Pleased Friday, and welcome to a different spherical of cell recreation suggestions primarily based on probably the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that have been lined on MiniReview this week 🙂
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This episode features a enjoyable motion platformer a couple of cyberduck, a sci-fi RTS premium recreation, an important point-and-click journey, a hilarious and weird choose-your-own-adventure recreation, and a beloved simulation administration recreation.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Particular Agent CyberDuck [Game Size: 27 MB] (Free)
Style: Platform / Motion / Indie – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by NimbleThor:
Particular Agent CyberDuck is a difficult motion platformer with a neat pixel art-style and 80 ranges filled with enemies, boss fights, and secret areas to find.
Our aim is to get to the exit of every degree with out dying, which incorporates taking pictures enemies, dodging bullets, and leaping platforms to keep away from traps and obstacles. Though merely attending to the exit lets us proceed to the following degree, discovering every degree’s a number of secret areas to avoid wasting hostages is a part of what makes the sport enjoyable, including a slight journey really feel.
To take care of the various enemies, we fireplace our weapon(s) that slowly overheat if we spray-and-pray for too lengthy. Apparently, the sport options extra development than most motion platformers, permitting us to unlock new weapons that we are able to change between at any time, and purchase new characters with distinctive benefits.
Though we are able to tweak the issue, CyberDuck is inherently difficult, and with no checkpoints, you higher be ready to restart most ranges over and over. This makes the sport good for individuals who get pleasure from punishing platformers, however it’s, sadly, potential to get into conditions the place dying is seemingly unavoidable.
The controls work decently effectively and are simple to get the grasp of, and the art-style and humorous duck-themed universe is a good match for the gameplay. The one slight draw back is that the menu UI is a bit convoluted.
Particular Agent CyberDuck monetizes by way of very sparse incentivized advertisements for further in-game forex, iAPs as much as $15 to assist the indie developer or immediately unlock all characters, weapons, and attributes. All the things can also be comparatively simply unlocked by way of gameplay, nonetheless, and the sport isn’t grindy.
It’s an important match for anybody who enjoys hardcore platformers, and its speed-run mode ensures a excessive degree of replayability.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Crying Suns [Total Game Size: 568 MB] ($8.99)
Style: Technique / Roguelike / RTS / Sci-fi – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by Pete McD:
Crying Suns is an epic tactical sci-fi roguelike with RTS fight and an in-depth story set in a grungy universe the place the OMNI machines humanity relied on have stopped working and society has collapsed. We play as a clone of a famend admiral who has been dropped at life to resolve the thriller of what went improper and provides humanity a second likelihood.
The world-building in Crying Suns is unbelievable. The story is partaking, and we step by step study extra concerning the world by encountering totally different characters and asking questions of our snarky robotic companion, Kaliban. Accompanying this can be a cyberpunk colour palette of darkish blues, greens, and black that completely presents a universe that’s nearing its finish and splendidly matches the eerie and evocative soundtrack.
The core gameplay has us navigate totally different star programs to research native planets. Some, we are able to commerce at, whereas others function ‘anomalies’, that are occasions which have a 50/50 likelihood of offering a really constructive or very damaging end result relying on the alternatives we make. These occasions actually do make a distinction, forcing us to rigorously contemplate our choices.
Wherever we go, we’re prone to run into enemy ships, which takes us to a battle grid the place we play a fancy RTS match utilizing squads of fighters and drones to delay enemy ships and our important weapon system to interrupt our opponent’s defenses. Throughout these frantic battles, we should steadiness our sources with precision, and though we are able to pause at any time to develop a brand new technique, the fights stay satisfyingly difficult.
Crying Suns is a $8.99 premium recreation. Other than some data being onerous to see on small screens, the sport’s immersive mix of ‘onerous’ sci-fi storytelling and tough however well-balanced gameplay makes it top-of-the-line I’ve performed.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
The Silent Age [Game Size: 262 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Journey / Level-and-Click on – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by AlexSem:
The Silent Age is a point-and-click journey recreation set within the Nineteen Seventies that options time touring and a brilliantly convoluted plot.
We play as a dimwitted janitor working at a big company constructing who finally ends up discovering a mysterious machine that lets him journey backwards and forwards between the current and a selected second a number of a long time into the long run. As we quickly uncover, a worldwide apocalyptic occasion has occurred sooner or later throughout this time interval, and we should now discover a method to forestall it.
