Out Tonight: To Be or Not To Be, Civil War: 1863 Gold Edition, Boss Monster and more

Yes, it’s about to be released and we still haven’t seen any screenshots. [Image by Major Havok]

We’ve already received one board game app release this week, tonight we may see another. We’ve been waiting on Boss Monster for several weeks now, ever since Brotherwise Games mentioned that it had been submitted to Apple. Weeks later, and still nothing on the App Store. If it’s any consolation, the guys at Brotherwise don’t know why it’s not out yet, either. Earlier this week they posted that they fully expect that approval to come by next Thursday. So, is that tonight, or a week from tonight? Not sure, but we’ll still keep an eye out for Boss Monster to hit the App Store at midnight.

More games–that we’re sure are coming out tonight–after the break.

I’ve been excited to play To Be or Not to Be ever since it was announced back in early February. What we have is a gamebook that puts you in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and lets you play as several characters in the play: Hamlet, Ophelia, and Hamlet Sr. The book is entirely illustrated by some of the best web comic artists out there such as Mike Krahulik from Penny Arcade and Matthew Inman from The Oatmeal. All in all, it just looks like a fun work of interactive fiction. The best part? It’s already been released for both iOS Universal and Android and will run you $6.

HexWar is re-releasing Civil War: 1863 which was originally released back in 2012 by Hunted Cow. This release includes all the previous DLC and can be nabbed for $10 and is officially being called the “Gold Edition”. Fancy.

So, if you didn’t grab Civil War: 1863 back when it was released, you can grab it at midnight with all the expansions for iOS Universal at one low price.

Earlier this week Owen told us about the upcoming puzzler, Touchtone. While he’s been given a prerelease build to play, he’s being uncommonly tight-lipped about it. All we really know is that it’s from the guys who came up with games like Threes and Ridiculous Fishing. That should really be enough to seek it out at midnight, but Owen also stated that he “adored” this game, so I fully expect everyone to be hitting the refresh button in the App Store starting…now! Looks like the game will be for iOS Universal and will run around $2 or $3.

No video for this one. It just keeps getting more mysterious…

The last game tonight is another one that’s already been released, but we haven’t talked about yet, Heartbeats. This is an interactive fiction/puzzler that reminds me a bit of Simogo’s stuff. Well, their stuff before Sailor’s Dream, at least, particularly, Device 6. That’s just from looking at them, though. Let’s just say it’s a surreal interactive book in which each page contains a puzzle that needs to be solved before you can continue. I tend to love stuff like this, your mileage may vary. Heartbeats was released this morning and is, strangely, only for iPhone. That’s right, you’ll have to blow it up to 2X on your iPad. Weird. Anyway, it’s free to try and I can’t tell if there is any IAP on the iTunes page. Even weirder.

post from sitemap