I hear ya. While you might have a point with Dicey Dungeon, I think Dice Tribes could have trouble on a phone. Not that it requires any big processing, but by late game you’re going to have a very busy board with a bunch of buildings, locations, and other panels that would only fit on the screen if you went micro text.
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Dicey Dungeons is coming to mobile, so the wait will ultimately be worth it.
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There is/was a dicey dungeons beta, and it was excellent. A perfect fit for mobile
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Hero Emblems 2 comes out in a week. I enjoyed the first one enough that I’ll be getting the second.
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Still technically going–I’ve got a build on my phone–but they haven’t updated it in a while. From what I can see on the Discord channel, they’re waiting to release it until the upcoming DLC is done so they can bundle everything for the mobile release.
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That is awesome! Can’t wait for that one (I hope it’s as good as the first)
It’s been out for about a month or so now but I just discovered Square Valley and it is pretty cool.
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Interesting, I got it right when it was released but had forgotten about it until just the other day. I love the challenge of trying to optimize your scoring with all of the tiles’ quirky scoring rules.
Yeah. It is a good looking, relaxing puzzler that borders on board game/flip and write mechanics all about optimizing your score. I’m off on a vacation over the next couple of weeks and I’m going to put some more time into it.
I’d love to hear how it holds up after prolonged play. I like what I saw but am only in the very early stages. I’m curious if they can keep adding interesting new mechanics or if, at some point, they run out of interesting new mechanics and just increase the difficulty via overly frustrating tedium.
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I got this too. Played through the first scenario, there is something about dice and puzzles and managing things that really gets me going!
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Still enjoying Square Valley and like how, at first glance, it might come off as a bit of a Solo Carcassonne, but even that kind of misses the point. Unlike Carcassonne there aren’t really anything like castle walls or road pieces to fit together, but just a lot of unique tiles representing a set of trees, a house, or maybe some sheep with their own scoring rules. Like how houses get a bonus for being next to a road and for each adjacent tile that isn’t also a house. At the same time, an apartment building benefits by each adjacent house as longer as there is no other apartment building in the same cluster. So this alone creates an interesting scoring dilemma, to make the most of scoring just for houses, you shouldn’t cluster them, but then the apartment building needs them tightly clustered. Add in unique rules for different types of trees, fields, farms, lumber mills, etc. as well as how the game only gives you X turns and severely limits where you can place your chosen tiles each turn, it’s all about trying to make the most of what you’re given.
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Agreed. The only thing I’m uncertain of is the seemingly random placement availability each round. You’re able to plan ahead for things but each turn you can only place tiles in certain rows and columns. Is there a rhyme and reason I’m missing, or a way to predict what is coming?
On an iPhone 12 the very top of the UI seems a little wonky, like something that should be displayed is being covered. But that could just be the way the UI is designed.
I just learned the power of the “?” up top that tells you all of the tiles and “edges” (what the game calls roads, rivers, and fences) that will be appearing in this specific puzzles.
For the ones interested the awesome Into the Breach (the new advance version, no less) is coming to mobile courtesy of Netflix.
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Has anyone played any of the Netflix games? I always assume they’ll screw it up somehow.
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I’m quite enjoying Poinpy by the Downwell dev.
Ho. Lee. Crap.
Actually Arcanium is kind of engaging. It just gets a bit crashy later on. But that may be fixed now.
There’s also Moonlighter.
With ITB now coming as well, I think already Netflix has surpassed Apple Arcade in terms of engaging games. At least for my interests.
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Also (patiently?) waiting for the release of Homeworld 3 soon™?
Maybe this might tide us over…anyone tried this yet?
Nebulous: Fleet Command:
EA Trailer
Steam-storepage
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