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Escape room game The Pillar now available on iOS

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Escape room game The Pillar now available on iOS

Paper Bunker has released The Pillar, a new puzzle game featuring escape room-type gameplay today for iOS devices after it was originally released on Steam in June last year. In The Pillar, you’re trapped in a fantasy land which is made up of several small islands. In order to find a way out, you need to solve a bunch of puzzles that will allow you to escape. The game features a mix of exploration gameplay and problem-solving as you use the environment and its secrets to seek your way out. Every island in the game has its own unique vibe, and as you uncover the secrets each ones holds you will eventually find your way out. The puzzles have a huge degree of variety in the way they&rsq…

Adorable Home gets a one-year anniversary update, new items up for grabs

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Adorable Home gets a one-year anniversary update, new items up for grabs

Cosy home simulation game Adorable Home was released a year ago, and its developer HyperBeard has updated it with new content on iOS and Android. The update brings new furniture such as sofas, tables and other decorations to your living room, as well as allowing you to litter your garden with new items to make your partner and pets feel right at home. In addition to that, if you download the update now you will also get 1000 free gift hearts to use to buy the new items or any other items your heart desires. If you haven’t played Adorable Home before, it’s a home simulation game where you have just moved into a new suburban house with your partner and cute pet cat named Snow,…

Mind-bending puzzler Figment coming to Android this week

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Mind-bending puzzler Figment coming to Android this week

Bedtime Digital Games is bringing its mind-altering puzzle game Figment to Android devices later this week, on 14th January. This occurs over a year after it was released on iOS back in 2019 and much earlier launch on PC and consoles. Figment is a surreal puzzler where you explore the topsy-turvy nature of the human mind and unlock the mysteries held within. It uses the concept of the left and right parts of the brain in a gamified way, with two very different locations representing each half. Clockwork Town on the left features puzzles that require logical solutions, while Freedom Isles on the right requires a more imaginative approach to progressing through the game. The art style also h…

Mobile version of Magic: The Gathering Arena soft launches later this month

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Mobile version of Magic: The Gathering Arena soft launches later this month

Wizards of the Coast is publishing a mobile version of its popular digital fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering Arena, with the pocket edition expected to soft launch in early access on Google Play at the end of January. Magic: The Gathering Arena Mobile works very similarly to the way the physical card game plays. You have a deck of cards which generate five separate colours of mana, then you play them to summon creatures, cast spells and activate special abilities. You use these powers to battle your opponent with the selected deck, and the goal is to reduce their life-total to zero before they can react with the same. “We want fans to have fun, enjoyable experiences with the lon…

Kwalee’s Teacher Simulator donating profits to help fight child food poverty

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Kwalee’s Teacher Simulator donating profits to help fight child food poverty

Mobile games developer Kwalee is donating all profits made from Teacher Simulator towards helping the UK’s most vulnerable children this week. As all schools within the country switch to remote online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, Kwalee is donating all profits made by the game this week to the Marcus Rashford-backed charity FareShare, which aims to combat food poverty in the UK. “Teacher Simulator was partly inspired by our own experiences at school, from the mundane to the bizarre,” said Simon Platt from Kwalee. “These were largely fond memories for us, fortunately, but no child should have to worry about where their next meal is coming f…

Fisherman Cards Game is Solitaire-like card game out now on mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Fisherman Cards Game is Solitaire-like card game out now on mobile

BadBones Productions has released a new title, Fisherman Cards Game, today on iOS and Android devices. In Fisherman Cards Game, you sail the seven seas, navigating these treacherous oceans in search of grand treasure. On your journey, you must battle fearsome and legendary creatures, with several boss fights and enemy creature encounters lurking throughout the ocean. To fight these threats, you must assemble a powerful deck of cards consisting of various magical items. You have three action slots to use which provide multiple ways to use them. Please watch this trailer we’ve included below to see more of what the game looks like in motion, including glimpses of enemies you face throu…

Marvel Contest of Champions adds Jubilee and Stryfe as new characters

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
Marvel Contest of Champions adds Jubilee and Stryfe as new characters

Kabam Games has added a new content update to its comic book fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions on iOS and Android devices. For the X-Men fans out there, players can now play as mutants Jubilee and Stryfe, who each come with their own attacks and special abilities. As always, a motion comic has also been released. The mutant lands of Krakoa are attacked by a powerful unseen force, and Cable sets out to track down the attacker by teaming up with a young mutant. You can watch the motion comic below, which details some of the backstory behind this new story update as well be introduced to Jubilee and Stryfe, which are set to be added to Marvel Contest of Champions later this month.…

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated splashes onto mobile this month

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 2 months ago
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated splashes onto mobile this month

HandyGames and Purple Lamp Studios is launching SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated on iOS and Android devices later this month on 21st January. It’s a 3D platformer based on Nickelodeon’s popular SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon TV series that has aired for the past two decades, as well as being a remake of the original Battle for Bikini Bottom which originally came out on Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube in 2003. You play as the yellow man himself, SpongeBob, as well as his mates Patrick and Sandy as they go on an adventure across Bikini Bottom to foil Plankton’s plans to take over the town using an army of robots. The game is set in various iconic l…

