Audiosurf was all the rage back in 2008. It was a crazy rhythm game that built racing tracks around a music track which you chose from your own personal music library, and it tailored each track to the beats and baseline of each individual song while the player races across …
Read More »I,Viking- Train Equip and Fight Vikings
I,Viking is an interesting game by Next Dimension Games. The game is a mixture of resource management, unit management, and real time battles. You play as the jarl of a group of vikings and train them, equip them, and then engage in online battles racing to pillage a town. You …
Read More »Crap! I’m Broke Out of Pocket: It Ain’t Broke, but I am! – iOS Game Review
Crap! I’m Broke: Out of Pocket isn’t really an evocative title… At least when it comes to giving you an idea of what you’d actually be doing in a game about simulating the broke lifestyle. Is it about leaving the lights off a lot? Walking everywhere? Buying lots of mac’n’cheese? …
Read More »Magic Mansion : more of a hop than a jump – iOS Game Review
Magic Mansion by Nitrome is probably best categorized as an endless, vertical runner, or more like an endless climber in this instance, with randomized levels. You begin with a witch, but after gathering coins, you can unlock other avatars as well. No matter what you look like, every character plays …
Read More »Isoland: from enigma to enigma puzzle – iOS Game Review
Isoland choses to carry the point and click adventure banner—a genre famous for cryptic puzzles and narratives clothed with mystique and intrigue—but can it live up to the rich lineage from which it derives? Isoland does a fantastic job of generating the aforementioned mystery by supplementing it with an enchanting …
Read More »Little Traders: Speculate Your Way to the Top! – Review
In Little Traders, you’ll manage your very own stock trading company starting from the very bottom (you’ll start your business at the basement so, yea). I have no experience in stock trading whatsoever but this game is actually very simple to play. You just need to trust your instinct and …
Read More »Polyforge: beautifully infuriating – Review
Every once in a while, a game is released that you find extremely difficult—a game so difficult it takes you weeks until you feel you’ve reached a point confident enough to review it. For me, Polyforge is one of those games. In Polyforge, you play as a little triangle, circling a shape—each …
Read More »Dim: Lose Yourself In The Mazes – Review
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 …
Read More »Switchy Sides: an unenjoyable fashion show – Review
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 …
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