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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games – Run Roo Run, Jazz: Trump's Journey

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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games – Run Roo Run, Jazz: Trump's Journey
Every week, Pocket Gamer sister site Quality Index (Qi) highlights the newest games to make a critical splash in the cool, seductive waters of the iOS pool.

Grabbing scores and opinions from all corners of the web, including from 148Apps, AppGamer, and Pockett, Qi answers all your iPhone-related questions before you've even asked them.

Today, we're going to focus on two new contenders vying to be crowned king of your iPhone. Both are worthy, but do they have what it takes to win your head, your heart, and your wallet?

That's not a game - this is a game

Bounding straight into the #1 spot this week is 5th Cell's kanga-riffic Run Roo Run, an outback adventure from the freethinkers behind ace iPhone puzzler Scribblenauts Remix.

Cast as the never-not-moving Roo, you must traverse more than 400 single-screen levels of pitfalls and obstacles to rescue your kidnapped joey. As simple as it is addictive, this reaction-testing charmer will likely have you jumping for joy long before you reach the end.
Pocket Gamer can definitely be included in that list of jumpers: "Run Roo Run is an experience that wouldn't work anywhere else, and that's where the real genius of this simple little platformer lies."

Searching for the new sound

Sauntering onto the Quality Index stage with trumpets blowing at #8, meanwhile, is the music history lesson-cum-platformer Jazz: Trump's Journey.

Bulkypix's 'unique' experience takes its lead from the life of Louis Armstrong, providing a nostalgia-fuelled trip through the New Orleans jazz scene.
Jazz: Trump's Journey features original music, a 1920s cartoon style, and a trumpet that can stop time, so there's plenty here to get your fingers twitching and toes tapping.

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

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Enchanted from a young age by colour, motion, and sound, James divides his time between obsessing over all things digital and lamenting the death of VHS. He looks forward to a future where machines rule the earth and all political disputes are solved via one round of rock-paper-scissors.