This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
The next version of FIFA will really put the focus on the hazardously addictive card-game-meets-management-sim mode, Ultimate Team. In fact, the next game is called FIFA 15: Ulti...
Perhaps the best way to create an unusual but accessble game is to take a classic mechanic and shake it until it's almost unrecognisable.
That seems to be the inspiration for Cahoots! On the surface it's a standard trick taking game, a paradigm everyone is familiar with. But beneath that comfortingly conventional surface lurks a clever and most unusual game.
It has six suits for starters. An...
Price keeps saying "another day at the office" like it's a catch-phrase I should be aware of.
He says it every time something happens that he's involved in. Sometimes it's so frequent that the quips roll into one squished together bark of gruff manly nonsense
Is it really another day at the office Price? Has anyone in an office ever assaulted an enemy encampment with armour clad juggernauts ...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Behold Studios is all about being meta.
It's first game, Knights of the Pen and Paper, was both a fantasy RPG and an adorable simulation of a pen and paper game - complete wit...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
The Talos Principle is not the sort of game you might expect from Serious Sam developer Croteam. This one features no aliens, machine guns, or buckets of green blood.
Instead,...
There aren't many asynchronous sports games out there, so Flick Knights scores an early point thanks to its very unusual turn-based multiplayer approach.
It's a mechanic that's woven deeply into the gameplay too, and allows the concept to operate without needing thousands of players all being online and ready to play at the same time.
Flick Knights is a bold effort, but it's got so much on i...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Goat Simulator was never really supposed to come out. It was a jokey prototype, made during a one-month game jam at the studios of Sanctum developer Coffee Stain Studios.
But ...
It's easy to work out 2 + 2, but can you quickly combine 2 + 2 + 1 + 3 / 2 - 2 + 3 x 2 + 1? Can you do it against the clock?
Sumico is a mathematical puzzle game by Ludomotion, the developers behind Bezircle.
It is available for free on Android, with an iOS release planned for September.
While the arithmetic in Sumico starts simple, the game's puzzles are rooted in something much more eng...
Contrary to what you might be thinking, the rooster in Mad Rooster isn't actually angry (and by extension, the game isn't a goofy retitling of Angry Birds).
Instead, he's the bonkers kind of mad. The kind of mad that leads to strapping twin rockets on and careening through a gauntlet of death traps for no discernible reason.
Although he does grab a bunch of coins along the way, so maybe he's...
Max Gentlemen is a beautifully ridiculous hat-balancing arcade game from the dev behind Organ Trail, and it's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store on August 21st.
The game sees you playing a burly, manners obsessed Victorian gent who needs to balance as many hats on his head as possible to prove how cultured he is.
There are a couple of modes. One sees you tootling around i...
Daddy Long Legs made me laugh almost immediately upon seeing it.
It's an "endless walker" in which you play a strange creature with two very long, spindly legs. Its large square head makes it a bit top-heavy, and therefore walking is rather tough going.
In short, it looks like Bennett Foddy's QWOP on stilts.
Your task is to walk this thing as far as you can, moving one leg in front of th...
Battle Group 2 is a simple game. You play with one finger, tapping to fire missiles as your ships loll through the ocean waves.
It's fun in short bursts, but any extended amount of play reveals the slightly shaky foundations the game is built on. An over-reliance on IAPs makes the whole thing feel a little tawdry as well.
There's arcade entertainment to be had here, but it won't take you lon...
The thing I like most about GrimWar is that the sounds of you beating up ninjas, skeletons, and spiders is visualised.
As in comic books, your taps are turned into "POW!", "BAM!", and "THUMP!". Maybe I'm just easily pleased?
The rest of the game looks alright, too. You're a warrior tasked with cleaning out a wizard's rather large tower. There's an assortment of vicious enemies and traps to d...
Spellfall isn't a unique, free to play tile-matching puzzler RPG as is claimed, but it's actually quite engaging. At least, at first it is.
It works as expected: You match elemental spells in a grid to cast attack magic at the spiders, goblins, and beasts of the dark that want to eat you.
