Comfortable Friday, everybody. And welcome to a different episode of my weekly cell gaming suggestions primarily based on essentially the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that had been lined on MiniReview this week 🙂
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This episode features a enjoyable technique recreation impressed by Chess, 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:
Pawnbarian [Game Size: 109 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Technique / Deck-Constructing / Chess-inspired – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
A dungeon crawler, a deck builder, and a chess-inspired puzzler stroll right into a bar… and resolve to crew up. That’s how Pawnbarian got here to life.
Enjoying on a 5×5 chess-like grid, our aim is to make use of a deck of playing cards to eliminate all of the enemies. The enjoyable twist is that every card represents a typical chess piece that permits our character to maneuver across the board utilizing the motion sample of the respective piece. Identical to in common Chess, enemies die after we land on their tile, and our pawn playing cards change into queens after we attain the opposite facet of the board.
On their flip, the enemies transfer and assault in response to their distinctive patterns, making an attempt to cut back our well being to zero. The earlier we eliminate them, the extra gold we obtain. This gold is spent in-between flooring on upgrading our playing cards so they supply extra results when performed, akin to damaging neighboring tiles, shielding from incoming injury, or letting us draw or play an additional card.
The sport options three dungeons and 6 distinctive playable characters, every with distinctive decks and gameplay methods that take quite a lot of coaching to make use of successfully. Followers of hardcore mind video games will respect the excessive problem that forces us to fastidiously calculate our each transfer, however informal gamers will in all probability get aggravated by the variety of enemies we have now to concurrently take care of.
Pawnbarian is free to strive, with a single $6.99 iAP unlocking the total recreation.
In case you get pleasure from tactical dungeon crawlers like Hoplite and ENYO, deck-builders like Slay the Spire, or summary board video games like Chess or The Duke, you’ll positively get pleasure from Pawnbarian’s intelligent recreation design, spectacular replayability, and addictive gameplay loop.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Dream Hopper [Total Game Size: 240 MB] (Free)
Style: Informal / Platform / Zen-like – Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by Yousef:
Dream Hopper is an exquisite informal zen-like recreation the place we soar from platform to platform to mild up beautiful items of artwork.
We play as a blob that robotically 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 route, we will soar 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 digital camera 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 will’t see the total piece earlier than ending, the reveal on the finish of every degree is all the time a pleasing shock.
Whereas there isn’t a actual development, the sport options each 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, however it does a implausible job within the ranges the place the music has a robust beat and clear rhythm.
Dream Hopper monetizes by incentivized adverts, and iAPs for an in-game forex we will use to purchase extra power. The power system limits us to about quarter-hour of play-time earlier than we have now to attend or pay. As an informal recreation, nevertheless, the implausible soundtracks, lovely art-style, and zen gameplay make it a fantastic match for brief play-sessions.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: 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 assessment 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 coming into a degree, we transfer by a number of dungeon rooms to make use of our regular assault and particular abilities 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 will equip or destroy to achieve sources wanted to improve different objects. The sport additionally options 5 character courses and varied recreation modes, akin to each day dungeons, a lot of which give priceless objects akin to talent scrolls used to degree up our abilities.
Fight could be very simple and rapidly feels considerably repetitive, however in some ways, My Heroes is a recreation all in regards to the superior loot and fixed upgrading – so in the event you love that, you’ll most probably get pleasure from this recreation. For instance, we customise which abilities to make use of, which stats to improve, which gear to equip, which pets to make use of, and far 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 gacha chests for brand spanking new weapons and quite a few different iAPs to make the sport simpler or purchase fancy-looking cosmetics. Getting into rooms of a dungeon additionally prices stamina, which limits the each day most play-session size to about ten regular dungeons.
It’s a grindy recreation however its great amount of content material and low problem makes it an honest motion RPG that I believe many will get pleasure from at an informal degree.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Penarium [Game Size: 61 MB] ($2.49)
Style: Arcade / Platform – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Penarium is a hardcore arcade motion platformer during which we have now to outlive an infinite 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 follow 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 varied degree aims, akin to amassing objects or staying alive for a particular 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 incorporates a story marketing campaign with merciless dialogs to learn earlier than coming into every degree, and an arcade mode the place we attempt to keep alive for so long as attainable whereas amassing cash to purchase varied upgrades.
Because the recreation 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, alternatively, will most probably be tremendously happy by the quantity of talent and reiteration required to outlive.
Penarium prices $2.49 and is usually on sale. It won’t swimsuit everybody, however supplies an excessive amount of leisure in the event you’re in search of a top quality arcade platformer.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Dislyte (Sport Measurement: 1.9 GB] (Free)
Style: Gacha / RPG / Technique – Requires On-line Entry
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment 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 recreation throughout the recreation as simply one of many recreation modes.
The core gameplay has us put collectively a crew of 5 heroes that we take into battle by a lighthearted story-driven most important marketing campaign, boss fights, towers, PvP, and plenty of different modes.
Through the turn-based fight, we constantly choose an enemy to focus on and choose one among every hero’s three skills to set off. A few of these skills are even somewhat attention-grabbing, such because the one which hyperlinks two enemies collectively in order that they each take injury when one among them is hit. This makes the fight actually enjoyable initially, however because the grind will increase afterward, none of it actually issues as most gamers shall 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 true enjoyable comes from constantly bettering our crew by leveling every hero up, equipping and upgrading stat-boosting relics, and far more. Dislyte even has a couple of rarely-seen quality-of-life options, akin to a setting that tells the auto-system to disable when a boss is reached.
The city mythological art-style makes for an attention-grabbing setting, and with neat assault animations, music and sound results which are spot-on, and even absolutely voiced heroes, Dislyte is definitely one of many highest high quality video games throughout the style.
Sadly, Dislyte monetizes by an power 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 an honest quantity of sources as a free participant, however the gacha pull charges are very low. Nonetheless, in the event you get pleasure from gacha RPGs, this is without doubt one of the higher ones to launch lately by way of its gameplay and depth.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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