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Legend of Keepers review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on June 1st, 2023
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: LIGHT WORK
This reverse dungeon-crawler doesn’t quite know how to make its systems fit together in ways that satisfy.
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EISEN review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on March 10th, 2023
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: MINDLESS MECH
The key difference between this game and Hideki Hanida’s other output is a quality core.
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Ultra Blade review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on March 2nd, 2023
Our rating: starstarstarhalfstarblankstar :: IMMORTAL SURVIVORS
This mashup of Immortal Rogue and Vampire Survivors is fun enough, but ultimately less satisfying than both of those games.
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Tallowmere 2 review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on October 4th, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarhalfstarblankstar :: THE LONG RUN
This roguelike gives you a ton of things to do but they can wear thin depending on your luck and the length of each run.
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Descenders review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on August 5th, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: ROGUEBIKE
Descenders is such a fresh take on action sports games that it manages to satisfy on iOS, even with troublesome touch controls.
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Card Crawl Adventure review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on August 3rd, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarstarhalfstar :: THIS RULES
The latest title from Tinytouchtales is yet another great card-based roguelike, and easily their most ambitious one yet.<
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Pawnbarian review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on July 28th, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarstarhalfstar :: CARDS CLOSE TO CHESS
This ingenious roguelike combines chess and deck-building in ways you don’t necessarily expect.
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Blacken Slash review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on July 22nd, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: FIGHTING MACHINE
This abstract roguelike serves up micro levels bursting with variety and challenge.
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Dicey Dungeons review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on July 8th, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: TOUCH & ROLL
The brilliant dice-based roguelike from 2019 has finally graced the App Store and it’s just as good as it was then, if not better.
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Abandon Ship review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on June 22nd, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarhalfstarblankstar :: FTL WITH FLOTSAM
This perfectly serviceable roguelike mostly suffers from having a lot of higher quality competition.
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Loopy Wizard review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on April 21st, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: THE MAGIC IS GONE
In producing a second “homage” to Michael Brough’s roguelikes, Loopy Wizard feels like an also-ran.
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Heck Deck review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on January 11th, 2022
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: DEATH ISN’T FUN
This deck-based arena bullet hell shooter has a lot of fun ideas that stop being fun once you die, and you die a lot in Heck Deck.
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on August 31st, 2021
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: RUNS OF RANDOMNESS
This pixelated dungeon-crawler has a huge amount of variety, for better and for worse.
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Steam Link Spotlight - Jupiter Hell

Posted by Campbell Bird on August 10th, 2021
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Steam Link Spotlight is a feature where we look at PC games that play exceptionally well using the Steam Link app. Our last entry looked at Roguebook. Read about how it plays using Steam Link over here.

For this entry, we looked at what would probably make a good case for reinterpreting Doom as a turn-based affair tuned for mobile. Jupiter Hell may not be on the App Store, but it sure as heck feels like it should, and it brings sci-fi horror, heavy metal, gore, and gunplay together in ways that remind me of old-school 90s shooter aesthetics.

Salvagette review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on July 7th, 2021
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: FREEDOM FIGHTER
Salvagette is an innovative (and free) approach to the bullet hell genre.
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