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This episode features a traditional journey RPG, a enjoyable reverse bullet-hell recreation, a neat motion platformer, a cute and enjoyable informal puzzle recreation, and a comparatively new Soul Knight various.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced [Game Size: 2.8 GB] ($9.99)
Style: RPG / Journey – On-line + Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by AlexSem:
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced is the port of a critically acclaimed PC RPG that’s set within the Forgotten Realms fantasy world and based mostly on a well-liked Dungeons & Dragons role-playing system.
We get to expertise a wealthy world with deep lore, plenty of colourful characters, a charming non-linear storyline, tons of dialogues and aspect missions, plenty of lethal enemies to combat, and attention-grabbing duties to finish.
Fight in Neverwinter Nights takes place in real-time, with an choice to pause at any second to evaluate the state of affairs and difficulty orders that make sure the enemies are disposed of in probably the most environment friendly means. Our character can be closely custom-made, with dozens of distinct lessons and a number of play kinds enabling us to expertise the sport in all kinds of how.
Whereas it is wonderful how such a posh recreation, together with all its expansions, has been masterfully ported to cell, not all the things is ideal. The most important downside is that the abundance of management parts hardly match on small cellphone screens, making the textual content too tiny and buttons too straightforward to overlook.
As well as, the digicam typically blocks our view, making it exhausting to navigate the 3D world. Giant areas additionally often introduce frame-rate drops, and though the extremely detailed graphics nonetheless efficiently create an immersive ambiance, it’s exhausting to disregard that they’re greater than a decade previous.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced is a $9.99 premium recreation with iAPs for extra campaigns and story packs that additional enrich the gameplay. In my view, the various hours it takes to completely expertise what the sport has to supply absolutely justifies the value. And regardless of the management points, it is a true RPG traditional that may be loved by any fan of wealthy and sophisticated fantasy video games.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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Grimnight Heroes: Survivors [Total Game Size: 146 MB] (Free)
Style: Arcade / Reverse Bullet-Hell / Indie – Offline
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by NimbleThor:
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors is a enjoyable reverse bullet-hell recreation the place we try and survive for 20 minutes in every of seven more and more troublesome levels whereas enemies storm at us from all sides and we regularly purchase new talents.
In every run, we transfer our character round utilizing a single joystick whereas it routinely swings its sword to assault within the path we’re shifting. Each time we degree up, we get to choose certainly one of three random talents that routinely set off, resembling a firestorm that periodically rains from the sky.
We will equip 9 of those talents, after which degree them up by deciding on them once more. Compared to video games like Magic Survival, the skills really feel a bit underwhelming at first. They do get much more thrilling and highly effective as soon as they’ve been upgraded, however this additionally causes every run to change into simpler the additional we get into it, which is a bit unusual.
Not like most video games within the style, the levels aren’t infinitely massive, however mini-bosses present keys used to open chests across the map, and objects that set off a one-time highly effective spell after we decide them up additionally often drop. This makes the gameplay expertise reasonably dynamic and attention-grabbing.
Gold is spent in-between runs on buying six new heroes with distinct weapons, buying one-time power-ups that make the subsequent run simpler, and upgrading our heroes’ well being, injury, and pace. I particularly loved that this development system lets us decide which stat to improve first.
The pixel art-style and music all through the sport are actually well-made, giving the sport a novel retro really feel.
Grimnight Heroes: Survivors monetizes by way of incentivized adverts for additional gold, a $0.99 iAP to take away the adverts, and some others to amass extra gold. Fortunately, there’s no power system, no login rewards and many others. It sticks to the fundamentals, and it does it nicely.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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Daggerhood [Game Size: 108 MB] ($2.99)
Style: Platform / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by AlexSem:
Daggerhood is a fast-paced motion platformer the place it takes each excessive precision and fast reflexes to beat all the degrees in time.
Enjoying as a daring thief thrown right into a deep darkish cave, we should navigate by way of 100 ranges by leaping on platforms, avoiding spikes and enemies, driving elevators, working switches, and utilizing short-term talents to succeed in inaccessible locations.
Whereas our touring pace will increase by wall leaping and double leaping, our biggest asset is a throwing dagger that not solely kills the nasty creatures lurking within the caves but in addition lets us teleport to distant locations. The latter makes the sport excellent for speedrunning, as skillfully using the teleportation mechanic turns platforming into an artwork.
