If you were wondering what the best reviewed iPad games and apps on the web last month were, here’s the iPad Quality Index round-up for August to fill you in.
The iPad Quality Index boasts over 250,000 scores from the world’s best websites, such as 148Apps, Pocket Gamer, and What’s On iPhone, and uses a unique metric to create a single definitive score for each iPad title.
Here are August 2014’s top selections…
Quality Index Top 10 iPad games August 2014
GAME NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Motorsport Manager Christian West 8.9
2 80 Days inkle 8.8
3 DRAGON QUEST IV Chapters of the Chosen SQUARE ENIX INC 8.7
4 Panda PandaMonium Big Fish Games, Inc 8.7
5 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies CAPCOM 8.5
6 Appointment With F.E.A.R. Tin Man Games 8.4
7 Rules! TheCodingMonkeys 8.3
8 Star Realms White Wizard Games 8.3
9 WWE SuperCard 2K 8.2
10 THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’98 SNK PLAYMORE 8.1
Quality Index Top 10 iPad apps August 2014
APP NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Photivo GeoBos 9.5
2 AirPano Travel Book AirPano.com 9.4
3 PromptSmart – The Smartest Teleprompter for the Easiest Public Speaking Experience PromptSmart 9.3
4 Hyperlapse from Instagram Instagram, Inc. 9.0
5 Star Walk 2 – Guide to the Sky Day and Night Vito Technology Inc. 9.0
6 Last Minute Travel Deals on booking hotels, vacation homes, car rental, activities and flights Travel Holdings 9.0
7 Superhero Workout Six to Start 8.3
8 Hanx Writer Hitcents.com, Inc. 8.2
9 Tiny Airport wonderkind GmbH 8.2
10 ClickMeeting Online Meetings Implix LLC 8.2
(N.B. The monthly g
ames chart is based on titles released and reviewed in the last month. The apps chart is based on titles reviewed over the last three months. Hence, this is not a cumulative chart and earlier released titles may have higher scores.)
It might surprise you to learn that Motorsport Manager tops the Qi iPad games chart for August. Developer Christian West has managed to turn a potentially dry management game into a slick, tactical masterpiece. That’s not to say that Motorsport Manager qualified for pole position easily, however. Fractionally behind at number two we have inkle’s 80 Days, an imaginative and beautifully produced virtual choose-your-own-adventure book based on the classic Jules Verne tale. There’s more epic storytelling at number three with Dragon Quest IV. It’s another excellent Square Enix JRPG conversion, with a thoughtful perspective shift and well-implemented virtual controls – not to mention a surprisingly nuanced storyline. No such narrative concerns for our the final game in our selection. Down at number seven, Rules! impressed all with its well-thought-out procedural puzzler gameplay.
Photivo tops the Qi iPad apps chart for August. It’s all about simplifying the photo editing process for mobile usage, and given the presence of a sharp one-tap interface, we’d say developer GeoBos has succeeded in that. At number four, meanwhile, we have Hyperlapse from Instagram. The popular image-led social network has produced a powerful and intuitive time lapse video tool here. If that sounds glitzy, wait until you see what’s at number eight. Hanx Writer is a virtual typewriter app conceived by none other than Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks. Yes, really. Decidedly less glamorous but probably more useful is ClickMeeting, down at number 10. This app brings the established web conferencing and webinar software to Apple’s tablet.