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Osmos for iPad: TUAW Best of 2011 game winner

by Steven Sande Dec 31st 2011 at 4:00PM

We've got another winner! TUAW readers have spoken, and Osmos for iPad (US$4.99) was voted the best iPad game of 2011.

Pulling in 31.1 percent of the votes, Osmos for iPad edged out Words With Friends HD ($0.99), which came in second place with 26.9 percent of votes tallied. Osmos was named iPad Game of the Year by Apple as well, so it's well-deserving of the title. The game is described at "part physics-based eat-'em-up, part ambient, cosmic simulator, and part Darwinistic game of survival."

The basic idea of Osmos is to make yourself larger by absorbing smaller motes, but to move you need to eject matter behind you, making yourself smaller. Keeping this balance as you go through the various levels of the game is what makes it so absorbing and ultimately what made it the winner.

Congratulations to the folks at Hemisphere Games for winning the TUAW Best of 2011 award for best iPad game.



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Jul

Oh, and Battleheart, this is a masterpiece, innovative, beautiful and unique. Words with Friends and even Osmos don't innovate too much.

January 02 2012 at 8:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott B

And it wasn't the Apple iPad game of the year for 2011 either...it was a 2010 game of the year. Carcassonne (the number three vote getter) was also a 2010 game (although I would vote for it every year...)

January 01 2012 at 9:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jul

And your runner up, Words with Friends came out in April of 2010 too. Another one to consider was Tofu for example.

January 01 2012 at 7:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jul

Exactly, that was my first thought as well, Justin: it came out on July 7, 2010 (http://appshopper.com/games/osmos-for-ipad). How about all the other great games that came out in 2011 and didn't get the success they deserved? LIke Sword & Sorcery or Great Little War Game? Osmos got plenty of attention in my mind.

January 01 2012 at 7:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Justin Chandler Wilc

Yeah that's right! I remember playing Osmos by the pool as soon as it came out. I would have voted for "Contre Jour" or "Where's my Water?".

January 01 2012 at 3:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin Chandler Wilc

it came out in 2010...

January 01 2012 at 12:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allen 2010

This is a great game, finally a good game is recognized.

December 31 2011 at 9:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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