What are you playing on your iPhone this weekend? Us: “Space Miner: Space Ore Bust”

It’s Friday, and we’re all a little tired, so welcome to a new weekly whatever here on Cult of Mac, where we’ll spend Friday afternoon feverishly anticipating the forthcoming weekend to be spent gaming on our iPhones with a beer balanced on our bellies. Let us know what you’re playing on your iPhone in the comments and we’ll showcase some of the more interesting recommendations next week.

As for me, I’m playing Space Miner: Space Ore Bust: an Asteroids clone fused with an addictive RPG upgrade mechanic and a quirky sense of humor that good-naturedly vivisects the usual sci-fi plot tropes. In fact, while the graphics and gameplay are great, it’s really the humor that sets the game apart: Space Miner’s the rarity of a genuinely funny game, with the character design and quirkily ironic banter of a Tim Schaffer game.

For that matter, Space Miner’s a rarity for me in that it’s a campaign-based iPhone game I’ve beaten, then immediately picked up again for a second playthrough. My only complaint of the $2.99 title is that I wish the core campaign was longer: while Space Miner took me a meaty six hours to beat the first time around, and while the game encourages multiple playthroughs, giving up my end game nuclear war cruiser for the early game’s wimpily pew-pewing jalopy was a hard thing indeed.

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What about you? What will you be playing this weekend?

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