A physics-based arcade puzzler in the same vein as Angry Birds, Chicken Story has been around for many months but is completely free in its ad-free VIP version for most of today (as I write this) in the Store. Swinging chickens, falling monkeys, rotating cams, are all in the mix and this comes highly recommended.
A unique physics-based game like no other! Use the environment and quick timing to help save the chickens and liberate their nest of the evil monkeys. Chicken Story 2 features new gameplay mechanics, all new graphics, and hundreds of hours worth of user generated content.
75 unique and challenging levels.
Unlimited replayability, with thousands of user-created levels.
Health Pack Network with cross-platform achievments and medals.
Localization in 10 different languages including English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
With ever-increasing level complexity, here's a walkthrough of Chicken Story 2 VIP:
Although it comes with 125 tortuous levels that represent many tens of hours of puzzling and general trial and error, there are thousands of user-created levels too, accessed seemingly at random via the 'Network' option here. There's a warning about material suitability, suggesting that some graphics might be racy, but a reporting system built-in seems to have kept everything within the style and character of the original, thankfully.
Two typical levels - not shown in the static screenshots is that every level contains animated elements that are crucial to the solution. Essentially, the chicken and any chicks needs to be swung/lowered/bounced into the nest and any monkeys delivered to the ground below. Timing is everything, as you might expect, whether it's bouncing right off a rotating plank or being released from a swinging vine at just the right moment.
You'll quickly learn what can be tapped to remove (and thus affect the action) - there are only a handful of explicit tutorial levels (complete with being shown where to tap) and then you're thrown in at the deep end, but then this is part of the fun!