It's framed as a fighting game, if anything, as you have a certain number of moves before the enemy atta...
Awful cash-in premium mess RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile is now a free to play game. Good lord, what a surprise, no one saw that coming.
Except of course the painful cash-grab has felt like a free to play experience ever since it was first released. We even thought it was one until we looked at the App Store listing.
Well now you can download it for nothing. But don't, because it's a big...
There's something genuinely cruel about Pako. It's a game that lasts for seconds, but that drops enough hate on you during those less-than-a-minute blasts to last a lifetime.
It simulates simple car chases, tasking you with staying alive for as long as possible. To begin with that'll be about three seconds.
But once you get the hang of the controls, and work out the best routes to stay ahead...
Bronze Award-winning Space Marine hacky slashy stompy game Warhammer 40,000: Carnage has had its price cut for the first time. That means you can grab the surprisingly fun Ork masher for just £1.49 / $1.99 on iOS and Android.
The game sees you ploughing through a series of xenos-filled levels, swinging about your Space Marine weapons and generally turning every living thing you come across ...
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is out right now on the App Store. Capcom's lawyer-'em-up snuck out last night when we were all tucked up in our beds dreaming of shouting 'Objection!' at people via the medium of iPhone.
The game follows in the footsteps of Ace Attorney: Phoneix Wright Trilogy HD, and brings the 3DS classic to single-screen devices with slightly polished visual...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Madfinger's next game couldn't be much further away from the games in its back catalogue, which includes ninja limb-lopper Samurai Vengeance and zombie blaster Dead Trigger.
Ther...
There's a new Call of Duty game heading to iOS. Yay! Woo! Dude-bro military nonsense!
It's called Call of Duty: Heroes, and it's set to released some time later today in New Zealand and Australia. After the antipodean soft launch you can expect it to roll out world wide.
From the screenshots the game essentially looks like Clash of Duties. Or Call of Clans. Pick whichever name you think ...
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This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
The next version of FIFA will really put the focus on the hazardously addictive card-game-meets-management-sim mode, Ultimate Team. In fact, the next game is called FIFA 15: Ulti...
Perhaps the best way to create an unusual but accessble game is to take a classic mechanic and shake it until it's almost unrecognisable.
That seems to be the inspiration for Cahoots! On the surface it's a standard trick taking game, a paradigm everyone is familiar with. But beneath that comfortingly conventional surface lurks a clever and most unusual game.
It has six suits for starters. An...
Price keeps saying "another day at the office" like it's a catch-phrase I should be aware of.
He says it every time something happens that he's involved in. Sometimes it's so frequent that the quips roll into one squished together bark of gruff manly nonsense
Is it really another day at the office Price? Has anyone in an office ever assaulted an enemy encampment with armour clad juggernauts ...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Behold Studios is all about being meta.
It's first game, Knights of the Pen and Paper, was both a fantasy RPG and an adorable simulation of a pen and paper game - complete wit...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
The Talos Principle is not the sort of game you might expect from Serious Sam developer Croteam. This one features no aliens, machine guns, or buckets of green blood.
Instead,...
There aren't many asynchronous sports games out there, so Flick Knights scores an early point thanks to its very unusual turn-based multiplayer approach.
It's a mechanic that's woven deeply into the gameplay too, and allows the concept to operate without needing thousands of players all being online and ready to play at the same time.
Flick Knights is a bold effort, but it's got so much on i...![[Update] Gamescom '14 Quick Pick - Goat Simulator brings the original ungulate accident simulator to iOS](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-cwewlo_goatgame_2014-02-11_15-13-04-05_jpg_100.jpg)
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight in sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Goat Simulator was never really supposed to come out. It was a jokey prototype, made during a one-month game jam at the studios of Sanctum developer Coffee Stain Studios.
But ...
It's easy to work out 2 + 2, but can you quickly combine 2 + 2 + 1 + 3 / 2 - 2 + 3 x 2 + 1? Can you do it against the clock?
Sumico is a mathematical puzzle game by Ludomotion, the developers behind Bezircle.
