With new titles hitting the digital shelves each week, it will be an understatement to say that the Apple App store is a huge place. Great games are often overlooked buried under piles of uninspiring MMO’s and stacks of Candy Crush clones. So we decided to spotlight games well worth trying part of this month’s new releases.
The Swords is a fusion of ancient martial arts and Chinese calligraphy, it reflects basically what could happen if fruit ninja’s were transported back to ancient China, bundled into a time machine. The Sword is now as frivolous as Halfbrick’s melon-slasher, yet really appealing and is bound to test players reactions, thankfully never your patience since it tells the unexpectedly immersive tale of a master’s quest for understanding and control.
Prism can be best described as a neo-futuristic, clean-cut take on The Room, it excites as a tactile box of tricks. Prism asks of its players to employ increasingly complex objects in a bid to unlock the probing secrets within. Its simplified concept works perfectly well on mobile, due to precise touch-screens and what really impress about Prism is its twisting, captivating and terrific ambient sound design.
Tomb of the Mask is free with IAP and a game of fast thinking, grabbing power-ups, collecting pills and escaping a retro-enthused labyrinth filled with treacherous foes and traps. It reminds of the popular game called Pac-Man.
Dreii, can be downloaded for iOS, is less of a video game and more of a trendy experiment brought to life via a growing digital medium. The puzzler is bubbly, cheerful and noticeably gorgeous gravity-suspending physics conundrum, the idea of Dreii’s is infinitely more striking than any than any of the game’s features. It’s secret worth unravelling as you will most certainly no the disappointed.
Other releases well worth downloading on iOS includes Final Fantasy IX, The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode One, Circles and Rayman Classic, an adventure in which players get the chance to turn back time and even through its unforgiving vintage play, pixel-perfect visuals holds undeniable charm. There is absolutely no reason to let this game pass you by.