Puzzle Trooper is a match-3 puzzle/collection game created by Kabam. In it, you'll be building up a (hopefully) unstoppable army of super soldiers and matching lots and lots of colored ball/sphere/gem things to an almost fanatical degree. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game."
Everybody loves Puzzle & Dragons. So much so, that everybody else has tried their hand at making something similar. In Kabam's case, it's Puzzle Trooper: the same match-3 puzzle game/pseudo CCG hybrid, but with fewer dragons and a lot more burly soldiers. And tanks; can't forget the tanks. Although as derivative as it may be, it's still an incredibly fun system that works well. Heck, this time around it even feels less punishing to non-paying players!Just in case anyone isn't familiar with the formula, it goes like this: players have a small group of characters (in this case, soldiers) that can belong to a number of different colors. Below them is a grid of colored circles/spheres/gems that, naturally, match the different unit colors. By sliding one of these colorful doohickeys around and creating groups of three or more, they can power up their soldiers and allow them to attack.The bigger the group and the more combos (i.e. groups cleared in one turn), the higher the damage. After enough turns pass, a unit's special ability - including changing one color to another or doing direct damage - will become available. As the platoon charges through missions, and by extension enemies, more characters can be acquired for beefing up the ranks or simply upgrading favorites.
Having always been a true dog person at heart, I was surprised to find myself actually warming up to cats in more recent years. But if someone had told me how diligent and heroic that some cats can be when something they love is put on the line, then I might have been on board with those fierce little felines from the very beginning! One part matching game, and one part strategy via upgrades, Combat Cats may be a little too simple for some, but its retro-infused greatness and progressive challenge are still certain enough to give you all that they've got for the short time it lasts.A mysterious "Catnipper" has stolen the world's supply of catnip, and to make matters worse, a legion of evil fish creatures have picked this exact moment to unleash their revenge, as your desperate cats take to the skies to retrieve the hot commodity that was taken from them. The story of the game is lighthearted and fun, and the means of single-screen storytelling is a wonderfully nostalgic callback to old NES adventures of yesteryear. The equally retro-inspired chiptune soundtrack is just as strong, and will get stuck in your head long after your cats slip into a catnip-induced catnap at the end of their journey.The gameplay of Combat Cats is fairly straightforward. At the start of every level, you'll be presented with a large grid of different pixelated square icons: each one a different color and representative of a specific attack that your cat fighter will be able to pull off. Orange constitutes a flame attack, blue is a freeze ray, green is a cloud of poison, and purple is a flurry of rockets. You make moves by simply tapping on any single tile that you wish on the screen, which instantly replaces it with a separated placeholder tile that is always raring to go. Matching four or more like-tiles will execute that respective attack and move you one step closer towards reaching your goal.
There's always an alligator, there's always water, and there's always dirt separating the two. The infinite loop of Swampy's bath time in Where's My Water? was charming and challenging, generously packed with levels and updates that made its 99 cent price tag an absolute steal. Its first non-spin-off, direct sequel, Where's My Water? 2, has slashed that initial price down to nothing, but actually costs much more: players' time, trust, and patience have been sold down the freemium river.The good news: if you like any of Disney's Where's My games, there's plenty more to love here. Where's My Water? 2 plays out like all of its predecessors: swipe trenches in dirt to direct water to its destination. Along the way, you'll need to activate switches, avoid acid, collect duckies, and complete many other puzzle-based maneuvers. Swampy is still our primary water-target, waiting patiently for his bath to runneth over, but both Cranky and Allie have been upgraded from bonus level pack characters to main game integrations. Cranky's ducks and goal require acid instead of water, and Allie is still in need of steam to power her pipe organ. Their levels now appear alongside Swampy's, providing a refreshing change of pace for players who get bored with alligator monogamy.While playing with Cranky and Allie will be a new experience to players who dropped Where's My Water? before 2012, the basic puzzles in Where's My Water? 2 will not be. Very few changes have been introduced, and many levels feel more redundant than nostalgic. There are pipes and switches, acid and quick-growing weeds, nozzles and movable platforms. Despite the introduction of an overworld map and "locations" like the Soap Factory, every stage still takes place underground. When playing the first iteration of a level, veteran players will rarely encounter something new.
Simplicity, elegance, and challenge: the three features developer Graveck has emphasized in their latest gaming excursion, Strata. The one-touch gameplay of this minimalist-designed puzzler will take only seconds to learn, and after its brief tutorial, Strata no longer feels like a mere game. It is a mesmerizing, soothing exercise of both mental dexterity and artistic creation, built on fluid interactions with the player that embody Graveck's three goals entirely.Strata's objective is simple: weave colored ribbons through a grid to complete the pattern. Each opening of the grid must be filled by a ribbon, and ribbons travel in a straight line once placed, exiting the opposite side. This means that on a 3x3 grid, you will weave six total strips of ribbon to fill each opening. The only other rule in play requires any colored block on the grid to end up with its same-colored ribbon on top. Because you are cross weaving, this means the second ribbon to cross a block will be on top; to successfully complete a blue block, for instance, you can cross it with any color first, but must use a blue ribbon on the second crossover.These minimal rules create a usually straightforward solution on smaller, two-colored levels when choices are limited, but Strata quickly ups the ante by increasing the number of colored ribbons—up to four—and grid sizes—up to 5x5. The options on a 5x5 level, where you must weave ten separate ribbons through up to 25 blocks, are extensive, and often nine seemingly correctly placed ribbons can be foiled by the very last one. Thankfully, undoing your last action or series of actions is as easy as touching the ribbons in play, although completing a level without a single undo will earn you a "perfect," the only system of scoring present.
Monster Match is a monster-collecting puzzle game created by Mobage, Inc. It's an interesting mash-up of mechanics, but don't let the cutesy critters fool you: this game can become tough-as-nails in the blink of an eye. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.
Games like Puzzle & Dragons - both those that came before and came after - have done a decent job of filling the App Store lately. So much so that something like Monster Match stands out not because it's necessarily better, but because it does something different. Granted I do think it's better, but seeing something break out of the mold even a little bit makes me incredibly happy.
The Room is a puzzle adventure game from Fireproof Games, wherein you will need to solve very intricate puzzles in order to reach the end of several rooms along the way. Gamezebo's walkthrough will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.