Currently there are some 3700 plus free games listed in the US iTunes App store.That’s a lot of free games for us to play!
But which ones do we choose? How can we possibly find our way through that many opportunities? Well, each game can be ranked (not all are – usually because they have had too few people try them out). Rankings do provide some help – we can check to see how many people gave the game a 1 to 5 star rating.
iTunes does also provide a list of the top free games – but the rankings are often old and, in our opinion (the iPhonegizmo team), do not represent the best games on offer.
Well, we decided to find out! We have a very quick quiz we would like our readers to do. Just one word (usually) is all that’s asked! We want you to tell us (and, eventually, all other readers) what your fav iPhone game is. Just click the image below to let us know:
In case you don’t know how to find all the free games, we will go through two quick ways to find them:
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1) Click on the “store” tab at the top left of iTunes. In the drop down menu click on “search”. Then click on all results and choose applications from the drop down menu. A new window will open. Click on categories and choose games from the drop down menu. Make sure you also put a tick in the “search only for free applications” box. When the results come up, click on “show all”
All game results are shown as an icon. The advantage of this is that you can see at a glance the type of game on offer. But it is also a bit tedious as there are only 180 icons per page.
2) An alternative method is to go to the iTunes home page. In the top right hand side column you will see the “browse” option. Click on that and when the new page comes up click “App store” – then “game” under category, then “all” under subcategory (or choose the game genre you like).
Now these results can be organized according to various preferences. Because we want all the free games, click “price” to get the list ordered in with the free games at the top. If you scroll down you will see that there are 3709 free games!
Now you can see the problem. So many games, so much choice – arghhh.
So check back for the results of our quiz to get the heads up on which free games are the best!
PS: Click on the game icons above to check out these two complete newbie games – not even been rated yet as they are so new.