I must be blind, I cant find it at all on the play store. I loved Skulls of the Shogun on 360 I might revisit it
It appears to have been pulled from the store this year due to not being GDPR compliant. According to reddit, Harebrained Schemes plans on an update but doesn’t have a timeline…
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Try summoners wars:sky arena, I guess the best online tactic turn based RPG. Once you liked it, guess you never wants to stop!
Cheers!
Love Nikki Dress Up Queen
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I’ve given the same rant myself, so I feel you. Have you seen the incredibly in-depth website/article they put together to disprove people saying they ripped off 2048? http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/
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This week’s iOS store update has a few tarnished gems in it. Legend of Solgard is a new game from King (makers of Candy Crush) that “borrows” the wonderful gameplay of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes. Instead of gems/candy/fruit you have soldiers, and you group them up to launch attacks at your opponent.
There’s also a game called Cosmic Showdown which “borrows” pretty much everything from the excellent RTS/artillery game Cannon Brawl and combines it with a Clash Royale-esque economy (both in-game and out). I came to Cannon Brawl pretty late, so it’s exciting to have basically that same game now on mobile with a brand new player base (for me to beat down).
Both of these games are free to play and come with all the baggage that that implies, but the gameplay is solid. It stinks that these games are capitalizing off of mechanics pioneered by other developers that are still pretty unique, but both Cannon Brawl and Clash of Heroes are years old at this point, with no mobile presence of their own. There was an iOS port of Clash of Heroes back in 2013, but it’s no longer supported and has been removed from the store.
I’m also checking in on the recently released Sneak Ops every day, which takes Leap Day’s structure of creating a new randomly generated level every day, but instead of being a platformer, it’s a Metal Gear Solid-inspired stealth game. This game is primarily ad supported, but you can make a one-time purchase to remove the ads.
Check out Templar Battleforce RPG, it’s a 2D X-Com esque TBS game. Could be what you’re looking for
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Absolutely perfect thank you
That’s such a good read! It really shows a lot of the work that goes in to game development. People seem to think game ideas pop up fully formed in to peoples heads and they transform them perfectly to code and art.
This shows that even a relatively simple game can take a lot to make, and how a clone like 2048 can completely miss the point of what makes it a good experience.
Haven’t seen anyone recc Monument Valley or Monument Valley 2, and seeing as it was my pick for Waypoint’s GLIM’s last year, I feel the need to signal boost about it here.
Monument Valley is a puzzle game by Ustwo Games about guiding a figure known as Princess Ida, through a series of puzzles involving shifting perspectives so she can return the Sacred Geometries she’s taken. The art for it is minimalist but stunning, and the music conveys a soothing mood while still managing to be fun. It manages to both be noticeable and not jar my concentration when I’m trying to figure out a solution. None of the puzzles are timed, and figuring them out requires more patience than reflexes. It’s priced at $4 and available for Android, and comes with 2 DLC chapters that, iirc, are $1 each.
Monument Valley 2 is the sequel, where you instead guide a mother and child through the valley taking one on a journey of reflection while the other goes on a journey of growth. Some of the levels involve manipulating both characters, as well as the surroundings, and some of them involve only one or the other. It keeps a lot of what goes on with the first game, particularly building on the idea of controlling two characters at once, but for the most part, it’s fairly similar and I can recommend it on the basis of ‘if you liked the first, you’ll like this one’. It’s $5 and also available for Android.
A game along the lines of Monument Valley, and that actually inspired it, is Sword & Sworcery an adventure game made by Superbrothers. Now full disclosure, I never finished this game because it ate my old phone for breakfast since it was a Galaxy S3 Mini that I kept for about 4 years. In this game, you play the Scythian, a girl seeking something called the Megatome, though obtaining it awakens something evil that she has to confront. Changing the orientation of your phone changes what you do in the game, with portrait mode being exploration, and handheld mode being combat. The phases of the moon in real life also have something to do with the game, though I never got that far. It’s also a game you can hook up to Twitter to share your experience with other people. It’s available for Andoird for $4.
Games that have nothing do do with those that I can also recommend are Card Crawl and Miracle Merchant, both by Tiny Touch Games.
Card Crawl is a card based dungeon crawler where you can play as one of several adventurer types, your score being based on how much gold you manage to accumulate though gold cards, or selling items and potions. If you make it through the dungeon, the gold is added to whatever you’ve accumulated, and you can use it to purchase more cards. There are multiple modes, though the two unlocked at the start are Normal and Constructed Deck, with Delve being unlocked once you complete your collection. It’s technically free, but if you pay the $3, it unlocks the rest of the game and gets rid of the ad. It’s not phenomenal or particularly hard, but it is fun and a good time killer.
Miracle Merchant is a crafting card game where you fill the demands of people coming to your shop to buy potions by mixing the ingredients they want, which are represented by cards. I actually found this game, and thus Tiny Touch and Card Crawl through Janine’s journal entry of it on Twitter. It doesn’t really pick up until you start trying to get harder recipes like duplex potions and triad potions, without losing your game because you run out of the ingredients needed. That said, it only has the one mode, and it can get boring quick if you’re not going in with a goal in mind. Like Card Crawl, this game is technically free with adds, but paying the $3 means you get an ad free experience and the ability to play offline.
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I’ve been enjoying Auralux 2 aka Auralux Constellations (icon and store name don’t seem to match 100%). Feels like a soothing combination of a simplified RTS and a puzzle.
