Impossible Draw has its moments. When it's flowing, when you're scribbling out symbols and passing through gates by the skin of your teeth, it feels great.
But then it starts to frustrate. There's too much inconsistency in your digital etchings. Sometimes a vague squiggle gets you through, other times it demands pixel perfect sketches.
It's a shame, because there's a neat idea here. It just ...
Virtual currency mining sim Bitcoin Billionaire is headed to Google Play this Thursday.
Like its iOS counterpart, it will be free of charge with optional in-app purchases to make raking in the digital dough a little easier.
Bitcoin Billionaire earned a Silver Award from us early last month. Our review called it an admittedly "shallow" tapfest that's hard to put down regardless.
It also ma...
You're the big bad wolf. Well, you're a werewolf, in fact. And you need to eat people. But, you cannot be seen otherwise they'll come after you.
This is the concept behind Bristol-based developers Joe Williamson and Sam Twidale's Werewolf Tycoon.
It's a stealth game that has you hiding behind bushes as just a big pair of werewolf eyes in Werewolf Park.
People stroll past as they do in pa...
Remember remember, play lots of Android games in November.
If, like us, you have tried to live by this solemn saying, you'll have encountered some absolutely prime specimens over the past 30 days or so.
In keeping with the dark, chilly nights of the penultimate month, there are a couple of spooky treats on the roster, as well as a couple of efforts with a decidedly maudlin outlook.
It's n...
The Silver Award-winning Sometimes You Die proved to be one of the most interesting puzzle games on iOS this year.
If you haven't played it already, then now would be a good time to pick it up as it's on sale. Instead of £1.49 / $1.99 it's only 69p / 99c right now.
It's a 2D puzzle platformer in which you have to, well, die a few times in order to progress. I won't spoil it any further.
A...
Fancy riding some hot summer waves today? Good, because the Bronze Award-winning Pixel Boat Rush is on sale right now on iOS.
Rather than paying the full price of £1.49 / $1.99, you can get it for 69p / 99c for a limited time.
It's a one-touch racer in which you need to control the throttle of a speedboat while hopping across the gnarly curls of the sea.
Making matters harder is the fact ...
Briquid Mini is a clever game of liquid manipulation. It's all about clearing a path, tilting your device, and trying not to waste a single drop.
The ideas are all in place to create something special, and while they don't all gel properly, most of them bring enough to the table to make you keep playing.
There are some frustrating things here as well, but the progression is smooth enough tha...
Wizcorp has soft-launched its argy-bargy football game Striker Arena in three countries for iPad.
You can grab it on the Irish, Australian, and New Zealand App Stores right now for free.
This is the same game that was successfully Kickstarted in October this year.
It has you playing as a tribal football team - either Vikings of Gladiators - on a distant planet.
It's very much like a t...
Bertram Fiddle and his manservant Gavin the Cyclops will be yours to point-and-tap around Victorian London on December 11th.
Yep, this kooky cartoon adventure is heading to iOS on that date at a price of £4.99 / $6.99.
It'll also be available on Android but not until January or February 2015.
We had a little hands-on time with The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle earlier this year. Go hav...
Frog Tale is an upcoming metroidvania about a frog curse that'll have us hopping around a royal castle.
It's played by tapping either side of the touchscreen to hop left and right respectively. That's all you need to dodge hazards and wall-jump up the narrow passages of this stone-slab palace.
As you explore, you'll collect items that give the frog new abilities that let you find new entrywa...
Pokemon is not as simple as you might think.
Beneath that cute and cuddly exterior lies a complex meta game of statistics that can be exploited - if you know what you're doing - to create super critters.
For example, effort values subtly boost your Pokemon's stats as they defeat different opponents. But with this guide you can use these values to significantly boost a favourite Pokemon's sta...
Today's free game is the really rather superb Jupiter Jump. It's a brilliant one-touch arcade game that came out earlier in the year, and it has one of the finest compulsion loops mobile gaming has ever seen.
The game is all about bouncing along an alien landscape, avoiding mines, and darting through gates. It's fun in all the right ways and if you haven't given it a try yet you really, rea...
Peggle Blast is out right now on the App Store and Google Play Store. It's Peggle, but free to play. Freggle. EA should have called it that.
The game plays a lot like regular Peggle (or Reggle), and sees you firing balls around levels, trying to destroy pegs and blocks and score points.
There are power-ups to buy and levels with different victory conditions. And quite often things go a b...
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is a great game. The iOS version of it is not. It's an average game that's hamstrung by a lack of concessions to the touchscreen control system.
