Telltale Games has been on a roll lately. First they make releasing games in episodes a legitimate venture. Then they went and snatched up a bunch of solid licenses perfect for point and click adventure gaming like Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and Sam & Max. Now they're moving into the crimesolver gaming space with Law & Order: Legacies, and premiering on iOS to boot!
I will just start by saying that I cannot recommend Dorian Gray Syndrome enough. This game does so much right, and while it does have its flaws, they are completely overshadowed by the story, artwork, voice acting and puzzles that the game has in store for you.
Retro games on mobile have been something of a hit or miss proposition. Sometimes bringing a classic to the iPhone can be a flawless celebration of everything that made the game great 20 years earlier. Other times it can be a total disaster. But for the most part, Sonic's experiences on smartphones have fallen somewhere in between. Competent, but never feeling quite right in terms of gameplay. All of that changes with Sonic CD - a game that's easily one of the best old school mobile ports we've seen to date.
You are walking alone at night when a dangerous looking thug pulls a gun on you. Things are not looking good but suddenly, out of nowhere, another man appears and tackles the thug. Once he has the criminal subdued he introduces himself, as your nephew from the future. Don't worry though, he'll explain everything later. And so, The Secret Order: New Horizon begins.
Some games just have it - that magical brew of elements that makes a flawed game good, and a good game great. Haunted Past: Realm of Ghosts, alas, is not one of those games. Most of the pieces are there, but they're brought together in such a perfunctory manner that the final product never manages to be more than unremarkably decent.
Rainy nights, car crashes, washed out roads, abandoned hotels, crazed arch-villains out for revenge...these motifs have become the mainstays of hidden object games but unfortunately, rampant overuse has seriously diluted their impact. Alawar Stargaze's new hidden object adventure , Mountain Crime: Requital clearly illustrates this by misusing the studio's considerable talents to present every thematic cliché in the book.
Popularized by television shows like American Pickers or even Storage Wars, the act of turning trash into treasure has found new life in the States in recent months. Taking that ideology to heart is MumboJumbo's Pickers, a combination hidden object game and marketplace simulation that asks you to travel throughout America finding lost treasures, only to turn around and sell them for major profits.
The North American gold rush was a time of both excitement and danger. In Alawar's The Golden Years: Way Out West, Gertrude unexpectedly experience the adventure of their lives when her husband Samuel is imprisoned because of debts and she has to travel through the country on her quest to find gold. Vacation Mogul, The Golden Years can best be described as a hybrid of adventure, building sim, and resource management - and it's both fun and unique.