02-26-25 -

Laser Panic review
Games like Laser Panic put me in a bit of a quandary about this whole review business. On one side of things, reviews often provide the utility of like a shoppers guide or recommendation, but there's also the part of this business that&am...

02-26-25 -

Laser Panic review
Games like Laser Panic put me in a bit of a quandary about this whole review business. On one side of things, reviews often provide the utility of like a shoppers guide or recommendation, but there's also the part of this business that&am...

02-25-25 -

Loop Hero review
I have some complicated feelings about Loop Hero. I remember is as one of the big games culture phenoms under the height of COVID (along with Among Us), and it is an enjoyable upgrade treadmill that is fun as long as its systems are playing nicely...

02-25-25 -

Strange Horticulture review
Even though I don't love the term I'm about to use all that much, Strange Horticulture is most easily described as a "cozy game," albeit with some eldritch horror vibes. You play as the proprietor of a rare plant store,...

02-25-25 -

Warbits Plus review
They say war never changes, but that hasn't stopped Risky Lab from reworking their nifty little tactics game into an updated "plus" version. For better or for worse, the changes that are present in Warbits Plus are slight and mo...

02-25-25 -

GUNCHO review
Arnold Rauers has been in the business of making clever little mobile games for awhile now, so it's probably no surprise that the release ofGUNCHO garners some attention. This game is a slight departure from the designer's typica...

02-25-25 -

Roia review
Roia is a game about connecting with nature and--quite literally--molding it so that it can flourish. It's also a puzzle game of sorts, but that almost feels beside the point. Playing Roia feels more like a relaxing journey than a "g...

02-25-25 -

Zenless Zone Zero review
I am no stranger to gacha games, though since 2020 I've only really had eyes for one of them.Genshin Impact completely surpassed my expectations for what a satisfying gacha game could be and I am still a daily player of it to this day. It...

02-25-25 -

Resident Evil 7 biohazard review
Capcom has now ported three fully-fledgedResident Evil games to iOS, and--although none of them are especially high watermarks in the series--RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard is probably the best of the bunch. Despite having a lot of goofy "we did t...

02-25-25 -

Balatro review
As soon as Balatro made its initial splash earlier this year, my initial thought (which I'm sure many others also had) was "this would be very nice to have on a phone." Well, now it's here, and it's definitely ...

02-25-25 -

Unforeseen Incidents Mobile review
Probably the most fascinating thing about Unforeseen Incidents is the way the context surrounding its subject matter has shifted so dramatically since its original release in 2018. Outside of that, it's a solid point-and-click adventure g...

02-25-25 -

Children of Morta review
I've been playing and writing about mobile games for long enough to remember a time where there were essentially no good controllers available for the platform and few--if any--PC and console releases coming out on the App Store. All of t...

02-20-25 -

Catagrams review
It takes a lot to get me excited about a word game these days. In a post-Wordle world, the bar is just higher than it used to be. That said, a game like Catagrams meets that bar when it comes to providing an interesting daily challenge. There&...

02-13-25 -

Prado Traveler review
I've always like the idea of a mobile game taking advantage of something like your step count or other data to fuel or integrate with gameplay. That said, I am not sure I have ever really found something that really pushes all the right b...

02-06-25 -

The Longing review
Of all the qualities that need to come together to produce a great game experience, one of the most critical is the pacing. Oftentimes, games approach the kind of experiences they want to give players and then the pace takes shape around what thes...

02-03-25 -

How Pokemon Trading Card Pocket is placing profit over players
I remember first getting a Game Boy and a copy of Pokemon Red, choosing Charmander, and struggling through the first two gyms with a pig-headed stubbornness to never switch him out. I played the main series, and all the side games like Snap, Puzzl...

01-15-25 -

Resident Evil 2 review
There's a lot of different ways I could approach this review ofResident Evil 2, but I don't write long so I just have to pick one. My choice is coming at it from the perspective of someone who has not played the original game for...

01-01-25 -

Happy New Year
Happy New Year from all of us at MidAtlanticConsulting, inc. and AppReviewToday.com.

12-26-24 -

The Abandoned Planet review
I wouldn't say that puzzle or adventure games are really titles I seek out all that often, but I also primarily play games on mobile devices where many games of this ilk tend to release. I still keep games like these at arm's len...

10-24-24 -

Children of Morta review
I've been playing and writing about mobile games for long enough to remember a time where there were essentially no good controllers available for the platform and few--if any--PC and console releases coming out on the App Store. All of t...

09-27-24 -

Unforeseen Incidents Mobile review
Probably the most fascinating thing about Unforeseen Incidents is the way the context surrounding its subject matter has shifted so dramatically since its original release in 2018. Outside of that, it's a solid point-and-click adventure g...

09-27-24 -

Balatro review
As soon as Balatro made its initial splash earlier this year, my initial thought (which I'm sure many others also had) was "this would be very nice to have on a phone." Well, now it's here, and it's definitely ...

08-09-24 -

Resident Evil 7 biohazard review
Capcom has now ported three fully-fledgedResident Evil games to iOS, and--although none of them are especially high watermarks in the series--RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard is probably the best of the bunch. Despite having a lot of goofy "we did t...

08-02-24 -

Zenless Zone Zero review
I am no stranger to gacha games, though since 2020 I've only really had eyes for one of them.Genshin Impact completely surpassed my expectations for what a satisfying gacha game could be and I am still a daily player of it to this day. It...

07-16-24 -

Roia review
Roia is a game about connecting with nature and--quite literally--molding it so that it can flourish. It's also a puzzle game of sorts, but that almost feels beside the point. Playing Roia feels more like a relaxing journey than a "g...

