Devolver Digital has published many a game over the years, and now you can play a puzzle game starring several of their characters. It’s available free-to-play on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.

Game character heads fall into a dryer style tumbler, and you must tap on ones that are the same and next to each other.  If you tap on three or more of the same kind, they’ll disappear, letting more fall in their place.  Tap on the valve at the bottom of the screen to turn the tumbler if you can’t make a match.  If you can tap on enough at the same time, you can get a power-up like a bomb or extra time.  If you match up enough, you can go into Fever Mode where time stops and you can get bonus points.  Also when you match enough, the character you have selected can use a special attack when the meter is full.  Tap on the character then and you’ll clear out a bunch of them on screen.  Each stage has certain goals to clear, like matching certain characters, using bombs, or going into Fever Mode.  If you can’t do the goals before time runs out, you’ll have to start the stage over and you’ll lose a heart.  You use your hearts to play but they regenerate over time, like other free-to-play games of this nature.  But even if you lose, your selected character can gain experience and level up, although leveling up really doesn’t do much as far as I can tell.  This game mostly reminds me of one I reviewed a long time ago called Yo-Kai Watch: Wibble Wobble.

You can unlock new character to play as by spending the in-game currency or real money, although I never got enough in-game currency to do so.  The designs in this game are so cartoony that I didn’t recognize a lot of the characters at first.  Here are the list of games with characters in this one.  I even got to review some of these games, so click on the links provided if you’re curious.

Gorn

Hotline Miami

Absovler

Ape Out

Carrion

Crossing Souls

Disc Room

Downwell

Enter the Gungeon

Gato Roboto

Gris

Heave Ho

The Messenger

Minit

Observation

Pikuniku

Serious Sam

Shadow Warrior

I know these free-to-play games have some annoying yet necessary aspects to make money, but this one is especially bad.  You can opt to watch video ads to earn more time in the levels, but it’s really hard to get out of those videos and they always take you to where you must purchase whatever it is they’re advertising.  The game also makes it hard to progress after a certain level, and for me it was stage 18.  So I lost interest in it pretty quickly.  But the worst offender are the ads between loading screens that ask if you want to buy stuff in the game.  One time they had the gall to ask if I wanted to unlock everything for 100 bucks!  I don’t care how good your game is, no game is worth that much!  I know these free-to-play titles have to have stuff like this, but this one was especially bad.

Kid Factor:

The game looks pretty non-violent and cartoony, but the games these characters are from are sometimes T and M rated games.  One of the characters in this puzzler uses a bloody baseball bat as a special attack.  But parental supervision is especially recommended for the in-game purchases and ads.

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