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Rules! app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 1200 ratings )
Games Entertainment Arcade Puzzle
Developer: TheCodingMonkeys
2.99 USD
Current version: 4.1.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 06 Aug 2014
App size: 60.47 Mb

• Includes a daily brain workout mini-game for Apple Watch
• Includes animated sticker pack

• App Store – Best Apple Watch Game of 2015
• App Store – Best of 2014
• German Developer Award 2014 – Best mobile Game
• German Video Game Award 2015 – Best mobile Game
• Pocket Gamer Awards 2015 Finalist Best Casual/Puzzle Game & Most Innovative Game

RULES! is a cute puzzle game thats challenging, fast-paced and fun.

• Choose your preferred type of game: Beginner, Expert or Timeless •

“What’s presented here is a stylish, original, clever puzzle game that I’m having trouble putting down long enough to write this review.” ~ Gamezebo

“A delightfully constructed memory test that grows in complexity and appeal the deeper in you go.” ~ Pocket Gamer

“The Coding Monkeys have never released anything that wasn’t utterly brilliant, therefore Rules shall almost certainly be brilliant.” ~ Pocket Tactics


Follow RULES! into a hundred level-deep maze of cuteness and order:

• Multi-touch interface at its finest
• Color perception assistance mode
• Whales, Unicorns, Robots and Squirrels!
• A plethora of surprising new game mechanics

Pros and cons of Rules! app for iPhone and iPad

Rules! app good for

Reminds of what iPhone games used to be: fun, but not too complicated. Colourful but not too childish. And really, really original. Well worth the price!
This game is fun but might get old fast - when you dont beat the clock, you restart all the way to level one which is kinda annoying and takes a lot of time.
I forgot about time when I place on bus. Almost miss my stop.
This game is super fun and cute. Give it a try. Would be nice to have an option to shuffle rules and make it even more crazy.
Am I the only one that thanks the developer missed the boat and the rules should all be cumulative, to be applied at the same time? example: touch all the ones on the right that are odd, and in ascending order? When that goal is finished move to the next level, even if the tiles arent all tapped. To make it harder, and the game last longer, perhaps you should only follow the current+last two previous rules one you get going.
Love this game, and instead of making it "free" and hounding you for microtransactions later, this one makes you pay up front and play forever. No lives, no ads. Just a game.

Some bad moments

Good graphics, and fun.... while it lasted. Doing the same thing over and over got old real fast.
This game is rly boring dont waste 3dollars on this dum game Im glad I got it while it was free so I didnt lose money when I deleted it
Good game, on Apple Watch too... But not in Italian Language :/ ADD ITALIAN PLEASEEEE
Super fun, very polished, people who are rating it poorly because they are bad at it should be ashamed of themselves (particularly now that the easier modes have been added). One small logical bug that drives me a little batty... How can an astronaut be a mammal if its not an animal??
I love this game (the theme music and satisfying sound effects especially), but there is no way to save progress so Ive stopped playing it. It gets boring to start from zero over and over again, especially if you finally reached a new level. Please change this and Ill be back to being addicted!
Everything about this game’s implementation is exemplary. The looks is fresh and distinctive. The induction process is smooth. The animations are delightful without being intrusive. AAA quality all the way. Unfortunately, all this love and attention has been wasted on a game concept that just isn’t very much fun to play. If you like Simon and its thousands of imitators, you’ll probably like this. But who actually enjoys playing Simon? The basic idea is that you stuff your short-term memory with rules until it overflows. Sure, you can use mnemonic tricks to pack more rules into your brain, but that feels a lot more like work than play.