Gems of War is surprisingly deep for a match 3, and you don’t have to pay anything really unless you just want to, or you plan to join a power guild, and then you at least will need one of the good armor sets.
Then again, the game is really best if you are in a guild of some sort, even a middling guild, because the rewards from the tasks and guild sears are astronomically better if you have 30 people (guild max) pounding out battles every day.
Erin the Last Aos Si is one of the better games you (probably) haven’t heard of. Good magic based tactical combat game. Free trial and then you pay what the game is worth to you to continue. I’ve been playing a bit daily since reading this review.
I had tried it a while back, but the game’s pacing and overall lack of interaction got me off very quickly - it actually reminded me of a DS space game whose name I can’t recall, which featured about the same combat system, and which I found also quite boring (I may have poor taste, but I am consistent!).
Yeah, it’s a decent enough forum, but they screwed some things up when it started (people weren’t getting confirmation emails…pretty sure that happened to me and I told them about it but I guess no one fixed it). It hasn’t taken off like they had hoped as a result.
Wonderland (etc), that seemed liike aweird game, is free, at least for now. I am suspecting it might be one of those 32-bits app that won’t get updated, so it may be a last chance to get it sort of thing.
Continuing my thread obsession over 32bits extinction, reading yet another piece opinion about it attracted my attention to I am level. The game is due to be unplayable with iOS 11 - for a variety of reasons you can read about - but I grabbed it since I have so many antiquated devices. It is really a great action physics game, with simple controls and a ZX spectrum esthetic. Perfecting each room of this “pinball metroidvania”, as it was tentatively defined in the aforementionned article, and earning checkmarks feel very rewarding.
Anyway, I wanted to mention it for those who might, like me, have not been aware of its existence.
Yeah I REALLY hope they update some essentials like XCom, but OTOH publishers probably don’t have much incentive since many of these likely generate most of their income in the first few weeks or months of listing.