Space Liner game, original and addictive mobile game

Space Liner is a platform game for smartphones and tablets released on December 23, 2014 and developed by Hexamob, the company dedicated to developing software optimized for mobile devices.

Space Liner is set in a world in which Artificial Intelligence dominates almost everything and organic species are near extinction. You will be a hero sent by Technots, beings that maintain the balance of the universe using the Eternal Core, its power source. After a dispute in the line of succession, it will be stolen by ARIS, the second heir to the dynasty. With you as the last hope to regain power source, you will embark on a great adventure. You will have to get enhancers and face space enemies that do not put things easy. The game features three worlds and over 50 levels full of action and challenges.

Once in space, you just have to use your finger to guide you through it. Draw lines that your character will follow and accumulates gears while shooting the enemies that stand in your way. Avoid colliding with meteorites, dodging projectiles fired by the enemy and get to your destination to restore the balance.

In terms of gameplay, Space Liner is a win-win. Created specifically for mobile devices, it only requires a finger to enjoy: show the way to your character by drawing lines on the screen and prevents it from falling into the void or for being trapped by any other enemy character. The game gets complicated in terms of difficulty, as you level up, but always in a very fun way that will find you hopelessly hooked.

In short, Space Liner is a very entertaining and simple game to enjoy thanks to its innovative and intuitive controls, with graphics and sounds above the average, which will delight any gamer with Android devices in their possession.

You can download it for free from Google Play. Save the Technots, retrieves the Eternal Core and go from being a hope to be a certainty, with Space Liner.

Space Liner game, original and addictive mobile game

DuckTales: Remastered, the classic NES game on Android

People who have certain age and since we were smallish players remember great titles that are now classics and some of them reach today as the Castle of Illusion of Mickey Mouse, which was a pleasant surprise to many Android users.

If Disney often releases good and fun titles as Maleficent or Cars, this time comes to brighten the day with the introduction of DuckTales, the classic game that had its successful moment on NES and GameBoy, which offered the greatest entertainment and also the smallest.

In this fantastic adventure, we again control Scrooge McDuck, where accompanied by his nephews we offer an extended story with new very nice graphics as they are hand drawn in a way very reminiscent of Paper Mario and that will appeal to everyone.

In this remastered version of the classic we will travel through the Himalayas, Amazon, Transylvania, African mines and the Moon where enemies will try to make us front and end our adventure, which also find bosses, legendary treasures and collectibles gem that will unlock Series artwork in original television called DuckTales.

A positive addition is that, from now supports controllers and gamepads, that will facilitate much control of our protagonist. And something negative is its price, it may seem high to many, as it is for 11.12 euros.

DuckTales: Remastered, the classic NES game on Android

Nexon M and Big Huge Games joined to launch DomiNations

Nexon M, the mobile division of Nexon, and Big Huge Games has teamed up to release DomiNations, a free strategy game available for iOS and Android devices.

The game follows the style of video games like Civilization, but fully adapted to mobile platforms. As usual, you will try to rise a nation from a small village in the Stone Age. Your town will develop along the timeline until reaching the Space Age.

You start with a small village in the Stone Ages, and as you advance through the history, will have to choose a nation among seven possibles: British, Romans, Chinese, Germans, French, Japanese and Greeks. This choice will determine your strengths and weakness as a nation, so think carefully before deciding which one you want to play with.

The game will challenge you to divide your attention and focus on three different aspects: exploration, conquest and development.

In addition to pay attention to research and development, you have to take care of the city defense as well as maintain an offensive army to conquer new territories. These new cities will provide you with additional resources, such as gold and food, that will can use to improve your own city.

The combats are in real time, and you can chose the target your troops will attack. When the city falls, your rewards will change depending on the buildings have destroyed and the total damage that you were able to inflict during the 3 minutes that the combat lasts.

You can join an alliance to play against players from all over the world. The alliance allows you to chat, donate troops and receive help from your allies. This multiplayer mode expand the possibilities of the single campaign, although you can perfectly play alone if you want.

You can have a look at this video to get an idea of the basic principles of the game.

The game is free but it include in-app purchases. You can either play for free or buy gems to avoid the construction time of the new buildings. You can also use these gems to obtain more resources and skip the time limits of the free game.

DomiNations is available for iOS and Android, you can get it from the App Store and the Google Play respectively.

Source: Droidgamers.

Boom Beach is One Year Old!

Boom Beach is the last game released by Supercell, the Finnish company widely known by Clash of Clans and Hay Day.

After the success of those two titles, Supercell presented Boom Beach, an interesting evolution of Clash of Clans. Both games share a basic principles, but the differences are important.

