Completely satisfied mid-December Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome again to this weekly cell sport advice custom. These are a number of the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that have been coated on MiniReview this week. Hope you may get pleasure from it.
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This episode features a neat racing sport ported to cell, turn-based technique sport, a deck-building roguelike sport, a soothing simulation RPG, and a enjoyable fast-paced arcade microgame expertise.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Wreckfest [Game Size: 5 GB] ($9.99)
Style: Racing – On-line + Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Wreckfest is a enjoyable religious successor to the FlatOut racing video games, that includes a mixture of demolition derby and conventional races with automobiles that we purchase and improve as we progress.
The purpose of a race in Wreckfest will depend on the sport mode, however equal for all of them is that we will stumble upon opponents to steadily destroy their automobiles. This creates a chaotic however enjoyable gameplay expertise the place not getting destroyed is simply as vital as being quick.
And whereas the sport is high-quality and polished, it actually doesn’t take itself too critically, with some matches having us race on lawnmowers and couches.
The sport includes a profession mode, customized occasions, tournaments with weekly and day by day challenges, and even on-line multiplayer. The multiplayer isn’t very energetic, nonetheless, so it is best to think about this largely a single-player sport, with the choice to play on-line with associates.
Finishing races earns us XP and gold, which we use to purchase new automobiles and elements. And there actually are a ton of upgrades for every car. To not point out that we will tune the suspension, gear ratio, differential, and break steadiness for every automotive to customise it additional.
The art-style is first rate, and nothing beats crashing into an opponent at full pace, with vehicles and elements flying all over the place. The controls are additionally first rate and have a number of the deepest customization settings I’ve ever seen. There’s additionally Bluetooth controller assist.
Wreckfest is a $9.99 premium sport with DLC packs for brand spanking new vehicles and beauty choices. They are often purchased individually or by way of two large packs for $9.99 and $7.99.
Regardless of a number of minor bugs, it’s a well-made port of the complete PC sport. The most important draw back is that the sport and automobiles by no means really feel as quick as I keep in mind from FlatOut, and it actually holds the sport again. It is nonetheless probably the greatest throughout the sub-genre on cell, although.
App Retailer: Right here
Heroes of Flatlandia [Total Game Size: 116 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Heroes of Flatlandia is a stupendous turn-based technique sport with tactical battles that resembles legendary classics akin to Warlords, Age of Wonders, and Heroes of May & Magic.
After selecting considered one of 4 out there factions, we enterprise right into a brightly coloured 3D fantasy world, the place we compete over territorial management in opposition to rival factions. On every flip, we will rent and transfer items throughout the map to gather assets, and improve our capital to extend our prosperity and supply higher fight choices.
There is just one useful resource to handle, and the dominion growth choices are restricted, however fortunately, this doesn’t strongly have an effect on the sport’s strategic depth.
What makes the sport stand out are its totally 3D-rendered tactical battles in opposition to enemy armies or impartial creatures. These battles happen on a separate hexagonal discipline, the place we take turns transferring our troops, slashing enemies, taking pictures projectiles from afar, and casting highly effective spells.
Every participant has a singular principal hero that accumulates XP and features new talents as we go, however since fight will be initiated by any unit, we’re confronted with the frequent tactical dilemma of whether or not to separate our troops to cowl larger areas, or mix them to extend their fight effectivity.
The sport supplies a set of single-player situations and hot-seat multiplayer in opposition to as much as 4 opponents. Sadly, the AI doesn’t provide a lot of a problem, and there’s no story marketing campaign. On-line multiplayer can be nonetheless on the best way.
Heroes of Flatlandia prices $1.99. Regardless of its simplicity and lack of long-term content material, it nonetheless supplies an pleasurable expertise for followers of well-made technique video games.
App Retailer: Right here
Indies’ Lies [Game Size: 906 MB] (Free)
Style: Deck-Constructing / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Indies’ Lies is a cards-based roguelike dungeon crawler impressed by the likes of Slay the Spire – however with a lot of attention-grabbing concepts of its personal.
As is frequent throughout the style, we descend three dungeon flooring whereas combating common and elite enemies, accumulating loot, enhancing our deck, and visiting outlets and random occasions – all to in the end face the highly effective boss ready on the finish.
