Indie developer’s Alex Ogorek‘s latest iOS 2D-puzzler, Cubic!, may look simple, but in actual fact, the game is devilishly difficult and is meant to appeal to hardcore puzzle fans. Set on a 9X9 grid board, players slide cube-shaped units (each with a numerical value which adds up the more they are moving along) along the board while being mindful to defend the centre of the board from the AI-controlled, enemy units.
Friendly units can be merged, therefore adding up both unit’s numerical value, and this is especially important when attacking enemy units as you’ll want to have a higher value before doing so. If an attack is successful, then the surviving unit’s numerical value is the result of the subtraction between the two unit’s values.
The game is simple in the aspect of gameplay, and the very clean and crisp graphics and user interface are unobstructive when it comes to players making their moves on the board. The soundtrack is a decent tune playing over and over again, not something that you’ll find out of place in a puzzle game.
If you are in for a challenge, then Cubic! has a lot in spades. No two games are the same, thanks to the random locations in which the enemy units appear on the edge of the board. I even have trouble beating my own high score set in my earlier play sessions on Cubic. Speaking of high scores, the game is hooked up to Game Centre, along with some social media sharing options available.
For the challenge it provides and the infinite amount of re-playability, Cubic! gets a deserving 5 out of 5 from Nineoverten.com. The game is available on the iTunes App Store for iOS devices for just 99 cents. There are no ads nor any in-app purchases in this game; those are major plus points in my book. Check it out over here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cubic!/id963272905
A review code was provided to Nineoverten.com for the purpose of this review.