In Boom Beach, you also have a base that you need to defend from the other players, who will try to raid your island to steal your resources. Each player has his home base in a tropical island, and you will be able to explore a few island in the archipelago that surrounds you.

When you start the game, there is an enemy in the archipelago, who had several islands under his control. You can free their towns from Hammerman's rule, and thus, the citizens of those islands will send you gold, wood and stone.

With these resources you can upgrade your Head Quarter, unlocking new buildings for your base. You need to strategically place the sniper towers, machine guns, mortars, mines and cannons to stop the invading forces, but at the same time, you will try to overcome the defenses of the other players.

With one Gunboat and some a Landing Crafts, you will choose some troops, train them, and navigate to other islands to attack them. If you win, that island will be under your control and you will get resources.

In a similar way than Clash of Clans, there are different troops available, with different characteristics. You can upgrade them spending gold and recruiting as much troops as your Landing Crafts admit.

The main difference between both games is the battles. In Clash of Clans there isn't much strategy involved, the troop attack their favorite targets but once released on the battlefield, there isn't much that you can do to direct them.

In Boom Beach you have flares that you can sent to direct your troops to the selected targets. This gives you a much better control about the flow of the battle. The Gunboat can also fire artillery and Medkits, and the way you use them can change the outcome of a battle.

The strategy is a key factor in Boom Beach, and every battle is a challenge.

 As the other games from Supercell, Boom Beach is free but includes in-app purchases. You can buy diamonds, which are used to speed up the waiting times. However, every week you will obtain a reasonable amount of them, so buying them is really an optional choice.

Boom Beach is a great game, and if you enjoy Clash of Clans, you should definitely give it a try. You can get it from Google Play and the App Store.

Source: Supercell.

Dark Echo, an amazing horror game

Dark Echo is a horror game that will trap you in a world of darkness. You have to to escape, but the darkness covers everything, so you can only rely on sounds to move forward.

You must use visual echo waves to get an idea of your environments, as the different sounds you create will bounce off obstacles and thus reveal the shape of the objects around you. However, the sounds will also attract a dangerous evil that will try to devour the sound waves along with your soul.

The idea of the game is rather simple. With the different kind of sounds that you can create, you will be able to move around using the echo waves as a radar, identifying the obstacles that surrounds you. There are different kinds of sounds, and each one has some advantages and some deathly disadvantages.

In the first levels, you are going to learn how to move around and how to create the different sounds and the effect they get on your visual radar. For example, a strong step will create a huge waves that will reveal a lot of space around you, while very soft steps generate almost neither sound nor waves.

When you advance some levels, the devil will try to get you. Then you will have to deal with the fact that loud noises attract that evil creature, and you will have to decide about the best way to advance. In some cases could be better to move quietly, but then you will have no idea about your surroundings and you might end... well, death.

To make everything a little more difficult, at some point you will find water in your path. That water will slow you down and will create some loud sounds, making difficult to walk unnoticed.

So, along the 80 levels that the game offers, you will be faced with different tricks and obstacles, following an increasing difficulty curve perfectly balanced. You will need to be alert, sometimes rushing forward to barely escape the evil coming for you or another times you will try to walk without making the slightest noise, completely blind to the world around you.

Dark Echo is an amazing game, with a simple design and a lot of great imagination. It's available for $1.99 for Android and iOS respectively. To get the best experience, be sure to use a good headphones and let the darkness and the sound completely surround you.

Will you be able to escape alive?

Source: TouchArchade.

Blek, minimalist thinking game

Blek is a minimalist game with simple look that will make you think carefully about each level you want to overcome.

We all like to play with our Android device. Whether games with better graphics performance or minimalist and easy to use to hang around a bit. Blek, the the award-winning game, belongs to the second group, a game that even if very simple graphics and methodology of game is easy, pass each level can be a real headache.

In this game we have to dodge bullets, which will be of different sizes, and get all the colored dots to pass each level. Now comes the question, how do we move to go getting every ball ?, gesturing and repeat loop. This will advance the stage and shall be collecting every ball. Creating a gesture to repeat and go through the colored dots never was so funny.

We are aware that explain how this game is hard work but that the developer leaves us a video where we can see the game running and clear all doubts.

We find 60 different levels, which are endless ways to complete. It depends on our imagination and ingenuity. Once the gameplay is lame becomes easier to go to develop the necessary gestures so that when repeated, get all the colored balls.

