Book of Demons (referenced a couple of posts above) is currently on sale for $2.99. It is usually $9.99 and sometimes goes to $4.99 but the current price is lower than I’ve ever seen before.
I can’t link to it from my work computer but just go to iTunes and search for it! It’s called Book of Demons: Tablet Edition
LeeAbe
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It is good and worth that price.
I have been keeping an eye peeled for sales on Book of Demons, Tropico, and Star Traders: Frontiers. Still monitoring the last two!
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I know the game was mentioned before somewhere but Retro Bowl has had some updates that have really made the game better. I’m on season 15 I think, after changing from my original perennial contender to a new squad. Very addictive! Now you have the ability to audible, call timeouts, plus other upgrades. Good stuff.
It’s been out for a month or so and I’ve been having loads of fun with it.
The touch controls take some work to memorise (lots of double-tappin, dragging and two-fingers tapping in different combinations) but it all works smoothly.
It does make my 2018 iPad Pro hot to the touch and drains the battery in about five hours. So there’s that.
$14 plus in-app purchases? What are the in-app purchases?
Edit: Ah, looks like they are free?
Yeah, they’re using in-app purchases to let you manage storage space, so you can load only the maps / scenarios you want (map content totals over 1Gb, and CoH overall takes 5.7Gb on my iPad).
So far the only campaign is the US army campaign, so I presume there’s scope for paid in-app purchases for the other campaigns if this sells well enough.
Final update. That “five hours” was super optimistic. It was more like three and a half.
The good news is that Apple recommends you drain your battery regularly before recharging it.
Looks like Carrier Battles PC release just came out
Slay the Spire has arrived for iOS. Launch price is $9.99.
Is it a good port technically, and is it well suited for play on a phone?
I haven’t played any version of it but always meant to check it out.
I haven’t sunk the $10 to get it on iOS, but the PC/Mac version would certainly be well-suited for phone play, without needing to many tweaks to the UI. It’s a game that should do very well with smaller touchscreens.
Plays fine on Switch, apart from dodgy patch support, no reason it couldn’t work well on iOS.
The UI is a bit clunky on phone – haven’t had a chance to try on iPad yet. Specifically I have a hard time navigating cards in hand. Also no cloud saves and some bugs with losing game state (though I think you just always get kicked back to the end of the previous battle at worst).
That said, I LOVE Slay the Spire and was immediately sucked back in with this. I think it just needs a patch or two.
Does it rely on arcade-style fighting, etc? I’m interested, but don’t really like action games because the controls on a tablet never seem to be great.
Not at all. It’s a deck-builder. Combat is just playing cards from hand, drawing a new hand, repeat.
There is a very large and active Slay the Spire thread here if you want to get a feel for what the game is like.
I’m generally immune to free-to-play games (and always initially skeptical of them), but a colleague did the art for this game so I gave it a try, and I’ve been pretty hooked ever since! Also, I haven’t so far hit a point where paying cash was absolutely vital. After playing for a couple weeks, I did my customary purchase of $5 of premium currency to support the devs. It does have unavoidable ads, but unless you’ve volunteered to watch one for a specific benefit, the ads can be immediately dismissed as soon as they start.
Poker Showdown is mainly about gun duels where you attack by making poker hands. It’s not strict poker drawing and folding rules. You have four cards and can play one to your hand, then you draw to replace it. Once you’ve played a full five-card hand, the quality of that hand is evaluated and the better it is, the bigger a bonus you get to your basic attack strength. There is a wagering element in that you load your gun with 2-5 bullets based on whether you think you’ll end up with a strong hand or not (since running out of your starting 40 bullets results in a loss). Your opponents fire back at you every turn or so, using a pretty clever system that neatly blends randomness and predictability. (It honestly reminds me a bit of Sentinels of the Multiverse’s villain deck system.)
I guess “pretty clever” and “neatly blends randomness and predictability” are a pretty good summation of the game as a whole. Yeah, it’s free-to-play, but so far it’s working for me.
Thanks for recommending this. Pretty fun little game, and a nice spin on the poker theme.
