iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

windows only uuuuuuuggggh

boooooo.

since I started playing on my 5S instead of the iPad mini, I have come around to the idea that Star Wars: Uprising is a pretty okay game.
Finally made it into some multiplayer missions today, made "lieutenant" on the latest "sector battle" and I feel stoked enough to post about it on this here ILX. I haven't paid a dollar and I've had quite a bit of fun along the way.

the cartel I finally joined is called the "NabooTang Clan" because I knew you would ask

the executive is so addictive.

also i know i've recommended it before but blades of brim is my really only go-to endless lane-change runner these days.

landsliders is fun in that crossy-road sorta vein.

i did like puzzle craft 2, but just finished it out entirely. (didn't find the freemium obnoxious at all in it tbh).

angry birds 2 i played a while and it was a disappointment, deleted it from my phone.

pixel boat was great for those who haven't played

i pretty much only play miniclip games now. Been addicted to Soccer Stars for over a year. The bowling king one is fun. Billiards is ok.

So I deleted Star Wars Uprising (Sector Battle nonsense just served to reinforce the point that only whales who put $100s into the game are worthy) and started playing Spirit Wars instead - I've never had this experience before, I don't think, of realizing that Game B really is just a tawdry franchise skin of Game A. Spirit Wars is so far much more enjoyable btw.

Monument valley free btw if anyone still doesn't have it.

Spirit Lords update: I joined a guild in the Top 100 so I can get all the cool-Guild bonuses, and I think it's basically me and one person still playing. All the other members are inactive for 100+ days. I look forward to reviving my Uprising account this summer to find the same situation, so I can finally rank - maybe.

http://toucharcade.com/2015/12/18/app-store-holiday-game-sales-2015/

Kinda tempted to get that Momonga game forks recommended a long time ago, I think

Also, Attack the Light - Steven Universe is free, get that

did anyone else get chesh, does anyone want to play chesh

is that the one where the pieces have different abilities every playthrough?

i like the name

I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but am I the only one that has played Dream Quest? It's pretty much the only game I've played for the last 3 months. So addictive. I've beaten the dungeon with three of the character classes, working on the rest. So many people can't get past the horrible graphics though.

i keep meaning to check it out! downloading now.

in ancient iphone news, i finally played monument valley. i didn't like it (i think i'm the only one on earth). i mean the graphics are good and everything but they forgot to put a game in there. i guess i need the threat of permadeath.

I dl'd wizards and wagons b/c it sounded good on touch arcade and it is boring. I might try it again but the "combat sequences" are the pits.

I just want a good and simple and fast implementation of dopewars I think

i permanently banned Touch Arcade from my life after it gave a glowing review of Dandy.

I'm super down on iOS gaming right now; don't have an iPad any more so big games like rct3 and balder's gate etc are off limits, and I'm terribly sick of games with little trickles of new characters and little else like crossy road. and stupid puzzle craft 2 and tap tycoon. why do I get looped into this crap? If I'm gonna be addicted to a game, let it be something totalizing that I can't think of anything and just want to keep playing, instead of "fuck in 6 hours I'll have to load up this game again and click some crap for 3 minutes and let the timers go". I guess this is just f2p (I don't spend money on f2p obv, except $20 one time on mpq pbuh).

a couple days ago dug out my ds and have been loving the oldies but goodies, but I'd like something good on the phone too.

Most of the time, I won't even download a game if there are IAP. Especially if you look at them and it's bs like "bag full of jewels" or something of that ilk.

Been playing Leo's Fortune (on sale right now I think), and it's a nice mix of platforming and (pretty simple so far) puzzles.

i keep meaning to check it out! downloading now.

in ancient iphone news, i finally played monument valley. i didn't like it (i think i'm the only one on earth). i mean the graphics are good and everything but they forgot to put a game in there. i guess i need the threat of permadeath.

