Blissful Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome to episode 150 (YAY! :D) of my weekly cellular recreation suggestion roundup based mostly on essentially the most fascinating video games I performed and that have been lined on MiniReview this week. Hope you may take pleasure in 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 traditional taxi-themed racing recreation.
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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 evaluation by AlexSem:
Railbound is a gorgeous puzzle recreation from the creators of Golf Peaks and inbento, through which we assemble railway tracks that permit our numbered practice automobiles to connect with a locomotive within the right order.
Every degree is made up of a grid with practice automobiles and a few pre-defined tracks. We have to lay down any lacking tracks after which sit again and watch because the automobiles hopefully attain the locomotive ready for them within the distance.
The out there observe items allow us to proceed in a straight line, make a flip, and intersect or merge with different tracks. The principle problem comes from the restricted variety of observe items, and the truth that the automobiles transfer concurrently, which suggests they simply crash into one another if the tracks are laid incorrectly.
As we progress by way of the 150 ranges, we unlock fascinating new mechanics, resembling railway boundaries activated by distant buttons, tunnels performing as teleporters, tug automobiles that need to be faraway from the street, and stations with passengers ready to be picked up.
Probably the most difficult ranges even characteristic tracks that get rearranged when a practice passes by, which suggests now we have to create an answer the place our automobiles go to the identical observe a number of instances, taking a special route every time they move by.
The sport options charming vibrant graphics, an intuitive user-interface, and delightful enjoyable music to accompany us on our journey. There’s 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 adverts or iAPs. For those who like enjoyable however difficult puzzle video games, you may’t go mistaken 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 evaluation by MisterGrinch:
Chefy-Chef is an enthralling 2D platformer the place we play as a chef looking for onion, milk, and pineapple –elements 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 seek out the elements – and possibly a burger too, as a result of why not?
Chefy-Chef consists of precisely 60 ranges the place we soar and dodge our approach round obstacles and enemies till we discover the three elements and make our strategy to the exit.
Initially, we are able to solely soar and double soar, however identical to any prepare dinner value his apron, we rapidly be taught to reap the benefits of the three utensils that we discover all through the degrees.
The kitchen knife acts as a weapon and climbing device, the meat tenderizer can bash enemies and the bottom to make Chefy soar excessive into the air, and the frying pan may be tossed after which teleported to, making it preferrred for overlaying inconceivable jumps.
Every degree is rigorously 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 stunned 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 adverts or iAPs.
Whereas it’s a brief recreation, I couldn’t put it down as soon as I received into it. It’s merely an lovable and enjoyable platformer good 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 evaluation by NimbleThor:
Bother With Robots is a singular 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 break up into waves, at first of which we draw 3 random playing cards from a small deck we put collectively earlier than every degree. The battles themselves are real-time, nevertheless, 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 mechanically assault the opponents. The target is to defeat all of the opponents earlier than they take out our models.
The one problem 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 constantly recovers over time, now we have 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 fascinating. 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 cherished this side of the sport.
The humorous – if considerably foolish – story a few combat between fantasy-themed people and invading robots creates an awesome backdrop for the gameplay, and the three issue settings for every degree makes the sport simple to get into for each newcomers and CCG technique specialists.
Bother With Robots is totally free-to-play, with no adverts or iAPs. Numerous care and a spotlight clearly went into placing the sport collectively, and it actually reveals. It’s a straightforward suggestion for anybody interested in CCGs or tower defense-inspired tactical video games.
App Retailer: Right here
Cultist Simulator [Game Size: 428 MB] ($6.99)
Style: Card / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluation by Pete McD:
Cultist Simulator is a enjoyable technique recreation that originally appears to be like like a card recreation however is actually extra of a cult-themed useful resource administration recreation.
On every playthrough, we management a special character making an attempt to start out 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 mechanically positioned, a few of which characterize actions that must be accomplished earlier than a timer runs out. Our purpose is to consciously transfer playing cards round to meet these aims and merge playing cards to see which mixtures produce our desired outcomes.
Among the finest issues about Cultist Simulator is that there isn’t a tutorial. As an alternative, we’re merely thrown within the deep finish and need to tinker with various things to see how they work, which is nice enjoyable to start with. The way in which the sport builds up stress by progressively cluttering the board with an increasing number of timers to handle can also 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 loads of grinding for little or no reward. The brief paragraphs of textual content proven all through are additionally barely too obscure to carry my consideration and too brief to create a compelling story – to not point out that now we have to learn the identical texts time and again in every playthrough. By making an attempt a bit too laborious to be mysterious, the sport merely turned boring.
Cultist Simulator is a $6.99 premium recreation with 3 $1.99 iAPs including further 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 Traditional (Sport Measurement: 343 MB] (Free)
Style: Racing / Arcade – On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by Latte Machiato:
Loopy Taxi Traditional is a enjoyable port of an previous open-world arcade racing recreation revealed 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 slender streets of a metropolis whereas looking for, decide up, and efficiently ship passengers to their desired vacation spot earlier than the time is up.
The Loopy Field mode, then again, 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 attainable.
Becoming for cellular, the Arcade and Authentic modes even allow us to choose if we wish to play for 3, 5, or 10 minutes at a time.
We are able to management our taxi with traditional left and proper buttons, by tilting our telephone, or through a Bluetooth controller. All of the choices work easily – however they do require some observe.
Loopy Taxi Traditional monetizes by way of comparatively frequent adverts that present each time we enter a recreation or repeat a recreation mode, and a $1.99 iAP to utterly take away the adverts. I counsel eradicating the adverts for essentially the most immersive expertise as they develop into fairly irritating in the long term.
Total, it’s a neat informal arcade recreation that takes many hours to good. Sure, it’s pushed largely by nostalgia from those that performed the unique, however it’s additionally probably the greatest Sega ports on cellular, making it a straightforward suggestion. The most important draw back is that we must be on-line to play.
App Retailer: Right here
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Google Sheet of all video games I’ve performed to date (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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