Joyful Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome again to my weekly cellular recreation suggestions thread. These are a number of 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 consists of an superior roguelike technique recreation ported to cellular, a enjoyable journey recreation, one other epic roguelike, an off-the-cuff puzzle recreation, and a novel tower rush technique recreation.
New to those posts? Take a look at the primary one from 164 weeks in the past right here.
Let’s get to the video games:
Into The Breach [Game Size: 559 MB] (“Free” w. Netflix)
Style: Technique / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by JBMessin:
Into the Breach is the port of a unbelievable sci-fi technique roguelike by the builders of Sooner Than Mild.
On this recreation, our objective is to eradicate the aliens attacking us by means of a sequence of quick turn-based battles. However don’t fear – if we fail, we merely get despatched again to an alternate timeline to strive once more.
Earlier than heading into fight, we choose our pilots, mech loadouts, and the island we’ll attempt to defend. Every 8×8 tiled battle map comprises randomized terrain layouts that match the island. The one consistency is that there are at all times buildings that our mechs obtain energy from, and a bunch of civilians that we shield to attain factors.
If we fail, we get to choose one pilot to ship again in time. This resets all progress, however the pilot retains its ranges and any bonuses it has, giving us a little bit of an edge within the subsequent run.
Environmental results play a giant position within the recreation’s fight system. For instance, forest tiles can catch fireplace after which unfold, shortly devastating our energy financial institution and civilians. However we’re additionally inspired to make use of the terrain to our benefit by e.g. pushing aliens into the water, hiding behind mountains, and so forth.
Apparently, we are able to additionally at all times see the aliens’ subsequent strikes, which creates a excessive degree of stress since we all know prematurely what penalties our actions could have.
There are such a lot of totally different weapons, pilots, and techs that it simply takes a couple of video games to totally perceive all of them. Particularly since some weapons are ineffective until we’ve got a unit that may make the most of them.
Regardless of the steep studying curve and tiny UI, Into the Breach is extremely enjoyable and the port itself is nearly excellent. It’s a premium recreation that may solely be performed with a Netflix subscription, although. If you have already got Netflix, it’s a must-try.
NOTE: Should you don’t have Netflix, it isn’t price shopping for the subscription when you solely plan on taking part in Into the Breach.
App Retailer: Right here
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion [Total Game Size: 159 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Journey / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a 2D Zelda-like journey recreation filled with merchandise gathering, dungeon crawling, bizarre vegetable humor, and administrative felony.
Enjoying as a younger turnip who’s making an attempt to amend for his crimes towards society, we should serve our city’s mayor by operating his doubtful errands. In doing so, we find yourself visiting plenty of colourful areas, speaking with unusual characters, preventing harmful monsters, and gathering numerous helpful objects.
All of the adventuring occurs in a relaxed and lighthearted method, and we’re by no means overloaded with robust challenges reminiscent of complicated puzzles or motion sequences primarily based on fast reactions. This permits a really vast number of players to benefit from the course of.
True to the style, we’re offered with a big world map, components of that are locked till we discover an acceptable device or full extra of the story. The sport can be filled with secret objects and hidden achievements that we are able to purchase by completely exploring all the map. Doing so isn’t essential to efficiently end the primary story, nevertheless it’s a pleasant addition for individuals who get pleasure from uncovering secrets and techniques.
I particularly favored the sport’s cute visible type, bizarre characters, and all of the peculiar occasions that considerably differ from what we normally see in journey video games.
The first situation some gamers have with the sport is that switching the primary merchandise requires too many faucets, making the controls a bit uncomfortable. In my expertise, this wasn’t a giant deal, however taking part in with a Bluetooth controller positively makes for a extra nice expertise.
The primary chapter of Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is free to strive, whereas a $3.99 iAP unlocks the remainder of the sport. It’s a simple suggestion for all followers of humorous journey video games, and I feel lots of people will actually get pleasure from it.
App Retailer: Right here
ScourgeBringer [Game Size: 190 MB] ($5.99)
Style: Motion / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by CaptainQQ:
ScourgeBringer is an epic motion roguelike platformer the place we slash and sprint our approach by means of a floating fortress to save lots of our species.
On the floor, ScourgeBringer looks as if a conventional motion roguelike the place we clear room after room of monsters whereas gathering upgrades and looking for the boss so we are able to transfer on to the subsequent degree.