Blek, minimalist thinking game 

Hook, a minimalistic puzzle from Rainbow Train

There are lots of puzzle games on the Play Store. They are specially handy when we have a few minutes to spare because we are waiting for the train, we are in a cue or just because we want to relax for a little bit.

The great point about puzzles is that they make us struggle to solve all kind of situations, most of the time without any other adversary than ourselves.

Hook is one of those puzzle games. There is no time limit, no score, no adversary to beat. There is only the puzzle and our ability to solve it. It is an extremely minimalist game, without vibrant colors or detailed designs.

The idea is simple, we need to clear the screen. In each puzzle, we will find a kind of entangled mess of lines, mixed with switchers, spin wheels and press buttons. The objective is avoiding any of them to crash into another, watching carefully how they overlap.

The puzzles are simple at the beginning, but then they get more and more complex by adding connectors and split branches, which can be activated from different pressing buttons. If you make some bad move, the puzzle restart, and you can try again.

The developers, Rainbow Train, describes it as a minimal, relaxing, puzzle game. Is so minimalist that there are no menus nor achievements, just the black lines on the beige background. Even the music is trying to calm you, with soft sounds that helps to provide this kind of relaxing atmosphere.

Hook looks simple, bur if you like puzzle games, it will surely catch you interest. If you want to give it a try,it will give you some good moments to test your skills. It is available for Android, Windows Phone and iOS, priced at $0.99.

Evoland, history and nostalgia of RPGs

Shiro Games has launched a game that make us review the whole history of RPGs games. The idea is original and if we have played with classic adventure RPG games like Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, we are going to enjoy this ones.

Evoland starts with 2D monochrome gameplay and it slowly evolves until the current full-3D open world graphics. When we start the game, we have a monochrome screen with 2D movements and the typical sound of the epoch. Playing with that blocky world we will feel like playing with the old Game Boy console.

We will find lots of chests, and by opening them, we will gradually transform the world. And not only the graphics are going to improve, but the gameplay and the players as well. The world changes from 8-bits to 16 bits and finally from 2D to 3D graphics, moving from pixelated screens to full-HD textures. Along with the visuals, we are going to unlock directional movement, combat skills and of course, the music is going to evolve quite a lot!

Every single one of those unlocked features will bring you memories of the classic games. Thus, the change from 2D movement to directional one follows a Zelda-style, while the turn based combats are similar to the Final Fantasy ones.

The good point, however, is that the game is fan in itself. Once you have unlocked the directional movements, you can move freely along the world, dodging all sort of deathly threats that come directly to you. And as any good adventure RPG game, there are quite a lot of monsters that you need to defeat in order to get items, experience or just to keep running alive.

If you have experience in those kind of games, the gameplay is really straightforward, and you can finish the game in a few hours. The only drawback is that in some parts, the depth of gameplay is added quite slowly. However, it is a really interesting and enjoyable game.

If you enjoyed Zelda and Final Fantasy, you can go wrong with Evoland. The game is ready to download for iOS and Android devices, for $4.99. There is also a PC version, that you can get from the developer's website for $9.99.

Source: Destructoid, PcWorld.

Prison Architect available for Android soon

Introversion, the studio that made Prison Architect has confirmed that its strategy title in which we build and manage a high-security prison, not only will be released throughout 2015 for PC, but will have presence in Android devices.

The game is currently in alpha stage and is available on Steam in Early Access format. The company recently announced that the title had passed the threshold of one million copies distributed, so it is understandable that other versions are already in mind.

The genre of strategy and management is usually something that curdles pretty well on mobile devices to be able to adapt well to the touch screen game, so it's no wonder we have seen so many titles that are committed to that ingredient in our Android. Examples could be Sim City Build, the futuristic 2020: My Country or with a prehistoric theme as The Tribez. This time is Prison Architect theindie game, which, as its name suggests, is based on the management of a prison, the one coming to Android.

This prison management game from the creators of Uplink born in 2012 for PC and has already sold a million copies still in alpha stage, coming out this year its final version. Its creators now want to make an adaptation of Prison Architect for Android and iOS, keeping as much as possible the spirit of the original, even when they expect to have to do some trimming for the title run smoothly on devices of low range, citing limit the number of inmates who may be in prison.

At the moment there is no release date announced, and also need to know if you enjoy it or not in smartphones, is that specifically say they are developing Prison Architect for iPad and Android, suggesting that perhaps only be a release for tablet PC. Whatever remains a good news to experiment with this simulator managing a maximum security prison and face the challenge of keeping everything in order, because it is a game that if it can be well adapted is likely to repeat the success from its original version.

