Completely happy Friday, everybody 🙂 Hope you’ve got had a fantastic week – and welcome again to my weekly cellular sport advice roundup primarily based on essentially the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that have been lined on MiniReview this week. Hope you will get pleasure from it 🙂
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This episode features a distinctive arcade platformer, a enjoyable roguelike racing fight sport, an informal indie technique sport, one other tackle the reverse bullet-hell style, and a large Motion RPG journey sport.
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Let’s get to the video games:
OVIVO [Game Size: 189 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Platform / Arcade – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by AlexSem:
OVIVO is an uncommon black-and-white platformer wherein we information a small sphere by way of a sequence of surreal ranges by altering its colour to alter the course of gravity.
Every stage encompasses a advanced black-and-white picture with numerous slopes, shapes, and graphics objects, certainly one of which serves as our beginning location. We navigate these ranges utilizing left and proper motion buttons, whereas a 3rd button permits us to merge with the closest impediment to alter colour.
So long as our sphere character is black, it falls straight by way of white areas, whereas black objects function obstacles. As soon as we alter to white, we begin “falling” upwards, with white objects now turning into the obstacles.
This easy mechanic creates an attention-grabbing platforming gameplay expertise – and particularly as a result of momentum is conserved between black-white transitions, permitting us to achieve seemingly inaccessible locations by switching colour at simply the best time. Using that is wanted not solely to progress but in addition to collect all of the collectibles, a few of which require numerous talent and precision to seize.
To make issues even trickier, we have to keep away from sharp objects, as they destroy our sphere and pressure us to restart on the nearest checkpoint. Happily, we have now an infinite variety of retries, so the sport by no means turns into too hardcore or irritating.
OVIVO is a $1.99 premium sport with out adverts or iAPs. It takes time to get the grasp of the weird management mechanics, however after taking part in by way of a few ranges, it turns into pure and fairly enjoyable to simply breeze by way of the degrees whereas listening to the sport’s calm, meditative music.
App Retailer: Right here
Street Redemption Cellular [Total Game Size: 1.2 GB] (Free Trial)
Style: Racing / Arcade / Roguelike / Fight – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by NimbleThor:
Street Redemption Cellular is the port of a brutally violent roguelike fight racing sport the place we experience throughout the US whereas taking down opposing bikers utilizing gory melee and ranged weapons. The PC model was initially developed as a non secular successor to Street Rash.
The sport is structured as one lengthy fast-paced race cut up into separate randomized missions, equivalent to beating others to the end line, or eliminating plenty of bikers by pushing them into oncoming site visitors, decapitating them with our sword, and even utilizing explosives to blow them up.
Each time we end a mission, we get some money and XP to spend on gadgets and power-ups that final till we die. Since well being is persistent throughout missions, we have now to be very cautious to not take harm – which is less complicated stated than achieved because the slightest unsuitable transfer sends us flying by way of the air.
After we die for good, we get to spend our XP on an enormous talent tree that makes it simpler to get additional the subsequent time. A few of these upgrades even allow us to skip the primary few missions.
The art-style is clearly impressed by arcade racers, and it’s a fantastic match for the gameplay. The maps are additionally curiously designed, with a number of tough shortcuts. I’ve seen some complaints that the sport is locked to 30 FPS, nevertheless it didn’t negatively influence my expertise.
The controls take some getting used to, however I discovered them to work effectively as soon as I turned on “auto handbrake” and began utilizing buttons as an alternative of the joystick or tilt choices. There’s additionally Bluetooth controller help.
Street Redemption Cellular is free to strive, with a single $7.99 iAP to unlock the total marketing campaign and one other game-mode. Whereas it lacks the multiplayer it sports activities on PC, it’s positively value a strive for any fan fight racers.
App Retailer: Right here
S-kladom [Game Size: 10 MB] (Free)
Style: Technique / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by Pete McD:
S-kladom is a minimalistic real-time administration sport the place we use robots to effectively manage a warehouse and ship items as rapidly as potential, with extra packages showing at common intervals.
The twist is that we don’t instantly know which items have to be delivered first, so to succeed, we should attempt to manage every thing in essentially the most accessible manner potential.
That is a type of video games the place I used to be continuously wanting on the countdown timer with a sinking feeling. There’s a time restrict to get our packages to the related supply pipes, and if the instruction is to ship 19 brown smiley-face containers, we’re in massive hassle if we’ve left them on the reverse finish of the warehouse.
Our bots can solely transfer three crates at a time and might simply get caught behind containers – or one another – until we plan effectively. And simply to make issues tougher, there’s even a ‘fog-of-war’, which means we will’t see what a number of the containers are till our bots get shut sufficient to look at them.
