Top 5 best iPhone games you need to play this weekend

By Karen Tumbokon Published May 16, 2015

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When it comes to the App Store, it can be challenging to find the best iPhone games. To help out, here’s our roundup of the games we think are worth downloading and playing this week. No matter your personal preference — whether it’s a brain teasing puzzle game, an endless runner, an educational game, or just a good old shoot ’em up — we’ve got you covered.

Here are our top 5 best iPhone games you should play this weekend:

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Dungeon Hunter 5 is, unsurprisingly, the sequel to Dungeon Hunter 4, released way back in April 2013. The game is based around your mission to become known as the notorious Bounty Hunter. This is a AAA game for the iPhone, and has a single player mode where you battle through five different worlds, plus a co-operative gameplay mode, with daily and weekly events. You can also challenge friends in the asynchronous multiplayer mode.

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Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master

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This is a spin-off game of the massively popular Fruit Ninja, this time with an educational twist. In Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master, kids are encouraged to learn math in an engaging, fun way. It’s set in jungles, temples and ancient ruins, where the idea is to help a curious and hungry pig called Truffles and his friends rescue the Lost tablets of Frutasia. Aimed at children aged five to seven, there are puzzles to help with addition, subtraction and multiplication skills.

That’s it for this week, but stay tuned for next week’s list.

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