Here at IGM Mobile, we’d like to give a sincere thanks to all the fathers out there, celebrating this wonderful Father’s Day. We hope, whoever you are, you’re having a great day! Now, let’s get started and show you the wonderful collection of freebies you can download, completely free (obviously)! Just be sure to grab them as fast as you can, because we can’t control the prices and the developer can change the price of the app at anytime.

iPhone:

Tower of Fortune ($0.99 –> Free!, 6.1 MB): Tower of Fortune is a retro-style slot machine/RPG. You play as a retired hero and lived with daughter peacefully. Until one day, an unknown power from the mystic tower took her away. This force the hero to draw the sword again and fight for his daughter. The game features a four slot machine game, 39 combat quests, 12 random tavern quests, 39 enemies, and three different endings.

Tower of Fortune is available free for a limited period of time.It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 649 reviews.

Bees vs. Ants ($2.99 –> Free!, 12.4 MB): The bees’ territory was invaded by the ants. On this vital moment, the bees took up arms bravely to teach the shameless invaders. Main goal of Bees vs. Ants is to occupy all castles and towers. The control is simple. You just play this game with finger swipes. The game includes 60 challenging levels, and is suitable for all ages.

Bees vs. Ants is available free for a limited period of time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 106 reviews.

Caribbean Zombie ($0.99 –> Free!, 31.0 MB): There are lovely fairies having a delight time at a peaceful beach. At that time, strange-black shadow is approaching to them on the horizon far out at sea. A single shriek strikes the beginning of bold adventure for rescuing our pity fairies taken into Pirates of Zombies in Caribbean! The game includes three stages in the six worlds.

Caribbean Zombie is available free for a limited period of time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 34 reviews.

Tiny Escape ($0.99 –> Free!, 24.9 MB): The fear of escaping from evil land will fill your gameplay in Tiny Escape. Tiny Escape is an amazing adventurous game, with loads of features and is extremely addictive. Play Tiny Escape with amazingly designed gameplay, you need to hop and escape from dangerous enemies. Acquire power-ups and bonuses as you thread your way ahead. The game includes 10 worlds and five unique characters.

Tiny Escape is available free for today only (6/17/2012). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 16 reviews.

iPad:

Bees vs. Ants HD ($2.99 –> Free!, 20.5 MB): The bees’ territory was invaded by the ants. On this vital moment, the bees took up arms bravely to teach the shameless invaders. Main goal of Bees vs. Ants is to occupy all castles and towers. The control is simple. You just play this game with finger swipes. The game includes 60 challenging levels, and is suitable for all ages.

Bees vs. Ants is available free for a limited period of time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 124 reviews.

Tiny Escape HD ($0.99 –> Free!, 17.4 MB): The fear of escaping from evil land will fill your gameplay in Tiny Escape. Tiny Escape is an amazing adventurous game, with loads of features and is extremely addictive. Play Tiny Escape with amazingly designed gameplay, you need to hop and escape from dangerous enemies. Acquire power-ups and bonuses as you thread your way ahead. The game includes 10 worlds and five unique characters.

Tiny Escape is available free for today only (6/17/2012). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 16 reviews.

Universal:

Dream:scape ($0.99 –> Free!, 191.4 MB): Take on the persona of Wilson, a man caught in the limbo between life and death, reconstructing his past via the Dreamscape of his memories. Find the tools to overcome the Guardians of Memory, revealing buried secrets and shedding new light on a decades-old mystery. Halcyon visions turn to dark reveries as the truth unravels, spiraling toward the inescapable climax. Dream:scape is a world of love, mystery, and ultimately, revenge. Includes nearly thirty seamless acres of entirely open-world exploration.

Dream:scape is available free for a limited period of time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 758 reviews.

Raiding Company ($2.99 –> Free!, 66.3 MB): Blast your way through this action-packed dual stick shooter, with six playable characters with unique weapons, five missions + special Survival and Defense modes, challenges, achievements and 108 stars to collect. Play with friends on one screen co-op multiplayer!

Raiding Company is available free for today only (6/17/2012). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 181 reviews.

Grabatron ($2.99 –> Free!, 44.2MB): Take control of a UFO with a retractable claw and destroy the puny humans! Terrorise them anyway you like: Toss them, crush them, abduct them – it’s up to you. Grabatron – where being evil has never been so much fun! The game includes over 30 different missions, and a variety of ships and landing zones.

Grabatron is available free for today only (6/17/2012). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 123 reviews.

Inotia 3: Children of Carnia ($0.99 –> Free!, 22.3 MB): ”With the coming of age ritual ahead, Lucio and Ameli from Carnia village happen to be acquiring guntlets, and the adventure stirred up by these guntlets leads to a consequence that is a way beyond their imaginations… Lucio and Ameli realize soon that they have extraordinary destinies lain before them… Warriors’ predestined fates have been lasted for thousands of years already… Will those of who are born to be warriors be happy after all?” The game spans over 130 maps and 230 quests.

Inotia 3: Children of Carnia is available free for a limited period of time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 24455 reviews.

