It is lastly Friday – and which means one other spherical of weekly cell recreation suggestions primarily based on essentially the most fascinating video games I performed and that have been coated on MiniReview this week. Hope you may take pleasure in it 🙂
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This episode features a traditional journey RPG, a enjoyable reverse bullet-hell recreation, a neat motion platformer, a cute and stress-free informal puzzle recreation, and a comparatively new Soul Knight different.
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a pleasant dialogue beneath.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced [Game Size: 2.8 GB] ($9.99)
Style: RPG / Journey – On-line + Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced is the port of a critically acclaimed PC RPG that’s set within the Forgotten Realms fantasy world and primarily based on a well-liked Dungeons & Dragons role-playing system.
We get to expertise a wealthy world with deep lore, plenty of colourful characters, a fascinating non-linear storyline, tons of dialogues and aspect missions, plenty of lethal enemies to struggle, and fascinating duties to finish.
Fight in Neverwinter Nights takes place in real-time, with an choice to pause at any second to evaluate the scenario and difficulty orders that make sure the enemies are disposed of in essentially the most environment friendly manner. Our character may also be closely custom-made, with dozens of distinct lessons and a number of play kinds enabling us to expertise the sport in all kinds of how.
Whereas it is superb how such a fancy recreation, together with all its expansions, has been masterfully ported to cell, not every little thing is ideal. The most important downside is that the abundance of management components hardly match on small cellphone screens, making the textual content too tiny and buttons too simple to overlook.
As well as, the digicam typically blocks our view, making it exhausting to navigate the 3D world. Giant areas additionally sometimes introduce frame-rate drops, and though the extremely detailed graphics nonetheless efficiently create an immersive environment, it’s exhausting to disregard that they’re greater than a decade previous.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced is a $9.99 premium recreation with iAPs for added campaigns and story packs that additional enrich the gameplay. In my view, the various hours it takes to completely expertise what the sport has to supply totally justifies the value. And regardless of the management points, this can be a true RPG traditional that may be loved by any fan of wealthy and complicated fantasy video games.
App Retailer: Right here
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors [Total Game Size: 146 MB] (Free)
Style: Arcade / Reverse Bullet-Hell / Indie – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors is a enjoyable reverse bullet-hell recreation the place we try to survive for 20 minutes in every of seven more and more troublesome phases whereas enemies storm at us from all sides and we progressively purchase new skills.
In every run, we transfer our character round utilizing a single joystick whereas it routinely swings its sword to assault within the course we’re transferring. Each time we degree up, we get to select one in all three random skills that routinely set off, reminiscent of a firestorm that periodically rains from the sky.
We will equip 9 of those skills, after which degree them up by deciding on them once more. Compared to video games like Magic Survival, the skills really feel a bit underwhelming at first. They do get much more thrilling and highly effective as soon as they’ve been upgraded, however this additionally causes every run to grow to be simpler the additional we get into it, which is a bit unusual.
In contrast to most video games within the style, the phases aren’t infinitely giant, however mini-bosses present keys used to open chests across the map, and gadgets that set off a one-time highly effective spell once we decide them up additionally sometimes drop. This makes the gameplay expertise fairly dynamic and fascinating.
Gold is spent in-between runs on buying six new heroes with distinct weapons, buying one-time power-ups that make the subsequent run simpler, and upgrading our heroes’ well being, harm, and pace. I particularly loved that this development system lets us decide which stat to improve first.
The pixel art-style and music all through the sport are actually well-made, giving the sport a singular retro really feel.
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors monetizes by means of incentivized adverts for additional gold, a $0.99 iAP to take away the adverts, and some others to accumulate extra gold. Fortunately, there’s no vitality system, no login rewards and so forth. It sticks to the fundamentals, and it does it nicely.
App Retailer: Right here
Daggerhood [Game Size: 108 MB] ($2.99)
Style: Platform / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Daggerhood is a fast-paced motion platformer the place it takes each excessive precision and fast reflexes to beat all the degrees in time.
Enjoying as a daring thief thrown right into a deep darkish cave, we should navigate by means of 100 ranges by leaping on platforms, avoiding spikes and enemies, driving elevators, working switches, and utilizing momentary skills to succeed in inaccessible locations.
