It wasn’t that long ago when building games like King’s Paradise Bay were as plentiful as coconuts on a stereotypical desert island. Building your own tropical getaway was as easy as downloading the latest Hawaiian-flavored FarmVille clone. At some point, …
In 2009, developer Tiger Style surprised players with a game unlike any we’d experienced on mobile. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor combined simple arcade gameplay with a surprisingly deep and mature narrative, told only through the rooms and remnants …
At first glance, Race the Sun doesn’t look like much. The game appears to be another endless runner on iOS, and one which doesn’t feature high-end visuals, or much color at all, giving the game the impression that it’s a …
Battle Golf is one of those games that has lots of potential, but under-delivers. Mobile games need to be simple activities for players to spend a few minutes with every now and then. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, this …
Using pre-recorded footage as the subject matter for a video game has always been dicey. It seems as though this style is the latest blast from the past and just like the late nineties, there are going to be some winners and …
The Angry Birds franchise has a legacy that’s bigger than Terence (psst –he’s the huge red wrecking ball bird, if you’re not up on your digital ornithology). The first game, released in 2009, helped cement mobile phones as a serious …
Before even getting into what I thought of Cosmonautica, I’m pointing out that the game was launched onto mobile in an “Early Access” release. This means that Chasing Carrots purposefully released an unfinished game in the hopes that people will …
Vitaliy Zlotskiy’s Pair Solitaire was easily one of my favorite games of 2014. It was, to the best of my understanding, Zlotskiy’s first release — and certainly reason enough to name his as one of the best new mobile game studios …