Price Drop & Update
Badland – ($0.99)Ranking in at #17 on our list of the Top 25 iPhone and iPad Games, Badland is a hauntingly gorgeous physics-based side-scroller that's notable again for two reasons today – first, its price has been reduced down to under a buck; and second, it's just had a new update go live containing fresh Halloween-themed content. You can take a look at a quick teaser right here:
Price Drops
Costume Quest – ($2.99)The impending arrival of the Halloween holiday this Thursday is also impacting other games throughout the App Store, including the Halloween-themed Costume Quest – it's two bucks cheaper now than its normal $4.99 rate.
Also two bucks cheaper than normal today is the 3D action/puzzle/adventure Shardlands (though it's the game's one-year anniversary of release that's the reason behind this sale, not Halloween).
Freebies!
Shadow Vamp – (Free)Back on the Halloween-appropriate side of things is the recently released Shadow Vamp, a brilliant-looking light and shadow manipulation puzzler starring a vampire whose late-night feeding frenzy lasted a little too long – now he's got to make his way back to safety without stepping into any direct sunlight. It's free for the first time today.
Also free for the first time ever is Aerofly FS, a realistic flight sim that's built a strong following for itself in the past year.
If you'd rather fly through the sky as a man instead of an airplane, take a look at Soul Savior. (Which scored some praise from Square Enix in a contest held last year.)
Finally, another never-before-been-free game rounds things out for us today, as Cover Orange 2 asks you to protect happy-go-lucky pieces of fruit from the effects of damaging acid rain: