Category: Game Releases

There’s some new DLC to pick up for One Deck Dungeon, the card-driven roguelike that popped up just back in June. A warm welcome to The Witch, a new magic-user who Handleabra says is a bit of a “jack of all trades.”

Witches usually get associated with damp places like swamps and bogs, but in the lore of One Deck Dungeon, they seem to be pyromaniacs who all study their trade in a volcanic city called Inanidec. Syvir, our new Witch, is supposed to be “more anarchic than Mages, and more chaotic than Alchemists,” and she excels in both spellcasting and melee combat.

The Witch DLC just launched July 4, and she joins two new characters, the Fanatic and a faerie called Caliana, and two new dungeons, the Phoenix Den and the Cinder Plains, in One Deck Dungeon’s DLC lineup. Each can be had for 99 cents US or your local equivalent.

If you haven’t tried this excellent conversion of the tabletop dice game yet, check out our five-star review.

There’s hardly a more tactical situation than the pitch during the “beautiful game,” and with the World Cup’s first knockout round on the books, we’re gearing up for some intense matches in Russia heading into the finals. FIFA Mobile has a World Cup expansion out now though, if you prefer to take some direct control over the on-screen action.

Yes, it’s a free-to-play app that’s stuffed with EA’s usual microtransactions, but it’s hard to argue that the mobile incarnation of FIFA isn’t fun. And let’s face it, it’s drop-dead gorgeous to boot. There’s just something extremely satisfying about a perfectly-swiped scoring kick, isn’t there?

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This is FIFA Mobile, so you get a good amount of command over your team’s lineup and player training. There’s a surprising amount of depth in the strategy layer, and it’s not hard to get into even for casual soccer – sorry, I mean, football fans. You will need a fully-qualified team that’s 65+ OVR to participate in the World Cup, however.

Find it on the iOS App Store or Google Play. The World Cup mode will be available until August 

A Sharp’s Six Ages has a lot a riding on its shoulders: It’s a premium game, and the landscape for premium has changed a lot in the years since its predecessor King of Dragon Pass launched onto iOS. It also has to follow on from that iconic game – fans have been wanting a KoDP sequel for forever, so expectations were probably high.

It’s not an easy scenario to launch a mobile game in, but Six Ages: Ride like the Wind launched to our own critical acclaim last Thursday. How has it fared over it’s opening weekend? What surprises have cropped up? We spoke to David Dunham to find out.

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“Launching a game is a bit like opening a booster pack,” he told us:

Did you luck into the Black Lotus of a hit? The duplicate cards of the typical game that fades into obscurity? Maybe the foil card of a success? The analogy breaks down a bit because if you’re releasing a premium game in a free-to-play world, you get only one pack, ever.

Based on current sales data, Six Ages has so far sold at 96% the rate of King of Dragon Pass when that released on the App store in 2011. It’s probably not going to top many charts (apart from in Finland, apparently, where it’s #1), but it’s enough for David to consider it a success. “If this holds up for a month,” he stated, “we will be able to start work on the next game in the Six Ages series: Lights Going Out.”

David admitted to us that he was concerned over the fan reaction to Six Ages, given that it’s not a ‘true’ sequel to King of Dragon Pass and tried to break some new (if still familiar) ground.

I’m glad to report that players seem to like it just as much. App Store ratings are 4.9 stars and say things like “lives up to King of Dragon Pass in every way and more” and “a major improvement on King of Dragon Pass.” Hearing this makes the gamble of the last four years pay off and makes me and the team want to start working on the next game. 

In the meantime, you can expect a new update for the game sometime soon that will add new Adviser faces, fix bugs and introduce a new way to become infamous. Apparently, it involves behaving like a complete double-crossing weasel. Many thanks to David for taking the time to talk to us, and we wish him all the best!

Six Ages: Ride like the Wind is available now from the App Store.