Sky Force Reloaded just came up, in case there are those who don’t read many reviews.
It’s just as awesome as the previous one. It’s free so I ponied up for the in-game purchases, this really deserves it.
rowe33
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I was pretty disappointed that Titan Quest won’t run on my iPad…damn.
Slither.io is one of the most brutal MP games around by the way. No points for being nice in this one as everyone is out to get you.
Clay
3184
Ooooh. Titan Quest! Hello long plane ride!
A bit late to the party, but thank you very much for that recommendation: I would never have thought a Civilization score attack mode could work this well, and the F2P with IAP tag would have scared me away anyway. But what a great game this is! The 30 turns limit smartly solves the time-consuming ill effect of the ‘one-more-turn’ syndrome.
While I am here, and since it hasn’t been, as far as I can tell, mentioned, I suggest puzzle fans to try the now-free King Rabbit. It is the sequel to Furrdemption, and is a real action-puzzle game, involving half a dozen mechanics and switches.
The game is a bit on the easy side of puzzles, mainly because while there are completist objectives, the game lets you tackle them one at a time and saves your progress as long as you exit it properly. But every puzzle actually features a perfect solution, and that one is of course the hardest to come by (and not rewarded in any way in-game, booh).
Some puzzles are very much action-oriented: you got a slo-mo cheat mode you can activate with in-game money (or by spending real money on it, although you shouldn’t need to do that). The only IAP-only items are a “hint” system, that just walks you through the perfect run of a given level (thereby killing the purpose of the game - go figure), and a 64-levels pack available for 2 bucks, which I got immediately after completing the hundreds of free levels because I couldn’t get enough of that charming little game.
I was really excited over this and… well…
It seems to be basically a reskin of Star Realms, with a much more annoying interface.
To check or play a card, you have to tap it, to zoom in violently, and you then can’t swipe to check the other ones next to it. I found the incessant zooming back and forth to be sickening. The table view of the cards is barely decipherable on my phone’s (arguably small) screen, and this is made worse by the choice of colours and a useless tilted angle view. The cards have icons on them describing their behaviours, but I can’t make them out from that table view and if I zoom in, I get a much more comprehensive text summary of what the card does, thus making the icon language irrelevant.
The theme also doesn’t make much sense - even the tutorial can’t avoid poking fun at it (sanity loss to destroy buildings, unh?).
Not a single line of flavor text on the cards is also a minus to me.
I will happily stick to Star Realms.
magnet
3188
You don’t have to zoom in. You can play cards by dragging them to the appropriate area, and you can acquire them by dragging them to the discard pile. You do need to zoom when activating optional powers, though that’s also true of Star Realms.
Haven’t played the app yet, but I find Cthulu Realms better for 3+ player and Star Realms better for 2 in real life. Look forward to Hero Realms the mostest though. (kickstarter is up now)
Which would be fine, if I could make anything out on the tiny, tiny phone interface. The cards are really small (your hand, in particular, is displayed fan-shaped in a corner, while it is arguably the most important part of the game?) and there is way too much clutter and visual noise for my aging eyesight. None of this was too much of an issue in Star Realms. It seems to me the developers wanted to go for something fancy, which might look fine on tablets, but I find it very cumbersome here on a phone.
magnet
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I agree that Cthulhu Realms is very difficult to play on a phone. For that matter, I also thought Star Realms didn’t play well on my phone. But both are fine on a tablet.
I played it a bit on iPad tonight. I would not say it is a re-skin of Star Realms. It is definitely the same overall game mechanics, but with some interesting tweaks. The cards are new and seem to have a lot more interplay or interactive decisions. I think I enjoy it more than Star Realms.
On the UI, I found it the same as Star Realms mostly. I found Star Realms harder to play on a phone (near impossible before cards and mechanics are familiar), but fairly clean and easy on a tablet. I would not be surprised if the same is true with CR.
The one time I tried Star Realms, I had no idea how to play. This one does a much better job getting you started. Pretty cool so far.
RichVR
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I’m enjoying it. But yeah, tablet only for this one.
Is there a PC version coming? My iPad died, and I don’t see me learning the cards from the teensy-tiny iPhone version.
habibi
3196
So, I’m going to the mountains for the next 3 days and am wondering what games I should start loading on the iPad. I’m thinking of Lara Croft Go, it’s on sale at $2 now but I don’t really like puzzles games. I very much prefers turn base stuff. Or some rogue like is fine. Any recommendations?
I’m not being very creative when I recommend the 2 latest efforts from Michael Brough, 868-Hack and Imbroglio. They are intricate singlescreen turn-based roguelites with puzzly elements (in a “you have to use your brain and try and figure stuff” way) with a great amount of depth. Time will fly like when reading a book in those. They also behave themselves and don’t take much space nor use much battery - that last one might be a big appeal if you are going in a place bit remote. They are an acquired taste, might look a bit big on an iPad, and their looks don’t appeal to some people though.
habibi
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Thanks Left, reading the description, it sound like a really brainy game, which I’m trying to avoid since I’m going into seclusion and needed a break from using the brain. Lol!
habibi
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I just read 3 pages before this and I think I’ve zoomed down to two games I will likely purchase - Lara Croft Go (is it turn base? The video doesn’t sound like it is) and This War of Mine, which I have recently started on the PC (didn’t know they have an iOS version, thanks to this thread, I do now). Hitman Go is also intriguing to me. I have no idea that they have this Go stuff.
