iOS Gaming 3 Quick tl;dr iOS Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 80)

3 Quick tl;dr iOS Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 80)
Good IOS RPGs
IOS game MUST HAVES
Best emulator for snes games?
Craft the World Info?
Board game Sale! (Acram and Outline)
TINY SPACE ACADEMY - Rolling Out now!
Ridiculous Fishing issue. What causes this?
Some good ios games ( controller support also appreciated)

3 Quick tl;dr iOS Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 80)

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:06 AM PDT

Welcome back, my fellow mobile gamers :) Here's the latest episode of my weekly roundup of the most interesting games I played last week. I hope you'll enjoy it.

This episode includes a unique cross-platform adventure MMO that plays a bit like Sky: Children of the Light, a fun roguelike arcade bullet hell game, and an RPG where we use dice to calculate our damage and capture monsters.

Disagree with my opinion? Let's have a friendly discussion below.

New to these posts? Check out the first one from 79 weeks ago here.

The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Arcadium - Space War [Game Size: 72 MB] (free)

Genre: Arcade / Asteroids-inspired / Indie / Sci-fi - Offline Playable

Orientation: Portrait

Required Attention: Full

tl;dr review:

Arcadium 2 is a fun indie roguelike asteroids-inspired space shooter where we shoot down enemies coming at us from all four sides while frantically moving our spaceship around to avoid getting hit.

Shooting happens automatically, and as we progress through the waves of enemies and tough bosses, we occasionally get to pick one of three random upgrades that last until we die. The goal is to survive for as long as possible.

We grow stronger by unlocking and upgrading spaceships with various stats, such as damage, attack speed, movement speed, and more. Each spaceship provides a slightly different gameplay experience. We can also buy pets that provide permanent stat boosts and unlock 15 unique active skills that often mean the difference between life or death. The gold and gems used to buy spaceships, skills, and pets are acquired through gameplay or by completing achievement missions.

For the most hardcore players, the difficulty can even be increased to earn up to 35% more gold and gems by activating up to three options that for example improve the enemy AI.

Arcadium 2 monetizes through iAPs for more gold and gems to instantly upgrade spaceships, skills, and pets. Everything except a few pets can be acquired through gameplay, however, so the iAPs are never necessary and don't feel pushed.

App Store: Here

Fer.al [Total Game Size: 655 MB] (free)

Genre: Adventure / MMO / 3D / Cross-playform - Requires Online Access

Orientation: Landscape

Required Attention: Some

tl;dr review:

Fer.al is a PC and mobile cross-platform 3D MMO adventure game where we explore a large open-world as a mythical cat-like creature with thousands of other players.

After creating our creature, we start exploring the sandbox-like universe by collecting materials used for crafting new cosmetics, completing quests, playing fun mini-games, and discovering secrets and hidden items. While there is no overall objective to the game, it is heavily focused on interacting and trading with other players while continuously customizing our creature with hundreds of craftable modifications, markings, and clothing items.

The universe and NPCs are humorous, and the high level of freedom creates an experience somewhat reminiscent of Sky: Children of the Light. The game is still in early access, however, and its main drawbacks are its long load times and somewhat confusing menu UI that takes a bit to get used to. The controls are alright, but the game also works with some Bluetooth controllers, which definitely provides a better experience.

Fer.al monetizes through a $10.99 season pass that provides us with unique cosmetics. Since these don't unlock new gameplay or give in-game advantages, it is unnecessary to ever buy any iAPs to enjoy the game.

App Store: Here

Tiny Dice Dungeon [Game Size: 103 MB] (free)

Genre: RPG / RNG / Min-maxing / Turn-based - Online + Offline-playable

Orientation: Landscape

Required Attention: Some

tl;dr review:

Tiny Dice Dungeon is a unique dice-based RPG where we fight and capture monsters by rolling dice to calculate our damage. It features humorous enemy designs, lots of unique dice, and a heavy focus on mix-maxing through equipping specific combinations of dice and pets.

