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Owen here, covering for Dave while he attends an evil sidekick symposium. Did you know that henchmen are more than twenty times more likely to be injured on the job than sinister masterminds? Well, not at Pocket Tactics — safety is the most important thing in our volcano lair high atop Mount Hexmap. Well, aside from the volcano. There’s a few unavoidable risks associated with that. Some.
Anyway. Tonight is an excellent release night, you know? Maybe the best of 2015 so far. I’ve played almost everything in tonight’s crop, and I’m pretty enthusiastic about, oh, 75% of the games going. Let me tell you all about it after the jump.
Infection: Humanity’s Last Gasp is the digital version the acclaimed board game of the same name from VPG — you’re the head of an Andromeda Strain-style tiger team of scientists racing the clock to cure an epidemic that’s cleaning humanity’s clock. Now Kelsey and Dave are the board gaming experts around here and I’m leaving the final verdict to them but I played the heck out of a press preview of this, and I think it’s damned good. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that this might be the best digital board game adaptation since Galaxy Trucker. Impressive stuff from Hunted Cow’s new strategy game imprint Hexwar.
Infection is an iOS Universal app and it’ll be $5 at midnight wherever you are. Come back tomorrow for Dave’s review.
Door Kickers is another game I’ve managed to get a preview of. This one’s a pausesable-real-time police tactics sim coming over from PC, where it is very highly regarded. The iPad port is very slick, and the gameplay is fun — this is basically the game that Breach & Clear wanted to be a couple of years ago but didn’t quite manage. I’m looking forward to the DLC where you play the guy with the camera phone recording the cops kicking all these doors in.
Door Kickers is an iPad-only app and it’s $5, also out at midnight in your country. The incomparable Alex Connolly is reviewing this one for us — should have his take up next week.
Spirit of War: The Great War is a WWI turn-based tactical game just revealed yesterday, and out of tonight’s haul I have to say that this is the game I’m least enthusiastic about. I’ve been playing the game for the past couple of days and this thing is weird, man. Star Wars Christmas Special weird. Maybe it’ll grow on me between now and tomorrow but for the moment this one doesn’t quite get the Owen Tā Moko of Approval.
Spirit of War is an iOS Universal app and it’s also $5, out at midnight in your strange and foreign land. Watch for my review in the next day or two.
Threes is a game that almost certainly needs no introduction — it was an honourable mention in our Puzzle Game of the Year category last year, but that’s more of a comment on how steep the competition is than any faint praise of the game. Threes is a brilliant light math/pattern-matching game that has an iron-clad permanent spot on my phone.
But what’s this 2014 release doing in Out Tonight?, you ask. Settle down, bub. Threes Free comes out tonight at midnight where thou art. The model here is slightly out of the ordinary: you watch ads in the app to build up credits that you use for replays. That sounds downright painful to me — I think it’s infinitely more sensible to just pony up two measly bucks and have a brilliant game you’ll play forever.
But if Threes Gratis sounds like something you want to try, it’s an iOS Universal app out at midnight in your neck of the woods.
Finally tonight we’ve got Healer’s Quest, which came out a couple of days ago on both iOS and Android. This is a comedy RPG where you play the under-appreciated healer in a party of fantasy do-gooders. I haven’t played this but it sounds like it might be clever.
Healer’s Quest is an iOS Universal app, ad-supported and free — though you can knock the ads out with a single $3 in-app purchase. Same deal on Android.
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