Nameless King, what is best in life?
It’s been a good long while since I had a reason to write about God of Blades, which is a real pity because I love God of Blades. Our 2012 Action Game of the Year channels the late 70′s so hard it smells vaguely of leather and hair spray. It comes from a time when fantasy genre fiction was so tightly wrapped around psychedelia that you couldn’t pull them apart. God of Blades is Heavy Metal: The Game, basically.
You’re the Nameless King (or the Whispering Lady) called back from the dead to confront an evil that only you can defeat — and you defeat it by running around thwapping monsters in the puss with a giant sword longer than you are tall. There’s unlockable swords, subtly tactical duelling, and a soundtrack that gives me chills. Don’t you dare play this with the sound off or you’re missing the half of the appeal.
God of Blades is free on iOS right now so put on your Black Sabbath t-shirt and download it immediately. It’s on Android, too, but not free over on that side of the aisle.
More interesting bundles and discounts after the jump.
Incidentally, Texas-based God of Blades makers White Whale Games recently announced their next project: the party card game Monstrocards isn’t a mobile game, sadly, but it looks neat.
Here’s the God of Blades trailer and if you’ll excuse me I’m just going to watch this five more times.
Another PT fave is free right now: Warhammer Quest, the iOS translation of the classic Games Workshop tabletop dungeon-delver. WQ is a brilliant sandbox of a game with exquisite production values that I’ve dumped countless hours into. If you look at the App Store reviews right now, there’s a slew of negative ones beefing about the game’s in-app purchases.
If there’s anybody on the planet who’s happy to kneecap a game because of its reliance on IAPs, it’s me. So believe me when I say that there’s nothing cynical or underhanded about Warhammer Quest. Some of the IAPs are just additional post-release content like new areas and new heroes. There’s also the ability to buy consumable gold. Most of that wasn’t in the game at launch, and it was a wonderful game then, and their addition hasn’t spoiled the game in any way.
Not everyone will love WQ — its narrative is thinner than rice paper and the somewhat limited variety means that your 3rd gameplay hour won’t be hugely different from your 30th — but it’s well worth a whack for free.
Hellraid: The Escape is The Room with fantasy monsters stalking the halls and lots of gruesome ways to die — and it’s pretty good by all accounts. I never got around to playing it myself but a couple of readers wrote in to sing its praises when it came out this summer.
Hellraid is a dollar right now, which is 66% off the usual price. This one will be on Android next week.
Peerless digital board game specialists Playdek have jumped onto the bundlewagon with not one but three bundles. No half-measures from these guys.
The Playdek Board Game Bundle collects Lords of Waterdeep and 2013 Board Game of the Year Agricola into one ten-dollar package, which saves you ten bucks. If you’re just getting into board games (or want to) then this wouldn’t be a bad place to start: Waterdeep has a fairly gentle learning curve and Agricola has a best-in-class tutorial for learning the principles of worker placement-style games.
The Playdek Card Game Bundle has five games in it: Playdek’s sophomore effort Food Fight, the vampire-themed Nightfall, Penny Arcade Gamers vs Evil, the wacky Fluxx, and the oh-god-don’t-play-this-on-the-bus Tanto Cuore. You get all of these for eight bucks.
The Playdek Deluxe 8 Game Bundle mashes the two above together and throws in one-off push-your-luck dice game Can’t Stop into the mix for $15.
Finally, there’s a first bundle from prolific wargame makers Hunted Cow: The American Civil War Collection sounds like some nice hardback books you’d get from Time-Life but it’s really three hex tactical games for seven dollars.
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