In the course of the turn-based battles, we’re in a position to see prematurely all of the assaults the enemies are going to launch at us, and thus counteract accordingly. Sadly, all of the 9 out there characters use the identical playing cards, and apart from a few distinctive interactions, play fairly equally.
The important thing distinction between every run lies in a number of companions we will rent after boss battles. Every accomplished flooring permits us to put considered one of these new celebration members within the entrance or again row, which impacts their talents and vulnerabilities.
Since every companion has its personal well being and a singular deck of playing cards, it’s vital to attain synergy between the playing cards of our totally different characters. One other attention-grabbing function is the particular Rune playing cards that may both be performed on their very own or mixed with different playing cards to grant extra results.
The sport seems nice, with a colourful art-style and energetic music, however the abundance of small textual content makes it troublesome to get pleasure from on small display screen sizes. It additionally reveals frequent efficiency drops and general excessive useful resource calls for – one thing that can hopefully be optimized sooner or later.
Indies’ Lies monetizes via unskippable adverts between flooring, and $2.99 DLC packs with extra content material. Shopping for any of the DLC additionally disables the adverts, so if you happen to benefit from the core mechanics, they’re an effective way to assist the developer.
App Retailer: Right here
Service provider [Game Size: 105 MB] (Free)
Style: Simulation / RPG – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Little (semi-idle)
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Service provider is a crafting and trading-focused RPG the place we accumulate assets, craft gadgets, and rent heroes to battle for us.
Enjoying as a service provider, we first ship our heroes out on missions to kill creatures and collect assets. Then, we use these assets to craft gadgets, equip a few of them on our heroes, and promote the remaining to NPCs visiting our store.
And since we’d like a lot of gold to craft gadgets, it’s all about discovering a steadiness between which gadgets to equip to enhance our heroes, and which to promote so we don’t run out of gold. As we progress, we additionally rapidly find yourself with a lot of gadgets, making stock administration a giant a part of the sport.
As a sport that doesn’t require a lot consideration, it’s an ideal “choose up and play” expertise. Later into the sport, our heroes may battle for 30+ minutes with none enter from us, edging the sport into the idle style territory.
I fairly loved the sensation of being a service provider and the decision-making that got here with it. There are tons of things to craft, and due to this fact a lot of tactical choices to be made about the place we ship our heroes to allow them to collect the assets we’d like essentially the most.
The most important draw back is that the UI may be very complicated at first, and there’s no correct clarification of what to do. Fortunately, it’s a easy sport that’s simple to get the grasp of.
Service provider monetizes via occasional incentivized adverts and iAPs for a number of $2.99 DLCs with new maps, extra hero slots, and extra stock house. There’s additionally a $14.99 iAP to unlock every thing, together with beauty skins which are additionally offered individually. These DLCs should not essential to benefit from the sport, however they do drastically develop it.
App Retailer: Right here
pureya (Sport Measurement: 119 MB] ($3.99)
Style: Arcade – Offline
Orientation: Portrait + Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by CloverQ:
Pureya is a enjoyable microgame compilation filled with quick-reflex motion and a brand new sport each 10 seconds.
In every run, we should accumulate as many marbles as attainable throughout ten microgames that every final ten seconds. These marbles act as forex at a pachinko board, the place our spoils are gambled away for an opportunity at new ranges, cosmetics, and music tracks.
Every of the person microgames boast distinctive playstyles which have us management every thing from rubber geese to pirate ships in our quest to gather marbles. Whereas many of those video games are easy obstacle-dodgers with slight variations in physics, others have some extra depth, such because the soccer sport the place marbles spawn solely after a profitable purpose.
Pureya ditches the life-system frequent for the style, changing it as a substitute with inconvenience. Dying forces a wait-period earlier than respawning, which in flip means much less time within the microgame and in the end fewer marbles. Good efficiency, then again, results in the sport getting sooner and tougher, granting us extra marbles on the expense of peace and quiet.
It’s a easy gameplay loop that provides loads of content material to chew on whereas tapping right into a primal want to play nicely and gamble even higher. Sadly, some video games have slippery controls or are weaker than others in idea or execution. Fortunately, the duds are few and much between.
Pureya is a $3.99 premium sport. Whereas not the flashiest microgame assortment on the market, its addictive gameplay loop and bountiful unlocks add a excessive degree of replayability.
App Retailer: Right here
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Google Sheet of all video games I’ve performed up to now (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/t2Bwy9A6fIM
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