There may not be Flash on the iPhone, but all the best Flash games are finding their way to the platform anyway. That's exactly the case with Crush The Castle, a seriously addictive Flash title that's been ported to the handheld.
Gameplay is as uncomplicated as you can make it: you load up a Medieval trebuchet with projectiles and lay castles to waste using it. The level of destruction depends on your weapons (rocks, firebombs and all sorts of projectiles are available), how much leverage it got before being released (you control the actual firing) and the actual castle's durability.
Controls are simple and easy to figure out. You tap once to load a weapon, tap again to launch and tap once more to release it any point in the arc (allowing you to target specific points of the castle). The castles are made of beams and react like it (nice physics work), making their actual collapse more fun to watch than you'd expect. You get props not just for bringing castles down, but killing off their inhabitants too, so there's some amount of violence (not gory enough to make kids squirm, though) as well (along with a trickle of blood).
As you go further in the game, you get access to new weapons, new lands to demolish and new challenges (such as fires being introduced into the equation). Some of the castles are painfully difficult to bring down (to the point that I've found it impossible to get a Gold Medal even after cheating with a reset), so there's enough here to keep you glued for a good while.
Crush The Castle is a great game to own for $1.99, with a free demo version also available if you'd like to try it out first.
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I enjoyed this game on PC when “skipped” office job so being ported on iPhone could be a good move, while it has lots of fans online.