With a little homebrew know-how, you can access dozens of titles across multiple genres, including puzzle, role-playing, strategy, and action games. Here’s a sampling of the best Nintendo DS homebrew the internet has to offer. Luckily, you can treat the Nintendo DS’s RTS deficiency with A Touch of War. It offers good times with big, colorful sprite graphics and medieval soldiers who are out for blood. Keep a store of air in your lungs; you won’t have time to breathe. POWDER brings the torment and satisfaction of the roguelike experience to the Nintendo DS. True to roguelike tradition, the game’s graphics are simple, but you’re not playing the game to gawk at the scenery. You’re playing to better yourself as an adventurer. Confused yet? The original Rick Dangerous was put together by Core, a company that went on to give life to one of gaming’s most recognizable explorers: Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider series. Like its source material, Xrick DS is heavily inspired by the Indiana Jones movies. Expect lots of thrills, spills, and rolling rocks. The basic premise should be familiar to fans of Crayon Physics: You draw objects on the touch screen, and they become real and interact with their environment through accurate physics. Balls roll down ramps and knock over dominoes, and golf clubs swing on hinges to knock projectiles across the screen. Let your inner physicist burst forth. Available games include: Bridges, Fifteen, Galaxies, Light Up, Map, Mastermind, Mines, Pattern, Solitaire, Sudoku, and Untangle, among many more.
