Monopoly Tycoon is a free-to-play city-building game for Android and iOS. Far from the family ending their relationships around the dinner table, this game seems to take the franchise in a new direction. A single-player experience, Monopoly Tycoon features 3 maps (Atlantic City, Paris and London). The player, armed with their start-up capital, must wisely invest and grow their wealth. Rather than the more static development available in other editions of Monopoly, in this game, players can freely build hundreds of different, unique buildings and decorations. It seems the game will feel quite different from the board game adaptation, because you can place buildings freely throughout the city. So, if you like city-builders like SimCity or City Mania, this might just scratch that itch for you.

This isn’t the development team’s first adaptation of a popular franchise to mobile. For instance, Nvizzio Creations launched RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch in 2017, and reviews of that title are excellent. Also, way back in 2001, they launched the original Monopoly Tycoon. All that said, it seems like this project is in good hands.

Key Features of Monopoly Tycoon

Straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s what the developers claim Monopoly Tycoon will feature at launch;

• Discover over a thousand buildings and decorations to collect, build and upgrade
• Compete to acquire properties in the Auction House
• Fulfill the needs from your houses and hotels to maximize rents
• Complete missions to progress and get rewards
• Draw Community Chest and Chance cards to boost your performance
• Pass Go everyday to increase daily rewards
• Resolve City Problems, by playing fun mini-games
• Unlock three famous MONOPOLY board locations: Atlantic City, Paris and London.
• Become the wealthiest real estate tycoon ever!

Additionally, Nvizzio are working closely with Hasbro – the game board giant who owns the original tabletop game. That lends credibility to the game but, above all, we’re hoping it means this title will feel like a proper adaptation, not just a city-builder with the Monopoly branding slapped on.

All in all, we at GamEir can’t wait to get stuck in and see how it feels. Players can download the game for free via iOS and Android, and follow the latest news for MONOPOLY TYCOON via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram!

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Goblin, Orcs and Elves oh my!

The once-thriving village of Whitestone is under siege by the Twilight Empire. This is an evil organization whose ranks include nefarious goblins, savage orcs, and cunning elves. Not a fun bunch. The only opposition is the brave wizards, warriors, and rogues. These heroes are drawn to the city in the hopes of honour, glory, and loot.

Rally an adventuring group from more than 60 heroes. Then advance in each adventure through a tabletop-game like arena. Roll dice to move across the board and trigger different scenarios, like engaging turn-based combat. Create a balanced party by equipping unique dice to every character then upgrading their dice, skills and items to create an unstoppable team.

Traversing the board offers more than just combat options. Players will encounter tiles with NPC conversations to progress the story, tiles to complete quests or gain new ones, and chest tiles that offer up epic loot and equippable gear. The Blacksmith can arm heroes with better tools while the Greedy Goblin will steal the items needed to fight the Twilight Empire.

Players can face numerous challenges in RPG Dice: Heroes of Whitestone

Face the ultimate challenge: other people! PVP battles offer great rewards and a ranked progression system with online leaderboards. Form a guild to slay the deadly Swine Chief through the teamwork of many warriors. When the guild is strong enough, raid the Ziggurat, an endgame dungeon featuring the deadliest enemies in the game, and the most epic loot.

Potential saviours of Whitestone can prepare for their adventure by pre-registering on the App Store and Google Play. This will help the community unlock a variety of valuable rewards. This loot includes the Uncommon Rank 2 Combat Die, Rare Rank 3 Rogue Gloves, Rare Rank 3 Warrior Weapon Nightsteel Mace and the Verdant Doublet, an Epic Rank 4 Caster Chest Armour. With enough pre-registrations leading up to launch, warriors can earn the Orc Warrior Hero Thokrug.

“We loved the worlds we adventured through in tabletop RPGs growing up, said Dave Rosen, CEO, WIMO Games. RPG Dice: Heroes of Whitestone, is our love letter to those games and we’re excited for players to experience that letter on iOS and Android.”

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Mini Motorways is a brand new traffic sim game from Dinosaur Polo Club. DPC previously brought us Mini Metro, a similar game about underground train management.

