Mega Flux

SoFresh Games

Pipe Dream meets The Matrix meets a horrible accident at a chinese fireworks emporium. MegaFlux offers a great new twist on a classic puzzle game. The crazy symbols representing blondes, redheads, and brunettes float through a grid like tapestry of connections and intersections as you try and make sense of this crazy futuristic world you live in.

The objective is to attach the part of your screen this is spewing out this futuristic code to the color coordinated receptacle. You have to use up all the spaces, and some interesting things can happen if you cross the streams.

I vaguely remember the year when PipeDream came out for the original GameBoy, I believe I lost about 27 hours over a period of a weekend getting lost in that game, I think this is a winning game idea as an evolution to that games concept jacked up with more stimulants then the Yankees starting lineup. It may not be for everyone since, as I said, it is a fairly simple puzzle game at it's heart, but the execution for what this game tried to accomplish came out great.

Recommendation: If you are like me and loved the old school pipe dreams, give this one a try.

Words 'n' Blox

Greenlit Games AS

Are you a fan of doing crosswords and word finds, well, get ready for a game that has almost nothing in common with those other then the english language with Words 'n' Blox. The irony of a word game that refuses to use proper spelling in it's title is not lost on me.

Using the basic physics of sliding scrabble pieces, Words 'n' Blox makes you move lettered tiles around a colorfully plotted garden until you adjoin it with it's brethren to form a correctly formed word. There are some stipulations, they are looking for a particular word, not just any proper word that you can spell, this is usually intuitive based on the placement of the tiles at the beginning of each level (i.e. C-A-T is CAT, not ACT). The swiping action does seem prone to the accidental ad tap as well.

In the end you have a fairly simple word game that doesn't take a long time to master, throw in the simplicity of the words, and you have a game that will bore you one level, then frustrate the crap out of you the next. Scoring is based on the number of moves you need to complete them, though the specifics of the star system elude me as it appears that you can make only 3 out of 4 stars when you make what appears to be a minimalist number of moves.

Recommendation: Don't bother, the landscapes in the game will remind you too much of the old Legend of Zelda games and you'll never keep your attention on the game long enough.

Pudding Monsters

Zeptolab

A Puzzle game with characters that have a familiar resemblance to our friends in the game 'Cut the Rope'. The graphics straddle a line of fruitcake that is passed over at the company Christmas party and one of the characters you would see in the 'Lilo and Stitch' cartoon. The bright and colorful play action and avatars will keep you giddy while the general grotesque nature of the concept will make you wince, resulting in a very comical expression.

Gameplay is pretty basic, and the game is pretty good at giving you a quick tutorial each time a new rule or piece is introduced, though you may find yourself flubbing a move once or twice as you learn to interpreted said clips

Recommendation: Try not to flick your finger on one of the ads on the screen, otherwise let yourself smirk and remember this game is about the funny little images first, and puzzle solving second.

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RPG Izazov

6Cubed

Ich liebe ein gutes Kerkertaucherspiel soviel wie der folgende Kerl, aber es gibt eine Frage, wenn Sie nichts in den Richtungen oder in der Geschichte nicht verstehen können.

Zu den Lesern dieses Blogs, die möglicherweise wirklich Deutsch verstehen, wünsche ich zu zuerst mich entschuldige für mein Schlachten der Sprache, während ich jede mögliche Richtung der Diktat- und Satzstruktur verlasse.

Ich habe keine Ahnung, was ich mich einreiche, das, E-Mail-Adresse zu mir überschreiten müssen.

Empfehlung: Es sei denn, dass Sie fließend Deutsch sprechen oder diesen Posten lesen können, ohne einen Übersetzer zu verwenden, stören Sie nicht mit diesem.

Lair Defense: Dungeon

DroidHen Publisher

Lair Defense definitely gets a gold star to the developers who coded this up. One of the better games that I've played in the first several dozen of game reviews that we've compiled. It requires strategy, planning, active management, and a pretty good set of graphics to boot.

If you are a fan of the book series Eragon (or it's lack luster attempt on the big screen) you will appreciate a game where you are charged with the task of defending the precious few dragon eggs as hordes of invaders who crave an omelet risk and typically forfeit their lives trying to march through your gauntlet of dragon turrets. Red dragons kit hardest, blue hit farthest, green have a damage over time, though I question how effective the latter is.

The power ups you purchase with your gold are a little difficult to track and see the benefit for, so tread lightly when spending your rewards. The best hint I can give is to not think so much about how far your dragon blasts hit when placing them, but rather how many times the baddies will cross into your dragons path.

Recommendation: My personal favorite so far, get it, love it, then go and read the Inheritence Cycle by Christopher Paolini.

Art of Glow

Natenai Ariyatrakool

Not so much a game as it is a way to pass the time while making amusing shapes and colors on your screen. It takes me back to the days of spirographs and lite-brites, though for some it may send you into a pretty nasty flashback sequence of raves and that time when the fireworks plant exploded.

For those readers who have never experienced a fireworks plant explosion, then just picture getting drunk on egg nog and watching your old man untangle the 7,000 piece string of Christmas lights in the garage. That is an image I'm sure we can all relate to.

Recommendation: There are more options as far as what shapes appear with what intensity and color to keep you engaged longer then any human being would want to admit to considering it is a lot of pretty colors on a computer screen. It is recommended that you slide your phone or tablet into a comic book or dirty magazine so people will respect your level of intelligence as you play with this app.

Ichi

Stolen Couch Games

When you download a game from a company that calls themselves 'Stolen Couch' and a game called 'Ichi' the first word that would come to my mind is 'Fumigate'. Luckily, this game has almost nothing to do with what the implied connotation. 

Though origin of it's name may be a mystery, the concept behind the game play takes me back to my junior high drafting class in a world that exists on a grid pattern and observes the basic principles of angle of entry equals angle of reflection. This statement ironically taking me back to junior high math class. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it takes the intelligence of an eighth grader to master this puzzle game. The kicker with my analogy is that you actually receive a letter grade for each level based on completion and number of taps that allow you to reorient the deflecting triangles on each stage.

Few of the levels are terribly tricky, though you may find yourself frustrated at both getting an 'A' grade and the speed at which you may have to turn a piece to prevent your little slamming ball from colliding with one of the squiggly lines that spell your doom. Heh, spelling, another part of my educational upbringing I don't miss much.

Recommendation: A nice puzzle game that allows you to stick it to your junior high math teacher that kept giving you C's because you couldn't remember the difference between sine and cosine.