During the turn-based fights, we can continue rolling our hero and pet's dice as many times as we want to increase the total damage output, but if we roll a 1, our turn ends without dealing any damage. The same is true for the opponents on their turn. This constant RNG gamble of risk versus reward is what makes the combat fun.

Enemies can be captured as pets by dealing damage exactly equal to their HP. These pets can each equip dice just like our hero, and we take them with us into battle to deal more damage.

New dice are acquired using uncut dice, which we can buy through iAPs or grind through missions or PvP. There are many different types of dice, such as multiplier, healing, or curse dice – all of which enabled different combat strategies. The game features a single-player campaign and non-real-time PvP against other players' hero and dice.

Tiny Dice Dungeon monetizes through iAPs for uncut dice, and incentivized ads to get various rewards. The iAPs provide a pay-to-progress-faster advantage in especially the PvP. The game is great fun for the first many hours of gameplay, although gathering the resources required to unlock new dice eventually gets very grindy.

App Store: Here

Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing

TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 3 games: https://youtu.be/rGmpfpE_UVE

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Good IOS RPGs

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:56 AM PDT

Hey all

I'm looking for a good RPG that plays well on an iPhone. I've tried some ports like the Final Fantasy games, but they don't feel right on a phone. I'm actually thinking about buying one of those controller attachments, but I'd rather not.

For reference, the two rpgs I've enjoyed the most have been Knights of Pen and Paper, and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. I realized I like those games because they have a semi mmo style of play (party based on the trilogy of tank, heals, dps). If anybody knows something like that I'd be grateful. Even a standard jrpg style game would be nice.

Thanks for any responses.

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IOS game MUST HAVES

Posted: 25 Mar 2021 08:40 PM PDT

I'm looking for a highly addictive game, particularly one that can keep going on for a while or has consistent updates. Just getting bored in lockdown and wondering which ones i have to get. I don't mind paying for the game or in app purchases, i'd just rather not have many ads. Thanks!

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Best emulator for snes games?

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:56 AM PDT

Im trying to find a way to play alttp randomizer but most of the download links I have tried just dont work. Anyone know where I could find one without jailbreaking? Links would be helpful as well.

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Craft the World Info?

Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:50 AM PDT

I know there's a CtW subreddit, but it looks dead. I just recently discovered this game and it has soaked TONS of my time. I can't believe I missed it for this long!

Anyway, data on this game is sparse. The gamepedia / wikis are lacking in specific data, often more qualitative than quantitative. After beating the campaign, I'm trying my hand at the hardest settings - nightmare difficulty, perma death, etc. After having some mid-armored dwarves get one-shotted by a skeleton, I really want to see NUMBERS so that I can properly assess threats. I.E., if I'm going to tackle X monster I need Y armor in order to survive Z hits.

There are some sites that show health and damage, but I haven't seen anywhere that explains what armor does. That's my main question here, what is the formula for damage taken given armor?

Some other unknowns are how does warrior skill affect block chance with shields, numerically? Also, on sandbox mode there are some recipes that clearly drop early on, like ladders, torches, and workbenches. Is there better information about the drop logic in sandbox? I especially often have significant problems getting a forge which makes early survival problematic. I'm wondering if certain block types are more likely to drop certain recipes. I know recently I got two silver armor recipes from mining silver, but that might be coincidental.

Thanks for reading, and one last obligatory - are there any other games that scratch the same itch this game does?

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Board game Sale! (Acram and Outline)

Posted: 25 Mar 2021 02:47 PM PDT

The following went on sale not too long ago (all prices are USD):

HexRoller $2.99 to $1.99

Noch Mal! $3.99 to $1.99

Istanbul: Digital Edition $6.99 to $4.99

Eight-Minute Empire $4.99 to $2.99

Steam: Rails to Riches $4.99 to $2.99

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TINY SPACE ACADEMY - Rolling Out now!