Welcome again, fellow cell players, to my weekly cell sport suggestion thread 🙂 These are a few of the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that have been lined on MiniReview this week. Hope you may get pleasure from it.
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This episode contains an superior roguelike platformer, a neat story-driven textual content RPG, a enjoyable technique board sport, a “Papers, Please!” indie various, and an informal puzzle sport.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Tallowmere 2 [Game Size: 535 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Platformer / Dungeon Crawler / Roguelike – Offline + On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluation by NimbleThor:
Tallowmere 2 is a enjoyable motion roguelike dungeon crawler with a strong fight system, randomly generated 2D platform dungeons, permadeath, and on-line co-op – nearly like an indie Lifeless Cells-like sport.
Our total aim is to rescue cats which were scattered throughout an enormous dungeon by a darkish ritual. In every dungeon room, we should kill the enemies, survive the traps and obstacles, open any chests to realize higher weapons and shields, discover the important thing, after which exit to the subsequent room.
As we progress, we acquire new highly effective melee and ranged weapons, rescuing cats present us with power-up, and leveling up lets us decide a stat-boost. This makes fight an increasing number of thrilling, fast-paced, and chaotic the additional we get.
In every room, we will additionally teleport again to the beginning of the dungeon to promote unused gear, purchase gadgets, and heal up earlier than teleporting again once more. After we ultimately die, although, we begin once more – optionally with a brand new beginning weapon or hero.
Though the enemies shortly develop into sturdy, we will faucet to dam incoming assaults, spam the assault button to battle actually quick, and bounce infinitely to mainly fly across the map. All of this helps create a very fast-paced gameplay expertise.
The easy contact controls work effectively, and the sport helps exterior controllers and keyboards. There are additionally numerous graphic settings to make sure the sport runs properly.
Tallowmere 2 monetizes by a single $4.99 iAP to unlock sofa/on-line co-op, the power to purchase potions, and extra. The sport may be loved for some hours with out this iAP, but it surely’s inspired for those who actually get into it.
The sport is simply good outdated enjoyable, and its strong gameplay and nice humor make it a must-try for followers of hardcore roguelikes.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Eldrum: Purple Tide [Total Game Size: 269 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: RPG / Story-Pushed / Textual content-based – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluation by JBMessin:
Eldrum: Purple Tide is a darkish and gritty fantasy choose-your-own-adventure sport with tabletop-inspired RPG gameplay and character-building.
The good metropolis of Roeburg is underneath assault, and that is the place we begin our journey and get launched to the sport’s spectacular and relatively distinctive fight mechanics.
For instance, as an alternative of merely spamming an assault button, we will use defensive and aggressive stances to extend assault and protection respectively. We are able to additionally transfer ahead and backward to place ourselves in opposition to bigger teams of enemies, and all our assaults refill a gauge that permits us to make the most of particular assaults which might be outlined by our outfitted weapons and armor.
Apparently, our enemies can make the most of the very same techniques, which tremendously will increase the problem of fight in Eldrum compared to different video games within the style.
The character-building is rooted in typical tabletop RPG stats. We acquire expertise by finishing quests, and when leveling up, we acquire a stat level that we will freely assign. And since plenty of dialogue decisions and actions depend upon our stats, it actually appears like every level makes a giant distinction. This makes Edlrum’s replayability particularly excessive since totally different builds open up new paths.
The primary chapter of Eldrum is free, with a $6.99 iAP to unlock the subsequent two chapters. It’s a nice selection for interactive fiction followers who need an attention-grabbing and difficult fight system and do not thoughts a severe story set in a darkish war-torn land.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Patchwork The Recreation [Game Size: 73 MB] ($4.49)
Style: Board / Technique – Offline + On-line
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluation by AlexSem:
Patchwork: The Recreation is a cell adaptation of an award-winning 2-player aggressive board sport about quilting. Sure, you learn that proper. The aim is to sew collectively a patchwork quilt from material items of assorted sizes and shapes in order that we earn essentially the most cash by the top of the sport.
Every participant has their very own sq. subject on which they place material tiles purchased from a typical pool. The target is to refill as a lot area as doable. Nevertheless, putting a tile requires a certain quantity of each time and money, that are the sport’s two fundamental sources that we have to rigorously stability to finish up victorious.