Pumpkinbutt's Halloween Dream latest content drop introduces 40 new Christmassy stages

Preferred By AppSpy Staff, 3 years, 3 months ago
Pumpkinbutt's Halloween Dream latest content drop introduces 40 new Christmassy stages

Looking for something festive to play this holiday season? Skyflyer Studio may have you covered with their latest update to the popular Pumpkinbutt's Halloween Dream which sees the arrival of some Christmas-themed levels. There will be forty of them in total and this set of stages has been named the Christmas Caverns. As always, it'll see you having to jump and dodge your way through a series of hazards but this time around they're all Christmassy and will include the likes of snowballs, nutcrackers and candy canes. It'll make for a nice aesthetic change of pace then but for those who are in search of a tougher challenge instead of celebrating the holiday season, Pumpkinbutt's Halloween…

Onmyoji Arena celebrates three year anniversary with new update

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Onmyoji Arena celebrates three year anniversary with new update

NetEase Games’ Onmyoji Arena is celebrating its third birthday with a new update released on iOS and Android devices. To thank all of the players who have supported it over the years, Onmyoji Arena will be receiving an update which gives the graphics a bit of a facelift as well as visual effects undergoing an overall upgrade to bring it more in line with the realism it wants to portray. This means better lighting of environmental objects and items, with enhanced light and shadow harmony, as well as newly added dynamic lighting which’ll make everything feel more realistic. In addition to that, the detail and resolution of the textures on all shikigami is enhanced, making them…

Call of Duty: Mobile’s new Season 13 introduces yet more maps, game modes, and more

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Call of Duty: Mobile’s new Season 13 introduces yet more maps, game modes, and more

Call of Duty: Mobile has had a new update for Season 13, bringing with it new maps, game modes and another Battle Pass to work through. The update is called Winter War to coincide with Christmas coming later this week. First of all, the new Battle Pass brings in new tiers of free and premium content to unlock as you work your way through it. Free unlocks here include the EMP System scorestreak and Peacekeeper MK2 assault rifle. Meanwhile the premium tiers includes unlocks for Golem (Siberia) and GKS (Pack Warrior). The Peacekeeper MK2 is a beastly assault rifle made of meteorite, and it fires rounds coated in magma. It’ll also have a variety of customisation options to use once it arr…

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords comes to iOS and Android

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords comes to iOS and Android

If you’ve been binge-watching The Mandalorian on Disney+ lately and need a bit of mobile Star Wars in your life, Aspyr and Lucasfilm has finally brought the classic Obsidian RPG Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords to your phone on iOS and Android. It’s set thousands of years before the films, in an age where the Jedi are being hunted to extinction by the Sith. You play as a surviving exile Jedi who must restore their connection with the Force and set out to stop the Sith and bring balance to the galaxy with the help of faithful companions. “Fans have been asking for a mobile version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II for so long, and we&rs…

Roundguard, the dungeon crawler for Apple Arcade, gets a festive makeover

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Roundguard, the dungeon crawler for Apple Arcade, gets a festive makeover

Wonderbelly Games has updated Roundguard, its dungeon crawler roguelike available on Apple Arcade, with some new features to welcome in the Christmas period. The Gift Giver update adds new NPCs, trinkets, a festive winter event, and more. New characters have been added to the dungeon, such as Big Freeze who’s an ice cold first giant who hits like an avalanche. There’s also the Projectionist, a moody elf with a more emotional side to them, and the eponymous Gift Giver who rewards you with treasure for playing the game and beating quests. These new characters are available to meet all year around, but Roundguard is also holding a special wintery event from this Sunday until 2nd J…

Scratch your clubbing itch with rhythm-based platformer, Vectronom

Preferred By AppSpy Staff, 3 years, 3 months ago
Scratch your clubbing itch with rhythm-based platformer, Vectronom

If you miss going clubbing and losing yourself in the rhythm of the music this year, then Vectronom might just scratch that itch for you. The rhythm-based 3D platformer released last year lets you immerse yourself in a rejuvenating burst of colour and music with its atmospheric levels in isometric view. The obstacles shift with the music, so you have to navigate through the maddening puzzle platformer by syncing yourself to the electronic beat. It’s frustrating and entrancing at the same time, which guarantees a gaming experience where there’s never a dull moment. As you get into the groove of this musical puzzle game, you can choose to brave the campaign and go solo, or play…

Injustice 2 Mobile adds Wonder Woman 1984-inspired content

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 3 months ago
Injustice 2 Mobile adds Wonder Woman 1984-inspired content

Warner Bros. Games and NetherRealm Studios is crossing over with the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 film for its mobile action fighting game, Injustice 2 Mobile. A new version of the Wonder Woman character has been added, sporting the golden armour appearance that can be spotted in promos for the film, as well as the likeness of actress Gal Gadot who plays her. Golden Armor Wonder Woman is now available in Injustice 2 Mobile, and features many iconic moves and items associated with the character. Her Divine Protection skill protects you against damage done to you over time, while her Offensive Guard provides a boost to the entire team’s combo metres. The 4.2 update is here along with…