I think it’s fair to say that traffic is rarely something one would associate with relaxation. Quite the opposite, in fact. Traffic is stressful, dirty, loud, and infuriating. Mini Motorways, on the other hand, is delightfully the opposite of all of those things. It’s relaxing, über-clean aesthetically, understated, and calming. It is, in fact, ironically, the perfect game to play to wind down after a stressful commute.

Mini Motorways, Mini Roundabouts, Mini Traffic Lights… Mini Management!

The basic premise of Mini Motorways couldn’t be simpler. There are two kinds of buildings – houses, where cars start, and destinations, where they must reach. These destinations spawn pins – like GPS pins – and once the cars reach the pins, they disappear. It’s up to the player to draw lines of roads connecting those two. Sounds simple, right? And it is! But, like a lot of simple things, it gets more complex the more of it you have.

Every intersection is an obstacle, slowing down traffic. Periodically, the game drops new houses and destinations on the map for you to juggle. Every in-game week, you get more road tiles to place – they’re finite! – and a choice of upgrades, ranging from roundabouts to traffics lights to the eponymous motorways. They’re finite, too. I had great fun trying to optimise my routes. I can’t overstate how satisfying it is to seamlessly integrate new houses and destinations into the network.

Eventually, it becomes impossible to collect all the pins. Too many pins, not enough cars, too much traffic to collect them in time – and then you lose. But losing doesn’t feel bad. It feels… Inevitable, and satisfying in its own way. As a player, your success is measured in the number of journeys completed, and you get to see where you place against other players on a leaderboard. The whole thing is super simple and very digestible in small increments. You sit down – play with traffic for half an hour or so – then you’re done. In an age where so many games demand dozens of hours of your time, Mini Motorways feels refreshingly brief and bite-sized.

Red, Amber & Green Have Nothing on Mini Motorways‘ Pastel Aesthetics

If you played Mini Metro, Mini Motorways‘ art style will feel familiar to it. It’s bright, clean, minimal and colourful – without being noisy. There are no extraneous details. Every line and colour has its own unique purpose. Each map has its own subtly different colour scheme – from Tokyo’s sakura pinks, to Dubai’s desert brown’s to Zurich’s Swiss red. DPC’s artists have done very well to make such minimal changes feel distinct and refreshing.

What’s particularly striking, however, is the audio design. The music is vibrant, modern and minimal. Each new tile placed or removed makes a satisfying pop. Completed journeys let out a bing, blending seamlessly into the soundtrack to make a symphony celebrating your city’s efficiency.

Accessibility! Easy to Ignore, Wonderful to See

I think it’s worth mentioning that Mini Motorways, despite its simplicity, has top-notch accessibility options. There’s a colourblind mode – crucial, as the gameplay is explicitly colour-coded. It has a night mode to save your eyes from strain. The menus have a delightful dynamic transition animation – but for those few for whom that might be overwhelming or difficult to watch, there’s a simple check-box to turn them off. Nobody made Dinosaur Polo Club make their game so accessible, and 99% of players wouldn’t notice if they didn’t. But they did, and that’s worthy of praise.

Mini Motorways is easy to learn, hard to master. It’s simple, pretty, clean, and the attention to detail is very high. It certainly won’t be for everybody, but if drawing efficient routes on minimal maps of world cities is your thing – then you should check it out.

Now available on Apple Arcade and Steam, coming soon to Switch. Sadly, due to contract restrictions, it looks like Android users won’t get to play at any point.

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GWENT: The Witcher Card Game – What kind of tale is Price of Power?

Price of Power is a set consisting of three story-related expansions for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game with the main theme of magic and how different factions seek out, fight for, or exploit its power. The first expansion of the Price of Power set — Once Upon A Pyre — will introduce 26 new cards: 4 cards of different rarities per faction and 2 neutrals.

New abilities and gameplay mechanics will also be making their way into the game, bringing fresh and powerful synergies to take advantage of in battle.

For those who can’t wait for the first expansion’s arrival, players can take advantage of a special, time-limited offer. The Price of Power Expansion Pass grants access to all Price of Power premium cards, with a selection of cards becoming available with the release of each of the set’s three expansions. Also included with the offer is the animated Pyre coin — available to use immediately after purchase of the Expansion Pass.

The trailer itself offers scant details, but CD PROJEKT RED has never let players down when it comes to GWENT related projects anyway.

