Whale Trail

Whale Trail was developed by British indie studio ustwo. The company was founded in 2004 by two friends who had just two laptop computers. The company grew quickly and became one of the largest client service-based game developers. Matt Mills, the founder of ustwo, stated that some of his inspiration for Whale Trail came from the game Tiny Wings.

Mills believed that Tiny Wings created a want for similar "one-touch mechanic" games, which only require the player to occasionally interact with gameplay. According to Mills, "The release of Tiny Wings was inspirational in that it taught me that very simple mechanics could go all the way to the top." Mills' said that he hoped to make a game that would be liked by all types of gamers and would "appeal to the widest demographic possible", but at the same time would keep a design that the company would like and that would "be loved by the design conscious".

The game has a Metacritic score of 84% based on 15 critic reviews.

V. Club said, "Whale Trail is just plain awesome." Modojo wrote, "One of the finest games we've had the privilege of experiencing. It joins Tiny Wings, Angry Birds and Cut the Rope as a handful of quality titles you must absolutely have on either your iPhone or iPad."