We continue with our countdown of the best 50 iPhone games on the market at present with numbers 40-31.
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40. Evacuation



Publisher: Bennett Foddy
Developer: In-house
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Manipulate colour-coded airlocks to suck alien invaders into space without killing any of your human crew: Evacuation has the precision and focus, as well as the looks, of classic Amiga titles. Smart as it is, Bennett Foddy has crafted a surprisingly affecting game, too, the screams of the crewmen you’ve killed and the fact that each man lost is named in the end-of-level post-mortem making you think twice about every action.

39. Wolfenstein 3D Classic



Publisher: id Software
Developer: In-house
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Wolfenstein remains the best iPhone/iPod Touch FPS not because it has the lineage, but because it’s found the simplicity needed to make the controls almost invisible. Id may have subsequently stumbled with Doom Resurrection, but on this more primitive offering, the dev team got everything right.

38. iBomber



Publisher: Cobra Mobile
Developer: In-house
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Indiscriminate destruction has rarely been delivered in  such a jaunty manner as in this breezy, ’40s-styled bombing run. A frantic rebalancing of the shoot ’em up, seen from the viewpoint of the bombardier, this is colourful, clever and surprisingly challenging.

37. Ragdoll Blaster



Publisher: Backflip Studios
Developer: In-house
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Two things make Backflip’s bare-bones puzzler a regular source of delight: first is the Grieg-heavy soundtrack, and second is the wanton cruelty you’re asked to inflict on your hapless and flailing charges. Essentially a brutal twist on archery, things quickly become far more complex, with physics, split-second timing and complex level design all coming into play.

36. Go! Go! Rescue Squad



Publisher: Connect2media
Developer: In-house
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A puzzlesome pastelly platformer based around a group of heroic firemen, this is a multi-tasking Exit that rewards lateral thinking. The icon interface initially seems like a bad idea, but by separating each action into a specific event it merely highlights the abstract order of the levels. Sweet natured and often ingenious, Go! Go! Rescue Squad is an elegant piece of design dressed up in funfair clothing.