Completely satisfied Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome to episode 150 (YAY! :D) of my weekly cellular sport advice roundup primarily based on probably the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that had been coated on MiniReview this week. Hope you will get pleasure from it 🙂
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This episode features a actually neat puzzle sport about trains, a short-but-sweet motion platformer, a really distinctive CCG technique sport with some tower-defense inspiration, a preferred card technique sport, and a traditional taxi-themed racing sport.
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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 evaluate by AlexSem:
Railbound is a fantastic puzzle sport from the creators of Golf Peaks and inbento, during which we assemble railway tracks that enable our numbered prepare vehicles to hook up with a locomotive within the appropriate order.
Every degree is made up of a grid with prepare 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 principle 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 via the 150 ranges, we unlock attention-grabbing new mechanics, corresponding to railway boundaries activated by distant buttons, tunnels appearing as teleporters, tug vehicles that should be faraway from the highway, and stations with passengers ready to be picked up.
Probably the most difficult ranges even function tracks that get rearranged when a prepare passes by, which implies now we have to create an answer the place our vehicles go to the identical monitor a number of instances, taking a unique route every time they move by.
The sport options charming vibrant graphics, an intuitive user-interface, and exquisite stress-free music to accompany us on our journey. There’s even a easy story concerning the adventures of two prepare operators that will get revealed as a sequence of humorous but heartwarming postcards.
Railbound is a $4.99 premium sport with out adverts or iAPs. Should you like stress-free however difficult puzzle video games, you’ll be able to’t go improper 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 evaluate by MisterGrinch:
Chefy-Chef is a captivating 2D platformer the place we play as a chef trying to find onion, milk, and pineapple –substances that he must make his scrumptious dishes.
Sadly, all of the shops are closed, so Chefy-Chef does the one logical factor by getting into a dimensional rift to completely different worlds so he can seek out the substances – and perhaps a burger too, as a result of why not?
Chefy-Chef consists of precisely 60 ranges the place we soar and dodge our manner round obstacles and enemies till we discover the three substances and make our solution to the exit.
Initially, we will solely soar and double soar, however similar to any prepare dinner value his apron, we shortly be taught to benefit from 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 splendid for overlaying unimaginable jumps.
Every degree 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 straightforward it was to regulate Chefy and exactly land jumps – even utilizing the contact controls. Bluetooth controllers are additionally supported.
Chefy-Chef is a $1.99 premium sport with no adverts or iAPs.
Whereas it’s a brief sport, I couldn’t put it down as soon as I bought into it. It’s merely an cute and enjoyable platformer good for followers of the style.
App Retailer: Right here
Hassle With Robots [Game Size: 54 MB] (Free)
Style: CCG / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by NimbleThor:
Hassle With Robots is a novel and enjoyable tactical CCG with good humor, playing cards that symbolize items 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 will use our playing cards at any time to activate their results, corresponding to firing a spell, therapeutic, or spawning items that robotically assault the opponents. The target is to defeat all of the opponents earlier than they take out our items.
The one subject is that utilizing every card prices one power, and so does tapping an enemy to throw a lightning bolt. So with a most of solely 5 power that repeatedly 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 attention-grabbing. Aside from 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 side of the sport.
The humorous – if considerably foolish – story a few combat between fantasy-themed people and invading robots creates an incredible backdrop for the gameplay, and the three issue settings for every degree makes the sport straightforward to get into for each newcomers and CCG technique consultants.
Hassle With Robots is totally free-to-play, with no adverts or iAPs. Loads of care and a spotlight clearly went into placing the sport collectively, and it actually exhibits. It’s a straightforward advice 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 evaluate by Pete McD:
Cultist Simulator is a enjoyable technique sport that originally appears like a card sport however is de facto extra of a cult-themed useful resource administration sport.
On every playthrough, we management a unique character attempting to begin and efficiently run an occult motion by balancing our data, 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 robotically positioned, a few of which symbolize actions that have to be accomplished earlier than a timer runs out. Our objective 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 way in which the sport builds up rigidity by steadily cluttering the board with an increasing number of timers to handle can also be thrilling and well-made.
Nonetheless, I finally discovered the sport considerably irritating. After sinking many, many hours into it, the sport nonetheless felt like a whole lot 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 again 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 sport 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 (Sport Measurement: 343 MB] (Free)
Style: Racing / Arcade – On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by Latte Machiato:
Loopy Taxi Basic is a enjoyable port of an outdated open-world arcade racing sport 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, choose 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 will get the 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 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 Basic monetizes via comparatively frequent adverts that present each time we enter a sport or repeat a sport mode, and a $1.99 iAP to utterly take away the adverts. I counsel eradicating the adverts for probably the most immersive expertise as they turn into fairly irritating in the long term.
General, it’s a neat informal arcade sport that takes many hours to good. Sure, it’s pushed largely by nostalgia from those that performed the unique, however it’s additionally among the best 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 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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