What's Your Gam3? #30

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What’s That Gam3? [review]

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Beast League

Quick and Easy to Play Competitive PvP sports action 🏀 Available on IOS & Android 📱 By @PlayAcidGames

TLDR: 

• Clean graphics and animations

• Easy-to-grasp controls

• Limited player base

• Energy restrictions are too harsh

How to play

• Playable on mobile

• Free to play (to a point)

Game Loop

• It is basketball with beasts

• You take control of a beast and play on a 2d court

• The winner scores the most baskets

• You can shoot, jump, and use your special

• Each beast has its unique specials, which have differing effects

  

• As you win, you collect trophies.

• These trophies unlock further beasts as well as different game modes

• I played two game modes: normal and flying

• The flying mode is played on a larger court, and you can fly following jumping

  

• Each game takes about three to four minutes

Game feel

• First impressions are good, with an engaging art style and clean animations.

• The gameplay is easy to pick up.

  

• Sadly, the player base isn’t there yet, and I spent the entire time playing against bots.

• The bots can be easily cheesed, which did make it a little repetitive

• The game required some skilled play when actively avoiding cheesing, yet it still leans more into the fun casual style.

• Progression to extra beasts and modes is a good motivator to continue playing.

• However, the energy system is too harsh, not giving the player enough starting games to find it sticky.

• The energy also doesn’t replenish automatically, besides three free energy drinks plus nine for watching ads.

Rating

• The game does have potential, and the look is clean and appealing

• The lack of a player base holds it back

• Without enough energy to get “invested” in progress, many people just put the game down.

• It could be some party-style fun if you played with friends.

• Mixed review at this stage.

Web3 integration

• Unclear at this stage

For more information, follow their Twitter page to stay up to date.

Puzzle Crusher

The most addicting Web3 Puzzle Game live on iOS/Android. Incubated by @SeascapeNetwork. Building on @Bitcoin.

TLDR: 

• Cute art

• Easy game loop

• Bitesized gameplay

• Appealing to a wide demographic

• It might have a slight miss match with current web3 gamer profiles

How to play

• Play on mobile

• Free to play

Game Loop

• You are a cute witch stuck on some floating land tiles

• The goal is to reach the chest

• Each time you step on a land tile, it falls away

• On the way to the chest, you need to collect keys and unlock locks

• Put simplistically, you need to plan a route to unlock all the locks and reach the chest without running out of the floor to walk on

• The levels keep increasing in difficulty as you progress

• You have other tools to help, such as undo and hints

• Your progression through the levels is limited by your hearts, which represent your lives

• These hearts refill over time

• Outside the core loop is a meta-game of upgrading your island.

• These upgrades unlock additional tools for completing the levels

Game feel

• I was quickly engaged in the challenges.

• The progression curve was set brilliantly to get me stuck before hitting more complex challenges.

• The initial heart refresh timer felt a little long if you got stuck on a level; however, upgrading your village can reduce that.

• The controls and feedback in the game felt rewarding and elevated the simple game loop.

• You have plenty of challenges to tackle on the map, and I haven’t reached the end yet.

• There are skins, etc., to buy in-game. I’d assume there might be some social features coming to showcase these, as they didn’t seem to serve any practical purpose.

• Because it is very casual and puzzle-related, I think it has a large demographic. However, I didn’t see that particularly lining up with the current Web3 population, which is mainly made up of more sweaty gamers.

Rating

• Enjoyable brainer tease

• Clean and engaging graphics

• Sticky core loop

• Potential mismatch of populations

• Enjoyed, would recommend playing it.

Web3 integration

• It's unclear at this point, beyond being on Bitcoin.

For more information, follow their Twitter page to stay up to date.

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WAGMI Defense - Private Matches

What is the point of being all-powerful if you can’t dunk on your friends?

WAGMI has now added private matches so that you can do just that!

Keep an eye out for my WAGMI streams for a chance to defeat me (unlikely) and receive a prize.

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Thanks for making it to the end. That is all the new games for this week. Do you know any games you’d like to hear more about? Let me know.

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