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Top 10 best free games for your iPhone and iPad (2012)

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Top 10 best free games for your iPhone and iPad (2012)
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It's hard to beat the satisfaction that comes with downloading a great title completely free of charge.

Apple's App Store is full to the brim with quality free titles, but it's also chock-full of free titles that we'd rather not touch with a barge pole.

So, we've browsed the App Store a little and produced this list of ten great free games for your iPhone and iPad.

Say What You See: The Collection
By The Big Ideas Corporation - download for iPhone or download for iPad

This puzzler acts as a hub for a variety of differently themed digital canvases, which task you with just one thing: saying what you see.

Each canvas is packed with pictures that represent popular movies, video games, musicians, football teams, and more. You can download additional canvases, which are released periodically, via in-app purchases.

Dark Meadow: The Pact

By Phosphor Games Studio - download for iPhone and iPad

Dark Meadow: The Pact thrusts you into a horror-filled world full of monsters and mysteries.

The dreadful beasties you encounter as you explore the abandoned hospital at the centre of this game's plot can be dispatched in Infinity Blade-esque battles using swords and crossbows.

Zenonia 4: Return of the Legend

By Gamevil - download for iPhone and iPad

The fourth instalment of this Legend of Zelda-like role-playing series follows four warriors as they set off on a quest to repel an ancient evil.

You can equip this game's four character classes - Slayer, Blader, Ranger, and Druid - with a variety of weapons and armours; boost their potential with new abilities; and use them in asynchronous online PvP matches.

Logos Quiz Game
By AticoD - download for iPhone and iPad

Logos Quiz Game may not be one of the most action-packed games on the App Store, but its ruddy addictive. Like, really addictive.

You're tasked with successfully guessing which company each of the game's logos represents. If you're stuck, there's an in-game hint system to help you out.

Deer Hunter Reloaded
By Glu Games - download for iPhone and iPad

Ever wanted to try your hand at hunting? If you've just answered 'yes', Deer Hunter Reloaded is for you.

Glu's hunting game tasks you with, well, hunting a variety of different animals. A special X-Ray mode allows you to pinpoint each animal's vital organs for an efficient kill. Nice.

Draw Something Free

By OMGPOP - download for iPhone and iPad

Draw Something recently took iOS (and Android) by storm. In this Pictionary-style social game, you take turns with opponents to try and guess exactly what your adversary is attempting to draw.

If you've already played this sketch-'em-up, you'll know very few look as good as the one in the cropped screenshot above (or, indeed, these 20 masterpieces). Thankfully, Pocket Gamer recently published a handy guide that's full of hints, tips, and even cheats.

Temple Run

By Imangi Studios - download for iPhone and iPad

Temple Run is an endless-running title in which you have to sprint for as long as you possibly can while avoiding all manner of obstacles, hazards, and bloodthirsty monkeys.

You can spend the treasures you collect as you play on a number of different power-ups and utilities, which - among other things - give you a second chance should you plummet to an untimely death.

Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North
By Kabam - download for iPhone and iPad

Your aim in this strategy title is to defend an up-and-coming realm long enough to turn it into a bustling kingdom, and wipe your opponents from the face of the earth.

You can fill your new realm with a wide variety of upgradable buildings - all of which require resources to build.

Cordy Sky
By SilverTree Media - download for iPhone and iPad

Cordy Sky is a Doodle Jump-esque experience in which you guide a small robot upwards as far as you possibly can, using springs, bumpers, and hover beams to propel him.

You can spend the gears you collect throughout the game on handy power-ups, as well as unique costumes and new colours for your droid.

Assassin's Creed Recollection

By Ubisoft - download for iPhone and iPad

Assassin's Creed Recollection is a real-time boardgame that sees you engage in tactical battles with characters from console titles Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Once you're done with the game's story, you can challenge your buddies and other players from around the world to online duels.

Additionally, you can keep an eye on all the iPhone and iPad games that are made available for free over the coming weeks, months, and year by clicking here.
Anthony Usher
Anthony Usher
Anthony is a Liverpool, UK-based writer who fell in love with gaming while playing Super Mario World on his SNES back in the early '90s. When he isn't busy grooming his beard, you can find him replaying Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII for the umpteenth time. Aside from gaming, Anthony likes hiking, MMA, and pretending he’s a Viking.