Completely satisfied Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome to episode 150 (YAY! :D) of my weekly cellular recreation advice roundup primarily based on probably 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 actually neat puzzle recreation about trains, a short-but-sweet motion platformer, a really distinctive CCG technique recreation with some tower-defense inspiration, a well-liked card technique recreation, and a basic taxi-themed racing recreation.
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a pleasant dialogue beneath.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Railbound [Game Size: 168 MB] ($4.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Railbound is a wonderful puzzle recreation from the creators of Golf Peaks and inbento, through which we assemble railway tracks that enable our numbered practice vehicles to hook up with a locomotive within the right order.
Every stage is made up of a grid with practice vehicles and a few pre-defined tracks. We have to lay down any lacking tracks after which sit again and watch because the vehicles hopefully attain the locomotive ready for them within the distance.
The out there monitor items allow us to proceed in a straight line, make a flip, and intersect or merge with different tracks. The primary problem comes from the restricted variety of monitor items, and the truth that the vehicles transfer concurrently, which implies they simply crash into one another if the tracks are laid incorrectly.
As we progress by way of the 150 ranges, we unlock attention-grabbing new mechanics, resembling railway obstacles activated by distant buttons, tunnels performing as teleporters, tug vehicles that should be faraway from the street, and stations with passengers ready to be picked up.
Essentially the most difficult ranges even characteristic tracks that get rearranged when a practice passes by, which implies we’ve got to create an answer the place our vehicles go to the identical monitor a number of instances, taking a special route every time they go by.
The sport options charming vibrant graphics, an intuitive user-interface, and exquisite enjoyable music to accompany us on our journey. There may be even a easy story in regards to the adventures of two practice operators that will get revealed as a sequence of humorous but heartwarming postcards.
Railbound is a $4.99 premium recreation with out advertisements or iAPs. When you like enjoyable however difficult puzzle video games, you’ll be able to’t go incorrect with this one.
App Retailer: Right here
Chefy-chef [Total Game Size: 30 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Platform / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by MisterGrinch:
Chefy-Chef is an enthralling 2D platformer the place we play as a chef looking for onion, milk, and pineapple –components that he must make his scrumptious dishes.
Sadly, all of the shops are closed, so Chefy-Chef does the one logical factor by coming into a dimensional rift to completely different worlds so he can search out the components – and possibly a burger too, as a result of why not?
Chefy-Chef consists of precisely 60 ranges the place we leap and dodge our manner round obstacles and enemies till we discover the three components and make our technique to the exit.
Initially, we are able to solely leap and double leap, however similar to any cook dinner value his apron, we shortly study to benefit from the three utensils that we discover all through the degrees.
The kitchen knife acts as a weapon and climbing instrument, the meat tenderizer can bash enemies and the bottom to make Chefy soar excessive into the air, and the frying pan might be tossed after which teleported to, making it very best for overlaying not possible jumps.
Every stage is fastidiously crafted in order that it requires using some or all three utensils, which makes for a really thrilling gameplay expertise.
The controls are spot on, and I used to be really shocked by how simple it was to manage Chefy and exactly land jumps – even utilizing the contact controls. Bluetooth controllers are additionally supported.
Chefy-Chef is a $1.99 premium recreation with no advertisements or iAPs.
Whereas it’s a brief recreation, I couldn’t put it down as soon as I bought into it. It’s merely an lovable and enjoyable platformer excellent for followers of the style.
App Retailer: Right here
Bother With Robots [Game Size: 54 MB] (Free)
Style: CCG / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Bother With Robots is a novel and enjoyable tactical CCG with good humor, playing cards that characterize models and spells, and real-time tower defense-like fight unfold throughout 32 single-player ranges.
Fight is cut up into waves, firstly of which we draw 3 random playing cards from a small deck we put collectively earlier than every stage. The battles themselves are real-time, nonetheless, and we are able to use our playing cards at any time to activate their results, resembling firing a spell, therapeutic, or spawning models that routinely assault the opponents. The target is to defeat all of the opponents earlier than they take out our models.
The one difficulty is that utilizing every card prices one vitality, and so does tapping an enemy to throw a lightning bolt. So with a most of solely 5 vitality that repeatedly recovers over time, we’ve got to be very strategic about what to make use of and when.
