Neon Dimension
Looks like I get to write the first English review for Neon Dimension, which is a simple asset-flip/mobile tier Arkanoid/Breakout ripoff, only they somehow managed to have even worse graphics. They chose a very lazy retro neon background and instead of bothering with any art for the bricks, they just have numbers.
I never saw such laziness. On top of the lazy art department, the gameplay is really poor quality stuff, not even close to as good as Breakout. But wait, it gets worse, they want a laughable $10 USD for this lazy bundle worsening shovelware. Impossible to recommend.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
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Awful
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Cantrip Cafe
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
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Slightly recommended if you’re looking for something that’s a little janky but can be played with friends. I’m sure this would be better with friends who can guard and cook but maybe too easy to start.
The idea is solid and reminds me of overcooked but with enemies. You’re trying to handle kitchen duties while enemies burst in and attack them. They’re pretty quick and once the enemy latches on it’s pretty much over. The powers (attacks) feel very weak and it’s incredibly difficult to aim.
If I was going to suggest improvements it would be:
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
DragonScales 3: Eternal Prophecy of Darkness
The caravan of mages has been slaughtered off by a mysterious spell. Only a wizard managed to survive: you. A DragonScales journey into a world threatened by the worshippers of Specktr’s sinister prophecy, a ritual to invoke absolute darkness and decimate the Gravity Kingdom. Your mental prowess is the ultimate bid for the survival of your race. DragonScales 3 is a casual, tile-matching game in which you combine colored scales on the board to collect special tiles, stars and prizes, defeat skulls and other monsters, solve tricky puzzles, and many more game actions! There are bosses too, showcasing a new approach to DragonScales battles. More than 150 levels await. Put a halt to the deviant aura of the Eternal Prophecy of Darkness!
Special features
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150 levels.
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Multiple challenges: basic scale combinations, scales which fall from their position, chasing scales, solving puzzles, destroying skulls and monsters on the board, and many more actions.
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First DragonScales game with ‘Gravity Mode’.
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5 boss battles with a new play mode.
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First DragonScales game with badges and secret stars.
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New array of magical powers. For instance, you can use ‘Improved Prescience’ to select a tailored set of scales to play, or even change completely the position
of all the scales on the board with the new ‘Confusion’ power!
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New story arc with Specktr’s cultists.
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Secrets of Magic: The Book of Spells
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
My full playthrough with 100% achievements, on Challenge Mode took about 12 hours… game was paused quite a bit while I did other things, so playtime shown is not truly accurate.
Fun and cute match 3 game, with an interesting, if somewhat shallow, story. Not much to the story, but more than most Match 3 games have, and suitable for most children.
!00 levels, and 2 difficulties (Casual and Challenge). Casual has no limiton moves, Challenge gives you a set number of moves, with the ability to spend coins earned in-game to buy 10 extra moves.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
I wasn’t expecting to make a review of this game, but I do actually have a few things to say.
First of all, this game is intended for children, and anyone above the age of 8 won’t be very interested in the characters or story. In short, it’s about a girl that finds out shes a witch, and she learns alot of spells.
So remove the story element and you are left with a match-3 game. So does that hold up?
Yes and no.
The game has some fun mechaincs like imps that multiply, blocks of stone you need to break and spiders that will web tiles.
– Real player with 24.3 hrs in game
Arcane Arts Academy
Nice casual game , however the difficulty level is quite hard even though picked easy, need to repeat few times sometimes to clear certain stage . Since this game have 52 achievements, I suggest those who want 100% achievements on this game to go through all the achievements requirement first so can easily unlock it without repeating too much time .
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
I simply loved playing this game, great story, the purple cat, the achievements was fun to get and it gave me that challenge by completing all the levels on hard mode. I’m excited to see what the next adventure will be for all the wizards and witches, I do hope the follow up will be just as great. One of my favourites for sure!!
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Cairo Stark: Crocs Hunter
Cairo Stark: Crocs Hunter is a game full of incredible adventures with bright three-dimensional characters and a mysterious colorful world.
You will discover an exciting new universe with many secret levels and interesting quests. Stop the invading race of Crocosaurs and the giant bosses of Rakshasa with the magic of the Genie and the full arsenal of the protagonist’s abilities.
Our hero, Cairo, is a treasure and artifact hunter. He possesses outstanding intelligence, dexterity, and wit. Altruistic, adventurous (incorrigibly so), brave, charismatic, moderately brash, direct and cheerful.
**Cairo, the protagonist, will fight defending our planet from space aliens on 25 levels.
A huge world map will not let you get bored:** you will travel from the desert to the dead city, where many surprises and mysterious dungeons of alien civilizations full of traps await you. From the slums to the luxurious Sultan’s Palace, and finally from the spaceport straight to the home planet of the invading Crocosaurs and new mysterious worlds to save the universe. From whom? That you’ll find out by going all the way to the end of the game!
Find all Crocosaurs levels and fight Rakshas bosses created using alien technologies. Use magic and skills to win. Each Crocosaur is unique in its own way, each requires a different approach. Use different tactics to defeat your enemies.