True to the style, we progress by exploring the setting, gathering numerous objects, discovering the precise locations to make use of stated objects, and fixing different puzzles – most of which revolve round time-traveling. In actual fact, actions we make within the current all have penalties for the long run, which implies areas that appear inaccessible at first could be reached with a little bit of temporal ingenuity.
The sport consists of a number of chapters and tells a superb story that retains us invested and extremely engaged until the very finish. In the meantime, the visible model, the music, and the voice narration create an immersive ambiance that completely units the temper for the occasions unfolding earlier than our eyes.
The primary episode of the sport is free to play, with a single $4.99 iAP unlocking the second episode. The Silent Age is without doubt one of the most attention-grabbing point-and-click adventures out there on cell, so it’s extremely advisable for any fan of the style.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Kyle is Well-known [Game Size: 364 MB] ($4.99)
Style: Journey / Textual content-Based mostly / Humorous – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by Yousef:
Kyle is Well-known is a comically weird text-based choose-your-own-adventure recreation the place issues can get actually out of hand and go horribly improper within the span of simply 30 in-game hours.
We play as Kyle, a preferred speak present host making ready for an interview with Rachel Might, an necessary and high-profile visitor. Beginning when Kyle wakes up on the morning of the interview, we make choices about every little thing he ought to do this day, and since one in-game hour progresses for every choice we make, getting by way of all 30 hours and reaching one of many 115 distinctive endings solely takes 2-3 minutes.
In fact, this gameplay idea is utilized in probably the most ridiculous methods. As a result of quite than writing down a set of questions so we are able to put together for an expert interview, our choices shortly result in humorously voice-narrated different storylines. For instance, in a single playthrough, we could flip right into a ghost with amnesia, eat a complete fridge, use a time machine to realize again our 30 hours, and even remodel right into a lizard demon.
For each set of 10-30 endings reached, we unlock a brand new background and Kyle will get a brand new job. Sadly, every job drags out for too lengthy, which could incentivize some gamers to brute drive their manner by way of the sport to keep away from the repetitiveness, ruining the allure of the core gameplay mechanic.
Kyle is Well-known is a $4.99 premium with out advertisements or iAPs. When you get pleasure from random and absurdist humor, you’re most probably going to like this recreation, and in the event you’re not sure, there’s additionally a free demo out there on Android.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Recreation Dev Story (Recreation Measurement: 81 MB] ($4.49)
Style: Simulation / Administration – Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait + Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by CaptainQQ:
Recreation Dev Story is a simulation recreation the place we try and create the perfect online game growth firm in historical past by managing our staff, making choices about which video games to develop subsequent, and hiring new expertise.
We begin off with a staff of workers that cowl the fundamentals of recreation growth, comparable to writing proposals for brand spanking new video games, creating graphics, and making music. As soon as accomplished, the sport will get launched and we sit again and hope for the perfect whereas the gross sales numbers are available in.
As we progress, we rent extra staff members with totally different abilities, and earlier than we all know it, we’re making hall-of-fame video games, growing our personal consoles, and accepting million-dollar contracts.
As a administration sim, our main function is to make choices about who to fireplace or rent, what varieties of video games to make, and how one can promote it – all whereas staying inside our finances. The sport additionally roughly follows the timeline of real-life console releases and has us purchase licenses to develop video games for knockoffs of well-known consoles just like the NES and PlayStation.
That is Kairosoft’s first cell recreation, which could clarify why we in a short time attain the end-game. In actual fact, after buying our third studio, the gameplay turns into purely about coaching and buying and selling workers for increased stats whereas pumping out assured hall-of-fame video games. There additionally isn’t numerous customization or depth, and just a few songs.
This premium recreation prices $4.49, though it usually goes on sale for $1-2.
Recreation Dev Story is an addictive journey that takes you thru the timeline of video video games and an gratifying administration simulator, however it’s pretty brief, comparatively easy, and a little bit dear. Nonetheless, it’d be a mislead not name its gameplay entertaining.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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Outdated (changed by MiniReview): Sheet of all video games I’ve performed to this point: 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/gsnUgdXZ2fk
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