06-26-24 -

GUNCHO review
Arnold Rauers has been in the business of making clever little mobile games for awhile now, so it's probably no surprise that the release ofGUNCHO garners some attention. This game is a slight departure from the designer's typica...

06-13-24 -

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05-24-24 -

Warbits Plus review
They say war never changes, but that hasn't stopped Risky Lab from reworking their nifty little tactics game into an updated "plus" version. For better or for worse, the changes that are present in Warbits Plus are slight and mo...

05-09-24 -

Strange Horticulture review
Even though I don't love the term I'm about to use all that much, Strange Horticulture is most easily described as a "cozy game," albeit with some eldritch horror vibes. You play as the proprietor of a rare plant store,...

05-02-24 -

Loop Hero review
I have some complicated feelings about Loop Hero. I remember is as one of the big games culture phenoms under the height of COVID (along with Among Us), and it is an enjoyable upgrade treadmill that is fun as long as its systems are playing nicely...

04-24-24 -

Wildfrost review
Wildfrost is an easy game to fall in love with. What I mean by that every little aspect of the game has its own little charming flourish to it. You might not be able to appreciate all of those nitty gritty details on a phone screen, but on larger ...

04-18-24 -

Ghost Trick review
Ghost Trick is a cult classic game for a few very good reasons. It's a one-off release by the creator of the Ace Attorney series that only released on Nintendo DS back in 2010, which was pretty late into that device's life cycle....

03-28-24 -

Slice & Dice review
There is no shortage of roguelikes on mobile, and great ones at that. I feel like I'm writing about some new hotness in this space every other month. It's a pace that feels unsustainable, and yet, the hits keep coming. Slice &...

03-19-24 -

Methods: Detective Competition review
Something I had an epiphany about last year was why so many visual novels go out of their way to lose focus or just get a bit goofy with their storytelling thanks to PARANORMASIGHT's deficiencies in that department. Methods: Detective Com...

03-12-24 -

Ex Astris review
I've always been of the mind that the stories that video games tell tend to not matter all that much. There are various reasons (and a fair amount of nuance) for this that I can't get into here because I have a game to review, bu...

03-05-24 -

Shovel Pirate review
As the App Store gets increasingly overloaded with live service titles, ever ambitious gacha games, and bulky console/PC ports, its nice when something comes out and embraces a small, mobile-focused scope and sticks to it. Shovel Pirateis exactly ...

02-29-24 -

Death Stranding iOS saves are as hard to detect as BTs
This isn't a review of Death Stranding on iOS so much as it is an announcement that I will not be reviewing it. I posted some impressions earlier this month about the release where I mentioned my intent to finish it, but I just... can&...

02-22-24 -

Recontroller review
Style over substance can only get you so far, but it works out quite well if you're only going on a short journey. Recontroller does exactly that. In addition to being a sort of visual mind-trip, this game doesn't ask much of you...

02-20-24 -

Of Two Minds review
I wouldn't say there's been a whole lot of expermientation that I've seen around reinventing FMV games, which are also commonly referred to as interactive movies or games that use video clips as its main way of presentin...

02-14-24 -

Resident Evil 4 review
This review of Resident Evil 4 coming out quite a bit after its release for a very specific reason, which I'll try to articulate as best I can in this piece. The original Resident Evil 4 is a modern classic that essentially raised the bar...

02-08-24 -

Yes, Your Grace review
Quite a few kingdom management games have graced the App Store, but I'm not sure any of them have felt quite as bespoke and personal as Yes, Your Grace. Where many other titles of this ilk tend to employ overlapping systems and procedural...

01-30-24 -

Solquence review
Mobile games really don't need to be deep. It's nice when they are (while still respecting the limitations of the platform), but also sometimes you just want a nice thing to do that isn't doomscrolling and provides some ...

01-25-24 -

Art of Rally review
It's easy for me to forget, but the App Store--surprisingly--is home to a solid collection of good-to-great rally-based racing games. So, when a new challenger enters the ring, they really ought to bring their best. Unfortunately for Art ...

12-19-23 -

Demeo review
This will probably be a short review. There isn't a whole lot to say about a game like, Demeo, after all. It is an extremely straightforward dungeon-crawler game. It looks nice, has some decent variety, and a few interesting mechanics, bu...

12-12-23 -

Hitman: Blood Money Reprisal review
When thinking about kinds of games that tend to have an especially hard time working well on mobile, games like Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal are near the top of that list. Action games--particularly those that rely on precision, patience, stealt...

12-06-23 -

Coromon review
There have been quite a few mobile games to come along and do the Pokémon thing, but none of them (not even the ones featuring actual Pikachus and the like) feel like they have come as close to capturing the magic of this beloved series...

11-15-23 -

Wizard of Legend review
I will be the first person to say that there's a good case for more PC and console games to make their way to iOS. After all, my experience with other mobile game-playing devices that folks fawn over like the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switc...

11-10-23 -

Resident Evil Village review
I posted some first impressions of how Resident Evil Village plays on iOS a few days ago, and I stand by most of what I wrote there if you are curious about how it plays and the effort that went into the port. The only thing I now disagree with is...

11-02-23 -

Illuminaria review
Illuminaria is a real-time strategy game that explores the idea of being able to build multiple bases of operations that persist and interoperate throughout the course of a campaign. It's a really neat idea that I'm surprised I h...

10-17-23 -

Kingdom Eighties review
The latest entry in the Kingdom series also takes place the closest the franchise has ever gotten to the modern day. Kingdom Eighties takes the real-time, minimalist strategy series to the 1980s and trades out horses for bikes, has you building ou...