Gotta Pea LLC, arguably the most intriguingly-named game studio that's currently operating, announced its first iOS project today. The game, titled Peakour, is a physics-based puzzler that challenges you to work through 100 levels by re-arranging piles of junk. Yeah, when you dump trash out your car window, it doesn't just disappear. Little pea-sized kids turn all that garbage into their very own parkour paradise. And no, that's not an invitation to keep dumping.
For a game that leaves an entire community stranded on an island after a terrible storm, Chillingo's Rinth Island is unbelievably charming. As a near-perfect port of Buzz Monkey's late 2011 Facebook app, Rinth Island delivers innovative puzzle gameplay, gorgeous Retina display visuals, and an infinite amount of puzzles. Despite the oversaturation of iOS puzzle games, this one is simply one of the best the genre has to offer.
Gnu Revenge is either a blatant copycat, or has the extreme misfortune of following the exact gameplay mechanic from one of the fastest selling apps of all time. Either way, Bulkypix's new physics puzzler contains the same gravity-centric gameplay gimmick as Rovio's Angry Birds Space, but isn't nearly as fun to play.
Ravenous Games, the studio behind League of Evil is going in a softer, kinder, more whiskered direction for its next iOS game. The title, Burger Cat, is a platform-puzzler starring a chubby orange cat. Wait a minute--cats are the embodiment of domesticated evil, so maybe Ravenous Games isn't venturing too far out of familiar territory after all.
When people think of puzzle platformers, they tend to think of two dimensional releases with two dimensional solutions. But what if you took that 2D puzzle solving and set it in a unique 3D environment? That's the case with Rinth Island, an upcoming puzzler from Chillingo and Buzz Monkey Software.
On its iTunes page, Carota! is described as an "SNES-styled puzzle game" which was inspired by the likes of Pipe Dream. However, instead of connecting pipes to contain a slow-but-steady ooze, you are instead helping Thaddeus the Cabbit make his way back to the surface after being knocked down a hole into what looks like the wrong side of the tracks in Wonderland. To do this, you must twist and maneuver tiles into place so that he can reach the goal.
The upcoming The Supernauts promises cross-platform, free-to-play action in a superhero world where problems are solved not by punching bad guys into a stupor but by working together and sharing content in a colorful, vaguely Minecraft-like environment.
When you think of Rob Halford, you think of Judas Priest. And when you think of Judas Priest, you think of one thing: heavy metal. But what if that wasn't the case? What if, instead of becoming a rock god, Rob Halford decided to make casual games? What if instead of Judas Priest, he gave us BeJeweledas Priest? That, in a nutshell, is Skull Smasher.