Free iOS games and sale games
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yendiThis is the season for a lot of sales, and some of those sales hit "free" levels.
1. Every Halfbrick Game is on sale (iOS and Android, actually). That includes Fruit Ninja, Colossatron, and Fish Out of Water, all of which remain staples on my iPad. I assume everyone knows the first. Colossatron is a weird action game which combines a Death-Worm mechanic (for anyone's who's played that) with mechanics from both Snake and match-3 games. And FooW is a ridiculously fun time-killer in which you skip assorted fish across water, and get scored, Olympics-style.
2. For board gamers, Reiner Knizia's Razzia is free. It's basically a reskin of Ra, but that's not a bad thing. It's also not small -- about 300MB. But I grabbed it, because, well, free. And yes, Knizia has become that John Carpenter of board game designers (or the Sid Meier, I suppose) getting his name in titles.
3. Tower of Fortune's a minor classic, a goofy game mixing slot machine mechanics, RPGs, and old-school Gameboy-esque graphics.
4. I mentioned Flick Golf Extreme last time it went free; it's still a blast, a mix of a basic mechanic with insane ideas (golfing from a helicopter or over a canyon).
In terms of games that aren't free, but are on sale, all of Playdek's games are on sale, with Lords of Waterdeep and Agricola at $5.99 (down a buck), and others down to $.99. Small World 2 is on sale for $2.99, and remains one of the best board games on the system. The LEGO Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel games are $.99, as is Bastion, and all of Disney's "Where's My" games (other than the FTP Where's My Water 2). There are a ton of other ones, but those are some good highlights.
1. Every Halfbrick Game is on sale (iOS and Android, actually). That includes Fruit Ninja, Colossatron, and Fish Out of Water, all of which remain staples on my iPad. I assume everyone knows the first. Colossatron is a weird action game which combines a Death-Worm mechanic (for anyone's who's played that) with mechanics from both Snake and match-3 games. And FooW is a ridiculously fun time-killer in which you skip assorted fish across water, and get scored, Olympics-style.
2. For board gamers, Reiner Knizia's Razzia is free. It's basically a reskin of Ra, but that's not a bad thing. It's also not small -- about 300MB. But I grabbed it, because, well, free. And yes, Knizia has become that John Carpenter of board game designers (or the Sid Meier, I suppose) getting his name in titles.
3. Tower of Fortune's a minor classic, a goofy game mixing slot machine mechanics, RPGs, and old-school Gameboy-esque graphics.
4. I mentioned Flick Golf Extreme last time it went free; it's still a blast, a mix of a basic mechanic with insane ideas (golfing from a helicopter or over a canyon).
In terms of games that aren't free, but are on sale, all of Playdek's games are on sale, with Lords of Waterdeep and Agricola at $5.99 (down a buck), and others down to $.99. Small World 2 is on sale for $2.99, and remains one of the best board games on the system. The LEGO Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel games are $.99, as is Bastion, and all of Disney's "Where's My" games (other than the FTP Where's My Water 2). There are a ton of other ones, but those are some good highlights.
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Date: 2014-12-22 06:34 pm (UTC)(Although I rather felt robbed by the green crystal charm. +0.1 to the score?)