Apple Arcade: Обзор Pilgrims, Tangle Tower и No Way Home

Apple Arcade is a game subscription service for iOS devices that offers players more than a hundred games with no ads, in-app purchases, or other unpleasant restrictions. The subscription costs — 200 rubles/month, which for a small amount of money at the moment allows users to dip into a fair number of good titles.

Apple Arcade is a subscription service for iOS devices.

The games available on Apple’s Arcade service support controller control, which often makes the experience more comfortable. However, not all games are of high quality, and some may not appeal to players at all. In this column we will look at a selection of games and determine whether they are worth a look. In our third installment, we will be reviewing the following games: Pilgrims, Tangle Tower and No Way Home.

Pilgrims, Tangle Tower and No Way Home.

Apple Arcade: Pilgrims

If you’re looking for a game whose synonym would be the word»enchantment», consider this nostalgically animated 2D cartoon-style adventure game that features a variety of challenges, such as slaying a dragon or capturing the soul of a priest.

Apple Arcade: Pilgrims

Unusually, the game is designed as a card game — every time you collect an item or acquire a new character, it’s added to your deck and played at the appropriate moment. But this is more of an aesthetic than a gameplay decision: in practical terms, playing a card — is pretty much the same as pressing a button «to use X with Y».

Here’s the thing.

This game is all about the character, which is both dark and charming, weird logic leaps and great looks. The game also has decent replayability, as there are multiple decisions, multiple endings, and 45 achievement cards to collect.

Apple Arcade: Tangle Tower

A detective adventure game based on a murder in a locked room. It’s so addictive that some may stay up half the night trying to solve it.

So much so that some may stay up half the night trying to solve it.

I haven’t played any of the previous Detective Grimoire games, and perhaps that’s why I felt a bit dumbfounded at first: the game doesn’t explain how to conduct an interrogation, for example. And the case itself is deliberately convoluted, with plenty of twists and turns, clues and background text.

But that feeling when you barely know what’s going on — a murder mystery from the golden age of detectives, and nice if you can handle it. And the story, graphics, voice acting and humor are of such high quality that even those new to crime solving will enjoy it.

And the story, graphics, voice acting and humor are of such high quality that even those new to crime solving will enjoy it immensely.

Apple Arcade: No Way Home

A simple and addictive twin-stick shooter with cartoonish graphics and story. You control a small spaceship, which you gradually upgrade to find your way back to Earth, and fight your way through space pirates and other baddies that stand in the way.

An exciting two-shot shooter with cartoonish graphics and story.

That’s the main mission, but along the way you’ll be recruited or persuaded to complete a host of smaller tasks. Most of them boil down to «go to one place, shoot a few people and come back» but I didn’t get bored with that formula, and in the version 1.1 update, the creators added new missions — and a new mission type «defense». But be aware, many people can get bored with this game quickly. If you’re looking for something a little less monotonous, you’re not going to go the same way with this game.

The shoot-’em-up style action works well with on-screen controls, though switching between the gun and grappling hook is difficult and thumbsticks sometimes obscure the action; with a controller, the game works perfectly.