Welcome again, fellow cell players, to this weekly cell recreation suggestion roundup primarily based on essentially the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that have been coated on MiniReview this week. Hope you will get pleasure from it 🙂
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This episode features a nice deck-building roguelike, a enjoyable informal puzzle recreation, a novel RPG dungeon crawler, and a reverse bullet-hell Magic Survival various.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Darkish Mist [Game Size: 295 MB] ($5.99)
Style: Deck-Constructing / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Darkish Mist is a roguelike deck-builder that strays from the standard Slay the Spire-defined system by introducing a novel fight system whereas nonetheless sustaining the tried-and-true options of the style.
The gameplay loop is typical for deck-builders, which implies we begin with a weak deck, battle enemies by enjoying playing cards on every flip, purchase new playing cards or improve current ones, kind synergies, go to retailers, and confront highly effective bosses to entry the following ground.
However as an alternative of encountering opponents one after the other, we face off towards a complete military of enemies laid out on a grid made up of 4 lanes and a number of other rows, of which our assaults can solely attain the entrance row.
Every enemy has numerous hit factors, and a power worth that signifies what number of playing cards it steals from our draw or discard pile when it assaults. If we run out of playing cards, we lose the sport, however we will fortunately get them again by defeating enemies.
This uncommon fight idea introduces numerous room for attention-grabbing mechanics and playing cards, discovering and using which is the principle problem of the sport.
With seven distinct courses, dozens of playing cards, numerous enemies with distinctive talents, and a number of other recreation modes, there are quite a few methods to check out. And if we run out of normal content material, the each day challenges with distinctive guidelines allow us to race for the most effective rank amongst gamers worldwide.
Darkish Mist is a premium recreation with no advertisements or iAPs that prices $5.99. It encompasses a good darkish fantasy aesthetic, nice artwork, atmospheric audio, and a excessive stage of replayability that ensures that any fan of the deck-building style will stay occupied for a very long time.
App Retailer: Right here
Okay? [Total Game Size: 115 MB] (Free)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by Jurij:
Okay? is a soothing physics-based puzzle recreation the place we get only one try at capturing a ball within the precise course and angle that makes it bounce off all of the white items in every stage.
The foundations and logic are instantly clear, however because the 150 ranges get more durable, we quickly must spend some actual mind energy and a number of other retries to unravel them. Particularly the later ranges get fairly sophisticated, and discovering the correct angle that forces the ball throughout the extent gives a wholesome quantity of frustration.
Whereas Okay? appears easy, the degrees are literally all puzzles that we step by step resolve by making an attempt numerous photographs and completely timing them to be in sync with any transferring items. It additionally even encompasses a stage editor and user-created ranges that get featured as “recreation of the day” – though there’s no strategy to correctly browse all of them.
The intelligent stage designs make it apparent what to do, however find out how to obtain it’s one thing we should slowly work out ourselves. Particularly as a result of our ball isn’t restricted to pre-defined beginning positions.
There isn’t any story, no flashy achievements, and no colours. The benefit of that is that the sport might be performed on any cellphone – regardless of how outdated it’s. It additionally makes the sport good for once you’re listening to a podcast or simply have a couple of minutes to spare.
The audio might be irritating, and the graphics are easy – however that’s additionally a part of the allure. It’s a type of easy video games nearly anybody can get pleasure from – a bit like Line Blaster.
Okay? monetizes by incentivized advertisements for a touch, and a “pay-what-you-want” iAP mannequin the place you may select to help the developer or just play fully totally free.
App Retailer: Right here
Labyrinth Legend II [Game Size: 276 MB] (Free)
Style: RPG / Dungeon Crawler – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Labyrinth Legend II is a novel hack-and-slash motion RPG dungeon-crawler with randomly generated dungeons, loot-based fight, and plenty of robust bosses to defeat with the various melee and ranged weapons we discover.
Ranging from our hometown, we open a teleporter to pick from the obtainable dungeons. Every dungeon consists of a number of flooring with a number of rooms stuffed with enemies and loot chests. As soon as a dungeon has been accomplished, we head again house and may then begin one other one – or rerun the identical dungeon to collect extra supplies.
Though every dungeon ground is cut up into rooms, it seems to be and seems like a big open world, which I personally love. As well as, we should use our dodge-roll capacity to leap throughout spikes and small rivers, including a slight puzzle factor to the extent design.
Like within the predecessor, we will equip as much as 4 weapons and use them interchangeably throughout fight. This enables for some really enjoyable fight eventualities, like smacking an enemy with our enormous sword solely to dodge-roll away, launch a fireball, after which cost up a powerful bow assault.
At city, we will spend our foreign money and supplies on shopping for new tools from NPCs, enhancing gadgets, or buying upgrades that enhance our stock area, present extra potions, and far more.
Each the pixel art-style and digital camera angle are reasonably distinctive. The largest draw back is that the UI feels unpolished – it doesn’t wreck the gameplay expertise, nevertheless it’s troublesome to disregard.
Labyrinth Legend II monetizes by displaying an advert after clearing a dungeon, just a few incentivized advertisements, a $4.99 iAP to take away all advertisements, and two $1.99 iAPs for extra character courses that may also be earned by gameplay. The sport can simply be loved as a free participant.
App Retailer: Right here
Survivor.io (Sport Measurement: 253 MB] (Free)
Style: Arcade / Bullet Hell – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Survivor.io is a Magic Survival various within the “reverse bullet-hell” sub-genre, which implies 1000’s of enemies storm at us from all sides however we’re those firing massive quantities of bullets.
Most chapters are performed on an infinite map with our character positioned within the center. Utilizing a easy joystick, our purpose is to keep away from the enemies that rush at us whereas gathering the XP orbs they drop. Commonplace assaults are fired routinely, and at any time when we stage up, we get to choose one among three random talents or stat-boosts that final till we die.
These wacky talents vary from boomerangs to drones and hearth routinely at sure intervals. We do must be aware of which we choose, nonetheless, as we will solely equip six talents and 6 momentary boosts. On the intense aspect, if we choose one we have already got, it grows stronger.
The purpose is to outlive every chapter’s 1000’s of enemies and a number of other bosses so we will proceed to the following, harder chapter. Everlasting development occurs by shopping for upgrades and equipping and leveling up loot – very similar to in Archero.
This creates a neat ebb and movement to the problem, with every run getting step by step simpler till we end a chapter, after which it will get more durable for some time.
The art-style is okay, however the UI is a giant step up compared to Magic Survival. The largest downsides are that the sport grows a bit repetitive, and enemies and bullets finally change into so small that they’re exhausting to see.
Survivor.io monetizes by an vitality system limiting us to about an hour of regular chapter gameplay at a time, and iAPs that permit us develop stronger quicker. These iAPs could make a giant distinction, however as an off-the-cuff recreation, the core gameplay and 10–15-minute runs are each polished and enjoyable.
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/ZipflpsGQ_g
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