On the eve of the holidays, Apple announced which games it considers the best in the outgoing year. The choice was far from the most obvious.
The Apple company called the Splitter Critters puzzle the best iPhone app. The Canadian project from RAC7 Games has received an award from Apple for the second time in a year. In the summer, she was the winner of the Apple Design Awards 2017.
Recall that the game is an original interpretation of Lemmings. The goal of the game is to guide the aliens to their flying saucer. To do this, the player cuts the screen into pieces, and then combines the pieces in such a way that a path to the ship is created.
Splitter Critters
Apple has recognized the mobile version of the popular PC game as the best game for iPad
The Witness from an independent developer Jonathan Blow.
The project is a first–person adventure game in which the player walks around a beautiful island from one puzzle to another. The goal of most tasks is to draw a line correctly across the field.
The Witness
Both of these games have received corresponding ones in most regions.
However, not all of them. In some countries, similar awards were given to such games as Art of War: Red Tides, Framed 2, Hidden Folks, Micropolis! and Old Man’s Journey.
Art of War: Red Tides
Apple also published the top twenty most downloaded games by region.
In the USA , the top five looks like this: