Completely satisfied Friday, everybody 🙂 And welcome again to my weekly cell recreation suggestions thread. These are a few of the most fascinating video games I performed and that have been lined on MiniReview this week. Hope you will get pleasure from it.
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This episode contains an superior roguelike technique recreation ported to cell, a enjoyable journey recreation, one other epic roguelike, an off-the-cuff puzzle recreation, and a singular tower rush technique recreation.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Into The Breach [Game Size: 559 MB] (“Free” w. Netflix)
Style: Technique / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by JBMessin:
Into the Breach is the port of a implausible sci-fi technique roguelike by the builders of Sooner Than Mild.
On this recreation, our purpose is to eradicate the aliens attacking us by means of a sequence of quick turn-based battles. However don’t fear – if we fail, we merely get despatched again to an alternate timeline to attempt once more.
Earlier than heading into fight, we choose our pilots, mech loadouts, and the island we’ll attempt to defend. Every 8×8 tiled battle map accommodates randomized terrain layouts that match the island. The one consistency is that there are at all times buildings that our mechs obtain energy from, and a bunch of civilians that we defend to attain factors.
If we fail, we get to choose one pilot to ship again in time. This resets all progress, however the pilot retains its ranges and any bonuses it has, giving us a little bit of an edge within the subsequent run.
Environmental results play an enormous position within the recreation’s fight system. For instance, forest tiles can catch hearth after which unfold, rapidly devastating our energy financial institution and civilians. However we’re additionally inspired to make use of the terrain to our benefit by e.g. pushing aliens into the water, hiding behind mountains, and so forth.
Curiously, we are able to additionally at all times see the aliens’ subsequent strikes, which creates a excessive stage of pressure since we all know prematurely what penalties our actions can have.
There are such a lot of completely different weapons, pilots, and techs that it simply takes a number of video games to totally perceive all of them. Particularly since some weapons are ineffective until we’ve a unit that may make the most of them.
Regardless of the steep studying curve and tiny UI, Into the Breach is extremely enjoyable and the port itself is sort of good. It’s a premium recreation that may solely be performed with a Netflix subscription, although. If you have already got Netflix, it’s a must-try.
NOTE: Should you don’t have Netflix, it is not value shopping for the subscription in case you solely plan on taking part in Into the Breach.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion [Total Game Size: 159 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Journey / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by AlexSem:
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a 2D Zelda-like journey recreation stuffed with merchandise gathering, dungeon crawling, bizarre vegetable humor, and administrative felony.
Enjoying as a younger turnip who’s making an attempt to amend for his crimes towards society, we should serve our city’s mayor by operating his doubtful errands. In doing so, we find yourself visiting numerous colourful areas, speaking with unusual characters, preventing harmful monsters, and amassing varied helpful gadgets.
All of the adventuring occurs in a relaxed and lighthearted method, and we’re by no means overloaded with robust challenges reminiscent of complicated puzzles or motion sequences based mostly on fast reactions. This enables a really extensive number of avid gamers to benefit from the course of.
True to the style, we’re offered with a big world map, elements of that are locked till we discover an acceptable software or full extra of the story. The sport can be stuffed with secret gadgets and hidden achievements that we are able to purchase by completely exploring your entire map. Doing so isn’t essential to efficiently end the primary story, but it surely’s a pleasant addition for many who get pleasure from uncovering secrets and techniques.
I particularly favored the sport’s cute visible model, bizarre characters, and all of the peculiar occasions that considerably differ from what we normally see in journey video games.
The first situation some gamers have with the sport is that switching the primary merchandise requires too many faucets, making the controls a bit uncomfortable. In my expertise, this wasn’t an enormous deal, however taking part in with a Bluetooth controller undoubtedly makes for a extra nice expertise.
The primary chapter of Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is free to attempt, whereas a $3.99 iAP unlocks the remainder of the sport. It’s a straightforward suggestion for all followers of humorous journey video games, and I believe lots of people will actually get pleasure from it.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
ScourgeBringer [Game Size: 190 MB] ($6.99)
Style: Motion / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by CaptainQQ:
ScourgeBringer is an epic motion roguelike platformer the place we slash and sprint our manner by means of a floating fortress to save lots of our species.
On the floor, ScourgeBringer looks as if a standard motion roguelike the place we clear room after room of monsters whereas gathering upgrades and trying to find the boss so we are able to transfer on to the subsequent stage.
