EDGE: "A level design and stylistic triumph but often a frustrating puzzler for the wrong reasons, They Need To Be Fed 2 is a good iOS game. But it could become a great game if it mimicked its hero and jumped to other platforms."
While many indie games suffer from the same problems as their AAA peers, getting mired down in retreaded subject material and clichéd mechanics, the most interesting titles recognize their freedom and show no fear in taking advantage of it. The qualifier of “indie” should indicate that you're in for a unique and inventive experience. So here’s Hardcore Droid’s list of the games most representative of that so far in 2013.
A highly enjoyable bite-sized gravity based platformer in which the goal of each level is to feed your little character to a hungry carnivorous plant.
A common fear when playing platformers is the fear of falling. Overestimate a jump by just a few pixels and you’ll skid off the next ledge into the dreaded abyss that exists just below the play screen. In the They Need To Be Fed series, however, falling is an impossibility. Gravity pulls you towards whatever object you’re standing on, until you jump close enough to another object that will suck you into its gravitational field instead. You never have to worry about plummeting off-screen—but there are still plenty of obstacles within the frame for you to contend with.
