JoyJoy has excellent mechanics. The controls are spot-on, the feel of the different weapons is good, and the variety of enemies and situations are compelling — plus there’s a great risk-reward system in play.

Legendary Wars was released on the App Store on January 27th, 2011. It was the first game released by Liv Games, a relatively small independent developer based in Orange County, California.

The history of The Blocks Cometh has a lot more twists and turns than you might expect, from a start in Flash to a tumultuous copycat problem.

Castle defense, arcade-style waves, RPG elements… wrap it up in a genuinely charming, humorous presentation, and you’ve got a recipe for a winner.

Puzzlejuice is an awesome combo of multiple genres, blending the mental challenge of a word game with the gotta-move time pressure of the arcade!

Breach & Clear does an impressively good job of walking the line between traditional mechanics and new ideas, bringing in some thinking from outside the genre that makes it feel like a fast, fresh experience.

Pixel Boat Rush was XperimentalZ’s follow-up to Don’t Run with a Plasma Sword, and started with the idea to combine racing and combat.

One of the core ideas behind Tiger Style’s design philosophy is to make games without guns. Or to put it another way, the team wanted to find different kinds of core gameplay mechanics than simply destroying things.

Run Roo Run plumbs a great deal of ideas from its simple concept — you play as Roo, a mother kangaroo who needs to rescue her baby Joey after it has been kidnapped.

Need help rolling your character? We’ve got tips on how your race and job class affect gameplay.

Sword of Fargoal is a roguelike RPG, which may be a new game genre for new GameClub members. Basically, every play through is different as all of the dungeon floors, enemies, loot, and everything else is completely random!

How a forum rivalry between two guys named Mikey turned into a game studio — and an excellent platformer series.