However beneath that lies an attention-grabbing fight system that actually units the sport aside. Each assault in ScourgeBringer retains our character within the air for a short time, and we’ve got to always air-dash between enemies to smash them and interrupt their highly effective telegraphed assaults. Mixed with the necessity to dodge bullets and keep away from ground hazards, this mechanic means we’re virtually at all times flying round.
The power to run on partitions and air-dash between assaults makes the combo-driven fight tremendous satisfying. This gameplay expertise solely will get higher with extra upgrades, however since most powerups price blood or well being, we should additionally rigorously handle these sources.
The sport options attractive pixel artwork, an intense soundtrack, and it runs phenomenally with each contact controls and a Bluetooth controller.
The largest drawback some may need with the sport – and lots of others in the identical style – is that it sucks to die within the final degree after which need to undergo all the simple ranges over and over. The powerups additionally don’t give an enormous increase in energy, so we’ve got to depend on bettering our expertise to win.
ScourgeBringer prices $5.99 on iOS. The dearth of advertisements or iAPs for boosts or revives makes it an ideal and really difficult expertise. It’s a refined recreation with hours of content material that could be a must-try for followers of the style.
App Retailer: Right here
Linelight [Game Size: 126 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by Jurij:
Linelight is a minimalistic summary puzzle recreation the place we transfer a brief white bar round on a protracted line to unravel puzzles by activating platforms, switches, and different mechanics.
The sport is as simplistic as will be. As we are able to solely transfer on the road, we all know precisely the place we are able to go. And since we instantly see the instruments and mechanics every degree options, it typically takes only a few seconds to get an concept of what have to be accomplished to unravel the puzzle. The sport is cut up into six worlds, every of which is a set of puzzles which might be all related on a single lengthy line.
The simplicity makes the puzzles intuitive, and we’re seldom caught. But no resolution is simply too straightforward. Every puzzle additionally consists of numerous buttons and different mechanisms that work together in difficult methods. It’s straightforward to see what these do, however typically tough to determine how they’re all related with out simply making an attempt them out.
One other plus is that the sport makes use of a single digital joystick, so it may be performed with one hand.
The one slight downsides are that the graphics are so minimalistic that they might appear lazy, there’s no total theme, and some of the puzzles are bugged. The ray results might also frustrate some gamers. Nevertheless, it’s onerous to discover a puzzle recreation the place the puzzles are so cleverly designed and constant, and that’s the rationale Linelight is a fan favourite of many that’s typically thought-about a small murals.
Fortunately, the sport is fairly lengthy and nonetheless receives updates. As of penning this assessment, there are over 200 distinctive ranges.
Linelight is a $1.99 premium recreation. For such a low value, it’s actually a steal for any puzzle fan.
App Retailer: Right here
Magic vs. Metallic (Recreation Dimension: 660 MB] (Free)
Style: Tower Rush / Motion / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama + Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Magic vs. Metallic is a novel and enjoyable third-person motion recreation the place we use mage and mech characters to guard our fortress towards waves of incoming enemies.
The sport is structured as a level-based marketing campaign the place we defend a fortress wall utilizing our hero’s normal assault and its eight geared up talents that spawn helper models, fireplace spells, place turrets, and extra.
For each accomplished degree, we earn a foreign money used to improve our hero’s HP, weapon, and talent degree, the latter of which upgrades all talents and unlocks new ones. We are able to additionally improve our fortress wall’s HP, craft new weapons and runes for our hero, and use analysis scrolls. There actually is loads to improve and unlock.
Whereas we are able to swap between heroes all through the marketing campaign, they’re upgraded individually, which suggests we must always deal with one to not waste sources. On the intense aspect, replaying ranges with new heroes provides additional rewards.
Some ranges get moderately difficult, however I actually loved that we don’t have to succeed in a sure rating to win. So long as we cope with all enemies with out dying, we are able to proceed to the subsequent degree.
The art-style is much like different Foursaken Media video games, however the animations are far much less clunky, and the sport simply runs and performs far more easily than their earlier titles. The largest draw back is that the swipe gesture used to navigate the menu is simply too delicate.
Apparently, the sport will be performed each in a panorama third-person mode, or a portrait top-down mode. I discovered the panorama mode to supply the most effective expertise.
Magic vs. Metallic monetizes by way of a battle go, advertisements for additional sources, and iAPs to progress quicker. The sport will be loved as a free participant, so long as you don’t thoughts sometimes replaying older ranges to earn extra foreign money.
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/t2Bwy9A6fIM
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