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    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 09:34 AM PST

    5 Quick tl;dr iOS Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 112)

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 03:45 AM PST

    December is here (ho ho ho?), and I've got five new game recommendations to keep you busy, based on the most interesting games I played and that were covered on MiniReview this week :)

    Support these posts (and YouTube content + development of MiniReview) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NimbleThor <3

    This episode includes an awesome gem of an adventure racing game, an interesting simulation strategy game about making wine, a fun casual puzzler, an old-school twin-stick shooter, and a wacky duck-breeding semi-idle game.

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

    New to these posts? Check out the first one from 110 weeks ago here.

    Let's get to the games:

    DATA WING [Game Size: 112 MB] (free)

    Genre: Racing / Adventure / Indie - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by NimbleThor:

    DATA Wing is an incredibly unique and polished story-driven adventure racing game that takes place inside a computer where we fly around racetracks to deliver data across the system for our boss, "Mother".

    The gameplay experience is split into two parts; completing racing levels to access deeper parts of the system, and experiencing the story that unravels in-between levels through messages from Mother.

    The 40+ levels are kept fresh by introducing increased gravity, changing the level objectives, adding keys that we must collect to finish the track, and much more. Not to mention that the racetrack designs differ vastly from level to level, making each one a real challenge to complete.

    The controls have us simply tap either side of the screen to navigate left or right. While this is a simple setup, it's made difficult by the fact that we constantly want to fly as close to the edge of the track as possible, since gliding along it boosts our speed.

    Perhaps the best part about DATA WING is that both parts of the game are so well made that they could stand on their own, and neither part suffers from the other's high quality. The gameplay is fun, but the mysterious adventure and conversations with Mother truly take it to the next level.

    In fact, everything from the neat neon graphics to the tight controls, great level design, and amazing plot just screams style and polish.

    DATA WING is completely free to play, with no ads or iAPs. Although it only takes 3-4 hours to complete, it is an absolute gem of a mobile game and by far the best mix of the racing and adventure genres I've ever experienced.

    App Store: Here


    Hundred Days [Total Game Size: 467 MB] ($5.99)

    Genre: Simulation / Strategy - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Some

    tl;dr review by AlexSem:

    Hundred Days is a beautiful turn-based strategy simulation game about the delicate art of winemaking.

    After getting fed up with our boring office job, we move to the country to start a wine company and gradually learn all the necessary steps involved, from growing and harvesting plants to crushing, fermenting, aging, bottling, and finally selling our product to customers.

    We spend each season performing the most appropriate actions for our business by playing cards from our hand onto a grid-based board. Cards consume a certain number of squares and occupy the board for several turns, so succeeding often requires using our limited space in the most efficient way and planning a couple of turns ahead.

    As we progress, we gain access to new plant spots, grapes, tools, and more advanced equipment. Through these upgrades, our production processes improve, and we get ever closer to achieving the ideal characteristics of our wine, making our product more attractive. There are lots of parameters to consider, such as the soil type best suited for certain wines, aging duration, the appropriate fermentation bacteria, and much more. For better or worse, the game provides only a basic tutorial that doesn't reveal all these nuances, leaving a lot of room for trial and error.

    While the game is pleasant to the eyes, provides a relaxing gameplay experience, and even features an intriguing story, it's also very time-consuming due to lots of repetitive manual tasks, a constant low income, and the possibility to fail completely should we choose an incorrect development path. The controls are also somewhat unresponsive, and the game performs poorly, with high battery consumption.

    Hundred Days is a $5.99 premium game with no ads or iAP. Despite its flaws, it's a high-quality wine-making simulator perfect for those fond of peaceful strategy games.

    App Store: Here


    klocki [Game Size: 51 MB] ($0.99)

    Genre: Puzzle / Casual - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Some

    tl;dr review by Yousef:

    Klocki is a relaxing puzzler filled to the brim with ever-changing mechanics aimed at making it continuously harder for us to connect the lines in each level.

    The game starts us out with a simple puzzle made up of just two blocks that are viewed from an isometric perspective. Each block has a movable plate onto which a line of a certain shape is printed. The goal is to make these two lines turn into one continuous line by switching the position of the two plates. After a few levels, this core mechanic evolves to include rotating blocks, blocks that contain two lines, a sliding mechanic, and even blocks that unfold.