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Many of you may recognise the name – Mystery Match hit digital shelves way back in 2014 and has become a bit of a classic since then. This is the long-anticipated sequel. Like the first game, the core experience here is a Cluedo / Murder, She Wrote style murder mystery, mixed in with match-3 gameplay. This entry also features hidden object searches and “village restoration”. I’m a sucker for base building, so that sounds great to me!

Besides improved graphical fidelity & better audio, this entry also introduces episodic gameplay. Outplay Entertainment is planning a new episode every 8 weeks – for how long, it’s unclear so far. Seems like they intend to keep gamers happy with new content for some time to come. If that’s too long, Outplay promises great replay value. This includes puzzles increasing in difficulty when you go back to completed levels.

Mo’ Mystery, Mo’ Matching, Mo’ Problems

If you’re a fan of the original game, or the genre, this looks promising. It seems light, engaging, and not too taxing. Perfect for commutes & commodes; easy to pick up and put down as and when you need.

It’s difficult to fault Outplay’s credentials – they have a huge number of highly successful games under their belts. They are, in their own words, “the largest independent mobile developer in the UK”.

If this all sounds like your cup of tea, Mystery Match Village is now available worldwide on the Apple App Store and Google Play. For more information on Outplay Entertainment and Mystery Match Village, follow the organization via its official website here, and on Twitter and Facebook.

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With more than 1.5 million pre-registrations, The Walking Dead: Survivors is a highly-anticipated multiplayer survival adventure. It tasks players with using survivors to build their town to fend off other players and hordes of walkers.

Fan-favourite Survivors from the Skybound/Image comics will be playable at launch, each with their own unique roles. There are two categories; Combat or Development. Players can use these characters to fortify their town against other players and hordes of walkers or explore beyond the barrier and engage in combat against enemies.

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Worry no more! Orwell’s Animal Farm has arrived to seize the means of entertainment. Developer Nerial has taken on the task, creating an interesting if shallow new look at the classic story. Transposing the original narrative into a point and click adventure. The closest point of comparison may be the clever Jules Verne phone adaptation 80 Days or the ingenious Elsinore, the choose-your-own-adventure retelling of Hamlet.

Hogwash!

Animal Farm never meets these creative heights. A disappointingly straightforward affair with minimal interactivity. More choices become available as you progress but it still feels closer to a book report than a gaming experience. Beautifully illustrated scenes tell the story with a charming cartoon style, yet it feels at odds with the severity of the unfolding events. More Walt Disney than Watership Down. A recommended early decision is to turn off the overblown narration. Juxtaposed with the cheery visuals it’s truly pompous and overblown.

Dramatic moments are lost entirely due to limited animation. For example, an early scene in which the tragic foolish horse Boxer accidentally kicks a young man to death is shown from a bird’s eye view. The weight of this moment is delivered solely via dialogue box, accidentally making this weirdly impersonal, especially compared to the original story. If the aim was to bring a classic to life in this form then it has sorely missed the mark.

Orwell’s that ends well?

As a way to engage younger audiences with the book, Orwell’s Animal Farm could be an excellent teaching tool. Older players however will be less enthused. For a brief bit of horsing around the game is entertaining enough but if you want to truly pig out then it’s time to hit the books.

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Inked tells a beautiful story of love and hope. Through the immersive world created by pen on paper, players will solve puzzles to help the protagonist on a journey to search for his lost love. The game features nine visually stunning chapters that include numerous puzzles and original soundtracks that is guaranteed to offer a unique gaming experience for up to four hours.

About Inked:

Inked is a tale of love and redemption told in ink and paper. In this story-driven puzzle game, the players will play as the Nameless Hero who sets out on a journey in a vast and beautiful landscape filled with puzzles for them to solve. Each puzzle takes the players closer to their lost love, unravelling a story that’s heart-warming and enchanting.

Game Highlights:

• Uniquely hand-drawn gameplay and character design
• Rich storyline that reveals itself as you play along
• Numerous intriguing puzzles
• Mesmerizing soundtrack

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Gwent’s Journey progression system has 100 levels for you to rank through. Each one contains a reward. Work your way through special weekly quests and play through all the different game modes. The standard, seasonal and draft modes will all earn you progress towards unlocking some sweet rewards. This season is set to last three months and is themed around Yennefer of Vengerberg. That’ll give Geralt something to play for.

