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 Pocket Picks) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.

Hot Fuzz

Weaving in and out of the traffic and onto the Qi recent releases game grid in pole position is Reckless Getaway, Polarbit’s high-speed follow-up to last October’s Reckless Racing.

On this occasion, the development driver careered onto the App Store without a co-pilot by its side (EA handled publishing duties on the top five off-road driving sim Reckless Racing), but that doesn’t seem to have slowed Reckless Getaway’s performance one iota.

No sign of a crash and burn here, for Polarbit’s bank-robbing mob manages to evade the po-po and find time to earn maximum review points from Tapscape: “Reckless Getaway is highly entertaining, with sharp crisp graphics, highly detailed environments and smooth game play.”

Monster Munch

A slight change of pace now, as Big Blue Bubble’s bright cerebral puzzler Paper Munchers prioritises tactical acumen and matchmaking skills over breakneck evasion techniques.

With no fewer than four fantastic critiques in its possession for a sensational 8.7 Qi score, the Canadian publisher’s latest physics-based title looks destined to emulate Burn the Rope’s lofty success on Apple’s digital marketplace.

The game involves clearing the screen of the various creatures by feeding them into the correspondingly coloured monsters’ mouths with a tap on your handset’s display. And Paper Muncher’s 75 levels should keep you and your offspring occupied until next Friday, at least.

Magic playing kards

Remind me of that ancient proverb again, please: “You wait aeons for one quality Magic the Gathering-inspired card game to come along, and – whaddya know? – two turn up in a matter of days.”

After Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer captivated the Quality Index community last week, Hothead Games’s turn-based Kard Combat battles up the Black Tower and onto our chart in tenth place.

Whilst Kard Combat’s single-player experience is suitably challenging and deep, its multiplayer mode drew plaudits from Pocket Gamer: “You can play online against friends or strangers, and action is asynchronous, so you can make your move and then go and do something else while you wait for your opponent to respond.”

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