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This episode features a hardcore survival recreation with a card mechanic, an superior motion RPG, a enjoyable little arcade motion recreation, a darker and grittier model of Archero, and a neat 3D puzzle recreation.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Card Survival: Tropical Island [Game Size: 134 MB] ($15.99)
Style: Survival / Crad – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by AlexSem:
Card Survival: Tropical Island is a hardcore survival simulation recreation the place we try to depart a abandoned island by manipulating an ever-growing deck of playing cards in numerous peculiar methods.
Every location, merchandise, and occasion within the recreation is offered as a card that we both work together with straight or by combining a number of playing cards. For instance, exploring the Shore card could reveal a Palm and a Stone. Throwing this Stone on the Palm could carry down a Coconut, which, when mixed with a Sharpened Stone, offers us water to drink and two Coconut Shells with Coconut Meat. The Fibers we purchase throughout this course of could even be additional used for crafting, or to begin a fireplace.
There are dozens, if not tons of, of those totally different interactions that present us with meals, instruments, garments, supplies, and helpful constructions. Nonetheless, every motion takes valuable time and impacts our many stat meters, like thirst, starvation, ache, warmth, temper, and lots of others. Neglect to eat in time, and also you die. Spend an excessive amount of time underneath the solar, and also you die. Get attacked by a wild animal with none means to defend your self, and also you die. To not point out that in case your temper falls and also you get overcome by apathy – you additionally die.
It is extremely simple to fail, and even with none apparent errors, the sport’s randomness can mess up our playthrough. It requires quite a lot of makes an attempt – and numerous repetitive actions – to lastly obtain victory, which I’m certain will scare off most informal gamers.
Due to the excessive problem, lastly managing to construct an honest home, hunt our first boar, bake a scrumptious cake, or attain the best mountain peak brings an indescribable degree of satisfaction. It’s a one-of-a-kind expertise that hardcore survival followers will certainly get pleasure from.
Card Survival is a $15.99 premium recreation, with a separate demo model additionally out there on Android.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Epic Conquest 2 [Total Game Size: 536 MB] (Free)
Style: RPG / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by JBMessin:
Epic Conquest 2 is a enjoyable motion RPG with loads of colourful characters, attention-grabbing dialogue, superior abilities, and neat customization by way of stats – all impressed by anime and old-school RPGs.
We start our journey on the Capital, the place we’re briefly launched to a bunch of Knights and our beginning character – Claris. We’re free to discover a lot of the sprawling metropolis, and – in true RPG trend – seize any precious merchandise we discover whereas ready for our first task.
This transient introduction is sufficient to familiarize us with the responsive contact controls so we’re prepared for our first of many battles in opposition to the lovable however harmful demons roaming the world.
From thereon, we will begin exploring extra of the open-world countryside, grinding ranges and supplies alongside the best way by combating demons and their bigger, deadlier, “elite” varieties. Fight is each enjoyable and fluid, with a lot of abilities to correctly make the most of and enhance. Dodging is simply as necessary, nonetheless, because it grants us a split-second of invincibility that permits us to keep away from robust incoming assaults.
As we progress, we get loads of supplies and gold used to forge new gear and improve current objects. We are able to even dismantle gear for supplies. This attention-grabbing system offers each merchandise random bonuses that assist with issues like talent cooldowns and sooner well being restoration. After we lastly unlock the talent masteries system the customization choices solely deepen, letting us outline every character’s playstyle precisely to our liking.
Epic Conquest 2 is pleasurable as a very free-to-play recreation because it doesn’t restrict a lot, if any, of the core gameplay. Nonetheless, the sport monetizes by way of incentivized advertisements for numerous rewards, and frequently-shown iAPs for characters and cosmetics.
Epic Conquest 2 supplies many hours of quick motion RPG goodness that’s value a attempt even in case you don’t significantly benefit from the anime model.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
UFO99 [Game Size: 46 MB] (Free)
Style: Arcade / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
UFO99 is an excellent distinctive co-op flying arcade recreation the place we attempt to take down as many enemies and managers as potential in simply 30 seconds.
The sport has us management a innocent animal creature that we will freely fly across the recreation’s small one-screen taking part in space. The one hassle is that we will’t straight assault the enemies that spawn, forcing us to dodge them and their many bullets.
