The Best Mobile Games of 2013 (So Far)

We spend more time playing mobile games than console games. It's an unfortunate statistic, but there it is.

Not by choice, mind you. We would love nothing more than to curl up into a console puddle and dump 20 hours of unbroken gameplay into a title. Unfortunately, someone has to pay the rent. And while we may not be able to drag our consoles onto trains and into bathroom stalls, that's no hindrance for mobile titles.

We actually beat the majority of Angry Birds while seated on a toilet. True story. Read on for, and in no particular order, The Best Mobile Games of 2013 (So Far)

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Developer: Big Daddy’s Creations
Price: $6.99

At first glance Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy looks suspiciously like a calculus problem. We're hoping that's right. We never took calculus, but we're assuming it's intimidating. Anyway this iOS title makes up for initial imposing impressions by pulling off the whole space/colony/exploration thing flawlessly. Many hours flushed away on this guy.

Developer: Bulkypix
Price: $1.99

Show of hands how many of you had a stuffed animal growing up? None of you? Liars. Anyway, we're pretty much assured that your stuffed animal was kind of a little bitch compared to the teddy bear in Penumbear. Over 100 level of castles and boss fights as a stuffed bear that can manipulate light in this enjoyable platformer.

Developer: Big Fish Games
Price: $3.99

Fetch should have been a stand alone Pixar film. We know we aren't the first to make the comparison, but it's apt in every way. A boy loses his best friend and sets out on an epic adventure to find him. It's beautifully rendered and surprisingly touching.

Developer: 2K Games
Price: Free

The team that brought you XCOM, Firaxis, has taken tactical combat to the more adorable side of things as you control teams of monsters that are hell bent on scaring local villagers. Cute, at first glance, before you realize how much strategy goes into winning this free to play title.

Developer: King
Price: Free

The saga. The legend. The life-crippling, friend-alienating phenomenon that is Candy Crush. Either you're playing it right now and you're stuck, or, you've figured out how to hack the game. It's coming for you. Say goodbye to your nights of uninterrupted sleep.

Developer: Semi Secret Software
Price: $4.99

Playing Hundreds is the closest thing to meditating we come to on the daily. Attempting to manipulate the size of spheres, while avoiding other spheres sounds simple enough, but wait till you're juggling dozens of growing circles. Zen state achieved.

Developer: 2K Games
Price: Free

Just throw Sid Meir's name on a title and you're practically guaranteed to garner an audience. Sid Meir's waterpark manager has to be in the works. Piloting WWI bi-planes over the skies of Europe doesn't sound like it would work on iOS, but, surprisignly, it totally does.

Developer: House on Fire
Price: Free

A stylish and clean point and click adventure that brings mustaches of decades gone by to life by filling us with envy. As Joe, the unsuspecting janitor working at US military research facility, you uncover mystery after mystery while killing it in a 1972 jumpsuit. Episodic and fresh, don't sleep on this.

Developer: Adult Swim
Price: Free

What else do you need to know about Adult Swim's flawless follow up? You're a Robot. You're also a Unicorn. You attack. This is the sequel. Stop over-thinking it.

The game is awesome because you're also able to fly, upgrade the soundtrack with boy band one hit wonders like Blind Guardian, Slade, Limahl and Corey Hart, and you get a demon Pegasus. Stop talking and go play it.

Developer: Inkle
Price: $4.99

Dubbed as an interactive fantasy adventure, the hand drawn picture book style of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! feels like playing a pop up book. RPG elements and a choose your own adventure story progression make the title one of the most memorable mobile titles of 2013.

Developer: Mode 7 Games
Price: $6.99

You know what's going to happen to you when you play Frozen Synapse? You're going to die. A lot. The title was originally released for PC a few years back as an attempt to create a realistic shooter. It succeeded, because just like real life, getting shot sucks. Protect diplomats, break into heavily secured buildings, and try not to have a seizure thanks to the soundtrack.

Developer: Simogo
Price: $3.99

Year Walk invites a sense of disorientation. You'll get lost, fail at solving puzzles, and encounter cloaked goat demons. You won't mind for a minute though. The game invites getting spun around blindfolded and let loose in the woods. Super minimal and creepy as shit.

Developer: Wadjet Eye Games
Price: $3.99

A detective story that takes place in a far off sci-fi future that still seems immediately familiar. It's probably the film noir tones and old detective dress that makes the game seem like something that we would have played on SNES. Ex-assassins and interstellar travel make for the backbone of this murder-mystery. Stylish and dope.

Developer: War Balloon Games
Price: $2.99

While immediate comparisons to FTL may be fair, Star Command does have an identity all its own. Sure, resource management and carrying out crew commands are at the heart of the game's mechanics, but what sets Star Command apart is the 8-bit pixelated art and the tongue in cheek approach to space diplomacy. Huge, huge fan of this title.

Developer: Frogmind
Price: $3.99

Badlands is Angry Birds moody goth cousin. A physics game that is pushed to the realm of excellence by the atmospheric and eerie tones. Thanks to art design that brings up immediate and welcome comparisons to the old Oddworld titles, the game's playability is further reinforced by an amazing soundtrack. Playing a title as a moody, winged dust ball has never been more satisfying.

Developer: Vlambeer
Price: $2.99

Ernest Hemingway could have learned a thing or two about becoming one with nature by playing Ridiculous Fishing. Personal revenge against the vastness of the ocean and trading fish for money has never seemed so serenely poignant. Ridiculous? Maybe. Worth the three bucks? Absoloutley.

Developer: Square Enix
Price: $15.99

With a price tag this steep Square is most certainly counting on your hunger for nostalgia to part with $16. That being said, this is by far one of the most faithful ports of a Final Fantasy title we've ever played. FFV saw life on Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, but that doesn't hinder the smoothed edges of this port. New features included in the title are job skills, but they're completely optional.

Developer: Aspyr
Price: $9.99

Nearly a decade ago a little company called BioWare decided to create one of the most amazing RPG's ever put together. The fact that it was a Star Wars kid's wet dream seemed almost secondary to the flawless battle and character development system. Almost. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was influential for years to come and this polished port to the iPad may look dated, but is still a damn near perfect title.

Developer: Firaxis/2K Games
Price: $20

There's a reason why the price tag on this is so beefy. It's one of the most loyal and near perfect ports of a console game to a mobile device. $20 may seem steep until you realize that you are getting a mobile version of a game that dropped this past October for $60. The pinch/zoom controls lend themselves to squad and tactical commands. If you loved XCOM: Enemy Unknown, stands to reason that you'll dig the iOS version.

Developer: Rodeo Games
Price: $4.99

Warhammer Quest isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, and you know what, that's fine by us. We have been in love with this game since it dropped and almost threw our phone against the wall when our data was erased. A simple enough fantasy affair where your party explores dungeons with certain amounts of movement, battles orcs and goblins, and loots their way to victory. Perfectly executed fantasy tactics at its finest. We love this title. In-game purchases (obvs) are there for the taking.