Fifty apps that are reinventing mobile gaming

Solve a murder mystery, grow a tree, spend the day as a sailor, be a spider" mobile developers are rethinking everything

Innovation is an overused and abused word in the technology industry but if you strip it down to the basic principle of "new ideas", it's clear that there's a lot of it going on in mobile games. When you gather some of the best examples together, you realise how many new ideas are out there. For example, there have been some creative experiments with the idea of interactive fiction, from the round-the-world thrills of 80 Days to the beat-the-censors story of Blackbar.

There are games that play with sound in new and interesting ways: Papa Sangre II is played entirely by listening rather than looking, while Dark Echo visualises your sounds on the screen. Both are - and this may not be a coincidence - among the creepiest mobile games available.

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