Reviews
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, [...]
Order and Chaos Duels Review: Solid Game Design Can’t Change TCG Issues
Another week has come and gone, and we still haven’t gotten the Level 70 Cap Update for Order and Chaos Online. But Gameloft didn’t totally disappoint us this week, for they instead unleashed Order and Chaos Duels, the third title in the OnC franchise. This one’s a deck-building game, and while it impresses at first, [...]
Year Walk Review: Eerie Puzzle Game Challenges and Frustrates
| App Name: | Year Walk |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Adventure, Puzzle |
| Price: | $3.99 |
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With the glut of Temple Run clones, Angry Birds clones, retro game ports, and obnoxious freemium titles in the App Store, it’s always a pleasure to discover something out of the ordinary. One such game is Year Walk, the spooky, sometimes frustrating adventure game from Simogo. Like most of you, the concept of the “Year [...]
Ridiculous Fishing Review: Yeah, You’re Gonna Get Hooked
Sometimes, an iPhone game enters your life at just the right time, and there’s little you can do to keep from giving it every spare moment you’ve got until you reach the credits at the end. A couple things came together to make Ridiculous Fishing just that kind of game for me. First, I picked [...]
Sonic Dash Review: The Hedgehog Is Right At Home In Endless Runner
| App Name: | Sonic Dash |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Endless RUnner |
| Price: | $1.99 |
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Sega’s development studio Hardlight, which did an impressively solid job on last year’s Sonic Jump, has once again turned Sega’s most successful franchise character into a popular mobile genre game. This time it’s Sonic Dash, a speedy, ring-infused take on Temple Run. Like Jump before it, Sonic Dash is a solid and playable effort that [...]
Temple Run Oz Review: Temple Run 2 With A Skin
If you’re media-connected enough to be reading a review like this, then you’re probably aware that Disney has a new movie coming out, “Oz, The Great and Powerful.” So let me ask you: If Imangi Studios, makers of Temple Run, had offered up a “Oz the Great and Powerful” IAP re-skin for their hit game [...]
Toy Story: Smash It! Review: Playful, Lighthearted Block Breaker
“To infinity, and beyond!” If you’re a fan of the Toy Story movies, and if you’d like a fun, well-made game featuring your favorite characters in that franchise, then look no further than Toy Story: Smash It!, the new physics puzzler from Disney. It’s fun, good-looking, and easy to pick up. I’m a sucker for [...]
Haze Review: Beautiful Weather App Places Form Over Function
| App Name: | Haze |
| Platforms: | iPhone |
| Genre(s): | Weather |
| Price: | $0.99 (introductory) |
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Last week, it seemed like all the tech website “in the know” were raving about Haze, the new minimalist iPhone app that beautifully displays current and trending weather conditions. So, of course, I had to check it out for myself. What I found was, indeed, a beautiful app, albeit one that prefers to emphasize form even at [...]
