Hello loyal AppSpy readers, and welcome back. I hope you all had a lovely festive period, ate and drank to your heart’s content, and didn’t end up brawling over the turkey with a relative you only see once a year. Actually I kinda hope you did do that last bit.
Mainly because if you did, that intro leads into the next part of this feature with a lot more style. Because to kick the year off, we’re literally kicking off, by looking at the best fighting games on mobile.
Some of them are traditional, some of them aren’t traditional, but all of them involve kicking and punching people in the face until they fall over. Agree with us? Disagree with us? Well make sure you make your voice heard in the comments below.
Taekwondo Game Global Tournament
An interesting game that involves a lot more strategy than you might expect. Kick and punch your way through a series of opponents, trying to predict their moves and counter with lightning fast strikes of your own.
It might not have the bombast of more arcade-y kick punchers, but there’s a huge amount of depth here. Figuring out the best way to take down your opponent, without getting mullered or getting too tired, takes a lot of skill.
Plus it looks great, the buttons all work the way they should, and the violence is addictive enough that you’ll be ready to jump back into it well before your butt hits the canvas.
Read the Pocket Gamer review here
Punch Quest
You’ve probably already heard this story, but there was a couple of weeks around the launch of Punch Quest where the AppSpy and Pocket Gamer teams didn’t really do any work. Because we were all playing Punch Quest.
It’s not a fighter in the strictest sense of the term, but there is a lot of fighting in it. Punching, mainly. And you also get to ride on dinosaurs. Collect loot, punch everything, try your best not to die.
And you will die. You will die a lot. But the rhythm of the fighting here is so wonderfully moreish that you’ll dive back in without hesitation. Especially if your editor is goading you about beating your score.
Read the Pocket Gamer review here
The Executive
A game that revels in its silliness. Run through a series of office blocks and other urban situations and kick the living furballs out of a series of werewolves and other terrifying creatures of the night.
Everything is controlled with intelligent swipes, taps, and presses, and the levels are knitted together with some intelligent auto-running that sees you swiping to avoid a bunch of obstacles.
This is the side-scrolling brawler reinvented for the touch screen generation. And it works wonderfully well. Plus you get to kick Werewolves in the crotch, which can only ever be a good thing.
