Casual Games

A game is considered casual when it's targetedfor casual gamers. A casual gamer is one that likes to play, but doesn't like complex, long games. That's why casual games are always very simple to play and to understand.

If you like to play games, but lack the patience to learn complex games, then you're a casual gamer, and you sould try casual games. You could also try online browser games. They may be compared to casual games, in the sense that you don't need to learn complex rules to play.

Casual games are usually divided into the following genres:

• Puzzle - it's all about puzzle solving
• Word - crossword puzzles
• Action - action games
• Card - card related games
• Board Game - family board games

You can learn more about casual games at the wikipedia.

Casual games have a large market (specially on the US), and are a very profitable business. With the advances on the mobile phones, casual games will gain even more relevante, because you'll be able to play your favorite casual games at your handset.

Today we already have several mobile games, but these games are often very basic, and hard to play, mostly because of the controls. Playing on a phone keybord is not ideal, and that makes phone gaming a flop.

However, modern handsets like the iPhone present new engaging ways to play games, because they present new and modern ways to control our phone. This opens up new possibilities for the casual market at the phone industry.