Opposite to most turn-based video games, Patchwork creates conditions the place one participant can take a number of turns earlier than the initiative passes to the opponent. And since all of the related gameplay info is explicitly seen always, success relies upon extra on wits and spatial considering than random components. This makes the sport work effectively as a aggressive expertise.
The digital port options AI matches, same-device multiplayer, and ranked and informal asynchronous on-line matches.
The sport’s vivid vibrant colours make it look nearly like a kids’s image e book, and the music completely enhances that. Personally, nevertheless, I choose the extra composed and concise fashion of the bodily board sport.
Patchwork is a premium sport that prices $4.49 on Android, with fully pointless $0.99 iAPs for cosmetics.
The sunshine theme and strong core mechanics make the sport an ideal household leisure expertise that may be performed by all kinds of gamers, together with buddies, companions, and youngsters.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Black Border Patrol Simulator [Game Size: 151 MB] ($2.49)
Style: Simulation / Journey – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluation by AlexSem:
Black Border is a border management simulator closely impressed by the indie hit “Papers, Please!”, by which we test the paperwork of individuals coming into the territory of a war-torn totalitarian nation.
All through the course of 30 working days, our job is to rigorously validate the paperwork of everybody passing our border workplace in accordance with a set of strict and ever-changing guidelines. Beginning with a easy routine, we shortly find yourself overwhelmed by the variety of papers we have to look at.
Failing to accurately establish any discrepancies in somebody’s papers leads to fines and a diminished wage, which in flip step by step impacts our well-being since we should spend our earnings on hire and meals to outlive.
Because the story progresses, we slowly reveal the unhappy truths concerning the on a regular basis hardships of the widespread folks of our nation. We get a first-hand style of the questionable political course of our authorities, study the secrets and techniques of the nation’s darkish previous, work together with terrorist gang members, and even undergo private losses. Our ethical selections additionally have an effect on the course of our playthrough and form the closure we get ultimately.
Though the art-style, core mechanics, and plenty of the sport’s concepts have been copied from Papers, Please!, Black Border shouldn’t be a straight-up clone. It introduces its personal intriguing storyline, extra convoluted plot twists, and a few attention-grabbing approaches to the document-checking routine. The issue additionally seems lighter, as we by no means actually expertise a cash scarcity.
Black Border prices $2.49 on Android, with further iAPs for further forex. Fortunately, there’s additionally a free demo. Regardless of its repetitive nature and occasional bugs, it gives an oddly satisfying expertise for these keen on Papers, Please! or uncommon cell video games.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Path of Giants (Recreation Dimension: 185 MB] ($3.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Panorama + Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluation by Jurij:
Path of Giants is a minimalistic and stress-free 3D puzzle sport set in a wierd magical world the place three color-coded explorers should work collectively to get out of every stage.
Like in Monument Valley, we transfer a personality – or on this case, a number of characters – round a 3D stage seen at an isometric angle. The target is to get our three characters to finish up on their correspondingly coloured floating platforms after which fly to the subsequent puzzle within the stage.
To get to those coloured platforms, the characters usually must work together, similar to standing on high of one another to entry larger grounds or transferring to coloured buttons to activate lifts. It’s all fairly easy and predictable.
Whereas all of the puzzles are cleverly designed, the largest draw back is that the unique 13 ranges are too simple and a tad boring. In these ranges, we additionally all the time get a touch if we discover ourselves in an unsolvable spot, with no means of disabling this heavy trace system. Fortunately, the sport features a DLC with 4 a lot better ranges the place the trace system doesn’t all the time work, making them each tougher and extra enjoyable.
The world accommodates a little bit of story, but it surely’s minimal and by no means totally defined. Whereas Monument Valley launched a brand new puzzle sport idea, Path of Giants feels extra like only a high quality puzzle sport with no nice twists or turns. So it’s an excellent sport, however you gained’t discover a lot new or overly thrilling in it.
Path of Giants is a $3.99 premium sport that can also be obtainable on Google Play Go. Regardless of being too child-friendly till we attain the DLC puzzle ranges, it is a high-caliber puzzle sport that’s price trying out.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
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