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Tower Rumble is a strategy action game by Neo Realms that is a fun mix between match three and tower defense games. The basic gameplay involves two groups of soldiers rushing against each other in an attempt to destroy the enemy’s walls. The bottom panel switches between four different color …

I begin most of these reviews with a joke, personal anecdote, or a hypothetical question, but with a game like Zombie Town Story by HeroCraft Ltd., I don’t even know where to start. This game is such an amalgamation of genres it’s very hard to describe in a short review, …

‘Rock, paper, scissors’ is most of our first game that we learned. The noble game is an excellent pastime, an argument settler, and an infinite source of philosophical quests, such as ‘how exactly paper win against rocks?’, especially when intoxicated. The only downside of the game is that it requires …

Fuse Up is a fun little puzzle game by Animanya Games. The gameplay is simple, you have a grid upon which the faces of dice, numbered 1 through 6, will appear.  You can slide the rows or columns horizontally or vertically to match into groups of three, which will then merge …

SoulTactics is a hodgepodge of multiple genres thrown into one. At the core it’s a strategy RPG with elements of card games and match-3 puzzlers thrown in for good measure. The narrative centers on a clash between good and evil, if I had to generalize it, with an art style …

I notice there seems to be a formula for creating an appealing mobile game. Cute characters plus addictive arcade gameplay with a dash of incorporating the touch screen into your game, and I’ll say right off the bat that Tidy Monsters by Top Bubble does all of this pretty well. …

I’ll confess right away that number puzzle games aren’t really my cup of tea. Sudoku never appealed to me, and I know a lot of classic number puzzle games on the app store I’ve let slip past my radar. However, Yumbers was a game that stood out to me. This …

Sugar Skulls is an overly familiar game that, despite all the things it does well, makes no real effort to tread innovative ground in a genre that is today regarded as stale by mobile game standards. For one thing, the music is absolutely grating, which is unfortunate. As far as …

Logic Traces by Ingames, in association with Kongregate, is a fun and interesting little puzzle game. Colored boxes labeled with numbers litter a grid and you can pull out what seem to be wires either horizontally or vertically. The goal is to cover the board with these lines. The numbers …