In the selection for Friday, we have two completely different projects: hardcore 1942: Pacific Front and casual PatchMania.
1942: Pacific Front
HandyGames has released a turn-based tactical strategy 1942: Pacific Front. The closest analogy that comes to mind is the Panzer Generals series. Here, too, the Second World War and hexes. However, it is not necessary to count on a session of several hours, and, for example, we did not find a limiter of moves.
The project has two problems.
Firstly, the game is visually obsolete. For example, despite the neat picture, there is almost no animation in the game (weak explosions do not count), as if the game came from a niche genre of the early noughties.
The second problem is monetization. HandyGames continues to believe that it is normal practice to monetize projects that are paid in spirit by hanging a banner on a third of the screen.
However, it is possible that they are right: the number of those who will remove the banner may be more than the number of those who are initially ready to buy an untested project.
The game on Google Play is mostly scolded because of the demands on hardware (!) and the need to disable advertising for money.
PatchMania
A funny, but initially boring game about rabbits who want to annoy the farmer. The gameplay is to swipe your finger across all the vegetables from the game characters to the burrow. In fact, Flow Free is slightly simplified and executed at a high visual level with Pacman elements.
I don’t know how the project will show itself in the future, but the following moment seems very important in it: the game is not minimalistic, but at the same time it does not have any complexity, load, requiring even minimal investigation (a la, but here you need to remember the next moment, and here this one). At the same time, the gameplay, despite references to Flow Free, is perceived as something fresh, not hackneyed.
There are very few reviews in the American App Store so far, but they are mostly positive.
