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today's video has made possible by Squarespace what's up Internet Kevin here on TLD well it's the end of the month so that means once again it's time for me to tell you guys my favorite iOS games don't come out now this has been a great month for app games for both high quality high profile releases and some great indie titles on the side we've got a great mixture of genres including an adventure simulation stealth platforming and puzzle games so let's go ahead and check out my top favorite iOS games of april 2014 I'm cheating a little bit this time because normally we only have five games on this list but I'm gonna go ahead and have six it's mainly because that this month had one really high-profile release it's basically obligatory to mention and that's blizzards free-to-play collectible card game hearthstone if you haven't tried hard stone yet on PC or iPad do it now first off it's completely free so you have nothing to lose for at least trying it and second off it's a really solid and fun card game to play whether you want to do some serious matches back to back or just play a few to kill time here and there you can start off by doing some practice matches against the AI to unlock more classes do some more matches online that lock more cards to customize your decks and then play against your friends or just random people if you're a fan of CCGs in general then this is a title you have to give a shot so what the elephant in the room out of the way let's go ahead and get to my other top 5 picks and to begin with we have another game that support of a PC title that came out in late 2012 and has finally found its way to iPad FTL FTL is a light space simulation game in which players command and manage their own spaceship traveling through the universe dealing with multiple encounters ranging from space battles to merchants to answering distress signals each playthrough goes differently and while you'll die several times your first couple tries over time you'll get to try out new alien races as crewmates unlocking your ships and weapons and most importantly just have a hell of a lot of fun the port from PC was done fantastically not only does it run smooth but it's got some great sci-fi themed adjustments for touch controls like powering up and down systems by sliding levers if you haven't played up TL before grab it now and if you have played FTL before you already know how awesome it is and you might be tempted just to grab this version so you can have a portable way to play it it's a bit pricier than most app games at ten dollars but it's worth every penny now next on the list we have a 2d platformer that actually came out at the very end of March but it was just at the last second before my March top 5 iOS so it's making its appearance now and that sometimes you die this is a simple platformer game with a simple aesthetic whose only mechanic outside of jumping is the fact that you can use the bodies of your past deaths as a way to solve puzzles it's a grim thought that makes for a fun spin on the genre and as players progress the game begins to assault common notions and popular movements in recent gaming trends for only a dollar ninety-nine it's worth killing some time on though as a warning the game does have a scene that will ruin you if you have epilepsy something it mentions at the very end of its description so if that's an issue for you you might want to stay back on this now third on the list is a game that is a great spin on stealth genre for touch controls and that's third eye crime gameplay takes place from a bird's-eye view with players making their way to an exit location maybe taking a break along the way to grab some treasure players have an awareness of where enemies think they will be thanks to highlighted red lines giving you the chance to know where they look first and as a result where it's best to hide and get around them it's not too difficult to simply get through all levels but completing all of its challenges can take a lot of tries a lot of practice and a lot of patience it's three dollars initially to purchase but the game does charge you to unlock its later acts bumping the total price up to five dollars which is a little knowing but still worth its total price now fourth app is a title that belongs in the list of those games that are very short and pretty minimal in terms of difficulty but if such great art direction and such a fun concept that it can't help but have it be memorable and that's Monument Valley Monument Valley is a simple puzzle game requiring you to navigate your character from the start to end but makes use of perspective to create nonsensical pathways what was originally a bridge might become a ramp moving upwards up can be come down and height means almost nothing where you can stand a little in front of something each level adds its own little twists and change in style and while the game only tastes good three or four hours to complete none at that time or the money spent on it feels wasted those of you with a preference for the artsy side of games will definitely want to check this one out for its four dollar price tag now last on the list is the third game to come from rocketcat studios a team responsible for two of my favorite app games punch quest and mage gauntlet which if you haven't played you should play as well and now they've brought us we word souls wayward Souls shares a lot of gameplay elements with mage gauntlet it's a top-down 16-bit style action game with light RPG elements where it diverges though is that while mage gauntlet had a lead character and pre-designed dungeons to follow wayward Souls gives you six different characters play as with a dungeon whose form changes every time you enter each character not only plays differently with their own strengths weaknesses and special abilities but each even have their own distinct and different plot for why they're journeying through this dangerous tower even when picking the same character over and over again each run can feel different thanks to randomly generated floors sometimes featuring wildly different enemies and special upgrades that come from a limited random list that can change that characters play style for that run it's incredibly easy to spend hours and ended with this game and at five dollars I felt like I easily got my money's worth and more well there's my top five kind actually six iOS games to come out for april 2014 before i get out of here though i do want to take a moment to thank Squarespace for helping make today's video possible Squarespace is one of the fastest and easiest ways to build your own website thanks to drag-and-drop functionality and sites are automatically optimized to look great no matter what device you're using to view them whether it's a desktop tablet or smartphone they've got a great support staff working out of New York available twenty-four-seven and pricing starts out as low as eight bucks a month with a 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