The best iPhone games... for free

To continue our rundown of cheap and cheerful iPhone gaming, Level Up goes one better than the previous 59p gaming round-up with a list of games that are completely free. We've ensured that Lite or demo versions aren't included so you'll get the full product for absolutely nothing.

Jelly Car

Starting life as an Xbox Indie Game over a year ago, this is a physics platformer with a twist: everything is made of jelly. Your wobbly car hops around the world as if it's a never-ending bouncy castle, with bold and superbly charming visuals that crumple up as you play. While normal platforming conventions decide that falling blocks crush and kill, here they simply squash you flat until you decide to drive away. It's unique and challenging, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Epic Pet Wars

What was the best thing about Pokemon? The exploration? The random battles? Misty? What made it was fun as spending hours choosing your lineup of beasts and raising it like a child, giving it the best attacks and training humanly possible. That kind of unhealthy dedication is required in Epic Pet Wars, a client that allows you to raise and battle a monster for pride and goodies. Although it has certain pay elements you can play most of it for free, as well as continue the game at the office by installing a shared Facebook application. As we said, it's unhealthy.

Dropship

Controlling your ship with dual-touch controls, you navigate through a side-scrolling environment filled with startling vector graphics that fold and open around you. Once you have found your stranded allies (named after the poor souls in your phone contact list) you have to carry them back to the base, trying not to get blown to smithereens in the process. There's a lengthy campaign as well as a stream of free downloadable levels on a regular basis.

Topple

While no-one needs a block-falling puzzle game in their life, Topple throws away the need to maliciously line up colours and shapes into their exact niches, and simply asks you to place them down and make sure they don't fall over. While it's obviously a little more difficult than that - where the stack reacts to tilt controls and becomes filled with shapes as awkward as those found in an Ikea flat-pack - it's devilishly good fun.

Tap Defence

While Tap Defence is fairly basic as a tower-defence game, it pushes all the right buttons and makes for a decent introduction to the genre. For those unfamiliar to its delightful trappings, you need to fend off oncoming waves of enemies with towers built from your pile of resources, taking care to put them in the right places. As the game goes on, your cash increases for better upgrades, but your enemies scale up to match. It's ad-supported but offers a new maps to download quite frequently.

Tap Tap Revenge 2

You've probably seen this in every Apple promotion ever made, but in case you missed it, this is a pretty decent Guitar Hero-style music-rhyme game of hitting notes in time to the music. It comes with 150 tracks from the likes of Daft Punk, Weezer and The Prodigy, and offers new songs every week. A range of difficulties as well as local multiplayer adds up to a pretty essential download. And if you like Lady GaGa and Coldplay, special edition packs of those artists are available for £2.99 each.

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