The wheels of the world keep turing and so we've reached the May chunk of our look back at the best mobile games of 2016.
The hits kept on coming as the year started to get a bit warmer. I mean a lot of bad things happened in the real world in May, but let's not focus on them, okay? Because if we do I'm just going to get really, really sad.
Instead let's focus on the excellent games that came out. We had racers, we had platformers, we had games about incredibly violent bears. What an excellent time to be alive. Here they come, right now, after this paragraph.
Rush Rally 2
A wonderful, fully featured rally driving game that lets you tear up a bunch of tracks from every corner of the globe in super powered cars with lots and lots of stickers on them.
There are a few other rally games on the App Store but this one really takes the biscuit when it comes to polish, controls, and swagger.
And yes, you do need swagger in a rally game. You need to feel like you're in charge of a ridiculously powerful four wheel cornering machine. And that's exactly what Rush Rally 2 did.
Leap Day
I think this is the first time Nitrome has made it onto this retrospective. Which is quite a surprise when you take into account that it's me writing it.
This is another super tough, super clever platformer from a dev who is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the finest working on the App Store at the moment.
Jump up a series of one-screen levels, trying your best not to die. And failing, quite a lot of the time. While looking at lovely graphics presented in Nitrome's inimitable style.
Bushido Bear
A game about not one incredibly violent bear, but lots of incredibly violent bears. And it's name is essentially a pun. I love a good pun.
Swipe on the screen to slash out with your blades. But if you get touched then you die. So as well as being fast, you need to be as precise as possible.
That's no mean feat when a bunch of angry ninja are trying to cut you into shreds. It's slick, it's violent, and it wouldn't work anywhere other than mobile.
