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‘Angel Salvation’ Review – A High Fantasy Rube Goldberg Machine
After a few hours of Oneclick’s Angel Salvation (Free), you’re likely to have developed Tetris Syndrome: colored gems, healing crosses, and devilish earth-tyrants will dominate your thoughts. It’s...
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‘Heads Up! Hot Dogs’ Review – Humorous Hot Dog Hijinks
As a precocious teenager, I had an irrational fear of the police. Every time I saw them, my hands started sweating as a fetid pit of anxiety grew in my stomach. As a functional member of society today,...
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‘Wraithborne’ Review – Fus Roh Derp
A quick word to developers releasing melodramatic arch-fantasy games on iOS: give your Viking brute a name or I will call him Hodor in my internal monologue. I mean, I’m sure the hero of Alpha Dog...
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‘Repulze’ Review – Looks like Wipeout, plays like Trackmania
Let’s clear the air: clean lines and futuristic stylings aside, Pixelbite Games‘ Repulze ($0.99) shares little in common with Wipeout. One is an iOS racer that costs less than a dollar, the other is...
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Here are the iOS games nominated the 2013 Independent Games Festival
The judges of the Independent Games Festival have been — for better or worse — the de facto kingmakers and secret-keepers of indie games development for over a decade now. Each year, the IGF panel...
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‘Kairo’ Review – Minimalist Abstraction Never Felt So Good
Richard Perrin’s Kairo ($0.99), released under his Locked Door Puzzle label, is billed as a minimalist, first-person exploration puzzle game. That’s a mouthful, and it’s true, but it doesn’t begin to...
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‘Beastie Bay’ Review – Kairosoft’s take on ‘Tropico’-meets-‘Pokémon’
There’s a great story — perhaps apocryphal — about Will Wright designing SimCity to reflect his political beliefs. Specifically, the thinking is that Wright designed the trains and buses in that game...
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‘Year Walk’ Review – Be Careful What You Wish For
I was in a panic. An actual panic. The forest around me was changing, and I couldn’t find my way back to my cottage: I was hoping to methodically explore the map, hoping to impose logic onto a...
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Wadjet Eye Games Announce Neo-Noir Thriller ‘Gemini Rue’ for iPhone and iPad
You know how they say brevity is the soul of wit? Indie publisher Wadjet Eye Games must be witty indeed, then: they sent out a press release yesterday formally announcing iPhone and iPad versions of...
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Team Meat “not sure” About ‘Mew-Genics’ on iPhone, but Aim to Make iPad...
Development on Team Meat‘s Mew-Genics is in full swing, so much so that the iOS version of Super Meat Boy was put on indefinite hold to send more manpower toward Team Meat’s procedural “cat-lady...
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‘Liberation Maiden’ Review – Suda51 Soars to Great Heights in this Mech-Shooter
Liberation Maiden ($2.99) began as part of Level-5‘s Guild01 compilation, a collection of four downloadable Nintendo 3DS games made by some of Japan’s quirkiest and most innovative designers, including...
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Neo-Noir Adventure ‘Gemini Rue’ Dated for Early April
Last month we told you, rather breathlessly, about Wadjet Eye Games’ plans to bring Gemini Rue to iPhone and iPad. Depending on how closely you followed the point-and-click adventure scene a few years...
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‘Badland’ Review – A Stylish, Physics-based Adventure
Multiplayer videogames tend to bring out the worst in me. I have a temper. I have cursed at and been cursed at, and I’ve flown into Achillean rage during Mario Kart 64: “Sing, O Goddess, the rage of...
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‘Gemini Rue’ Makes Exploring a Cyberpunk World Easy
So far, I’ve played what I would call the prologue of Wadjet Eye’s Gemini Rue ($4.99): I’ve experimented with the game’s various mechanics and met the major players of its cyberpunk detective plot....
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We Sit Down With CCP and Learn of Mysterious Plans for a Possible ‘EVE Mobile’
Iceland-based CCP Games is best known for EVE Online, a ruthless, Byzantine MMO set in the cold, vast reaches of a universe called New Eden, where player-led factions and alliances vie for political...
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‘Limbo’ Review – An Incredible Atmosphere that is Tainted with Frustrating...
Walking along a grassy forest floor among silhouetted trees shooting interminably upward, each step rumbling in his ear, the Boy accidentally steps on a wolf trap. His head pops into the air, followed...
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‘Rymdkapsel’ Review – Minimalist Base-Building Among the Stars
It took me a long time to beat Grapefrukt’s Rymdkapsel ($3.99) a second time, even after playing it for a week. Martin Jonasson’s minimalistic, pared-down real-time strategy game is hard, no doubt, but...
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‘Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign’ Review – Match-3 RPG in the Marvel Universe
D3 Publisher, the monster-geniuses behind Puzzle Quest, have always been more concerned with iteration and execution than novelty. They weren’t the first to pair match-three puzzling to turn-based...
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Elegant iPad-only Puzzler ‘Shapist’ Coming Soon to iPhone
The App Store is, as a rule, wild about visually-pleasing puzzle games for the iPhone. iPad-only puzzle games? Not so much. After admitting that sales of Shapist (Free), an iPad-only block-sliding...
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Small Arms: Tactics Gem ‘Frozen Synapse’ is iPhone-bound Later This Year
Earlier this week, Mode 7 Games announced (via Facebook and co-founder Paul Taylor’s Twitter account) that Frozen Synapse (Free) was coming to iPhones. The top-down tactical strategy game was...
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