Review: ‘Six Match’ is My New Match-3 Obsession

Six Match By: Aaron Steed I'm always on the lookout for a new microtransaction-free match-three game to play when I have some down time, and my latest obsession is Aaron Steed's Six Match. While you might think the genre is overdone and there's nothing new to be seen, Six Match adds enough of a twist to make it feel fresh. It's a relaxed, endless, turn-based game in which you always have six…

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AppUnwrapper’s Favorite iOS Games of 2017 (GOTY List)

2017 is on its way out and what a year it's been! The world's kind of falling apart, but luckily this has probably been the best year for premium iOS gaming ever, so I was distracted during most of the apocalypse. Oddly enough, some of my favorite games were dark and apocalyptic themselves. But they still served as good diversions as sane society crumbled around me. Earlier in the year, I was…

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‘The Witness’ iOS Review: A Flawed Port That’s Still a Must-Have

The Witness By: Thekla, inc. (Jonathan Blow) I had a bit of a rocky start with Jonathan Blow's The Witness when it finally made its way over to iOS this year. I grabbed it right away because I had heard such good things about it and was eager to try it for myself. At first, I was a little disappointed. It seemed to be just 2D line-drawing maze puzzles in a 3D…

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Playdead’s ‘INSIDE’ iOS Review: Outside the Norm

Playdead's INSIDE By: Playdead Playdead's INSIDE was one of the most recommended games to me this past year, and I'm grateful that I managed to avoid knowing anything about it until it finally made it over to iOS and I could play it for myself. While I did get through most of their first game, Limbo, a few years back, I never finished it. I eventually found the endless deaths too frustrating…

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‘QB – a cube’s tale’ Review: It’s Hip to Be Cube

QB - a cube's tale By: Stephan Goebel There are a lot of puzzle games in the App Store that feature basic cubes you swipe to move around a board. There's so many that I mostly started to ignore them since they all look the same. I'm not really sure what made me give Stephan Goebel's QB - a cube's tale a chance. I think part of it was the portrait mode,…

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Playdead’s INSIDE: iOS Gameplay Videos (Let’s Play / Walkthrough)

Playdead's INSIDE By: Playdead Playdead's INSIDE released on iOS recently and it's a game I'd been looking forward to for so long. Everyone I know who plays PC games has been telling me to play it. I decided to record my entire playthrough of the game here for your enjoyment. Of course, don't watch these if you plan to play yourself as they'll spoil all the surprises. See my INSIDE review. Controls:…

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ΓÇÿGorogoaΓÇÖ iOS Review: Simply Awe-Inspiring

Gorogoa By: Annapurna Interactive & Jason Roberts The demo of Jason Robert's Gorogoa was one of the few games I was willing to suffer through playing on my new laptop about two years ago, and I'd been eagerly awaiting the full release ever since. I heard that he scrapped a lot of his original ideas, though, for a more streamlined approach, and I wasn't sure what that meant and whether the game…

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ΓÇÿReigns: Her MajestyΓÇÖ Review: The Regina Dialogues

Reigns: Her Majesty By: Devolver Digital Last year, the stylish and unique Reigns released, a game designed specifically for touchscreens, where the main controls are simply swiping left or right to make binary decisions. I didn't review the game, but I still spent a ton of time with it and enjoyed it quite a bit. It utilized a novel idea that felt perfect on iPhone, then threw in a clever story, humorous…

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