating circles around them
    Touch Wars: multi-finger space war
    Wave: sound based psytrance shmup
    Smasheroid: Asteroids game where you are the asteroids and the ships are the enemy
    Infinity Gene: the next evolution in space invaders
    Vetica: Helvetica shmup
    Geometry Wars: geometry space shooter
    Infinity Field: innovative take on Geometry Wars
    Tunnel Shoot: endless tunnel shooter
    Circuloid: circular brick breaker
    Breakspin: dual thumb circular brick breaker
    BlocksTouch 3D: 3D brick breaker flying around a tower
    Splash Duel: the ultimate underwater pong/brick breaker battle
    Paddle Battle: 2 player pong war with projectiles in asteroid brick breaking space
    Space Out: perfect union of breakout and space invaders
    Pong Vaders: Pong meets Space Invaders
    Space Breakout: brick breaker meet shmup
    Breakeroids: breakout meets Asteroids
    High Tech Racing: toy cars racing game
    Envirobear: bear drives a car and eats psychedelic mushrooms to see the world more clearly
    iStunt 2: the most awesome gravity-defying snowboarding game
    Hook World: endless hook action
    Falling Fred: suicide has never been so fun
    Shatterquest 3D: bouncing ball 3D puzzler
    World of Goo: goo ball puzzler
    Wispin: dual stick color matcher
    Immuno: very innovative color matcher
    Aractroid: wild nature meets techno future spider color matcher
    Monsieur Boing: 3d bouncer color matcher
    Super Streaker: run naked through a soccer stadium killing all the players with guns and weapons
    Mazonaught: endless maze runner in space
    The Incident: climb endless falling objects to reach the top
    Forget-Me-Not: most awesome retro game since pac-man
    MSD: retro shaving game
    Multitasking: play 9 retro games at the same time!
     
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    I dig Dark Nebula 2, who knew a ball roller could be so epic!!
     
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    Mushihimesame Bug Panic, a new breath of life into the DSS genre by CAVE, the developers of Espgluda and Dodonpachi.
     
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    The upcoming game Smuggle Truck is also definitely unique.
     
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    WTF! Amazing...
     
  12. SuperWeird

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    I bought Karoshi after reading this post, and you're right, that game's very unique and extremely awesome.
     
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    haha. just wait til you unlock Karoshi ware mode. So fun!
     
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    Top 10 installed now:
    • Lead Wars
    • Halcyon
    • Eliss
    • Zen Bound, Zen Bound 2
    • Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor
    • Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
    • Enviro-Bear 2010
    • Trism
    • Space Miner: Space Ore Bust
    • So Long, Oregon
    Honorable Mention:
    • The Hidden Park
    • Papa Sangre
    • Touchgrind
    • Karoshi
    • PathPix, PathPix Pro, PathPix Zen
    • Bit.Trip Beat
    • WINtA
    • Colorbind
    • Huebris
    • Kometen
    • Blind World
    • Today, I Die Again
    • Vanitas
    • Levers
    • Helicoid
    • Passage
    • Beat It!
    • muBlip
    • Osmos
    • Glow Artisan
    • theLine
    • Shift, Shift2
    • Bad Air Day
    • Helsing's Fire
    • Infinight
    • Cogs
     
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    You forgot an important word in your description... FUN. A game can be super awesome special neat, but at the end of the day, if its not fun to play, it fails as a game. The most fun and creative games for the ipod that i can think of right now are:

    Dungeon Raid- An intuitive mix of puzzper and rpg that far exceeds puzzle quest(does it count if it mixes two pre-established genres?)

    Spike Dislike-Boing Boing Boing. So simple, so fun. Definitely worth checkibg out
     
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    OMG ! How did I forget Spider: The Secret of Bruce Manor and Space miner D:
     
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    This is great. You guys are showing me new games to check out! :)

    After reading the comments above, I brought Karoshi for a buck. Crex has been raving about it for ages, so finally caved and got it.
     
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    A few more to add from me .

    Spirit , Soosiz , Rolando 1&2 , Sigma , Slice it! , Ragdoll blaster 1&2 .

    edit : Should I add a reasoning / explanation behind these games like what everyone else did ?
     
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    There's a free lite version of Soosiz, if anyone wants to check it out. It's fun, but makes me a little dizzy!

    Don't have to put a reason. It's just nice to discover creative games, especially the less known ones.
     
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    it certainly does !

    I will look through the game sections for a few others ! :)
     

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