Minion is a representative of the technical class of the Crocosaur race, office engineer, has flexible logic and high productivity, compact and cautious.
Tank is one of the most powerful Crocs, representative of the combat class, has an impressive stature, indestructible armor, but is slow and clumsy.
Pilot is a representative of the intelligence class, highly effective, with advanced communication skills, adaptability and quick situation analysis, powerful body, daring character, live aggression.
Sniper is a member of the elite warrior class of the Crocosaurus race, secretive, inaccessible and independent, her charm conceals her deadly power, has the “Most Dangerous Enemy” level. Can turn invisible. Be careful - don’t miss her!
All this and more awaits you in our game full of incredible adventures Cairo Stark: Crocs Hunter.
Conjuror’s Eye
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
Neat little puzzle escape room experience. You’re basically a wizard and can reshape some items. That will be key to solving the puzzles. I think the game is worth $.99 cents. But if you don’t like VR puzzle / escape room experiences, then this little guy won’t change your mind about them. However, if you like puzzle rooms then this one is one of the best at this price range.
While you’re trying to solve puzzles, there’s a big eye overhead that keeps dropping down. You have to solve the puzzle(s) in time before time expires or you’re dead. You can only die a certain amount of times (I believe it is six, but I’m not sure) before you will have to restart the game. If you quit before finishing the game, the game does NOT save your progress and you will have to restart the game.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
This is a moderately challenging puzzle game with straight forward controls. There is a certain amount of elegance in the simplicity, and it does require you to use your brain to beat it. Despite being quite short it is a great value, and I think this will be my go to game when showing friends VR.
Unfortunately I have an anime profile picture, so none of my opinions matter.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Dreamland Solitaire: Dark Prophecy
Cute simple solitaire game with a cute simple story. Easy mode is obviously easy and the achievements are unlocked as you play the game. I enjoyed myself trying to get every spot “three stars” Would recommend anyone to who wants a relaxed game that isn’t too difficult.
– Real player with 103.4 hrs in game
Careful not to let your mom sees you playing this game on your PC
– Real player with 42.5 hrs in game
Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well
As you await your brother’s return from war, strange things start happening and your kingdom is under attack. You pick up your magic and you go to save your kingdom and your brother. Another fine addition to the Artifex Mundi hidden object games where here magic is truly a huge part of what you must do in order to get past each major scene of the storyline. This means that you have a bit less hidden object scenes and more coordination of inventory to make magical potions.
As a whole, the game is fun, same quality graphics, sound, and gameplay that you’d expect from these types of games. Not very challenging puzzles, but enough to not just let you find the solutions on the first try. The hidden object scenes are well done. The only issue I have is the match 3 type of gameplay that you must go through in order to achieve your spell. It kind of adds a new element that takes you away from the game, but it is short, simple, and forgotten quickly once you move on.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well is a fast paced HOPA that feels restrictive despite its tumultuous foray into a fantasy world in disarray.
An ancient evil capable of controlling sentience and desire has been unleashed upon the world. Overtaking even the most capable minds it seeks the annihilation of civilization, only a young princess and a mysterious prisoner stand in the way of it overtaking the prince.
Narrative
The Forgotten Well is another break from the other games in this series. The only connective framework is the notions of alchemy and some lose interpretations of ancestry and the Griffin Kingdom. In the case of the kingdom though this is at least effective since the narrative here is more concerned with an environmental evil rather than a personified threat.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Rescue Quest Gold
I haven’t played many match-3 games lately but the art for Rescue Quest Gold caught my eye. It’s bright and colorful, and the game is divided into different areas with their own themes so there’s always something new to look at. It’s pretty challenging unlike Bejeweled but definitely less frustrating than Candy Crush. There are objectives per level to reach the cage, get keys, or defeat enemies. They say the path-based mechanic adds a bit of strategy, but I think it’s pretty straightforward and not overcomplicated. There’s a mix of easy and hard levels so you don’t get bored easily. You also get powerups and spells to use, and it takes some practice to figure out which ones to solve specific levels. The music gets kind of repetitive (if you’re stuck in a level or region for so long) but they are whimsically beautiful if you listen to them out of the game (there’s a bonus content menu). In terms of price, I’d say there’s a lot of replay value to this. I wouldn’t mind starting over again at Level 1 after I finish. This game definitely needs some more love. My only complaint: should have a high score leaderboard! :P
– Real player with 56.0 hrs in game
This game was a ton of fun, and the community behind it made it even better. I ended up 100%ing the game and it was definitely satisfying to take my video of “look I did it!” back to the Boomzap family to celebrate. There is enough of a story that it doesn’t feel like a plain match-3 grind, and the types of levels are varied enough that you shouldn’t ever get TOO terribly comfortable with a particular style of level.
The map generation honestly makes the game feel more like a strategy game with elements of procedural generation, since your starting layout of tile colors is going to be different each time and for those 1-tile corridors it’s going to have some clutch RNG moments. It’s not a plain Jane Bejeweled arcade game, but to a certain level you can treat it that way if you prefer. All in all, a really fun time sink.
– Real player with 50.1 hrs in game