Superman Games

Fan games about a caped hero

Every game here is a third-party title from a licensed provider, fan-made or inspired by the caped comic-book hero rather than an official product, and nothing on the shelf is affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher that owns the character. The cape and the flight are what the games borrow, so flying is the theme that shows up most: a 3D arcade run where you soar between buildings collecting energy, a lane runner in which a stumbling man turns into the hero and takes off, and a one-tap jump game about how far you can glide. Beside those sit the quiet formats every cartoon shelf has, with jigsaws, match-three boards, a dress-up scene and a tidy-the-house chore game, plus one side-view fighter with punches, kicks and a block.

The full set of caped and masked characters is on the hero games hub, the flight itself has a whole flying games shelf, and the fighter belongs with fighting games.

Flying, running and fighting

The flying games are mouse or tap games: hold to climb, release to dip, thread the gaps and pick up the glowing energy that keeps the run going. They are endless, the score is the distance, and a phone is the best place for them. The lane runner is the same three-lane dodge as every subway-style runner, with the transformation into the hero as a power-up rather than the whole game. The fighter is the exception that wants a keyboard: one key punches, one kicks, one blocks, the arrows move and jump, and the rounds are short enough to run through the whole roster in a few minutes. The jump game is one button and one question, which is how far you can fly before you fall.

For more of each shape the run games hub has the lane runners, jumping games the one-button gliders and action games the side-view brawls; the two other big-name heroes with fan-game shelves of their own are Batman games and Spider-Man games.

Categories:Action

Puzzles, dress-up and who it is for

The puzzle half is where a parent will park a younger child. The jigsaws offer a dozen pictures with a choice of piece counts, the match-three boards are the ordinary swap-and-clear kind with a small story between levels, and the dress-up scene swaps capes, boots and hairstyles on a paper-doll hero. A chore game hands you a messy room and a checklist of things to tidy before a parent comes home. None of it has a timer you cannot ignore. The action titles are a step up in reflexes but not in content: the fights are bloodless, the falls are cartoon tumbles, and the shooting title fires at spinning colored targets rather than at people.

Everything runs in the browser with nothing to install, and the portrait flyers and puzzles fit a phone screen well. Related shelves: jigsaw games for the picture puzzles, dress-up games for the wardrobe scene, kids games for the age group and puzzle games for the boards.

Categories:Dress UpPuzzle