I don’t remember how I originally stumbled across Faif, a battle-based puzzle game from Beavl Games. I do remember that the game was new at the time, and it was multiple years ago. It wasn’t even finished at the time I first downloaded it, before Early Access existed on Google Play, but I loved it all the same. I’ve just gone back to it for the first time in a very, very long time and the game is still just as good. It also appears to have received a facelift at some point since the last time I played it — a good sign as it plays nice with my S9+. The goal of Faif is to reduce your opponent’s life to zero without being killed yourself. The playfield is a board made up of four types of tiles: swords, skulls, hearts and gems. The player then picks five adjacent…
Revisit: Two Eyes
After playing some bad nonogram games, I made it my mission to find a good one. Thankfully, GAMEFOX’s Two Eyes is just what I was looking for.
Revisit: Game Dev Tycoon
Simulation games aren’t something I’m super familiar with. I trend towards puzzle games or match-three style games when I’m mobile gaming. During one of our meetings Greenheart Games’ Game Dev Tycoon came up, and I was intrigued. I decided to give it a try just for giggles and ended up really, really enjoying it.
Revisit: Dots
I’m a big fan of simplicity in my games. Dots: A Game About Connecting really scratches an itch for me and is a game that I return to over and over again. If you’re a puzzle fan looking to just relax and connect, Dots is the game for you.
Revisit: 10000000
Even when I hit the score of 10000000, I found myself needing to max out everything I could. The door was open, there for me to leave. But I didn’t. And I don’t really want to.
Revisit: Desert Golfing
All I know is that it goes on … and on … and on. You’re golfing in a desert, a sparse desert with no scenery. Except once every couple hundred screens you might see a cloud in the sky or a cactus in the background. What made those appear? Did I do anything? Can I interact with it?
Revisit: The Firm
It’s an arcade-style twitch-based game where you, an imminently replaceable stock trader in a large firm, have to swipe left and right on various stocks with limited identifiable information at a rate that increases heavily over time.
Have You Visited: Strata
Elegant is the first word that comes to mind when I look at Strata, a puzzle game for Android that came out several years ago. It was one of the first puzzle games I truly thought was beautiful, and the beauty isn’t skin-deep.
Have You Visited: You Must Build A Boat?
You. Must. Build. A. Boat.
That’s your objective in EightyEight Games’ You Must Build A Boat, a puzzle-matching game with progression, character and a little man running through an endless dungeon atop the screen.
Have You Visited: no thing?
no thing is a very weird game, and I don’t know if I’ll ever completely understand it. Nor am I sure that one is even supposed to understand it, or if I would ever want to if it’s even possible.