Temple Run

There are so many games out there that when you’ve finished one it’s hard to know which one to pick up next. After spending a lot of my time playing Flash games, I was looking for something a bit different and that, ideally, I could play on my phone while I was on the move. I stumbled across a forum thread about Temple Run and was initially disappointed that such a compelling and different sounding game was only available for the iPhone. I’m stuck with my Android phone for at least another few months.

I forgot all about it until a couple of days later I saw the headline “Temple Run Android Released”! It seemed like fate. Well, okay, if you think fate is relevant when we’re talking about wasting more time on another game! A few minutes of downloading later and I had the game in my hands.

That was a week or so ago and it feels like I’ve been playing the game non-stop! I’m sure that my aching fingers would agree. I feel a complete slave to the coin collecting mentality - collect coins, buy upgrades, collect more coins, and so on. You can of course buy the coins from their oh so temptingly priced store but for some reason it feels much more sensible to me to spend hours collecting them than part with real cash!

If you like the game, there are plenty of fan sites out there to keep you up to date with it - Temple Run Online seems to be a pretty good one - I found out from there that new characters and powerups have been introduced to the game over the last few months.