Mobile Games

Super Monkey Ball Bounce – Review

Back in 2003, Sega took EA to court, claiming The Simpsons Road Rage was uncannily similar to Crazy Taxi. How times change – this free-to-play release is almost identical to EA’s Peggle, right down to the way the camera zooms in and a drum rolls plays when the...

Crazy Taxi: City Rush – Review

The menu music is all wrong. The in-game soundtrack is punky, as it should be, but I honestly have no idea what’s going on the bleepy electronic menu music. There are more significant things both right and wrong about this freemium incarnation of Crazy Taxi, but that’s what...

Wordament: Snap Attack – Review

Released in 2012, Wordament was Microsoft’s first iOS game to feature Xbox achievements. Although it wasn’t much of a looker, all kinds of technical wizardry was going on behind the scenes – every two minute match was played online, with scores shown on a leaderboard at the end....

Dragon Coins – Review

Coin pushers: gateway gambling machine, disappointing old-fashioned seaside arcade amusement, or terribly modern entertainment sensation? It’s looking bizarrely like the last of those. There’s daytime ITV1 quiz show Tipping Point, in which Ben Shephard has an only slightly easier job than Noel Edmonds on Deal Or No Deal...

Record Run – Review

Coming from the studio that gave the world both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it’s only natural to have high expectations for Record Run. These two games spawned countless sequels and soulless clones until the market imploded pretty much over night. Luckily Harmonix managed to survive unscathed. Well,...

Dsmvwld – Review

The obvious thing would be to write about Dsmvwld in the manner of its puzzles, omitting the vowels. On the plus side, that would end up looking a tiny bit like something uttered by Zombie Dave. But it would also be unhelpful to the point of perversion. Your...

Lines – Review

For a game that’s resoundingly simple, Lines (or Lines – by That Wonderful Lemon Co. to give it its full name) is tricky to explain. It’s a ‘match-five’ puzzler in which rows of coloured dots make their way down a cylinder. They descend at an incredibly fast rate,...

Tengami – Review

Have you seen just how many Flappy Bird clones there are on the App Store now? You don’t need to, because Stuart Dredge has been keeping a slightly obsessive eye on it for The Guardian. In short: lots. If Nyamyam had been so inclined, they might have renamed...

Dungeon Keeper – Review

Back in the ‘90s, Bullfrog was one of the biggest names in PC gaming. Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Magic Carpet, Syndicate and Populous became instant classics overnight, but it was Dungeon Keeper that turned the fantasy genre upside, making the player the bad guy instead of the hero....

RoboCop – Review

Talk about an easy act to follow – the last RoboCop game was from the notorious Superman 64 developers Titus Interactive way back in 2003. The only thing you need to know about that game was that it was their last before going bankrupt. Even if this mobile...

Angry Birds Go! – Review

You may be relieved to hear that we believe chances of Activision eventually releasing this kart racer on consoles are pretty slim. At least not as a full price retail release, anyway. This is a racer so heavily structured around microtransactions that if you were to remove them...

Star Wars: Tiny Death Star – Review

If smothering Star Wars all over the Angry Birds franchise helped Rovio’s avian associates to make even more money, then why shouldn’t the license be applied to other mobile games? Ten minutes later and we’re still trying to think of a valid reason. NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower may not...