Sort It - Sorting Game

Sort It is a game that will determine how fast your fingers can move and get things sorted. What your task here to do is to sort all the different coloured packages into their identical corresponding coloured chutes. These are located at the four corners of your screen and if you think you can handle the challenge you will have to drag the different coloured packages that fall into your screen (from every angle) and position them into the correct coloured chute. However, simple as it sounds there are always things to make life difficult – we prefer to call it challenging. Bombs will rain down on your screen and you must pay close attention to these as after five seconds they will self-destruct and move all of your packages into the wrong coloured chutes. This is something you will need to avoid as once a bomb explodes, and a certain coloured package finds its way into the wrong coloured chute, you will end up losing a life. Lose all three of your lives and its game over!

Sorting and organizing things may not be your favorite pass time, but now you can make a game out of it with Sort It for iOS. Unlike in real life, exploding bombs make everything much more interesting!

Sort It for iOS is available for iPhone and iPad as a universal and its free. Featuring brutally simply game play, Sort It makes a fantastic candidate for quick game here and there throughout your day. The main object, as the name strongly suggests, is to sort stuff. In particular, your job is to sort parcels by color and avoid settings of bombs while you’re at it. To do so, you’ll use your finger to drag and flick the parcels into the correct corner, but watch out, if you trigger a bomb by touching it or incorrectly mismatch the colors of the parcel, you’ll be down a life. You have 3 lives to start with at the beginning of the game, so hold on to them as long as you can. You’ll soon discover that it’s virtually impossible to avoid setting off the bombs, so the best course of action will be to work around the explosions and do your best to sort the parcels correctly. While sorting, you should also try to get the longest possible streak, that is, sorting the parcels correctly several times in a row. The longer the streak, the more points you earn.

Sort It – Sorting Game, available for iPhone and iPad through the Apple iTunes App Store, is a pretty unassuming title, and one that looks as though it doesn’t do much different from dozens of other games already available on iOS. Now, while that may be partly true as it doesn’t truly innovate in a gameplay fashion, it is actually a bit of a slow burner and soon begins to show its quality through extended play.

Sort It is actually very addictive, and I found myself returning to it time and time again; even outside the boundaries of reviewing it. It does become quite compulsive, which really is a rarity on iOS these days, especially for me, a seasoned and weary iOS reviewer.