Uppercup Football

Uppercup Football is an intense fantasy soccer-ball mobile game with crazy rules. Believe me, I'm not usually a fan of soccer-ball and even less in a video game, but Uppercup Football add a ton of fun into it !

First it has a super easy control system, one handed, in turn by turn, really perfect for mobile. Second you have some crazy rules, changing each match, like: Rugby balls, electroballs, trees or even mines on the field, etc. Finally there is about 100 levels, all different, with more and more challenges.

You can perceive the amount of time and effort spent in polishing the game, the menus and gameplay. The art and animations are great, but I'll let you judge by yourself as the game is free to install with a one time in app purchase to unlock the full version (restorable on any device). 

Motion Twin is the french studio behind Uppercup Football. Motion has a few extraordinary component:

• Every employee has the same share of the company. That mean the same salary, same power of decision, same responsibility.
• They have their own programming language called HaXe. It can be compiled into C++, Action Script of Javascript and all their games are made with HaXe.
• They made a ton of great web browser games with a unique gameplay that you've NEVER seen anywhere else. If I had to pick one: Mush, but there are more, a lot more.
• 11 frogs. Errrr employees I mean (^_^)

Go try uppercup football ! You have no excuse it's free to install !

Screenshots:

Sorcery

Today let's check Sorcery. Do you know the "books where you are the Hero"? If you liked these books as much as me, you'll love Sorcery, and if you don't know them but like Fantastic books, you should really try it!

After choosing your character you'll start a captivating adventure, full of mystery, and you'll decide every actions of your hero. When you played The Witcher or Mass Effect you barely have 5-7 meaningful choices to make during one game. In Sorcery you have at least 100 of them, leading to different adventures, different difficulties, different stories to discover. You'll fight monster with a unique combat system, collect and use items in your inventory, and even cast magic !

If you like Sorcery 1, you'll be able to pursuit the same adventure with Sorcery 2 and 3 where you can get your progress from the previous opus through a simple "code save" you get at the end of each game.

The sky is not 100% blue, the music could be better, the "game" also miss achievements to push you to explorer different path of the story, and cloud saving would have saved you from keeping note, somewhere, the code you get at the end of the story (And probably loosing it).

Sorcery is made by inkle, a studio founded in 2011 by 2 game developers in the UK. As game dev I have to mention Inklewriter, the tool behind Sorcery and The Banner Saga, designed to help you publish high quality interactive stories. Inklewriter is free (But I haven't found the license). It's a great tool to create this kind of book experience but also when creating cut scenes, try it online ! Sorcery is premium so no iaps, no ads, no bad surprises.

 

Sorcery!

 

Sorcery! 2

 

Sorcery! 3

Screenshots:

 

Tiny Guardians

Tiny Guardians is a surprising strategy game where your role is to protect one enchantress, Lunalie, as she journeys in search of the Sorceress.

Taking some elements of tower defense gameplay, it twist them in a very refreshing way. Instead of protecting a fix point, as in a classic tower defense game, you protect Lunalie as she slowly travel through the map. And instead of building tower you choose the heroes that will protect her. You can choose from 12 different classes of heroes: knight, archer, cleric, assassins, etc. Each heroes has 4 upgrade, giving you plenty of different strategy to finish each level.

The gorgeous art style transport you across 14 different levels having a Story and Challenge Mode, each with three difficulties. Collecting every achievements require quite a lot of investment and will provide you with hours of gameplay.

Tiny guardians was made by Kurechii, a Malaysian independent game studio founded in 2009, and now employ 4 persons. Tiny Guardians is a paymium title, it means that you pay to purchase the game and then the game offer some optional in-app-purchases. It may sound bad but actually these in app purchases are not at all necessary to completely finish the game in a reasonable amount of time. They are mostly there to unlock different esthetic outfits for each hero. So be reassured, you'll not need to spend any additional money after purchasing the game.

 

Screenshots:

   

Haunt the House: Terrortown

In Haunt the house: Terrortown you play a mischievous ghost and scare people by possessing object, moving them around, making scary sounds or even spooking dinosaurs ! You like the tranquility of your house and they dare to come and disturb you! As they start freaking out, running away, their fear make you even more powerful, and you'll eventually make them flee the house and leave you alone!

The art style is really beautiful, funny and child friendly. Each animations create a marvelous atmosphere where you want to explore every objects, discover what you can do with them, and see the reaction on your "guests". You can play at your own peace or compete for the first place in the leaderboard! There are also many achievements that help you discover every possibilities offered by the game if you want.

Haunt the house was made by SFB Games, a British independent game studio, founded by two brothers, Tom and Adam Vian, who have been making games together since 2003. As Haunt the house is a premium title, you'll have no bad surprise after the initial purchase: no ads, no in-app-purchase.

Screenshots: