68 MACWORLD MARCH 2018
MAC
Look beyond the chaff of flavor-of-the-moment, ad-riddled games and microtransaction-
heavy “freemium” titles, and you’ll find games that are every bit as good as what you’ll see
on Apple Arcade. Some of them are even better. And this list doesn’t even count many of
the fun freemium games that dropped in 2019. By Leif Johnson
BEST iOS GAMES OF 2019
iOSCENTRAL
68 MACWORLD MARCH 2020
ORDIA
go.macworld.com/dia
Ordia plays a lot like Angry Birds: Pull back on your avatar with your
finger, and it fires off in the direction you aimed in. But that’s about
where the similarities end. Here you’re a gloopy eye-like blob
ascending through the primordial ooze, so you do your platforming
vertically rather than horizontally. Along the way, you plop over to
other gloopy blobs for support and calculate catapults over spikes,
until at last you break through the surface at the end of the stage—
and, perhaps, to the next stage of evolution.