Regardless of the issue – or possibly due to it – S-kladom is quite a lot of enjoyable.
The minimalistic graphics work in its favor as a result of they permit us to see issues clearly. And if the issue is an excessive amount of, there are a great deal of settings, equivalent to eradicating the ‘fog-of-war’, including a grid as a visible assist, and better of all for me, rising the timers. All of this helps to tailor the sport so the problem is extra enjoyable than irritating.
S-kladom prices $1.99. Individuals who get pleasure from logic puzzles will certainly benefit from the problem this sport gives.
App Retailer: Right here
DarkSurvival [Game Size: 189 MB] (Free)
Style: Reverse Bullet-Hell / Bullet Heaven / Arcade – On-line
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by NimbleThor:
DarkSurvival is a reverse bullet-hell motion sport the place enemies storm at us from all sides whereas we use our commonplace assault and automatically-triggering skills to beat the target of every sport mode.
Our first character’s weapon is melee, forcing us to get dangerously near the enemies. Fortunately, each time we stage up throughout a run, we get to select certainly one of three random skills that make it simpler to outlive. And though these aren’t as attention-grabbing as in 20 Minutes Until Daybreak, it’s enjoyable to experiment with completely different potential mixtures.
Inside the style, DarkSurvival falls nearer to Survivor.io than Magic Survival, which suggests equipable loot, upgradeable gadgets, and stat factors spent on enhancing every of the distinctive characters – but in addition each day login rewards, free and paid battle passes, and quests.
What actually units the sport aside, nevertheless, are the numerous sport modes. Whereas the conventional mode provides us of 12 minutes to defeat two bosses throughout varied problem tiers, the countless mode has us survive for so long as potential, and others present several types of experiences by altering the principles and aims.
Sadly, there isn’t any information on how a lot harm skills deal, the English translation is a bit so-so, and an vitality system limits how lengthy we will play. On the brilliant facet, the countless mode doesn’t require vitality, and we will simply play for an hour with out working out.
DarkSurvival monetizes by way of iAPs for beauty skins, a season go, gadgets, and an expensive $7.99 buy to take away the incentivized adverts. Fortunately, none of those really feel strictly essential to progress.
With so many enjoyable sport modes and a superb quantity of everlasting development, DarkSurvival has a really excessive stage of replayability, in order a darkish, extra gritty, model of Survivor.io, it’s value a strive.
App Retailer: Right here
Torchlight: Infinite (Recreation Dimension: 4.7 GB] (Free)
Style: RPG / Motion – On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by NimbleThor:
Torchlight Infinite is a loot-heavy 3D motion RPG with a lovely open world, a deep talent customization system, and fast-paced hack’n’slash fight.
After deciding on certainly one of 5 character courses, we’re dropped straight into the in-game world, the place we full quests and slay 1000’s of enemies whereas growing our character by way of expertise timber.
The sport has nearly every thing you’d count on from a high-quality ARPG, equivalent to loot that drops to the bottom, pets, occasions, and a player-to-player market. Every thing besides co-op, sadly – though we will nonetheless see different gamers on the town and chat with them.
What units Torchlight Infinite aside is its deep talent system. Not solely can we purchase 200+ completely different expertise, however in addition they stage up the extra we use them and might be drastically personalized through talent modifiers. For instance, a modifier would possibly decrease the harm of a talent however enhance its variety of projectiles. This and the quick expertise tree upgrades created a way of fixed development that I actually loved.
Sadly, the early fight is really easy we will simply stand nonetheless whereas attacking enemies. To be truthful, plowing by way of 1000’s of monsters is enjoyable in its personal proper, and the bosses do ultimately develop into troublesome sufficient that dodging is important.
The brilliant sci-fi-meets-fantasy artwork model appears to be like improbable, however the loot we equip doesn’t seem on our character, and most talent animations really feel a bit underwhelming. And whereas the controls are good, there’s no Bluetooth controller help.
Torchlight Infinite monetizes through a battle go, limited-time gross sales, and iAPs for a gacha system with auto-looting pets that additionally give very giant stat boosts. Whereas the pay-to-win isn’t as heavy as in Diablo Immortal, it’s not nice – so do not get sucked in. On the brilliant facet, there’s no PvP.
It’s a sport that will get near being nice, so so long as you don’t count on it to be something just like the PC Torchlight video games, you would possibly be capable of get pleasure from it for some time (till you end the story half).
App Retailer: Right here
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Google Sheet of all video games I’ve performed thus far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing
TL;DR Video Abstract (with gameplay) of final week’s video games: https://youtu.be/F5uJojUMvTo
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