Tired of hitting pigs with birds? How about laying pipes instead? That’s what Clickgamer—developers of the runaway hit Angry Birds—want us to do after we’ve completed that game. So, they’ve launched Pipe Rush, an equally fun and challenging casual game that best exemplifies how iPhone games should look with the Retina Display. Pipe Rush is an engaging puzzle game where you are tasked with connecting water pipes to the houses. While this may sound so easy at first, actually it is not.

Angry Birds is a quirky physics puzzle. You control a slingshot. Your ammo is a group of specialized birds, each with its own abilities. One can speed up in air, one can expload, one lays an explosive egg, one multiplies in air, etc. So what are you aiming for? Green pigs. You’re trying to kill them. Hold on a second, no one is tripping here, I swear. Angry Birds is one of those games that sounds ridiculous in description but is tons of fun after you start playing it.

Puzzle games. You can’t avoid them, and really, why would you want to? The iPhone / iPod touch / eventual iPad are perfectly suited for some quick puzzle gaming, so you may as well get used to it. And thankfully, every now and again a few come along that ask you to do a little bit more than match three similarly colored gems in a line. In this review, we’ll take a look at three such games: DaVinci’s Secret Machines, Aztec Quest and Rafter.