Everything is just a bit too fiddly, a bit too cumbersome, and it leads to frustrating issues all across the board.
There's a brilliant game underneath it all, one that's brimming with great ideas and real heart, but it ca...
Love You to Bits is the spiritual successor to Tiny Thief. It's being developed by ex-members of Tiny Thief dev 5ants, and it's set in space.
You play a tiny explorer who's trying to find the broken parts of his robot girlfriend. Cue pointing, clicking, and plenty of adventuring.
It looks absolutely gorgeous, as you can tell from the video all the way back up at the top of the page. All ...
Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy is deeply beloved in its native Japan, but it's only ever achieved cult success here in the West.
I still remember playing and loving Astro Boy: Omega Factor for my Game Boy Advance a decade ago, an imaginative action game that successfully captured that niche appeal.
Sadly, Astro Boy Flight reflects the rather more recent, cynical exploitation of the brand seen in l...
Mix and matching papercraft puzzler, Twisty Hollow, is available now on Google Play for £1.99 / $2.99.
Your goal in Twisty Hollow is to combine different objects, resources, and people to create the appropriate product.
Someone in need of a fish? Combine a fisherwoman, bait, and fishing rod.
Need that prepared right? Combine the fish with a chef and a knife to get sushi.
The Gold Award...
Grid Rush doesn't pull its punches. Nor does it tell you how you're supposed to play it. You either need to read the App Store description or figure it out for yourself.
A grid of endlessly changing letters pops up, along with a word that you need to spell. You've then got a brief amount of time to tap out the letters in the right order.
Tap an incorrect letter and it disappears. If you don'...
Buffstone has today launched the sequel to its hit monster collecting game, MonTowers, for iOS and Android devices.
MonTowers2 features more of the same monster collecting fun of the original. You'll be facing off against opposing monsters on each floor of a series of towers. The difficulty quickly ramps up with each new tower you enter, however, and all monsters must be defeated before mov...
Ken Follet's best-selling novel, and award-nominated TV series, The Pillars of the Earth is becoming an adventure game.
It's Daedalic Entertainment, the German adventure game studio behind Edna Harvey and the Deponia series, that is developing it.
It's said to be a multimedia experience, which may be referring to the fact that Follet is working on another novel, or something else.
Th...
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Impossible Draw has its moments. When it's flowing, when you're scribbling out symbols and passing through gates by the skin of your teeth, it feels great.
But then it starts to frustrate. There's too much inconsistency in your digital etchings. Sometimes a vague squiggle gets you through, other times it demands pixel perfect sketches.
It's a shame, because there's a neat idea here. It just ...
Virtual currency mining sim Bitcoin Billionaire is headed to Google Play this Thursday.
Like its iOS counterpart, it will be free of charge with optional in-app purchases to make raking in the digital dough a little easier.
Bitcoin Billionaire earned a Silver Award from us early last month. Our review called it an admittedly "shallow" tapfest that's hard to put down regardless.
It also ma...
You're the big bad wolf. Well, you're a werewolf, in fact. And you need to eat people. But, you cannot be seen otherwise they'll come after you.
This is the concept behind Bristol-based developers Joe Williamson and Sam Twidale's Werewolf Tycoon.
It's a stealth game that has you hiding behind bushes as just a big pair of werewolf eyes in Werewolf Park.
People stroll past as they do in pa...
Remember remember, play lots of Android games in November.
If, like us, you have tried to live by this solemn saying, you'll have encountered some absolutely prime specimens over the past 30 days or so.
In keeping with the dark, chilly nights of the penultimate month, there are a couple of spooky treats on the roster, as well as a couple of efforts with a decidedly maudlin outlook.
It's n...
The Silver Award-winning Sometimes You Die proved to be one of the most interesting puzzle games on iOS this year.
If you haven't played it already, then now would be a good time to pick it up as it's on sale. Instead of £1.49 / $1.99 it's only 69p / 99c right now.
It's a 2D puzzle platformer in which you have to, well, die a few times in order to progress. I won't spoil it any further.
A...
Fancy riding some hot summer waves today? Good, because the Bronze Award-winning Pixel Boat Rush is on sale right now on iOS.
Rather than paying the full price of £1.49 / $1.99, you can get it for 69p / 99c for a limited time.
It's a one-touch racer in which you need to control the throttle of a speedboat while hopping across the gnarly curls of the sea.
Making matters harder is the fact ...
Briquid Mini is a clever game of liquid manipulation. It's all about clearing a path, tilting your device, and trying not to waste a single drop.
