Game Reviews
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Review: Mash-Up Of Old-School Ideas And Modern App Sensibilities
| App Name: | Steve Jackson's Sorcery! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | RPG, Books |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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Long, long ago, before we had smartphones or apps or even 8-bit gaming consoles, game designer Steve Jackson released Fighting Fantasy, a series of single-player paper RPGs that played something like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with more rules. Now, developer Inkle has taken the first of these books and converted it into [...]
Real Racing 3 Review: Visually Jaw-Dropping Free Download that Plays Great… but with IAPs
Might as well come right out and say it—we’re nowhere near the first to review Real Racing 3, and by now you’ve heard time and again about how fantastic this game looks and how the gameplay is nearly-flawless… Well, we’ve finally played through Real Racing 3 and can say that it’s all true—it really does [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run Review: Your Childhood Heroes are back in this Mediocre Runner
So you’ve had an iPhone for years now, and all this time the only thing wrong with it was NOT ENOUGH TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES… We can relate. It was pretty thrilling to see the first TMNT game hit the App Store about a week ago, but less thrilling to find out the game was [...]
Star Command Review: Kickstarted Star Trek Sim Is Playable But Limited
| App Name: | Star Command |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Sim |
| Price: | $2.99 |
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Star Command is a game brought about by an early Kicksterter success story that almost turned into a Kicksterter failure. But now, two years and a second funding campaign later, this ambitious space sim has been loosed on the App Store. While Star Command isn’t everything it could be, it’s still a good game with [...]
Fish Out of Water! Review: Five Stars! A Pleasant Distraction with Endless Replay Appeal
| App Name: | Fish Out Of Water! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | action |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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If we had to think of some titles that have stood the test of time and become synonymous with iPhone gaming, chances are Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride would make the list. And what do these titles have in common? They were made by Halfbrick Studios—the same developers behind Fish Out Of Water!… In their [...]
Slayin’ Review: Combines Retro and RPG Into a Great Game
| App Name: | Slayin' |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Retro |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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Like retro? Like RPGs? Like simple, challenging games that tempt you into “one more try”? Then you’ve got to try Slayin’, the retro monster killing game from developer Pixel Licker and FDG that hits all the right notes. Slayin’ is a relatively simple game. You begin each game as a hero — Knight to begin [...]
Cut the Rope: Time Travel Review: The Formula Still Works
| App Name: | Cut the Rope: Time Travel |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Physics Puzzle |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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I hate reviewing iterative iPhone games. Angry Birds Seasons, Temple Run Oz, Doodle Jump Hop — there’s a real difference between a sequel and a skin, and sometimes it seems almost pointless to review them. So of course Zeptolab had to put out Cut the Rope: Time Travel, a new iteration on their popular Cut the Rope [...]
Block Fortress Review: Goblins Must Die!
| App Name: | Block Fortress |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Tower Defense |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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As Minecraft PE has grown in popularity, the App Store has become home to a number of rip-offs and riffs on the sandbox survival game, each one trying to appeal to the Crafting crowd. Many of these are duds, but Block Fortress from Foursaken manages to tap the Minecraft genre and skillfully blend it with [...]
Badland Review: One-Button Physics Action Perfect for the Artistically Inclined
| App Name: | Badland |
| Platforms: | iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | physics |
| Price: | $3.99 |
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If you’re an iOS developer who’s about to release something that’s already been done in the App Store, you better hope your product at least looks better than the competition… In the case of Badland from Frogmind, the previous statement very much applies. Badland is a one-button physics game that feels part Tiny Wings and [...]
Nimble Quest Review: RPG-Based Snake Game Impresses
As I’ve done in the past with Massively Portable, sometimes I step back from MMORPGs themselves and look at the broader range of MMOs, RPGs, and games that would appeal to fans of those genres. This is one of those weeks, because I happened to try Nimble Quest, the new freemium game from creator NimbleBits, [...]
