--- title: The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week description: The five best iPhone games to try this week. canonical: https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/ author: Alexander Aciman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-17T13:11:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:45:38.972Z article:section: Business og:title: The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week og:description: The five best iPhone games to try this week. og:url: https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week twitter:description: The five best iPhone games to try this week. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week by [Alexander Aciman](/author/alexander-aciman/) ## Alexander Aciman Oct 17, 2014 1:11 PM CUT by [Alexander Aciman](/author/alexander-aciman/) ## Alexander Aciman Oct 17, 2014 1:11 PM CUT Looking for a new iPhone game for your commute to work or lunch break at school? TIME rounded up some recent favorites that are worth a try. ### War of Ages  App Store It’s hardly a surprise that _War of Ages_ is in the top 100 apps in the App Store. For those of us who played games like _Age of Empires_ in the late 90s and early 2000’s, everything from the similar title, to building a nation, to developing a reliable army makes _War of Ages_ feel like a throwback to these original strategy games. But _War of Ages_ allows you to play online against millions of players, which adds a fascinating dimension to the classic medieval strategy genre. _War of Ages is available free in the_ [_App Store_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-of-ages/id912653220?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100-FREEAPPS&l=en&ign-mpt=uo%3D4%29 "undefined")_._ ### Goat Simulator  App Store When _Goat Simulator_ was announced earlier this year, it was given web-wide attention due to its premise: a surreal _Grand Theft Auto-_type game involving a goat. Some believed it was an absurdist work of art; others called it a glitch-ridden disaster. Either way, _Goat Simulator_ allows players to control a third person goat and explore the animal’s world, slingshotting the goat from object to object using its extremely elastic tongue while destroying everything in its path. _Goat Simulator is available for $4.99 in the_ [_App Store_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goat-simulator/id868692227?mt=8 "undefined")_._ ### Banner Saga  App Store While many game developers have started using the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’ larger screen sizes as a way to explore three dimensions, Banner Saga still delivers a stunning 2D landscape. Players choose their own characters and can follow any number of paths in this role-playing game that feels more like a Norse epic than a game one might plan on a phone. The art itself looks a lot like a detailed cartoon, which seems all the more appropriate when you take your Vikings into battle or sneak through a dark forest to avoid being seen by an enemy patrol. _Banner Saga is available for $9.99 in the_ [_App Store_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id911006986?mt=8%29 "undefined") ### Daddy Long Legs  App Store _Daddy Long Legs_ is as hypnotic as it is simple. The premise sounds almost like a bad joke: successfully tap your screen to guide a hairy black cube with two gigantic legs down a track. Every time the cube falls, it splatters on the ground and the player starts over. For the cube, the road is endless. The only limit is how many hours a player is willing to spend trying to beat a shamefully low high score. But _Daddy Long Legs_ also inadvertently delivers a disturbingly poignant message to its players: sometimes baby steps and persistence and a little luck yield greater results than big strides. _Daddy Long Legs is available free in the_ [_App Store_](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id905921908%29 "undefined")_._ ### Jack B. Nimble  App Store The first thing one notices about _Jack B. Nimble_ is that it looks almost exactly like an original Game Boy game. With hints of Mario and Sonic and obvious traces of Indiana Jones, _Jack B. Nimble_ is an endearingly old-fashioned monochrome game that lends a dash of eeriness to this hand-held style game. But _Jack B. Nimble_ moves at a decidedly faster pace than its predecessors, and developers didn’t forget that players would be using a tool far more powerful than an old-school Game Boy. Somehow it’s as much at home on the iPhone than it would have been on a Christmas wish list in 1992. _Jack B. Nimble is available for $1.99 in the_ [_App Store_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jack-b.-nimble/id918891211?mt=8 "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/"},"headline":"The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week","datePublished":"2014-10-17T13:11:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:45:38.972Z","description":"Give these games a shot","url":"https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Aciman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexander-aciman/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3516640/iphone-games/","name":"The 5 iPhone Games You Should Play This Week"}}]}] ```