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HotshotTek’s second wrist-sized roundup makes the case that the Apple Watch is a legitimate gaming device, not just a notification screen.

HotshotTek’s “Dope Gaming Apps For The Apple Watch Part 2” picks up where the channel’s first installment left off, digging back into the watchOS App Store for titles built specifically around the Digital Crown, the touch bezel and a screen you can cover with a thumb. The video treats the Apple Watch less like a phone accessory and more like its own micro-console, one where a full game session might last less time than it takes to read a text.

• Rules!, from The Coding Monkeys and 137b, was named an Apple Watch Best Game of 2015 and runs its tile-clearing puzzles against a countdown timer.
• Trivia Crack, built by Etermax, was adapted for the Apple Watch at the device’s original launch and lets players run asynchronous quiz rounds across six categories straight from the wrist.
• The video is explicitly a follow-up entry in an ongoing HotshotTek series tracking how wrist-based gaming apps have moved from simple utilities toward genuine micro-entertainment.

Rules! Turns the Watch Face Into a Timed Puzzle Grid

Rules! is built around a deceptively simple loop: clear a grid of tiles by recalling a sequence of instructions before the clock runs out. The Coding Monkeys and 137b designed it specifically for glanceable play, which is why Apple singled it out as one of the platform’s Best Games of 2015. On the Apple Watch, that countdown-driven format turns a spare thirty seconds at a bus stop into a full round.

Rules! carried Apple’s own Best Game of 2015 label, and the whole thing runs on a countdown timer squeezed onto a screen the size of a postage stamp.

Trivia Crack Answers Come Straight From the Wrist

Trivia Crack’s watchOS port dates back to the Apple Watch’s original launch window, and Etermax built it around the same asynchronous, turn-based structure the mobile app made popular. Players spin through questions in six categories — sports, entertainment and history among them — without ever pulling the phone out of their pocket. It’s the format that made the game a phenomenon on iOS, just compressed onto a two-inch display.

Rounding Out the Wrist-Sized Library

HotshotTek’s list stretches beyond puzzle and trivia formats into games built on the watch’s other sensors. Pokemon Go’s watchOS companion app lets players hatch eggs and track nearby Pokemon through haptic buzzes on the wrist, cutting down on how often the phone needs to come out during a walk. Lifeline runs its stranded-astronaut narrative through simple tap-based decisions, while Infinity Loop strips its shape-connecting puzzles down to the kind of minimalist interface that fits comfortably on a watch face. Together with Rules! and Trivia Crack, they make the case HotshotTek is building across both videos: the Apple Watch’s game library isn’t a novelty anymore, it’s a genuinely playable second screen.