    Over time, the gameplay gets incredibly brutal as more types of blocks are introduced every few levels. This prevents the levels from growing repetitive and is easily the game's primary advantage over other similar puzzlers. While the complexity of the levels rises, however, there is no help system to compensate for the increased difficulty, which means it's possible to get completely stuck on a level.

    The art-style is incredibly minimalistic but fits the simple 2D puzzles decently well. The sound effects, however, get annoyingly repetitive during long sessions.

    Klocki is a $0.99 premium game with no ads or iAPs. Its calming music and atmospheric theme make it a neat relaxing puzzler for people who aren't afraid to spend the time it takes to get past the levels they may get stuck on.

    App Store: Here


    Crimsonland [Game Size: 104 MB] (Free Trial)

    Genre: Shooter / Twin-stick / Port - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by AlexSem:

    Crimsonland is a port of fast-paced, bloody twin-stick shooter in which we fight aliens, spiders, zombies, and whatever else comes storming at us using a vast variety of weapons and skills.

    With no meaningful story or explanation of any kind, the game puts us on a field with swarms of enemies coming from every side. We have no other goal than to end up as the last one standing, which means we are free to cause total mayhem with the weapons and powerups we pick up from fallen enemies.

    Gaining enough experience increases our level and allows us to choose a useful perk to help us in our struggle. Successfully finishing a level unlocks new pieces of weaponry and skills to be used in later missions, ensuring we always get to experience a new, devastating carnage in every level.

    After finishing the main campaign's 60 levels spread across different worlds and unlocking all weapons and perks, we can test our skills in a survival mode. This mode probably won't keep you occupied for long as it grows repetitive and boring after some time. Still, it remains interesting to pick the game up from time to time to engage in a mindless bloody massacre.

    Crimsonland is free-to-try, with a $9.99 iAP unlocking the full game. Despite its high price tag, it is a game of great quality that will definitely be appreciated by old-school players and anyone fond of quick action games.

    App Store: Here


    Clusterduck [Game Size: 216 MB] (Free)

    Genre: Casual / Idle - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Portrait

    Required Attention: Little

    tl;dr review by NimbleThor:

    Clusterduck is a casual and incredibly wacky semi-idle duck breeding game with no real objective apart from attempting to unlock all achievements and complete every duck collection by breeding as many weird, mutated ducks as possible.

    Each duck is made up of a combination of a head, wings, and a tail, with hundreds of potential variations of each body part. Starting with just a few ducks, they automatically start breeding and lay eggs in one of the three available nests.

    Depending on the egg rarity, we must wait between a few minutes to a few hours before we can hatch it to spawn a new duck. The duckling inherits some body parts from its parents but may also mutate to create truly weird body parts, such as wheels for wings or a sword head.

    We have room for a maximum of 25 ducks, after which we need to start sacrificing some of our least rare ducks by throwing them into a black hole. This is also the only way to prevent the most common ducks from continuing to breed. After sacrificing enough ducks, a hole monster even spawns. Killing this monster by repeatedly tapping it spawns a mutated egg that hatches a duck with cursed and mutated body parts.

    Clusterduck monetizes through a banner ad at the bottom of the screen, incentivized ads to speed up egg hatching, and a few $1-$2 iAPs to remove all ads, unlock another nest, or increase the duck capacity limit.

    The core concept is great fun and could be expanded to become fantastic. Currently, however, it lacks a bit of gameplay to keep anyone but the most hardcore achievement-hunters hooked for more than a few days.

    App Store: Here


    Special thanks to the Patreon Producers "Wafflestack Studio", "FarmRPG", and "Mohaimen" who help make these posts possible through their Patreon support <3

    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/B3-bZIN-2E4


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    Is Text or Die actually multiplayer?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 06:00 PM PST

    I've played it the past couple of days thinking I was playing against others, but I have always seemed to answer last and have been the only one to give an invalid answer. So now I am wondering if it's just bots I am playing against.

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    Any good story heavy games on Ios to play during quarantine? (more than 15 hours in length)

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 03:55 AM PST

    I heavily enjoyed the steins gate port, and the layton games, the final fantasy ports ,the world ends with you, and corpse party Can anyone recommend me any games in that category? :) Thanks and stay safe during covid

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    Any resources for ios games with controller support?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 07:39 PM PST

    Is there an updated list for games with controller support? Or is there an easy way to tell?

