The App Store and mobile gaming as a whole is no stranger to puzzle games. These games can range from the weird to the bizarre with many different variants falling under this genre. The touchscreen naturally works well for these types of games for a variety of reasons, but one major reason for this is that many puzzle games are not filled with a lot of on-screen clutter or virtual buttons and just require a tap or drag of the finger for input.
Because of the direct input from users and how they are more of a thinking-person's type of games with not a lot of clutter needed on-screen, the genre truly found a home on mobile over the last few years. Titles like Monument Valley or what can be described as a puzzle-adventure hyrbid, The Room series, have become famous across the gaming landscape at large. Just this past week, a new puzzler arrived that should make the competition quiver just that little bit.
Bombarika [$0.99] is a puzzle game that is unconventional in nature. It isn't based on solving logic puzzles or moving blocks around. It is an isometric game, with a very gorgeous art style, that plays and looks a bit like the Go series of titles from SquareEnix and a bit of Monument Valley thrown in (as well as the recent Vandals). However, unlike those games, you do not control a main character directly in Bombarika. Instead you move things around rooms to make sure a bomb does not detonate inside the house.
The game's hud is very minimal to look at, but you do have a coup...