I’ve been a fan of developer A Small Game for years now thanks to their wildly entertaining Hanger rope-swinging games, the original Hanger (Free) and its sequel Hanger World (Free). However, they’ve also diverged from that popular series a few times to release different kinds of games on mobile, and one of those was BotHeads (Free) which released in June of last year. This is a perfect example of a really awesome game flying almost completely under the radar. BotHeads could be described as a Lunar Lander-style cave flyer as you’d use left and right thrusters to control your little bot around a level. Here’s the trailer in case you’ve never seen it.

Most of these types of cave flyers demand precision and punish you for even the slightest of bumps into the environment, but BotHeads goes in the exact opposite direction and that’s what I always felt was so great about it. A large portion of the game is actually getting blasted across the ground by a spring and flying through loops similar to a Sonic game, and you’re even encouraged to run into certain objects and figure out how to best utilize the physics engine to accomplish your goals. BotHeads felt like a real breath of fresh air in the genre. Now A Small Game has revisited the concept “with fresh eyes" and has created a sequel that keeps “all the good parts that worked well in the first and added new stuff, like colors, characters and a level editor!" H...