Moving over here to talk more generally about iOS games.
I like Tomb Raider GO so far. I think I’ve completed the first stage, which has like 8 levels or so. I think there are 6-8 stages total. It’s a nice turn-based puzzle game. Lara is still rendered like classic Lara, but since the game is so small, it’s more toony than porny. (I play on an ipad mini).
For great iOS games, Sword and Swocery was truly artistic, funny, and sounded grand, and Monument Valley was a gorgeous puzzler. Lumino City is pretty cool too, but there’s a lot of reading in that which has stalled me from ripping through it. I’d put each of them before TR:GO, but TR;GO is a quite nice game.
I have S&S and MV. Liked 'em both a lot. Don’t know LC.
I want to try rymdkapsel again, I gave it up because it was frustrating me. I also need to spend some time on the Banner Saga, should try to have a successful run through FTL.
I’m also part way through Papers Please, I think it would be better on a computer, though, and I’m also playing through the iOS version of Wings - which isn’t great but yay nostalgia. And I need to figure out Downwell.
the previous xcom became a bit of an obsession for me. I just bought the second one, and I think this is the first time in more than a decade that I’m buying a game the day it comes out
Firewatch sounds like something interesting, makes me wish I had a gaming PC. Suspect my MBP won’t hack it. Ditto XCOM 2 (going to scratch that turn based itch with Invisible Inc again). Hoping that one gets an iOS release like its predecessor.
Speaking of turn based, got high hopes for Overland. Any idea when that’s out?
Really want Kentucky Route Zero Act IV to hurry up and get here too.
This review sounds a bit mixed, and it’s weird that I’m considering it when a) I have no time to game and b) I kinda bounced off The Banner Saga and haven’t yet got back into it, but I see it’s cheap in a Steam sale for the next few days.
Mostly, old nonsense: Quake3/QuakeLive/OpenArena, and Half Life 2: Deathmatch. Both are slowly dwindling scenes with populations of diehards. I love the feel and responsiveness of these engines, the ability to create one’s own server, and to tweak many game settings.
Honorable mention: Garry’s Mod has the potential to do everything I like HL2DM for, and more, but the GMod community is mostly children doing role-play and other sorts of game types which don’t appeal to me as much. Just Cause 2 Multiplayer captures that gonzo-combat vibe I love, and is more modern than my usual faves, but is really wildly inaccurate with regards to combat mechanics and client-side prediction. Adrenaline Gamer 2 is an improved mod of HL2DM which sounds perfect for me, but it is unsupported and hardly anybody plays. Sven Coop is an ancient Half Life 1 mod with lots of old-school deathmatch, and still has some servers running, but I don’t have it set up under Linux now.