However beneath that lies an fascinating fight system that actually units the sport aside. Each assault in ScourgeBringer retains our character within the air for a short time, and we’ve to continually air-dash between enemies to smash them and interrupt their highly effective telegraphed assaults. Mixed with the necessity to dodge bullets and keep away from flooring hazards, this mechanic means we’re nearly at all times flying round.
The flexibility to run on partitions and air-dash between assaults makes the combo-driven fight tremendous satisfying. This gameplay expertise solely will get higher with extra upgrades, however since most powerups price blood or well being, we should additionally rigorously handle these sources.
The sport options beautiful pixel artwork, an intense soundtrack, and it runs phenomenally with each contact controls and a Bluetooth controller.
The most important drawback some might need with the sport – and lots of others in the identical style – is that it sucks to die within the final stage after which need to undergo all the simple ranges over and over. The powerups additionally don’t give an enormous increase in energy, so we’ve to depend on enhancing our abilities to win.
ScourgeBringer prices $6.99 on Android. The shortage of adverts or iAPs for boosts or revives makes it a fantastic and really difficult expertise. It’s a cultured recreation with hours of content material that may be a must-try for followers of the style.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Linelight [Game Size: 126 MB] ($1.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by Jurij:
Linelight is a minimalistic summary puzzle recreation the place we transfer a brief white bar round on an extended line to resolve puzzles by activating platforms, switches, and different mechanics.
The sport is as simplistic as may be. As we are able to solely transfer on the road, we all know precisely the place we are able to go. And since we instantly see the instruments and mechanics every stage options, it typically takes just some seconds to get an concept of what have to be achieved to resolve the puzzle. The sport is cut up into six worlds, every of which is a set of puzzles which might be all related on a single lengthy line.
The simplicity makes the puzzles intuitive, and we’re seldom caught. But no answer is simply too simple. Every puzzle additionally contains varied buttons and different mechanisms that work together in sophisticated methods. It’s simple to see what these do, however typically tough to determine how they’re all related with out simply making an attempt them out.
One other plus is that the sport makes use of a single digital joystick, so it may be performed with one hand.
The one slight downsides are that the graphics are so minimalistic that they might appear lazy, there’s no total theme, and some of the puzzles are bugged. The ray results may frustrate some gamers. Nevertheless, it’s arduous to discover a puzzle recreation the place the puzzles are so cleverly designed and constant, and that’s the rationale Linelight is a fan favourite of many that’s typically thought-about a small murals.
Fortunately, the sport is fairly lengthy and nonetheless receives updates. As of penning this overview, there are over 200 distinctive ranges.
Linelight is a $1.99 premium recreation that’s free with Google Play Move. For such a low value, it’s truthfully a steal for any puzzle fan.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Magic vs. Steel (Sport Measurement: 660 MB] (Free)
Style: Tower Rush / Motion / Technique – Offline
Orientation: Panorama + Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by NimbleThor:
Magic vs. Steel is a singular and enjoyable third-person motion recreation the place we use mage and mech characters to guard our fort towards waves of incoming enemies.
The sport is structured as a level-based marketing campaign the place we defend a fort wall utilizing our hero’s commonplace assault and its eight geared up talents that spawn helper items, hearth spells, place turrets, and extra.
For each accomplished stage, we earn a foreign money used to improve our hero’s HP, weapon, and skill stage, the latter of which upgrades all talents and unlocks new ones. We are able to additionally improve our fort wall’s HP, craft new weapons and runes for our hero, and use analysis scrolls. There actually is loads to improve and unlock.
Whereas we are able to change between heroes all through the marketing campaign, they’re upgraded individually, which implies we should always give attention to one to not waste sources. On the brilliant aspect, replaying ranges with new heroes provides further rewards.
Some ranges get relatively difficult, however I actually loved that we don’t have to succeed in a sure rating to win. So long as we cope with all enemies with out dying, we are able to proceed to the subsequent stage.
The art-style is just like different Foursaken Media video games, however the animations are far much less clunky, and the sport simply runs and performs way more easily than their earlier titles. The most important draw back is that the swipe gesture used to navigate the menu is simply too delicate.
Curiously, the sport may be performed each in a panorama third-person mode, or a portrait top-down mode. I discovered the panorama mode to offer the very best expertise.
Magic vs. Steel monetizes through a battle cross, adverts for further sources, and iAPs to progress sooner. The sport may be loved as a free participant, so long as you don’t thoughts sometimes replaying older ranges to earn extra foreign money.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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