As we progress, we unlock over 40 playing cards that get more and more extra attention-grabbing. Other than particular person unit and spell playing cards, most playing cards closely affect one another, creating loads of room for experimenting with completely different synergies. I personally really beloved this facet of the sport.
The humorous – if considerably foolish – story a couple of combat between fantasy-themed people and invading robots creates an awesome backdrop for the gameplay, and the three issue settings for every stage makes the sport simple to get into for each newcomers and CCG technique consultants.
Bother With Robots is totally free-to-play, with no advertisements or iAPs. A whole lot of care and a spotlight clearly went into placing the sport collectively, and it actually reveals. It’s a straightforward advice for anybody inquisitive about CCGs or tower defense-inspired tactical video games.
App Retailer: Right here
Cultist Simulator [Game Size: 428 MB] (Free)
Style: Card / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by Pete McD:
Cultist Simulator is a enjoyable technique recreation that originally appears like a card recreation however is actually extra of a cult-themed useful resource administration recreation.
On every playthrough, we management a special character attempting to begin and efficiently run an occult motion by balancing our information, cult members, funds, and bodily and psychological well being – all whereas evading detection.
The sport is performed on a desk onto which playing cards are routinely positioned, a few of which characterize actions that have to be accomplished earlier than a timer runs out. Our purpose is to consciously transfer playing cards round to satisfy these goals and merge playing cards to see which mixtures produce our desired outcomes.
Among the finest issues about Cultist Simulator is that there is no such thing as a tutorial. As an alternative, we’re merely thrown within the deep finish and should tinker with various things to see how they work, which is nice enjoyable to start with. The best way the sport builds up rigidity by steadily cluttering the board with increasingly timers to handle can be thrilling and well-made.
Nevertheless, I finally discovered the sport considerably irritating. After sinking many, many hours into it, the sport nonetheless felt like a number of grinding for little or no reward. The brief paragraphs of textual content proven all through are additionally barely too imprecise to carry my consideration and too brief to create a compelling story – to not point out that we’ve got to learn the identical texts time and again in every playthrough. By attempting a bit too laborious to be mysterious, the sport merely grew to become boring.
Cultist Simulator is a $6.99 premium recreation with 3 $1.99 iAPs including extra beginning characters. Some will love the sport, however I believe many will discover it laborious to get into, because the enjoyable issue is outweighed by the steep studying curve and repetitive gameplay.
App Retailer: Right here
Loopy Taxi Basic (Recreation Measurement: 343 MB] (Free)
Style: Racing / Arcade – On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by Latte Machiato:
Loopy Taxi Basic is a enjoyable port of an previous open-world arcade racing recreation printed by Sega. And, surprisingly, it really stays very true to the unique whereas including contact controls and Bluetooth controller assist.
The sport options three total game-modes. Within the Arcade and Authentic modes, we frenetically drive across the heavy-traffic slim streets of a metropolis whereas looking for, choose up, and efficiently ship passengers to their desired vacation spot earlier than the time is up.
The Loopy Field mode, alternatively, is made up of 16 mini-games the place our goal is to impress an viewers with spectacular stunts so we are able to get the very best rating potential.
Becoming for cellular, the Arcade and Authentic modes even allow us to choose if we need to play for 3, 5, or 10 minutes at a time.
We are able to management our taxi with basic left and proper buttons, by tilting our telephone, or by way of a Bluetooth controller. All of the choices work easily – however they do require some observe.
Loopy Taxi Basic monetizes by way of comparatively frequent advertisements that present each time we enter a recreation or repeat a recreation mode, and a $1.99 iAP to fully take away the advertisements. I recommend eradicating the advertisements for probably the most immersive expertise as they develop into fairly irritating in the long term.
General, it’s a neat informal arcade recreation that takes many hours to excellent. Sure, it’s pushed largely by nostalgia from those that performed the unique, however it’s additionally the most effective Sega ports on cellular, making it a straightforward advice. The most important draw back is that we have to be on-line to play.
App Retailer: Right here
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Google Sheet of all video games I’ve performed to this point (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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