Fortunately, the sport options all kinds of problem settings to go well with any ability degree. For instance, we will restrict ourselves to 1 life per degree, or select to have three. The 5 treasures scattered throughout every degree additionally present a further problem, however selecting them up isn’t required to progress. And though we’re awarded stars for beating ranges inside a time restrict, they act as nothing greater than achievements.
Mixed, these techniques create an awesome stability that makes it doable to complete the sport by taking part in casually whereas getting all of the achievements requires extraordinary platforming expertise and solely fits hardcore gamers.
Daggerhood is a $2.99 premium recreation with no adverts or iAPs. Its nice degree design and fast-paced gameplay give it a broad attraction, and it’s particularly attention-grabbing for followers of inauspicious retro-style platformers.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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Cosmic Specific [Game Size: 109 MB] ($4.99)
Style: Puzzle / Informal – Offline
Orientation: Portrait + Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr evaluate by Jurij:
Cosmic Specific is a simplistic puzzle recreation the place we transport color-coded aliens to their locations by way of self-made prepare tracks positioned in tiny area stations throughout a number of galaxies.
The target is to put down tracks in a means that permits a prepare with both 1, 2, or 3 seats to choose up aliens of sure colours and drop them off of their corresponding containers to develop alien vegetation inside small greenhouse ranges. Orange aliens into orange containers, purple aliens into purple containers, and so forth. When all aliens have been delivered, the prepare routinely leaves by way of a gate to the subsequent degree.
The gameplay could be very easy, however the small maps are all extremely well-designed and create a properly difficult expertise. For many of its 128 distinctive ranges, the sport stays at a really perfect problem for puzzle recreation followers who like exhausting trial-and-error exploration puzzles.
If we get caught, we have now the pliability to easily decide one other degree, with our progress saved for after we return later. This creates a continuing sense of development that made me really feel sensible the identical means Portal did. And laying prepare tracks with our finger is straightforward and surprisingly fulfilling in itself. The one factor some gamers would possibly discover lacking is a touch system.
The 3D graphics are easy and charming, though I ponder why the builders didn’t go along with common trains and recognizable human figures. Its degree design high quality and clear colourful graphics are corresponding to Snakebird, however Cosmic Specific’ benefit is that it has far more ranges to choose from, making the sport really feel much less punishing.
Cosmic Specific is a $4.99 premium recreation with no adverts or iAPs. The thematic weirdness apart, each facet of the gameplay is just about top-notch for the style, so I extremely suggest it to any puzzle fan.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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Dungeon VS Gunner (Sport Measurement: 163 MB] (Free)
Style: Motion / Roguelike – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr evaluate by NimbleThor:
Dungeon VS Gunner is a fast-paced motion roguelike shoot ’em up impressed by video games like Soul Knight.
Every randomly generated dungeon consists of obstacles and plenty of monsters and managers that we defeat utilizing quite a lot of enjoyable weapons that we decide up as we go. As soon as cleared, we will proceed to the subsequent a part of the dungeon.
The sport’s most unusual characteristic is that modifiers that drastically change our weapons drop from chests all through every dungeon. These might make our bullets transfer ahead after which 90 levels to both aspect, make them fly round in a circle, and far more. This provides a little bit of gameplay selection, and studying their professionals and cons is nearly required to defeat the various bosses.
We progress by upgrading our character’s stats utilizing gems earned by way of gameplay, and by crafting one-time-use weapons and potions that make the subsequent run a bit simpler. We will additionally unlock two new characters utilizing gems, and two extra by way of $1.99 iAPs.
Sadly, shifting between dungeon rooms feels a bit unusual. They’re linked by way of small corridors with a teleporter within the center, but when we depart on the left aspect of 1 room, we would find yourself in a hall the place we have now to stroll up, down, or proper to enter the subsequent room. This breaks the immersion.
The art-style and Enter the Gungeon-inspired particular results look nice. Nonetheless, the UI lacks in a number of areas, resembling not exhibiting us what number of gems we have now when attempting to purchase upgrades.
Dungeon VS Gunner monetizes by way of incentivized adverts for potions, a pressured advert when dying, and iAPs for gems used to revive or improve and unlock new characters. It has many of the elements of an awesome motion roguelike, however its lack of polish holds it again from reaching greatness. Hopefully, that may change over time.
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