Tag Archives: fast-paced

Appetizer Mobile Lab’s infinite scrolling maze extravaganza Dim sees you trapped in an eternal dark labyrinth with no hope of escape, and it’s so much fun. Obviously the tension of this time-limited escape experience is off the scale, especially when you find yourself chasing a dead end and running out …

Do you remember your first smartphone with a touchscreen? Do you remember how everyone completely lost their MIND about it? For mobile games especially, it was absolutely mind-blowing to play something that allows you to manipulate your character without being bounded by some buttons like caged animals. Switchy Sides by …

The Eternal is an arcade style game where you collect blue glowing orbs while avoiding obstacles to rack up points.  You play as a range of spirits that work their way up a randomly generated obstacle course. The game is simple enough that kids could play it, but the tutorial starting out is …

Those awkward elevator moments are no more, thanks to Toronto-based Woolly Walrus’s strategic tap experience Quick Drop. Simply drop your elevator passengers at the floor matching their corresponding colour and symbol in a timely fashion to beat this Unity-made tap title. That’s a lot easier said than done however, and …

Flyt is one of the many free-to-play arcade games on the appstore, and as a result it initially presents as little more than geometry navigating bigger geometry in its screenshots. Yet I find myself attracted to these sorts of games; both because I enjoy classic arcade games, and because I …

If giant toy trucks racing on dirt tracks with a grungy rock anthem in the background sounds like fun, Hill Car Drag Racing may be the pearl to your jam. It’s not quite Nitro Circus, but ASK Homework’s exhilarating racer comes with an infectious spirit and a sensational grindfest. Certain games don’t …

Though listed on the App Store as Cubion, this timing based infinite scroller appears on your phone as Boxhop. It’s a confusing blunder to start, with the word ‘Cubion‘ appearing nowhere in-game i’m lead to believe a last minute name change didn’t quite make it over to the folks at …

Less is more, an often worn-out phrase that, despite its trite usage, perfectly summarizes CometQ. Taking its… cue from classic trendsetters like Pong, this simple experience brings us back to our gaming roots, and ultimately reminds us why video games are fun at a basic level. CometQ is an endless …

Templar Battleforce, the turn based RPG from Trese brothers, is a tactical focused game with a story both blood pumping and patriotic. It’s also confusing and disturbing, similar to the early history of the United States of America. The story begins with a traveler who left his homeland due to oppression. People of the …