Based on the characters and locations in the titular book by Lewis Carroll, players take on the role of Alice on a quest through Wonderland to catch the thieving white rabbit. Originally released on iOS back in 2014 by Mobage a subsidiary of the aforementioned DeNA as a free-to-play title called Wonder Golf, Tapstar Interactive / Paladin Studios has thankfully just re-launched this fun puzzle game/mini putt hybrid as a paid title called Alice in Wonderland Puzzle Golf Adventures. A nice little surprise release, you are definitely going to want to check this one out. The game kind of reminds me a little of Progress to 100, particularly in the way that it has players utilizing all aspects of their iOS devices to solve cryptic, cleverly worded puzzles. A single 99¢ IAP unlocks the full Ulterior experience of 50+ puzzles. By downloading the app, players get to use their wits, and very limited clues to attempt to decipher the first 20 levels of the game. Requiring some degree of outside of the box thinking, it is a really neat, fun and challenging game that’ll get the gray matter going. Pine Entertainment’s latest offering, Ulterior is a clever and unexpected treat for puzzle fans. I highly recommend checking this one out! These range from as little as 99¢ up to $31.99. The game is completely free, adopting a Humble Bundle (pay what you want) approach by offering a number of completely optional IAPs if you would like to thank the developer with a monetary donation to let him know that you appreciate his work. Users can share their created levels via social channels for even more to play. With over 125 levels included plus a complete level-building toolkit, the game offers iOS gamers loads of engaging content. Mekorama sees players rotating and manipulating beautifully illustrated and rendered dioramas to help guide a robot from a starting point to a specified destination. It is a delightful little game in a similar vein as Monument Valley, but without all of the optical illusions. Next up, from Martin Magni, the developer of last year’s charming puzzle game Odd Bot Out, comes Mekorama. So I wanted to include GF2 here this week for those that still hold some nostalgic feelings for this early App Store title. I personally have little patience for these types of games, but I know they have their fan base. Eventually that app was also removed from the App Store and now the game’s original developer Jiggery Pokery has decided to revive the series with the launch of a self-published ‘sequel’ called GodFinger 2. Less than a year after the original was released, publisher ngmoco was acquired by Tokyo-based free-to-play juggernaut DeNA pretty much resulting in the final nail in the coffin for ngmoco, (a once promising studio) and the original GodFinger app was replaced with GodFinger All-Stars. In this case, you played a god-like character performing “impressive feats of Wonder to convert your planet’s inhabitants into devoted followers”. It was one of those hurry up and wait, sim style of games where you performed a task and then you wait for the task to complete or pay in-game currency to speed things up. There are other IAP’s for unlocking individual characters and their associated levels.īack in the early days of the App Store (2010 to be exact), just as iOS pioneer ngmoco (Rolondo, Rolando 2) was shifting their business model from Paid games to a Free-to-Play model (thanks to Apple’s newly introduced IAP API), they released a game called GodFinger. By downloading the app, you can play through about 25% of the levels for free and then grind to unlock additional levels and costumes for your crab, or you can pay a single $6.99 IAP to unlock the entire game. With new, beautifully rendered graphics, this is one gorgeous looking game! Always a premium game company, I believe this is Illusion Labs’ first foray into the free-to-play model. The game is fast and frenetic, requiring quick reflexes or multiple attempts to collect everything. Crab 2, players are trying to help adorable crabs climb and navigate twisty, contraption-laden levels to free baby crabs and collect stars. Illusion Labs revisits their popular crustacean-filled, dizziness-inducing one-touch autorun platformer, Mr. Along with some brand new titles, this seemed to be the week of relaunches with several sequels or reboots of titles previously available, but subsequently removed from the App Store.
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