Category archive for ‘Strategy’ 
Ascent (0)
4/13/10 •
It took me ages to figure out Ascent, a new game by SpareTime Apps that will certainly fill up whatever spare time you have – and, as in my case, start to invade your work time as well. It’s a brilliantly conceived game, once you over come the head-scratching beginning, and now that I’ve become ... Read More
Numbl: Number jumble fun.™ (1)
3/30/10 •
Here’s a game we haven’t seen on Appstruck for awhile – a math game. Awhile back we reviewed what we surmised as a kid’s math game, by the name of Razor Reef Brain Addition, a game one of our writers felt marked a perfect marriage between fun and education. Today, we have Numbl: Number jumble ... Read More
Dinosaur Slayer (0)
3/17/10 •
Like any regular gamer, I love the full-fledged game, with background stories, plenty of blood and gore, maybe an RPG element, and some serious action. I relish good graphics, good controls, and I approve of well-laid out character sketches and interesting design aesthetics. But, when it comes to kicking back on those lazy, hazy days, ... Read More
Soul (0)
3/11/10 •
Soul by Kydos Studio kind of scares me. Really. It’s a freaky app. In Soul the game starts with a beating heart on a black screen, with the title Soul etched faintly in glowing blue white. A beating heart in a black setting always conjures the most vivid of horror movies for me, so upon the ... Read More
Bejeweled 2 (0)
2/26/10 •
It’s too easy to overlook all the great games in the App Store. With so many options, and so many new games released every day, it’s easy to just get caught up in what Apple recommends as the latest and greatest. I like to search deep down into the bowels of the App Store, sifting ... Read More
Jamzu revisited (0)
2/23/10 •
Back in October, David reviewed Jamzu, a strategy board game. The review is located here. Well, Jamzu has recently been revamped with 2 player mode on the same device (previously 2 player was only allowed through Wi-Fi) and a new rolling system that created, as the developer claims, “a huge boost in game play quality.” ... Read More
Lines of Mania (!) (0)
2/12/10 •
I felt the name of this game calls for an exclamation mark. Lines of Mania, by Good Apps UG, is a strategy game based on a game that’s been played for years on paper (the Mexcian derivative is “Las Lineas”, “The Lines”, or “Numeros,” “Numbers”, according to my girlfriend). It’s really, really simple: connect the ... Read More
Gridiron (4)
2/11/10 •
The late, great Hunter S. Thompson wrote, “Football Season Is Over.” Nostalgia has set in and the Super Bowl was Sunday! Luckily, the next season starts March 5, 2010… for the players and coaches, that is: the rest of us will have to wait until September. Oi. Despite sports week ending last Friday, I think ... Read More
Bad Apples (0)
2/10/10 •
Every so often I come across a game that I can see myself playing over and over again. Or one, at least, that’s clever and quirky enough to wedge itself into my usual game rotation; given my obsessiveness over games, this is hardly a trifle characteristic. Bad Apples by Metaversal Studios is one such game ... Read More
Gluons (1)
2/10/10 •
Gluons by 2 Cubed reminds me a bit of Furballs in Space! It has the same, ominous music common to sci-fi flicks set in space, and it involves a similar premise of connecting like objects together, to eventually collect enough together to rack up points. Only, in Furballs, the objects played with were of the ... Read More
