Pleased Friday morning, and welcome to episode 219 of my weekly cellular gaming suggestions primarily based on essentially the most attention-grabbing video games I performed and that had been lined on MiniReview this week 🙂
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This episode features a neat souls-like 2D motion platformer, a turn-based technique roguelike, a high-quality stealth motion sport, a enjoyable deck-builder gacha sport, and an indie 3D motion RPG.
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Let’s get to the video games:
Watcher Chronicles [Game Size: 1.1 GB] (Free Trial)
Style: RPG / Platform / Souls-like / Motion – Offline
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by NimbleThor:
Watcher Chronicles is a self-proclaimed 2D Soulslike motion RPG with over 20 difficult bosses, a big open world, and even same-device native co-op multiplayer.
Fight consists of utilizing melee and ranged assaults to deal harm whereas avoiding incoming hits by blocking at simply the proper time or dashing to turn out to be invulnerable for a cut up second. Curiously, we’d like stamina to each block and carry out combo assaults, and though it replenishes in just some seconds, this ensures we will’t simply mindlessly spam the assault button. That is very true in the course of the tough boss fights, the place planning and studying the enemy’s assault sample is every thing.
Oh, and also you higher be ready to die. So much. However fortunately, there are many checkpoints all through the sport that we will teleport between, which ensures we don’t must run far each time we die.
Killed enemies drop crystals that we use at city to purchase or improve our gear and customise our character by stat upgrades. And there are many enjoyable weapon varieties to select from, comparable to big hammers, lethal spears, twin swords, and far more.
The non-linear open world is stuffed with monsters, chests, and secret areas to find, which makes it a pleasure to discover. It nearly has a slight Metroidvania really feel to it, though new areas are unlocked by discovering keys as an alternative of buying talents.
The cartoony darkish fantasy art-style is ideal for cellular and jogs my memory of the previous Journey Quest sport. The music is nice too, and the customizable contact controls are strong, though the sport is finest loved with a Bluetooth controller.
Watcher Chronicles is free to attempt for the primary space, after which a $7.99 iAP unlocks the remainder. The sport is near good for anybody searching for a difficult souls-like 2D fight expertise.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
ENYO [Total Game Size: 108 MB] (Free Trial)
Style: Technique / Roguelike / Indie – Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by Erich Zann:
ENYO is a turn-based roguelike technique sport the place we try to get so far as doable right into a dungeon stuffed with enemies utilizing solely a hook and a defend.
After each flip, all enemies on the 10×10 grid enjoying area get to maneuver round or try to assault us. Our choices encompass throwing our hook, performing a defend bash, or leaping between the tiles of the battlefield. The twist, nonetheless, is that we can not immediately harm the enemies. As an alternative, we’re compelled to make use of the surroundings to tug or push our opponents into spikes and lava pits.
The enemies, however, all have distinctive talents – and a few of them may even immediately harm us. This may appear unfair, nevertheless it pushes us to invent new methods and make the most of the truth that nearly every thing is interactable. For instance, after throwing our defend, we will use our hook to retrieve it, or we will throw our hook at a wall to maneuver nearer to it.
The gameplay is strong and enjoyable, however its main draw back is that it by no means introduces new components. Even when enjoying completely different sport modes, the gameplay feels all too related, which suggests it will definitely grows repetitive.
ENYO’s easy art-style is impressed by previous Greek vase work, which supplies it a particularly fashionable and memorable look. Sadly, it lacks selection and visible results. On the intense facet, the straightforward contact controls are simple, making the sport good for cellular.
ENYO monetizes by adverts and a $1.99 iAP to unlock all sport modes and removes the adverts. Total, its informal but tactical gameplay makes it interesting for anybody serious about technique video games that may be performed in brief periods.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
El Hijo [Game Size: 1.3 GB] ($9.99)
Style: Motion / Stealth – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by AlexSem:
El Hijo is a high-quality spaghetti western stealth motion sport with a lot of attention-grabbing gameplay mechanics regardless of its barely incomprehensible story.
As a resident of an orphanage positioned inside the partitions of a big monastery, our aim is to make a witty escape so we will reunite with our distressed mom. To take action, we should journey throughout a number of completely different places whereas avoiding being seen by the adults. This includes performing numerous interactions with the surroundings, comparable to sneaking within the shadows, ducking behind covers, hiding in jars and bins, scaling ladders, working switches, and so forth.
