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Punch Quest and Need for Speed: Most Wanted are the top-reviewed iPhone games for October

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Punch Quest and Need for Speed: Most Wanted are the top-reviewed iPhone games for October
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If you were wondering what the best-reviewed iPhone games on the web last month were, here's the iPhone Quality Index round-up for October to fill you in.

The iPhone Quality Index boasts over 200,000 reviews from websites like 148Apps, Pocket Gamer, and GameSaku, and uses a unique metric to create a single definitive score for each iPhone title.

TKO

Punch Quest came out swinging this month to top the iPhone Qi league table for October 2012. RocketCat Games's brutal take on the endless-runner genre really pummelled the critics into submission.

Closely tailing Punch Quest is EA's Need For Speed: Most Wanted, which drives the iPhone racing genre to a whole new level.

Lurking ominously in third place, meanwhile, is Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies. This marks the return from the dead of the famous interactive gamebook series, which celebrated its 30th anniversary recently.

On a somewhat lighter note, Wimp: Who Stole My Pants? HD - from Flexile Studio - has been delighting hard-nosed iOS critics everywhere with its whimsical platform-puzzler gameplay. Hunting for undergarments has rarely been this much fun!

Qi's Top 10 iPhone games of October 2012

Pos.

Game

Qi rating Reviews
1 Punch Quest 9.3 11
2 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 9.3 6
3 Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies 9.1 4
4 Letterpress 9.0 7
5 On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 9.0 3
6 Wimp: Who Stole My Pants? HD 9.0 3
7 Catch-22 8.9 6
8 Bad Piggies 8.8 20
9 Devil's Attorney 8.8 14
10 The Last Express 8.8 11

N.B. While we only display the average score to one decimal place, the list is generated to further significant figures. We just don't show them all. And, naturally, this is a static graph based on live listings which are subject to constant change as new releases and reviews emerge. In order to provide a regular marker of the critical zeitgeist, however, we will continue to round up the best of the iPhone games released each month to provide the definitive Quality Index top ten.

iPhone Quality Index

Jon Mundy
Jon Mundy
Jon is a consummate expert in adventure, action, and sports games. Which is just as well, as in real life he's timid, lazy, and unfit. It's amazing how these things even themselves out.