― Karl Malone, Monday, December 28, 2015 4:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn't really understand how this game was a 'puzzle' game, which was a shame, because the original concept seemed like it allowed for some of them. i mean, you have to engage your brain significantly more to get through an average sonic 2 level

agree with karl and thomp re: monument valley.

think i love downwell in every way but it feels frustrating to play without three buttons... prefer turn-based on phone generally. only been completely consumed by threes and 868-HACK so far. hoplite also great. runners up for desert golf and other brough games

some of the later MV levels were a bit puzzle-like, but mainly it was just sorta pretty and mellow.

messing with divide by sheep and rayman adventures these days

Furdemption on the iPad saved my Christmas.

dream quest is one of the best iOS games. if it had decent graphics, it would be huge. i'm not even a huge fan of CCG/hearthstone-style games and i've found it addicting

i guess we all slept on it in 2014 because it didn't even appear in coint and plick

Yes! Dream quest!

yeah, on your recommendation upthread! i read very positive reviews of it last year but then completely forgot about it til you mentioned it.

Currently trying to beat it with the Druid. Tough, because you alternate rounds as a human and as a wolf. The human can only use spell/action/mana/equipment cards, the wolf can only use action/attack/equipment cards, so you essentially have to build two decks in one that can stand on their own. And make sure you're battling the right enemies with the right character.

It's so heartbreaking, I'll get a game going and have an awesome poison generating deck, where I can get like 30 poison on someone quickly, but then the final battle is the stupid Vampire who is immune to poison and I lose in like 5 turns.

I've beat it with the paladin, thief, samurai, and ranger so far.

I'm waaaaay toward the beginning I think. I only just unlocked the monk. (Also I am bad). But the difficulty curve is so good. I feel like I get a little better every time, due not just from the occasional passive boost or whatever but also my underlying skill

Best beginner class - samurai?

I get farther with the samurai but have more fun as a wizard.

I think samurai was the first one I beat it with.

Thief is fun because you can string together massive hands with circle/slice/swiftness/jab/alacrity and then nail them with a backstab or dice.

man i downloaded dream quest on the bus earlier and yes, i will happily spend a lot of bus journeys playing it, and no, it is not good

'wouldn't desktop dungeons be better with CCG combat? ... and also grinding?'

obviously your choice on whether to keep going or not, but it's a lot different than desktop dungeons (which i also liked). i mean, of course it shares many similarities with it because it's a roguelike with different classes, but desktop dungeons shares those characteristics with a lot of other games as well. and although it's true that it's probably impossible to defeat the final boss (who i haven't even seen yet) within your first few plays because you have to improve yr passive traits and gain access to new cards, the gameplay doesn't feel like grinding to me. it's just fun.

oh come on, this guy obviously saw desktop dungeons and decided to make his own thing. it has the exact same ui! also the health pickups, the 'wacky/goofy/tongue-in-cheek' flavor text

it's fun but also frustrating because with a few more whacks of the balance stick it could be actually good

he also apparently got hired to the hearthstone team on the strength of it so more power to him i guess

I originally tried out Cardinal Quest 2 on my ipad mini and rated it pretty lame at the time. Now there's been a ton of updates apparently, I put it on my phone a while ago, and just picked it up today because I had a bunch of stupid timer things going in Spirit Lords. I have now put in probably a total of at least 3.5 hours and it's not even close to bedtime.

maybe i should start playing it. been playing some wayward souls finally but i'm not v. good so its too much a grind.

went back to classics -- super mamc and punchquest and yeah there's really nothing in the last year that i've enjoyed remotely as much. just so frenetic and energetic, like real pick up & play ish. idky why games feel like they're so asset-heavy and draggy lately (or just post flappy-bird type one-note minimal obsessive things).

good old punch quest. I quit playing after I reset my ipad and realized that I couldn't restore my progress (wigs, hats, perks etc) without restoring my entire ipad backup. F that.

rick and morty has a pokemon style game
also lifeline is v good
both free

Getting Lifeline now

I've only followed one story path, and it's a doozy. Curious to rewind and play again, see how differently I can have things turn out. This kind of game (like, say, 80 Days) is interesting to me in exact proportion to the branches of its narrative.

imho when starting out in Cardinal Quest, save your mana to unlock the Ranger first. That little dog is a bad ass.

I think the thief with a couple of lucky drops is the most fun I've had so far (specifically, getting the displacement spell so I could just pluck individual monsters from a crowd, send them off to some other part of the dungeon and then sneak up and backstab them at my leisure). Imagining the sheer terror of those poor goblins and ogres after I got shadow mastery. I'M THE BATMAN.

I also grabbed Pixel Starships because why not
Anybody else tried it out?

Crashlands!