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  • Run Sheldon! Review
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    • iOS
    Run Sheldon! Review

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    Run Sheldon is one of the most adorable free endless runners to hit the App Store in quite some time. Perhaps that's because it's based upon one of the most memorable fables of all time: how the tortoise beat the hare in a race. This time, the tortoise in question is adorable little Sheldon, who's facing not just one but an entire gang of hares who want to beat him to the finish line. Old Man Hare wants to take the Golden Race Trophy back from Sheldon, but as he's gotten a little chubby in his old age, he's got to depend on his rabbit buddies to help him do so. That's where you come in.
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    • iOS
    Ninja Slash Review

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    Endless runners have a tendency to be rather same-y, even despite aesthetics. Sure, a few twists may be integrated, but they tend to run into the same general problems. And while Ninja Slash may not successfully evade all of them, at least it makes an honest effort to keep things fresh.
  • Danger Boat Review
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    • iOS
    Danger Boat Review

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    Danger Boat sounds exactly like the kind of rip-roaring good time you'd expect to have with a B-movie featuring scantily-clad women, rugged adventurers, and a shark. Or something like that. Or a bizarre James Bond-like vehicle that suggests you're about to be in for a bad time. Instead, it's a very pedestrian endless runner set amongst the bluest waters of the ocean. Your job is to bob and weave through rocks, sets of incoming missiles, and other obstacles that serve as swift ends to your journey. In short, it's a pretty tame romp whose name doesn't feel very appropriate -- you're hardly experiencing any "danger" here.
  • Outland Games Review
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    • iOS
    Outland Games Review

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    Outland Games is ostensibly based on the same world as Uber Entertainment's Monday Night Combat and Super Monday Night Combat. However, hardcore team-based third-person shooters don't exactly make for the easiest port to touch devices. So rather than a half-featured port, the developers went with something that fit smartphone gaming a little better. Yes, it's yet another 2D endless running game, but through polish and humor it is still worth a look.
  • Temple Run: Oz Review
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    • Android
    • iOS
    Temple Run: Oz Review

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    The Temple Run series has been a runaway success, with Temple Run 2 being downloaded over twenty million times in its first four days of availability. It's no surprise then that there are pretenders to the throne. Pitfall, an ancestor without which Temple Run would never have existed, and even Sonic the Hedgehog have gotten into the third-person endless runner act. 
  • Knitted Deer Review
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    • iOS
    Knitted Deer Review

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    Oh deer. At first glance, Knitted Deer is a unique take on the endless runner, which is arguably the most crowded genre on the App Store. The game's graphics are not built from 3D models, or even pixels, but knitted patterns, which gives Knitted Deer a cuddly, warm aura—at least until a bat rips your head off and carries it away by its prongs. Problem is, aside from its unusual graphics, Knitted Deer isn't particularly original or interesting.
  • Sonic Dash Review
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    • iOS
    Sonic Dash Review

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    For someone who seems to speed his way through life at a breakneck pace, Sonic the Hedgehog really knows how to get stuck in a rut.  SEGA's flagship franchise has suffered a series of missteps since 2003's Sonic Heroes, with the only few bright spots in the last decade being old school 2D releases like Sonic Rush and Sonic the Hedgehog 4.  And for me, the frustrations go even further back.  I couldn't even get into the Sonic Adventure series (sacrilege, I know).  In my experience, everything post-1993 has been something of a letdown.  
  • Shadow Escaper Review
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    • iOS
    Shadow Escaper Review

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    Games release on the App Store all the time, and unfortunately not every single one merits a review. So what makes Shadow Escaper so special? Well, first and foremost, it was developed by CyberConnect2, the studio behind the .hack series, quite a few Naruto games, and the unbelievably crazy Asura's Wrath. Secondly—and not unlike Asura's Wrath—its premise is downright insane. That insanity doesn't quite make up for all of the game's flaws, but I'll be darned if it doesn't come close.