All players of Gwent can avail of the base tier of Journey for free. As with all seasons, you can pay for the premium pass to get access to the full list of rewards. Getting the premium pass nets you the legendary neutra leader skin for Yennefer. 

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is available for free on PC via GOG.COM and Steam, as well as on Android and iOS. 

If you’re a fan let us know in the comments below. Which is your favourite deck? Who is your favourite character? We’ll be sure and let you know ours.

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Bio Inc. Redemption by DryGin Studios is an interesting medical simulation game that plants you in the position of Life or Death. It manages to find a happy medium for people who like to get in-depth with information and those who just like to tap for rewards. It’s a challenging experience even on the starting difficulties and can be hard to find your medical flow. Players are given a patient with a randomized set of symptoms to investigate. Through collecting cells that appear in the many systems of the body, players earn Bio Points. With Bio Points, players can run tests and treatments that may help to save the patient’s life.

Finding the right tests to run essentially comes down to tapping the symptoms and finding the disease where symptoms overlap. Once you have gotten some positive tests back, you spend Bio Points on treatments for the disease. You can spend points on upgrades to your resource collection and a variety of lifestyle changes that will improve your patient’s resistances in certain areas. For example, suggesting yoga improves the patients bone strength, a Mediterranean diet for the digestive system and so on. Getting started can be a little slow, as you need to read the detailed information on the symptoms that your patient has, the tests that you can run and the treatments that are available.

Not a substitute for a medical degree

As time progresses, your patient will develop new symptoms. Existing symptoms worsen over time so players have to be quick in collecting Bio Points and taking test samples. All tests and treatments take time to run, which can really up the intensity when your patient is barely holding on. It can also be one of the more annoying parts of the game as the cells don’t hang around long and you need to constantly be watching. Points can be slow to generate and more valuable cells can disappear within a moment. Actually collecting the resource takes time too as you have to hold down on the cell but this can be upgraded with Bio Points.

Anyone familiar with the studio’s other game, Plague Inc., will grasp the game’s resource mechanic very quickly as they share a lot of similarities. Players essentially wait for points to develop, they spend the points on upgrades and perks and repeat the process until the game ends. There are spontaneous events that happen that can either help or hinder you. If you happen to get one at the right time, it can feel like a miraculous stroke of luck for your doctor.

Medically macabre

If you get tired of saving people’s lives you have the option of playing as Death instead. Naturally, the objective of this mode is to kill the patient by worsening their symptoms. You can also operate on some notable figures like Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. If you’re eager to finally settle which of your friends has the most medical knowledge, you can face off in a multiplayer game. One player acts as the doctor and the other plays as Death.

Bio Inc Redemption‘s graphics are nice to look at but the same aesthetic loses its appeal over multiple games. During games, you have an x-ray of your patient’s various systems which, with my lack of medical expertise, I can only say resembled my Leaving Cert biology books pretty well. Your patient’s figure will engage in a healthier diet, lift weights, do stretches etc. when you make lifestyle changes. They’ll ache with pain in whatever areas are affected. Plus the occasional blood spurt when things are looking bad.

Far, far cheaper than a medical degree

Bio Inc. Redemption has the option of in-game purchases which give you coins and resources. You can choose to upgrade your Doctor/Death abilities or to spend coins on a variety of perks to give you a head start on treating the patient. One downside is that you are only given 36 energy to use before needing to recharge. Treating a patient on Intern difficulty takes 6 energy but the cost rises with the difficulty level.

Casual players shouldn’t need to worry about using all of their energy very quickly. With Lethal being the highest difficulty for each stage with a cost of 24 energy, those looking for a more challenging experience may find themselves out of things pretty quickly. Once your initial rewards are used, rebuilding them naturally can be slow. It can be a drag grinding but there are daily challenges and goals to help you out. Or you can spend a little to get a boost.

So what’s the diagnosis?

Bio Inc. Redemption is free on the App Store and Play Store and costs €12.99 outside of a sale on Steam. It gets tedious swapping between systems and collecting points but the game is a lot of fun to play. I found it a lot more enjoyable to play in short bursts to ease the more tedious issues but there is a lot of replayability to find here. You might also pick up a bit of medical knowledge on the way.

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