Since the very beginning, video games have loosely fallen into two categories: casual games that you can play to relax or entertain with, and hardcore games that require skill and dedication. Although the iPhone is perfect for the former — casual games you can pick up and play for a couple minutes while waiting in line — the platform is also a haven for frustratingly difficult games that require skill and significant time to master…if you don’t get fed up and rage quit. DailyAppShow has found a few of the best, hardest, and most rage-inducing games on the app store. Check them out below:
Impossible Road
Impossible road is the name of the game, and they’re not kidding. The objective is to roll a ball down the “road” (a narrow, hard to see path) for as long as you possibly can. The longer you survive without rolling off the side, the more points you gain. However, this ain’t no racing game: the movement of the ball is intentionally sluggish, and takes up a big area of the screen, so you often can’t see where you’re going. My highest score? 11.
Absorption
Absorption is unlike any other game I’ve played: you gain points by absorbing enemies, which you do by moving as close as you can to them without touching. Touch the enemies and you’re dead. Touch the walls and you’re dead. Get caught by the environment and, guess what, you’re dead.
Swing Copters
Swing Copters gained near-instant infamy as it is the followup to the mind bogglingly difficult Flappy Bird. You would think the developer might go easier this time on its millions of addicted fans, but you’d be wrong. Swing Copters is based on very similar gameplay as flappy birds, but it brings new and difficult controls, and an even more brutal environment to navigate.
Daddy Long Legs
Ever heard of QWOP, the game where you have to control each muscle in the legs of your on-screen avatar? No? That’s probably for the best. But if you want to be similarly frustrated, Daddy Long Legs is your maniacal solution. The objective is to make a spider walk. All you have to do is tap the screen. Easy, right? Well you’re not reading this article for easy games and this one is definitely no exception. Even with the singular action, perfectly timing your take to make the spider actually move forward is an exercise in insanity. Don’t be surprised if you walk away a lot quicker than the spider in Daddy Long Legs.
Amazing Brick
Many reviews of Amazing Brick claim they’re addicted, but my guess is that they’re still attempting to get past the first obstacle. Amazing Brick has a simple objective: move through the game without touching anything. But seeing as you’re a brick, doing so gracefully (or even at all) is a seriously difficult task. Tapping either side of the screen moves the brick both up and towards the direction of the side you tapped, which results in predictable but hard to plan movement. But don’t dawdle: wait too long before you next tap and you’ll fall off the bottom of the screen and lose.
Super Hexagon
Are you scared of right spaces? Do you have recurring nightmares of rooms closing in on you? Yeah, maybe avoid Super Hexagon. All you’re trying to do in this game is avoid the hexagons closing in on you by navigating through the open gaps, but with every new gap in a different place, and the entire view often skewing and changing, you’ll be hard pressed to figure out which way to go without succumbing to the induced brain paralysis.
Wave Wave
Wave Wave is the twitchiest of twitch games. The easiest mode in the game is “hard” and they’re not kidding. You’ll never know what will happen next as you try to elongate the never ending line you’re drawing. The game will often suddenly drop you into a whole different mode, or completely switch how the controls work, or change orientation, or speed up, and oh my gosh my ears are getting warm with anger just thinking about it.
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