Month: July 2023
‘Hello Kitty Island Adventure’ Apple Arcade Review – How Is This So Good?
What a journey this one is. A title first dropped as a joke in South Park to make Butters look uncool becomes an Apple Arcade game and somehow against all odds is actually fantastic. Hello Kitty Island Adventure () might look like Animal Crossing in screenshots, but that’s really just one facet of the game.…
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‘3 Count Bout ACA NEOGEO’ Review – About As Fun As Taking A Chair Shot To The Head
I don’t have a lot of nice things to say as a whole about 3 Count Bout ($3.99), the latest addition to the mobile ACA NEOGEO line from SNK and Hamster. It’s one or two ridiculously poor decisions away from being a really solid game, and its biggest problem is one that is magnified by…
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‘Return to Monkey Island’ Mobile Review – An Amazing Game That Feels Perfect on iOS
So Return to Monkey Island finally hit iOS and Android earlier today following its debut on PC and Switch. When it was originally announced, I wasn’t actually sold on the aesthetic, but Terrible Toybox being involved meant I knew I would need to eventually play it because it likely would be worth it. I decided…
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‘Luck Be a Landlord’ Mobile Review – Slay the Slots
Luck be a Landlord ($3.99) from developer TrampolineTales hit iOS and Android last week following its PC release. When Jared wrote about it it reminded me to try it out on Steam because I had it on my wishlist since I interviewed Superbrothers. I tried the demo on Steam, and was instantly sold on the…
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‘Geo Gods’ Review – Just Watering My Deities
Okay, I’m going to start my review of Geo Gods (Free) by covering some similar ground to Jared’s Game of the Week write-up for the game. It really can’t be avoided sometimes, and this is one of those cases. I could talk about this game without talking about its creator, Arnold Rauers. It’s not that…
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‘King of the Monsters 2’ Review – Give Invading Aliens an Eyeful of the Eiffel
Gosh, Hamster’s been at this for a while now, hasn’t it? About a year and a half ago, the original King of the Monsters arrived on mobile by way of the ACA NEOGEO series. I reviewed it at the time and despite the game’s iconic status I wasn’t too hot on it due to the…
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‘Oxenfree II: Lost Signals’ Mobile Review – One of Netflix Games’ Best Yet
The original Oxenfree was a brilliant experience. Whenever an indie game I love has a sequel announced, I’ve become skeptical thanks to the massive disappointment of Hotline Miami 2. Despite there being amazing sequels like Rogue Legacy 2 and even Risk of Rain 2 or Spelunky 2, there’s a part of my brain that thinks…
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‘Ridiculous Fishing EX’ Apple Arcade Review – It *Can* Get Weirder
Has it really been ten years since Ridiculous Fishing released on iOS? Ten years since it won TouchArcade’s Game of the Year award? More than a decade since the cloning controversy? I guess so. Heck, it’s been six years since I did my Classic Reload article on the game, a piece that is now more…
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‘Bugsnax’ iOS Review – The Best Way to Bunger on the Go
Young Horses’ excellent creature collection and charming puzzler Bugsnax (Free) hit iOS as a premium release last week. I had been following it ever since it was a game that showed up at multiple Sony events as a PS5 showcase indie. I didn’t play it until getting my PS5 months after the system launched, and…
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‘McPixel 3’ Mobile Review – Way Better Than ‘McPixel 2’, Skip That Game
When McPixel 3 ($2.99) from Sos Sosowski and Devolver Digital was announced, I was disappointed that it wasn’t coming to mobile at launch. I have fond memories of McPixel on iOS, and it was good enough to ensure I’d play whatever Sos worked on. McPixel 3 hit PC and consoles, and it even came to…
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