The ideas are all in place to create something special, and while they don't all gel properly, most of them bring enough to the table to make you keep playing.
There are some frustrating things here as well, but the progression is smooth enough tha...
Wizcorp has soft-launched its argy-bargy football game Striker Arena in three countries for iPad.
You can grab it on the Irish, Australian, and New Zealand App Stores right now for free.
This is the same game that was successfully Kickstarted in October this year.
It has you playing as a tribal football team - either Vikings of Gladiators - on a distant planet.
It's very much like a t...
Bertram Fiddle and his manservant Gavin the Cyclops will be yours to point-and-tap around Victorian London on December 11th.
Yep, this kooky cartoon adventure is heading to iOS on that date at a price of £4.99 / $6.99.
It'll also be available on Android but not until January or February 2015.
We had a little hands-on time with The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle earlier this year. Go hav...
Frog Tale is an upcoming metroidvania about a frog curse that'll have us hopping around a royal castle.
It's played by tapping either side of the touchscreen to hop left and right respectively. That's all you need to dodge hazards and wall-jump up the narrow passages of this stone-slab palace.
As you explore, you'll collect items that give the frog new abilities that let you find new entrywa...
Pokemon is not as simple as you might think.
Beneath that cute and cuddly exterior lies a complex meta game of statistics that can be exploited - if you know what you're doing - to create super critters.
For example, effort values subtly boost your Pokemon's stats as they defeat different opponents. But with this guide you can use these values to significantly boost a favourite Pokemon's sta...
Today's free game is the really rather superb Jupiter Jump. It's a brilliant one-touch arcade game that came out earlier in the year, and it has one of the finest compulsion loops mobile gaming has ever seen.
The game is all about bouncing along an alien landscape, avoiding mines, and darting through gates. It's fun in all the right ways and if you haven't given it a try yet you really, rea...
Peggle Blast is out right now on the App Store and Google Play Store. It's Peggle, but free to play. Freggle. EA should have called it that.
The game plays a lot like regular Peggle (or Reggle), and sees you firing balls around levels, trying to destroy pegs and blocks and score points.
There are power-ups to buy and levels with different victory conditions. And quite often things go a b...
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is a great game. The iOS version of it is not. It's an average game that's hamstrung by a lack of concessions to the touchscreen control system.
Everything is just a bit too fiddly, a bit too cumbersome, and it leads to frustrating issues all across the board.
There's a brilliant game underneath it all, one that's brimming with great ideas and real heart, but it ca...
Love You to Bits is the spiritual successor to Tiny Thief. It's being developed by ex-members of Tiny Thief dev 5ants, and it's set in space.
You play a tiny explorer who's trying to find the broken parts of his robot girlfriend. Cue pointing, clicking, and plenty of adventuring.
It looks absolutely gorgeous, as you can tell from the video all the way back up at the top of the page. All ...
Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy is deeply beloved in its native Japan, but it's only ever achieved cult success here in the West.
I still remember playing and loving Astro Boy: Omega Factor for my Game Boy Advance a decade ago, an imaginative action game that successfully captured that niche appeal.
Sadly, Astro Boy Flight reflects the rather more recent, cynical exploitation of the brand seen in l...
Mix and matching papercraft puzzler, Twisty Hollow, is available now on Google Play for £1.99 / $2.99.
Your goal in Twisty Hollow is to combine different objects, resources, and people to create the appropriate product.
Someone in need of a fish? Combine a fisherwoman, bait, and fishing rod.
Need that prepared right? Combine the fish with a chef and a knife to get sushi.
The Gold Award...
Grid Rush doesn't pull its punches. Nor does it tell you how you're supposed to play it. You either need to read the App Store description or figure it out for yourself.
A grid of endlessly changing letters pops up, along with a word that you need to spell. You've then got a brief amount of time to tap out the letters in the right order.
Tap an incorrect letter and it disappears. If you don'...
Buffstone has today launched the sequel to its hit monster collecting game, MonTowers, for iOS and Android devices.
MonTowers2 features more of the same monster collecting fun of the original. You'll be facing off against opposing monsters on each floor of a series of towers. The difficulty quickly ramps up with each new tower you enter, however, and all monsters must be defeated before mov...
Ken Follet's best-selling novel, and award-nominated TV series, The Pillars of the Earth is becoming an adventure game.
It's Daedalic Entertainment, the German adventure game studio behind Edna Harvey and the Deponia series, that is developing it.
It's said to be a multimedia experience, which may be referring to the fact that Follet is working on another novel, or something else.
Th...
