Welcome to the weekly iPhone Quality Index (Qi) games round-up, giving you the LOWdown on the HIGH scorers every Friday on these illustrious pages.

As you may already know, Qi trawls the web for iPhone game reviews from the world’s most respected online and print sources.
Qi then applies its own magic formula to each site (such as 148Apps, Macworld, and Tapscape) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.

Video games: meet art

Battling its way through some mythical realms and onto Qi’s critical charts this particular Friday is Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Micro, whose translation from iPad to iPhone has been every bit as seamless as fellow high flier World of Goo’s.

A trio of sublime summaries from around the iOS universe have contributed to a phenomenal 9.5 Qi rating for Capybara Games’s visually enchanting and sonically captivating point-and-click ‘experience’.

Not that the gameplay of Sword & Sworcery EP Micro is confined to mere puzzle solving, as IGN iterates that it “does have a little combat, too...These are timed contests, not actual brawls. They work well to break up the adventure.”

Moving through the Gears

The fourth - yes, fourth - highest new entry on our hit parade only rolled onto the App Store 24 hours ago, yet Crescent Moon Games’s Gears has already set the cogs a-whirring among the iOS elite.

By either swiping your finger or tilting your handset, you must manoeuvre a marble ball from start to finish, paying due attention to uneven surfaces, trampolines, and a couple of delightful waterfalls.

Three ornately and densely designed worlds should engage even the most inattentive brat for longer than an hour, especially if, like TouchGen, you “move on to brutal and you only get one single life. This is where you separate the ninjas from the herd.”

Torres scored?!? Really?!? Madness

Separating the men from the boys, meanwhile, is what UEFA Champions League quarter-finals are all about, and unfortunately for the West London Blues, they were made to look like prepubescent squirts a few weeks ago.

Consolation arrives for Ancelotti’s lads in the football-shaped shape of Flick Kick Chelsea, which invites players to bend it like Bosingwa and flick it like Frank. I suspect you get the picture.

You can get the up-to-date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Quality Index.