Top 10 Mobile Games Of 2013

4. “Cut the Rope 2”

I can say with pretty high confidence that no matter how mobile games continue to develop in richness and complexity, physics puzzlers are never going away. They’re here to stay in the same way that match-3 games will probably be with us forever, and the best ones can still show you tricks you haven’t seen before.

For this sequel to an already fine first game, ZeptoLab freed up Om Nom to go out and more actively seek out his beloved candy, but also put an extra level of thought into the level design. The graphics remained remarkably hard not to love, and the result was the sweet spot where cuteness meets addicting gameplay. And since this was a game that centered on candy, that ended up being remarkably appropriate.