Top 5 best platform games for iPhone and iPad (2015)

If you've been a very good boy or girl this year, you might have got yourself a fancy new iOS device for Christmas. To help you get started, we're putting together quickfire lists of the best games on the App Store. In this entry, we're jumping on baddies and collecting coins in the best platformers.

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Ubisoft's limbless hero has never managed to topple Mario and Sonic on console, but he's finally the star he deserves to be on mobile. Auto-runner Fiesta Run is fast, bouncy, and electric fun.

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Getting through a level in Mikey Hooks is just the beginning. Now try getting through it under par time. Now that's a challenge, which will see you skidding under barriers on your knees, hopping with pixel precision, and sweating bullets.

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How's this for a hero: a fuzzy green lump with a fluffy moustache and a Russian accent. You'll solve physics puzzles, hop about beautiful locations, and nab golden coins. All the best games have golden coins.

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You'll spend most of your time in Limbo as a pile of lifeless limbs. Or decapitated. Or with a saw blade up your rump. Each death helps you figure out the next platforming puzzle, in this super stylish (and super sombre) classic.

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Downwell is all about the combos. As you hurtle down an impossibly deep well, you'll want to bounce from enemy to enemy to maintain a wicked high combo and get lots of goodies. Or you can use the guns in your shoes to blow everything to smithereens. Up to you.