Game Time: Chicken Noodle Soup for the Gamer’s Soul Addictive Technology

Want to feel good about yourself? Like really truly, good about yourself? Just play one of this week’s games. Nothing like guiding a Candy Train to safety or throwing a stapler at a coworker to validate one’s self-worth.

Office Jerk

Big Fat Simulations
Free
iPhone or iPod touch

Have you ever just wanted to throw a pencil at your coworker? (Don’t answer that, coworkers.) Well, with Office Jerk you can finally toss that pencil, as well as erasers, paper balls, cupcakes, fans, and pies at a coworker. It’s strangely relaxing, like a mean-spirited meditation.

It might all be in good fun, but it’s also apparent that after a few tosses, the geek with the taped glasses isn’t the office jerk — you are. It’s a little hard to keep enjoying the game with such reckless abandon after you realize you’re just a bully throwing a stapler at a man whose best friend is his cat (as evidenced by the framed picture).

Tell me this doesn’t make you a little sad.

It all just makes us a little sad. Surely he’s starving for companionship…AND CUPCAKES!

BOOM.

Candy Train

4th and Battery
Free
Universal

Candy Train was an all but forgotten PopCap title when someone in a different department decided they wanted to bring it back. The aspiring programmer finished it in her free time, and when she showed it to PopCap, they loved it enough to release it as 4th and Battery’s second game. So what is it?

Candy Train is like those ol’ Pipe Dreams games where raging water/goo/some sort of liquid are coming through pipes. Simply tap a tile to rotate it and create a path with the weaving tracks. To beat the level, you’ll have to build the Candy Train up with new train cars and eventually a caboose, before you can finish the level.

It’s delightfully difficult and makes for an awesome strategy game. Pick this one up while it’s still free.

Bumpy Road

Simogo Handelsbolag
$2.99
Universal

Bumpy Road is a sidescroller with a whole new spin on things. Instead of controlling the little runner (or in this case car) that has to navigate dangerous terrain to get high scores, in Bumpy Road you are the terrain. You can help the jolly lil’ car progress through the level by rolling a hill behind it, but watch out for holes and dangers.

To avoid that danger, just tap underneath the car. The huge hill that erupts underneath the car will shoot it skyward and save the little people from a very bad day.

In the second mode, Sunday Trip, there are no obstacles. Instead, you pick up as many Gizmos (the obligatory floating icons) to speed your car up and finish the level in record time.

Try to beat our high-score then upload your best here.

So that’s all, from throwing cupcakes at nerds to helping a family traverse extremely unlevel terrain, we’ve done our duties our good people and had fun doing it. What games make you feel like a good/bad person?

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