I might give dungeon village 2 another run - I have the first, but assume the second has some slight uplifts
Ninja Village (city building with a super interesting battle system)
Dungeon Village 2 (city building / rpg)
Grand Prix Story (racing, lots of different builds for cars you can research and unlock)
Epic Astro Story (almost a 4X, but more focus on colony building and exploration)
Sushi Spinnery (IMO the best of their restaurant games)
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Wow!
I never knew they made so many! I also appreciate the variety as a straight city builder or tycoon game doesnât do much for me, while ones that have a bit more 4x or dungeon exploration are right up my ally!
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Those are in order of recommendation as well. I really canât recommend Ninja Village enough, itâs my absolute fav mobile game.
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The very reason I am a hardcore Frostpunk and Ixion player. Straight City Builder? Yawn⌠City Builder with Survival Elements? Heck yeah!
Humble Bundle board game bundle. Some repeats from previous offerings, several (AFAIK) first time up:
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For those of you who have Apple Arcade but havenât played Monster Train, it is coming to the service next month. Check it out.
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Eclypse the HUGE new 190+ card free update in Dawncaster just launched today.
From their blurp:
Welcome to our largest free card expansion to date! Eclypse boasts nearly 200 new cards, and 7 new archetypes to discover. Pirates, witches and witch doctors, chefs, void knights, nomads and Valkyries join the battle against Darkness, bringing new and unique ways to vanquish evil to the game!
Alternate art for Classic Cards
To support the development of the game and make free expansions like these possible, weâve added a new supporter pack to the store. The supporter pack offers alternate art for 6 of our most iconic cards that have been in the game since the very start: Aura of Divinity, Mindstrike, Reaping Strike, Master of Arms, Sneak Attack and Bloodmagic.New Reward Track
All new weapons, talents and starting cards can be unlocked in a new reward track called âEclypseâ. Due to a slight delay, all portraits are currently a placeholder and will be added next weekFor a full overview of all changes and patchnotes, visit the update channel in our Discord.
And on a final note, for a small team like ours it is impossible to test every interaction right on release. Our team and amazing volunteers covered a lot of ground, but if you do find a bug in the new patch, please report these on our Discord and weâll fix these in the post-update patch.
We hope you enjoy Eclypse, and thank you for playing and being part of the Dawncaster community!
(link to their discord if youâve not checked it out before: https://discord.gg/GgStU2Gs)
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Awesome! Iâve fallen a bit behind as they really killed it for me when they changed the progression and basically reset most of my characters. I e got to get back in and try out this - and the previous - expansion. Still one of the best roguelike deck builders out there.
Sokobond Express, a puzzle game (unsurprisingly) inspired by Sokobond and Cosmic Express and published by Draknek, launches on mobile September 17. The gameâs been on Steam for a whileâhavenât tried it, but Iâm sure itâs right up my alley.
Available for preorder/preregistration on iOS/Android now:
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Balatro is coming to mobile Sept. 26.
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Looks like itâs coming out simultaneously as a premium app and an apple arcade app (Balatro+). Itâs the first time Iâve seen that.
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Codenames is out on iOS. Iâm not highly interested in the game but CGEâs app have been highly polished and some of the all-time best. Early reviews bombed the game for launching in Czech, but I have to imagine that if it hasnât been fixed yet it will soon.
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The Czech language âbugâ was fixed early on day 1âtalk about jumping the gun on reviews.
Iâve played the game quite a bit and keep meaning to weigh inâI think itâs excellent, especially if you like the original. The game offers both âmissionsâ (standard games in which you eventually play with/against other random humans, although you start just with bots) and âdaily challengesâ (given a single clue, try to pick all the cards that match).
Playing on launch day (Wednesday) worried me a bit. The player vs. AI missions have delays built into the turns, presumably to get you used to turn-based play with humans. And the daily challenges start off as timer-basedâyou get 4 challenges and then have to wait a couple of minutes to get more, then you have a slightly longer wait for the next set, an even longer wait for the next set ⌠at that point, I feared Iâd paid $4.99 for a F2P game.
However, once I got past the initial drip-feeding, the game played much more reasonably. I quickly unlocked a few different game modes, including the ability to play as a spymasterâyou can initially only guess words, not give cluesâand VIP missions, which offer non-standard formats. I started playing missions with other humans, which is marked by an achievement once you switch away from AI opponents. And the timing on the daily challenges settles into a 3x per day modelâmorning, noon, and evening. The only thing I havenât tried yet is playing with friends, which can be done either online or via pass & play.
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Whew, glad to see we got the lights turned back on around here!
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Yes, me tooâŚ
I know I wouldnât have been able to substitute this with discord. I need this.
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I was worried too - I dumped all social media last year when the state AG mandated that we have to disclose everything we do on there as part of police licensure. Not that I have anything untoward at all, but the idea of turning over passwords to Internal Affairs left me feeling icky. Plus, less social media equals more gaming time.
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Iâve stopped all social media except WhatsApp and Stately Play for years. And I am glad to report I am doing very well, I think I have more free time than many others around me. I also shifted from PC gaming to board games, almost not playing computer games anymore.
I am currently (re)reading the book Sapiens, and I am really thinking, like in the Agricultural revolution, humanity, with all its increasing dependency on Computers, is on the brink of something it (we) will regret in one or two generations. And although we know it, each and everyone of us is not able to jump the train and live without games, social media, AI and our online friends and acquaintances.
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Dune: Imperium on iOS just added the Ix expansion.
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