It is available for free on Android, with an iOS release planned for September.
While the arithmetic in Sumico starts simple, the game's puzzles are rooted in something much more eng...
Contrary to what you might be thinking, the rooster in Mad Rooster isn't actually angry (and by extension, the game isn't a goofy retitling of Angry Birds).
Instead, he's the bonkers kind of mad. The kind of mad that leads to strapping twin rockets on and careening through a gauntlet of death traps for no discernible reason.
Although he does grab a bunch of coins along the way, so maybe he's...
Max Gentlemen is a beautifully ridiculous hat-balancing arcade game from the dev behind Organ Trail, and it's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store on August 21st.
The game sees you playing a burly, manners obsessed Victorian gent who needs to balance as many hats on his head as possible to prove how cultured he is.
There are a couple of modes. One sees you tootling around i...
Daddy Long Legs made me laugh almost immediately upon seeing it.
It's an "endless walker" in which you play a strange creature with two very long, spindly legs. Its large square head makes it a bit top-heavy, and therefore walking is rather tough going.
In short, it looks like Bennett Foddy's QWOP on stilts.
Your task is to walk this thing as far as you can, moving one leg in front of th...
Battle Group 2 is a simple game. You play with one finger, tapping to fire missiles as your ships loll through the ocean waves.
It's fun in short bursts, but any extended amount of play reveals the slightly shaky foundations the game is built on. An over-reliance on IAPs makes the whole thing feel a little tawdry as well.
There's arcade entertainment to be had here, but it won't take you lon...
The thing I like most about GrimWar is that the sounds of you beating up ninjas, skeletons, and spiders is visualised.
As in comic books, your taps are turned into "POW!", "BAM!", and "THUMP!". Maybe I'm just easily pleased?
The rest of the game looks alright, too. You're a warrior tasked with cleaning out a wizard's rather large tower. There's an assortment of vicious enemies and traps to d...
Spellfall isn't a unique, free to play tile-matching puzzler RPG as is claimed, but it's actually quite engaging. At least, at first it is.
It works as expected: You match elemental spells in a grid to cast attack magic at the spiders, goblins, and beasts of the dark that want to eat you.
It's framed as a fighting game, if anything, as you have a certain number of moves before the enemy atta...
Awful cash-in premium mess RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile is now a free to play game. Good lord, what a surprise, no one saw that coming.
Except of course the painful cash-grab has felt like a free to play experience ever since it was first released. We even thought it was one until we looked at the App Store listing.
Well now you can download it for nothing. But don't, because it's a big...
There's something genuinely cruel about Pako. It's a game that lasts for seconds, but that drops enough hate on you during those less-than-a-minute blasts to last a lifetime.
It simulates simple car chases, tasking you with staying alive for as long as possible. To begin with that'll be about three seconds.
But once you get the hang of the controls, and work out the best routes to stay ahead...
Bronze Award-winning Space Marine hacky slashy stompy game Warhammer 40,000: Carnage has had its price cut for the first time. That means you can grab the surprisingly fun Ork masher for just £1.49 / $1.99 on iOS and Android.
The game sees you ploughing through a series of xenos-filled levels, swinging about your Space Marine weapons and generally turning every living thing you come across ...
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is out right now on the App Store. Capcom's lawyer-'em-up snuck out last night when we were all tucked up in our beds dreaming of shouting 'Objection!' at people via the medium of iPhone.
The game follows in the footsteps of Ace Attorney: Phoneix Wright Trilogy HD, and brings the 3DS classic to single-screen devices with slightly polished visual...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Madfinger's next game couldn't be much further away from the games in its back catalogue, which includes ninja limb-lopper Samurai Vengeance and zombie blaster Dead Trigger.
Ther...
There's a new Call of Duty game heading to iOS. Yay! Woo! Dude-bro military nonsense!
It's called Call of Duty: Heroes, and it's set to released some time later today in New Zealand and Australia. After the antipodean soft launch you can expect it to roll out world wide.
From the screenshots the game essentially looks like Clash of Duties. Or Call of Clans. Pick whichever name you think ...