One of many nice issues about El Hijo is that there are such a lot of attention-grabbing methods to sneak previous the guards. We will fastidiously research their strains of sight and motion patterns to plan our escape, make the most of numerous stock objects for well timed distractions, and even run for it when issues get messy. Every degree even affords achievements for ending with out ever being seen, or visiting all of the non-obligatory locations – each of that are tedious duties to perform.
The sport is just not very exhausting, and it continuously introduces new mechanics to maintain us entertained, however sure ranges require plenty of retries, which finally turns into irritating – particularly as a result of occasional lags. The contact controls aren’t very responsive both, so the sport is significantly better loved with a controller. I additionally disliked the considerably bleak surroundings designs and restricted coloration palette, which, regardless of giving the sport a novel visible fashion, blends every thing collectively and makes it exhausting to discern the environment.
El Hijo is a $9.99 premium sport with out adverts or iAPs. For those who take pleasure in console-quality titles and are significantly keen on stealth motion video games, of which there are only a few on cellular, be certain to not miss this sport.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Jobmania – Everlasting Dungeon [Game Size: 323 MB] (Free)
Style: Deck-building / RPG / Roguelike / Gacha – Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Consideration: Some
tl;dr overview by JBMessin:
Jobmania – Everlasting Dungeon is a neat mash-up of RPG, deck-building, gacha, and roguelite components that completely mix to create a deep and thrilling expertise.
The core gameplay has us delve right into a dungeon with over a thousand flooring that every comprise completely different random occasions and enemies. We battle these enemies in turn-based vogue utilizing our hero’s capability and playing cards from a deck that’s primarily based on our job. And that is the place it begins to get attention-grabbing, as a result of we will deliver three jobs into battle and strategically change between them at any time to obtain vital boosts and set off their distinctive talents.
As we progress, we get so as to add new talents to our deck, and with over 400 heroes, 200 jobs, and greater than a thousand talents, the advanced deck-building and character growth techniques create a ton of depth. It takes just a few runs to completely perceive all of it, however there are fortunately loads of “?” tooltips to assist us get launched.
The UI and artwork is vivid and colourful, however the display screen is commonly cluttered with data – particularly throughout battles. Whereas this makes the sport a bit daunting at first, it will definitely works out properly as every bit of data is related for creating a correct tactic.
Though I’m not a fan of gachas, I used to be drawn to Jobmania’s distinctive fusion of genres I like – and as soon as I bought the hold of it, I began totally having fun with it.
Jobmania monetizes by a $4.99 iAP to take away the rare incentivized adverts, and a spread of the standard iAPs for currencies that enable us to craft new jobs and unlock and improve heroes quicker. Fortunately, they’re all pointless for informal play, which is how I believe the sport is finest loved.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
Test it out on MiniReview:: Right here
Naroth (Sport Measurement: 82 MB] (Free)
Style: RPG / Journey / Motion / 3D – Offline Playable
Orientation: Panorama
Required Consideration: Full
tl;dr overview by AlexSem:
Naroth is a first-person 3D action-adventure RPG with an open world, offline play performance, and about 15 hours of gameplay.
Utilizing a d-pad to maneuver and a button to slash or shoot, the sport has us discover the lands, discuss to individuals round city, full quests, kill monsters to realize expertise, and enhance our stats to steadily develop stronger. It’s principally most of what you’d count on from the style, nevertheless it sadly doesn’t present something extraordinary.
Having good weapons and gear is important for survival, and since high-level enemies can simply kill us in a single blow, we now have to proceed with warning and ensure we’re well-prepared earlier than dealing with a brand new enemy. This limits how far and the way quickly we will discover the world, making it really feel like we’re guided alongside a predefined path regardless of there really being a few non-linear choices.
On account of its edgy graphics and lack of particulars, the sport’s age is already beginning to present. As well as, the open world is just not giant sufficient to comprise all of the occasions that happen within the sport, which suggests plenty of the motion finally ends up taking place in underground dungeons that rapidly turn out to be repetitive. The alchemy system implementation can be considerably questionable. It’s offered as a giant deal in-game, however principally boils all the way down to repeatedly gathering the identical vegetation to brew therapeutic potions which can be a lot simpler to simply purchase from NPCs.
Naroth is totally free with out adverts or iAP. It’s not the very best 3D RPG ever made, however regardless of its downsides, its gameplay is decently charming, and the sport is price testing for those who like first-person RPGs.
Test it out on Google Play: Right here
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