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Helix, Michael Brough's fevered retro spin-'em-up, is out right now on iPad and iPhone

Twirling, twirling, twirling

Helix, Michael Brough's fevered retro spin-'em-up, is out right now on iPad and iPhone
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Helix is a dangerously simple retro arcade game from 868-Hack creator Michael Brough. It’s jaggedly retro, painfully addictive, and out on the App Store right now.

You control everything with a single finger, twirling it anywhere on the screen to move your strange craft around. Rather than shooting enemies, you destroy them by encircling them.

Each weird creature you encounter has a ring around them. Fill that ring by flying around the critter and it’ll explode. Easy enough when there’s one thing on the screen, but a lot tougher when there’s three or four.

Then you get enemies you need to fly around in a specific direction, and others that have multiple health bars and need to be flown around more than once.

And then you die. And then you start again because you’re pretty sure you can do much better than that.

The game is available right this second for the reasonable price of £1.99 / $2.99. We should have a review up in the not-too-distant future as well. Spoilers - I like it a lot.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.