Peggle

Peggle is a very basic game, but it's a game that I've been playing for probably 10 years

and I always come back to it. It's made by Popcap games, the same people who made the simple-yet-addictive Plants vs Zombies and Bejewelled. Yes, for a while there, Popcap were really killing it with coming up with great games with basic but clever mechanics. Before they got bought out by EA.

Peggle is a game about pegs. A whole screen full of them. Your goal is to hit all 25 orange pegs using 10 balls. There are also blue pegs that get in the way, but can also help, by giving the balls something to bounce off. You have a cannon at the top of the screen that you aim, which fires the ball, and once it hits the bottom, the ball is gone. There is more to it, too, like a ball-catcher at the bottom of the screen that gives extra balls, as well as special green pegs that allow you to use special abilities.

But all in all, it's just a really simple but satisfying game that you can pick up and play for 15 minutes while you're killing time. Sometimes I just play this when I feel like listening to music, because it doesn't really require any concentration. And with a bunch of challenges, you'll likely never 100% the game. It's pretty cheap, too. I give it 4/5 stars.