Ballistic SE ($1.99 –> Free!, 33.5 MB): Welcome to the world of Ballistic Special Edition, an intense and highly-polished arena-style twin-stick shooter from the creator of Super Crossfire and Fireball SE.  Activate Ballistic Mode to slow down the action and turn your blasters on overdrive! The game features: Configure your play experience with 10 ship enhancements, marvel at the glorious high-resolution graphics (supports the new iPad Retina Display), keep your progress across multiple devices (seamless iCloud saving), and compare your scores with Game Center leaderboards (and achievements) .Blast your way through an infinite number of Waves, or dive into 5 intense challenges.

Ballistic SE is available free for today only (6/17/2012). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 160 reviews.

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Once again, we’d like to say a big thanks to the fathers out there and have happy Father’s Day! If you’re looking for a complete guide to please your father, with just apps, check out AppAddict’s Father’s Day guide to iOS Gift Giving.

Sincerely,

Your IGM Mobile Editors

What’s that retro game on the App Store? Oh, it’s Holiday Havoc! Holiday Havoc is Underground Pixel‘s first app, and it doesn’t show! This game is simple yet slightly challenging. It’s so easy to learn and suitable for young kids about 5 and up. The game will require some fast thinking, somewhat like Major Mayhem, you can’t shoot friendly people! In this case, these “friendly people” are elves that bring young kids their presents. Don’t want to shoot those do you?

The game goes as there are nutcrackers and evil teddy bears trying to steal Santa’s presents. You, Santa, shoot disintegrating snowballs at the evil creatures, but make sure you don’t shoot the elves! There are power ups to have turn snow balls into ice balls which freezes elves if you accidentally hit them and gives you unlimited shots for a short period of time. You have three lives if you shoot an elf, but if a nutcracker or teddy bear gets the present (and leaves the screen), you lose instantly.

The game’s graphics is pixel’d and 8-bit-ish. They aren’t truly 8-bit (they’re bit higher), but it will still be nostalgic to retro lovers. Holiday Havoc does support HD retina display (however it doesn’t support native iPad display). The music has a nice chipmunk styled beat while retaining the old-school feel. As soon as you press ‘play’ it goes all out into a battle theme.
Woah, I just got an achievement! While I was writing this review, I set the game on pause so I could carefully listen to the music and I got the ‘procrastinator’ achievement. Nice! These achievements add replay value to the game, and I love achievements.

While I can’t picture myself playing the game for more than 10 minutes at a time, but I still take out the game every once in a while when I get bored, it’s still a fun game. There are leaderboards where you can compare your score with your friends. I won’t even look towards being in the top due to all those ‘jailbreakers’ who use iFile to cheat on their score. It gets a bit annoying after a seeing every game flooded with cheated scores, but on this game, it seems that all the scores are real! Thank you for not jailbreaking. Back on topic, the leaderboards are useful when seeing who can get the highest scores within your friends.

Overall, the game is great time passer and I recommend it to retro lovers. I recommend to keep the app as well, since it’s a nice app to let your kids (or younger siblings) play. Can’t wait for next Christmas!

For more information on Holiday Havoc visit their official website. The iOS version can be found at the App Store for iPhone for $0.99.

]]> http://mobile.indiegamemag.com/holiday-havoc-review/feed/ 0 http://mobile.indiegamemag.com/chuppy-jump-review/ http://mobile.indiegamemag.com/chuppy-jump-review/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:36 +0000 Former Staff http://appblitz.net/?p=2306

A new holiday themed iOS game is out, and how will it do against the competition? As I played Chuppy Jump’s extremely easy to learn gameplay, I decided that this game was terrific. With that said, there could be new features and obstacles added to the game. The game is really simple and easy to catch on, in fact there isn’t even a tutorial or a help menu. I liked that because nowadays, almost all developers and gaming studios decide that the gamer is a complete idiot and cannot learn to play without a stupid tutorial telling about all the controls. The game’s objective is clear: accomplish the goals, level up, and gain an ornament to put on your Christmas tree.

You play as a frog, whose Christmas lights have all gone out and you go through a perilous adventure to get them back. While they tell you the story, you can infer that from the two frames of the intro “cutscene”. The game requires you to jump across snow onto moving or stationary pads that you land on. There are also dried leaves which you land on only for a certain period of time before it breaks. The way the game measures your “HP” is really unique and special. You are a frog, therefore you are cold-blooded. If you stay on a platform without moving, you’ll slow get your HP bar drained. If you fall into the snow, you’ll get a larger portion of the meter depleted. The game is somewhat like Doodle Jump, but in a sense, very different.

There are lots of goals to complete, like getting enough flowers on your trip, or just traveling far enough. Every time you complete a goal, you gain a certain amount of XP which goes towards you leveling up. There are certain traps you may find on the way, like spikey pads which will kill you instantly if you jump over it. There are also directional pads which will fling shot you into which ever direction the arrow is facing (the arrow is constantly turning). There are also powerups to collect, while not all of them are friendly, they can really help. Also, the map is always different, making the game interesting every time.

The music is actually pretty good and spirited. It starts off with a small holiday jingle then transforms into a exciting piano solo. This game is cool and interesting for almost everyone at any age. I certainly enjoyed playing the game, and I can’t wait for it to be universal. Overall, it’s really fun and I recommended to all my friends. Happy holidays!

Reviewed Device: iPod Touch 3G

Tested Device: iPad 2