Blissful Friday, everybody. And welcome to a different episode of my weekly cellular gaming suggestions based mostly on essentially the most fascinating video games I performed and that had been coated on MiniReview this week 🙂
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This episode features a zen-like informal platformer, a loot-heavy pixel RPG dungeon crawler, a hardcore arcade platformer, and a high-quality technique gacha RPG.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Dream Hopper [Total Game Size: 240 MB] (Free)
Style: Informal / Platform / Zen-like – Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by Yousef:
Dream Hopper is a fantastic informal zen-like sport the place we bounce from platform to platform to gentle up attractive items of artwork.
We play as a blob that routinely glides alongside the surface of glass-like shapes that collectively make up a chunk of artwork. Every form has a gravity subject, and by swiping in any course, we are able to bounce into the air to get pulled in the direction of the closest form. As soon as we land on a brand new platform, it lights up and new shapes seem – all synced to the beat of the atmospheric music.
We proceed leaping round till all shapes have colorfully lit up, after which the digicam then zooms out to disclose the mesmerizing artwork made up of the shapes we simply landed on. Every artwork piece belongs to a themed group starting from animals to area objects, and since we are able to’t see the complete piece earlier than ending, the reveal on the finish of every degree is all the time a nice shock.
Whereas there isn’t any actual development, the sport options day by day quests and achievements that reward us with a forex used to unlock new beauty characters.
Though the idea is nice, the execution is a bit hit-or-miss. The sport understandably struggles to sync the gameplay to the purely ambient music present in some ranges, nevertheless it does a unbelievable job within the ranges the place the music has a robust beat and clear rhythm.
Dream Hopper monetizes by means of incentivized advertisements, and iAPs for an in-game forex we are able to use to purchase extra vitality. The vitality system limits us to about quarter-hour of play-time earlier than we have now to attend or pay. As an informal sport, nevertheless, the unbelievable soundtracks, stunning art-style, and zen gameplay make it an excellent match for brief play-sessions.
App Retailer: Right here
My Heroes: Dungeon Raid [Game Size: 1.4 GB] (Free)
Style: Motion / Dungeon Crawler – Requires On-line Entry
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by NimbleThor:
My Heroes: Dungeon Raid is a loot-heavy top-down pixel RPG shooter with hectic bullet hell-like fight, co-op multiplayer, level-based marketing campaign development, and a mostly-fantasy setting that additionally options machine gun weaponry.
After getting into a degree, we transfer by means of a number of dungeon rooms to make use of our regular assault and particular expertise to defeat each enemy and the boss ready on the finish – all whereas avoiding the insane variety of incoming assaults. Every dungeon takes just a few minutes, which makes the sport very fast-paced.
Defeating bosses and opening chests present in some dungeon rooms present a ton of loot that we are able to equip or destroy to achieve assets wanted to improve different gadgets. The sport additionally options 5 character lessons and numerous sport modes, reminiscent of day by day dungeons, lots of which offer invaluable gadgets reminiscent of talent scrolls used to degree up our expertise.
Fight could be very straightforward and shortly feels considerably repetitive, however in some ways, My Heroes is a sport all in regards to the superior loot and fixed upgrading – so in the event you love that, you’ll almost definitely take pleasure in this sport. For instance, we customise which expertise to make use of, which stats to improve, which gear to equip, which pets to make use of, and way more.
Its astonishing variety of quests, occasions, missions, login rewards, and so forth guarantee that there’s all the time one thing to do however may additionally flip off some gamers.
My Heroes monetizes by means of gacha chests for brand new weapons and quite a few different iAPs to make the sport simpler or purchase fancy-looking cosmetics. Coming into rooms of a dungeon additionally prices stamina, which limits the day by day most play-session size to about ten regular dungeons.
It’s a grindy sport however its great amount of content material and low issue makes it a good motion RPG that I feel many will take pleasure in at an informal degree.
App Retailer: Right here
Penarium [Game Size: 61 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Arcade / Platform – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by AlexSem:
Penarium is a hardcore arcade motion platformer through which we have now to outlive an limitless spree of lethal traps to entertain a bloodthirsty crowd.
We play as a dimwitted farm boy who has been enslaved by a sadistic circus proprietor and should now take part in harmful performances the place he acts as goal observe for quite a few sorts of weapons and units.
The sport takes place in a circus area that consists of a number of platforms excessive above the bottom. Leaping from platform to platform, we’re tasked with finishing numerous degree aims, reminiscent of amassing gadgets or staying alive for a selected period of time – all whereas avoiding falling down or being hit by bullets, lasers, rockets, icicles, razor blades, falling rocks, and loopy bee swarms.
The sport includes a story marketing campaign with merciless dialogs to learn earlier than getting into every degree, and an arcade mode the place we attempt to keep alive for so long as potential whereas amassing cash to purchase numerous upgrades.
Because the sport is extraordinarily difficult and full of tons of pixelated violence, it won’t enchantment to informal gamers or the faint of coronary heart. Hardcore gamers, then again, will almost definitely be tremendously glad by the quantity of talent and reiteration required to outlive.
Penarium prices $1.99 and is commonly on sale. It won’t swimsuit everybody, however gives a substantial amount of leisure in the event you’re in search of a high quality arcade platformer.
App Retailer: Right here
Dislyte (Sport Dimension: 1.9 GB] (Free)
Style: Gacha / RPG / Technique – Requires On-line Entry
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluate by NimbleThor:
Dislyte is a extremely polished technique gacha RPG by the studio behind AFK Area that includes a neat music theme, a ton of content material, and even a complete music rhythm sport throughout the sport as simply one of many sport modes.
The core gameplay has us put collectively a workforce of 5 heroes that we take into battle by means of a lighthearted story-driven major marketing campaign, boss fights, towers, PvP, and plenty of different modes.
In the course of the turn-based fight, we constantly choose an enemy to focus on and choose certainly one of every hero’s three talents to set off. A few of these talents are even moderately fascinating, such because the one which hyperlinks two enemies collectively so that they each take injury when certainly one of them is hit. This makes the fight actually enjoyable initially, however because the grind will increase in a while, none of it actually issues as most gamers will probably be utilizing the auto-combat system anyway – which I can’t assist however really feel is a little bit of a disgrace.
As in most gacha RPGs, the actual enjoyable comes from constantly enhancing our workforce by leveling every hero up, equipping and upgrading stat-boosting relics, and way more. Dislyte even has just a few rarely-seen quality-of-life options, reminiscent of a setting that tells the auto-system to disable when a boss is reached.
The city mythological art-style makes for an fascinating setting, and with neat assault animations, music and sound results which might be spot-on, and even totally voiced heroes, Dislyte is definitely one of many highest high quality video games throughout the style.
Sadly, Dislyte monetizes by means of an vitality system, iAPs for extra gold and gacha pulls, a battle move, and even subscriptions. That is arguably the sport’s largest draw back. We obtain a good quantity of assets as a free participant, however the gacha pull charges are very low. Nonetheless, in the event you take pleasure in gacha RPGs, this is without doubt one of the higher ones to launch just lately by way of its gameplay and depth.
App Retailer: Right here
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Google Sheet of all video games I’ve performed up to now (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/OQ40151vXlQ
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