These Are Our Favorite iPhone Games This Week

December 29, 2014 1:43 PM EST

Had enough Candy Crush and looking for something new to play on your iPhone? We rounded up some favorites worth a download this week. Have fun!

Dwelp

Dwelp is a lot like the popular iPhone game Dots, but slightly less intuitive and a lot more puzzling. The goal is to connect all the same-colored dots. However, once two dots are connected, the others on the screen of the same color cannot be moved. The game is simple, but the connective swirls between dots add a nice touch to the two-dimensional gameplay. Dwelp is challenging, a lot of fun, and immensely frustrating.

Dwelp is available for $1.99 in the App Store.

Golden House

For a game that looks and plays a lot like an old Game Boy game, Golden House is surprisingly well-adapted to the detail-oriented world of the iOS arcade. The goal is to rescue your character’s sister from a haunted house while dodging obstacles and enemies. The story is almost as much fun to follow as the game is to play. Overall, it’s a pretty charming imitation of a gaming relic.

Golden House is free in the iTunes App Store.

Jump

Even if Jump were a horribly boring and impossible-to-complete puzzle, it would still be a lot of fun to look at due to vibrant colors that don’t blind users. But it isn’t boring. Jump can keep you occupied almost indefinitely by combining puzzles and arcade style gaming in which players must solve a puzzle, collect items, and eventually find an exit to the level in order to reach the next stage.

Jump is free in the iTunes App Store.

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**Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare**. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision

**Far Cry 4**. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design *Far Cry 3*. Ubisoft

The Last of Us Remastered — **The Last of Us: Remastered**. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure *Uncharted* series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game.Ashley Gilbertson for TIME

**Alien: Isolation** Built from scratch, the *Alien: Isolation* engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of *Alien* film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly

**Assassin's Creed Unity**. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft

**Child of Light** Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, *Child of Light*'s hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft

**Destiny** Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, *Destiny*'s game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie

**Mario Kart 8** Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo

**Infamous Second Son** Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions

**Monument Valley** Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's *The Fall*. Ustwo

**Grand Theft Auto V** Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar

**Forza Horizon 2** Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios

**80 Days** Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl *80 Days*' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition — **Tomb Raider** Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered *Tomb Raider: Legend* in 2006. Square Enix

Ultimate Robot Fighting

If you were a childhood fan of games like Marvel vs. Capcom or MechWarrior, then Ultimate Robot Fighting is probably your ideal iOS game. Develop your fighting robot and put it into an arena in order to do battle against heavily armed enemies. Upgrade your kit and fight a series of even-deadlier robots in order to mash your way to the top.

Ultimate Robot Fighting is free in the iTunes App Store.

Jump Car

Although your real-world driving skills in no way translate over to this mobile game, your ability to skillfully and selectively tap on the screen will. Jump Car, from the developers of 2048, will probably be just as addicting and just as good as the one that made them famous. The goal is simple: jump your way from level to level without crashing your car. Climb as high as you possibly can without dying. The game literally never ends.

Jump Car is free in the iTunes App Store.

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