Prison Architect available for Android soon

Odd Bot Out: use building blocks, electricity, and physics to escape the robot factory

In the world of smartphones is everytime becoming easier to find good games around. In addition it should be noted that not only large companies with many resources manage to create good titles -take a look at Space Liner-. On the contrary, indie games often  offer pleasant surprises in stores, so we like to show some of them occasionally.

Odd Bot Out is an indie  attractive proposal. This is a title for Android developed by Martin Magni, which come fully into a mix of platform and puzzle where physics is very important. In Odd Bot Out the author puts us in the shoes of a detective robot that after failing an exam, must escape the factory, a simple argument but that leads to hours of entertainment on your Android devices.

That is due to their physical working system that will challenge you to play with blocks, switches, lifts, levers, rockets and even with the task of building strange artifacts, all along no less than 100 levels. There are two versions of Odd Bot Out, a complete version and a demo. In the demo you have 10 full levels and from there you can play the rest with in app purchases. The full version is a payment of 1.99 euros, price reasonable enough to enjoy their hundred levels. 

Source: AndroidPolice

Crossy Road gets one million dollars in two month

There are games that manage to catch the interest of the player. There are a few games that find a successful balance between free game-play an in-app purchases. SuperCell has successfully launched two of those games: Clash of Clans and Hay Day, and now, Hipster Whale has also find the magical recipe with Crossy Road.

Crossy Road is basically a new version of Frogger, a game where the player control a chicken that tries to cross rivers and highways. The objective is just run as far as possible without getting crushed by any of the multiple dangers, no matter if it's a car driving directly at you, a hungry eagle or just some crazy rapids.

Crossy Road follows a very similar structure, but with a few differences that makes the gameplay more apt for quick sessions. You have just one life, so if you get hit by a car a single time, the game is over. Oh, and you do feel the impact!

The controls are really simple: with a tap, you move forward, and with swiping, you can move to any of the four directions. It's a bit tricky to go perfectly horizontally, but it's not something that you need to do very often... as your objective is just move forward and avoid being hit.

Regarding it's monetary aspect, the game is absolutely free to play. You can get as far as you want without spending a single cent. However, you can get some kind of bonuses for a few bucks. You can pay to get some different characters to play with, some of the with just aesthetic differences and some of them with special abilities, such as a Mad Wizard able to blow up trees. Each character can be acquired for $0.99, but you can also get them by playing in a lottery game.

While you play, you collect coins, and after joining 100 of them, you can unlock a new character. The point is that you can get those coins by playing the game or also by looking at some video adds. These adds are completely optional to watch, but for each video you look at, you will get some gift.

This is the secret hidden below the free-to-play system. You can chose either or not spend any money in the game and you can also chose if you want to see video adds or not. And even if you decided you don't want to watch them or pay for the new characters, you can also get them just by playing the game and earning coins in a more traditional way.

With this strategy, Crossy Road has managed to get more than one million dollars in just two months. If you want to give it a try, you can find it available for iOS and Android devices. It's free to download at the App Store and the Google Play respectively.

Source: TouchArcade.

Flockers, the new game from Team 17

Team 17, the developers of the well-known Worms, has presented a new game: Flockers. It's been 10 years since they launched the first version of Worms, and the game is still a success. However, 10 years is quite a long time, and they have now another game ready. Flockers will try to find a place among the many game available for mobile devices, and it uses Worm's popularity to make us want to give it a try.

Flockers uses some of the characters we all know and love from the classic Worms game. Now we control a flock of sheep that try to escape from the control of their cruel masters: the worms. It's a Lemmings-style puzzle game, where we need to create an escaping route for the sheep that try to go from point A to point B across a deathly dangerous path.

In the very same way that we all have done when playing Lemmings, we should sacrifice a few of them in order to save the flock, avoiding the buzz saws, spikes, swinging cleavers and whatever deathly obstacle the worms have decided to use to block their escape.

We need to plan carefully the route, using all the tools available, but we also need to save all the sheep before the count down of the timer triggers an explosion for the remaining members of the flock.

Flockers has 60 levels organized in increasing difficulty, and 18 types of sheep to look out for (with pirate and robot sheep among many others). With the points we get in each mission, we can get items to customize our flock and unlock more levels.

It is available for Android and iOS for $1,99. The game has in-app purchases, but they are not required to play the game, they just let you get special sheep before you unlock them in a more traditional way (what means, by reaching certain level).

Flockers has been available in other gaming platforms for some months, and it had collected all sort of reviews. If you like worms and you enjoyed Lemmings, there's a good chance that you have a good time with Flockers.

Source: AndroidPolice.