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    What Are Must Gets?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 03:37 AM PST

    So I finally got an iPhone 13, which means I have space and a good enough phone for good iPhone games. Does anyone have any recommendations?

    Thanks!

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    Looking for a game that I can play with my GF and that's also not too time-consuming

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 10:56 AM PST

    Me and my gf are looking for a multiplayer game where we can interact in some ways, but that doesn't require us to spend too much time on. Like a game that we can just progress alone in some ways when we're at work, and then in the evenings we can play and have fun together.

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    Did anyone else RL-Sideswipe start having issues?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 08:14 AM PST

    Past couple of days it worked fine. For some reason today, it's now causing my 12 mini to get hot and the network is all over the place. I have a good wifi connection so that shouldn't be that cause. Along with that, it'll take awhile to load a match, only to kick me back to the main menu screen.

    Anyone else starting to have issues?

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    pixa - The spiritual successor to Adventure from the Atari 2600

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 07:04 AM PST

    looking for an app that would be in the same genre as games like jump king or getting over it

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 06:41 PM PST

    any kind of frustrating platformer that has an end

    edit: but not the getting over it ios game

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    Sorry just trying to remember some games and you guys are the best at helping

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 06:39 PM PST

    It was a game where you had these monsters but I'm no sure how you obtained them. It was also free I think. You entered a level and there were all these individual squares. you would roll the dice and get to a certain square and fight those monsters with your monsters. Another thing which I don't think will be helpful is there was a server you were on and everyone there could chat in it. Some servers were dead. You can also friend people or block them. Sorry if this is too vague. It was a game from about 7 years ago.

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    Free new under the radar roguelike Twilight Dungeons

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 04:53 AM PST

    Just wanted to bring some attention to a completely free and pretty unique little roguelike called Twilight Dungeons. No iap, no ads. I really like the unique premise, gameplay mechanics and the charming presentation.

    I'm not a fan of the fixed d-pad that needs constant attention, wrong taps are happening often. I wish there were more input options like swipe to move. The game is also ignoring the iPhone notch so far. Hope an update will fix this in the future.

    Apart from those two issues, I really enjoy exploring the game's world and mechanics. If you even remotely like turn-based roguelikes, you should definitely give this hidden gem a try.

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    Is it worth implementing GameCenter Achievements on iOS? (asking as a developer)

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 04:02 PM PST

    Are iOS players really exploring this as much as Steam, XBox or PS achievements?

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    Ps4 Strike pack for mobile gaming

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 02:34 AM PST

    I was hoping that someone would know if I can use a ps4 strike pack for mobile gaming (e.g. for shooters, etc)?

    I understand that I needs a power supply to work. However, does this NEED to be via a console/pc, or can it simply be from a wall socket?

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    Any good games with infinite / tons of levels?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 01:04 PM PST

    Preferably paid games. No match 3's like candy crush, etc.

    Edit: by levels im talking about stages you can complete, not level ups.

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    Are there any mobile MMORPGs with thriving/vibrant/growing communities other than Runescape?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 09:38 AM PST

    Playing Runescape and digging it, but looking for something a bit more graphically modern.

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    This game I played about 7 years ago

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 06:26 PM PST

    I'm not entirely sure if this game was on IOS, I remember playing it on an i-pad type of device. I don't even know if it was paid or free. Basically you got into the game and you were this sack kind of guy with button eyes and you went from level to level. you can customize it and I think the title has "world" in it although I'm not even sure.

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    Gyroscope support in iOS 15 with PS5 Controller

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 06:52 AM PST

    Does it work now.. iirc it was ^not supported back in iOS 13 when we had Dual Shock 4. Gyro is going to be really useful for fine tuning aim in fps games.

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    MMORPGs with player housing?

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 02:18 AM PST

    Hey,

    I'm looking for some MMORPGs to play and it would be great if they had player housing. Hence why I have 2 questions:

    1. Are there any 3D, modern MMORPGs with player housing?
    2. Are there any 2D with top down camera (oldschool, kinda like Tibia on PC) MMORPGs with player housing?

    Thank you All for answers!

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