To cope with the enemies, we should attain one of many small hammer containers that sometimes spawn and transfer throughout the display screen. Hitting considered one of these immediately takes out a random enemy. Equally, we will get just a few seconds of additional play-time by hitting a timer field.
If we get hit by an enemy, we now have to attend just a few seconds to respawn, losing precious time.
Chasing these containers whereas avoiding the numerous bullets and enemies is precisely what makes the sport chaotically enjoyable and tremendous fast-paced. And it solely will get higher when performed with 2-3 different gamers in native co-op.
In-between taking part in, we spend the gold we’ve earned on random new character skins. Earlier than every recreation, we will additionally activate considered one of 5 non permanent power-ups that give us further gold within the subsequent spherical, decrease our respawn time, and so forth.
The art-style is exclusive, and the results and music give it an excellent informal arcade environment. The largest draw back is that the gameplay will get repetitive very quick – one thing the developer’s different recreation, Klee: Spacetime Cleaners, did a greater job of avoiding.
UFO99 monetizes by way of iAPs for brand new character skins, incentivized advertisements gold or skins, and advertisements proven within the menu that get eliminated by way of any of the $0.99 iAPs.
Total, it’s an excellent 1-3 minute timewaster that’s excellent in case you’ve received just a few individuals to play it with.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Anonymous Origin [Game Size: 646 MB] (Free)
Style: Motion / Rogulike – On-line
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr assessment by NimbleThor:
Anonymous Origin is a enjoyable motion roguelike that performs like a darker, grittier model of Archero.
Each-screen degree has us utilizing a joystick to maneuver our character round, with magic-based assaults robotically firing once we stand nonetheless. Sadly for us, a lot of the many enemies surrounding us hearth ranged assaults, forcing us to discover a stability between shifting to keep away from being hit and standing nonetheless to assault.
The target is to outlive the 25 rounds in every chapter in a single play-sessions in order that we will proceed to the subsequent.
Each time we degree up, we get to pick out considered one of three random skills that final till we die. Apparently, we will recycle these to get three new skills by spending factors we earn after each spherical. The talents are enjoyable, and there are many them, which provides to the sport’s replayability.
Sometimes, we get to change characters earlier than the subsequent spherical, which is an attention-grabbing mechanic I want was out there extra typically. In contrast to different video games within the style, we will all the time see which boss is developing subsequent, permitting us to make the fitting decisions beforehand. There’s additionally even a separate boss-mode the place we simply struggle bosses to rapidly purchase new gear.
The sport options a number of heroes, every with totally different assaults and stats. In between taking part in, we degree them up by spending gold and equipping objects.
The largest downsides are that the English translation is so-so, and that the skills don’t have correct descriptions.
Anonymous Origin monetizes by way of iAPs for revive scrolls and a premium forex to progress sooner. It additionally prices 5 out of thirty power to play, considered one of which recovers each ten minutes.
The monetization is much like different Archero-inspired video games, however I discovered the gameplay barely deeper and extra attention-grabbing.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Scalak (Sport Measurement: 154 MB] ($0.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr assessment by Jurij:
Scalak is a brief however nice-looking puzzle recreation the place we’re tasked with putting numerous puzzle items onto 3D shapes till all the pieces matches completely collectively.
The sport is just about so simple as they arrive, with our solely choices being to rotate a 3D form or transfer across the many puzzle items to check totally different options. The 90 ranges are all comparatively simple, and due to the intelligent puzzle design, I seldom received caught. However even when we now have to redo one thing, it takes no time to tug out a chunk and take a look at once more.
This intuitiveness of the options can be the sport’s greatest draw back, nonetheless. The puzzles are just too cleverly designed – so all the pieces simply matches collectively immediately. An excellent puzzle recreation wants noise and complexity to maintain issues attention-grabbing.
What makes the sport work, nonetheless, is how neat the puzzles all look in 3D. This led to conditions the place I nonetheless received enthusiastic about fixing a number of the best ranges and seeing my work create fairly shapes. The sport would have come much more alive if it leaned additional into this facet with puzzles that have been greater and centered on 3D shapes like automobiles and buildings.
Scalak is a premium recreation that prices $0.99 on Android. It’s additionally free as a part of Google Play Move. Though it doesn’t fairly stand out among the many giant variety of comparable small 3D puzzle video games, it’s nonetheless value its asking worth.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
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