Whereas our touring pace will increase by wall leaping and double leaping, our biggest asset is a throwing dagger that not solely kills the nasty creatures lurking within the caves but in addition lets us teleport to distant locations. The latter makes the sport good for speedrunning, as skillfully using the teleportation mechanic turns platforming into an artwork.
Fortunately, the sport options all kinds of issue settings to swimsuit any talent degree. For instance, we are able to restrict ourselves to 1 life per degree, or select to have three. The 5 treasures scattered throughout every degree additionally present an extra problem, however choosing them up will not be required to progress. And though we’re awarded stars for beating ranges inside a time restrict, they act as nothing greater than achievements.
Mixed, these programs create an incredible stability that makes it doable to complete the sport by enjoying casually whereas getting all of the achievements requires extraordinary platforming expertise and solely fits hardcore gamers.
Daggerhood is a $2.99 premium recreation with no adverts or iAPs. Its nice degree design and fast-paced gameplay give it a broad enchantment, and it’s particularly fascinating for followers of adverse retro-style platformers.
App Retailer: Right here
Cosmic Specific [Game Size: 109 MB] ($4.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait + Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by Jurij:
Cosmic Specific is a simplistic puzzle recreation the place we transport color-coded aliens to their locations through self-made prepare tracks positioned in tiny area stations throughout a number of galaxies.
The target is to put down tracks in a manner that enables a prepare with both 1, 2, or 3 seats to select up aliens of sure colours and drop them off of their corresponding bins to develop alien vegetation inside small greenhouse ranges. Orange aliens into orange bins, purple aliens into purple bins, and so forth. When all aliens have been delivered, the prepare routinely leaves by means of a gate to the subsequent degree.
The gameplay could be very easy, however the small maps are all extremely well-designed and create a properly difficult expertise. For many of its 128 distinctive ranges, the sport stays at a perfect issue for puzzle recreation followers who like exhausting trial-and-error exploration puzzles.
If we get caught, we have now the flexibleness to easily decide one other degree, with our progress saved for once we return later. This creates a relentless sense of development that made me really feel good the identical manner Portal did. And laying prepare tracks with our finger is simple and unusually pleasurable in itself. The one factor some gamers would possibly discover lacking is a touch system.
The 3D graphics are easy and charming, though I’m wondering why the builders didn’t go together with common trains and recognizable human figures. Its degree design high quality and clear colourful graphics are corresponding to Snakebird, however Cosmic Specific’ benefit is that it has far more ranges to select from, making the sport really feel much less punishing.
Cosmic Specific is a $4.99 premium recreation with no adverts or iAPs. The thematic weirdness apart, each facet of the gameplay is just about top-notch for the style, so I extremely advocate it to any puzzle fan.
App Retailer: Right here
Dungeon VS Gunner (Recreation Measurement: 163 MB] (Free)
Style: Motion / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Dungeon VS Gunner is a fast-paced motion roguelike shoot ’em up impressed by video games like Soul Knight.
Every randomly generated dungeon consists of obstacles and plenty of monsters and managers that we defeat utilizing a wide range of enjoyable weapons that we decide up as we go. As soon as cleared, we are able to proceed to the subsequent a part of the dungeon.
The sport’s most unusual characteristic is that modifiers that drastically change our weapons drop from chests all through every dungeon. These could make our bullets transfer ahead after which 90 levels to both aspect, make them fly round in a circle, and way more. This provides a little bit of gameplay selection, and studying their professionals and cons is nearly required to defeat the various bosses.
We progress by upgrading our character’s stats utilizing gems earned by means of gameplay, and by crafting one-time-use weapons and potions that make the subsequent run a bit simpler. We will additionally unlock two new characters utilizing gems, and two extra through $1.99 iAPs.
Sadly, transferring between dungeon rooms feels a bit unusual. They’re related through small corridors with a teleporter within the center, but when we depart on the left aspect of 1 room, we’d find yourself in a hall the place we have now to stroll up, down, or proper to enter the subsequent room. This breaks the immersion.
The art-style and Enter the Gungeon-inspired particular results look nice. Nonetheless, the UI lacks in a number of areas, reminiscent of not exhibiting us what number of gems we have now when making an attempt to purchase upgrades.
Dungeon VS Gunner monetizes through incentivized adverts for potions, a compelled advert when dying, and iAPs for gems used to revive or improve and unlock new characters. It has many of the parts of an incredible motion roguelike, however its lack of polish holds it again from reaching greatness. Hopefully, that may change over time.
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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