In early December, Renegade Kid ported their popular and critically acclaimed platformer Mutant Mudds ($4.99), originally a Nintendo 3DS title, to the iOS platform. As we talked about in our review, it was quite a success. While the original price of the iOS version was the lowest tier possible at 99¢, a veritable steal, for today and tomorrow only Mutant Mudds can be had for the even more enticing price of FREE.
Mutant Mudds is somewhat of a different kind of platformer. For the most part, iOS is populated with twitchy speedrun-style platformers, often with a focus on very brief levels and fast action. Mutant Mudds is more of a tactical game, I would argue. You really need to have patience to work your way through its levels and past the dastardly Mudds. A simplistic item upgrading system gives the title legs as you go back through previously played levels and use your new abilities to discover alternate paths. Also, a big highlight of Mutant Mudds is the ability to hop in and out of the foreground and background, something that’s mostly just neat but also plays into the puzzle and discovery design of the levels.
I love platformers, and I love a lot of iOS platformers, but to me there’s really nothing quite like Mutant Mudds on the App Store. It was a wholly satisfying experience working my way through the game, and it’s also quite challenging. The virtual controls hold up well though, and its slower pace is a perfect complement to my other twitchy platformers that also have a permanent home on my device. Definitely give Mutant Mudds a download while it’s free, and stop by our forums to let us know what you think.
This just ruined my day.
Temple Run overload
More Temple Run!
*sarcasm*
How about
"Temple "walk"
Deleted post? What is Cecile Foques running away from?
Please no, we've just had a sequel and it doesn't feel that long since 'Brave' came out. Although it was summer it seems rather recent.
I don't feel the need for anything but Temple Run 2... but I'm glad when a small developer finds ways to make it big! This may be more for Oz fans than Temple Run fans.
Every month someone release a temple run clone, and some of those, are more fun that temple run.
Okay I love temple run 2 but this is a little much..
Everyone getting mad about the Temple Run posts, just shut up. It's one of the most successful games ever, and its made by an indie developer. Don't you think they deserve it?
Nobody on this post but you even brought up the number of Temple Run posts on TA ... people are annoyed with the devs for coming out with another Temple Run game so soon/quickly, which is a completely different thing.
Whats next? Angry Birds Temple Run?
I haven't played TR before and wasn't planning to. But thanks to this awesome tie in, I will. Cannot wait to see and play every single Oz TGaP related thing this year.
Yep. Hit upon a great thing...run it into the ground. Apparently not just for Rovio anymore.
Temple Run is going Call of Duty.
Endless running on a YELLOW BRICK ROAD no doubt!
Haha! You sir are witty. Kudos.
How about The Great and Powerful Oz RPG? Or Temple Run: The Platform game? No, we must keep running..
Getting really tired of the skins releasing as different apps. Just make all these movie skins DLC for the base app.
i love the Wizard of Oz ... one of the best imaginative stories on the big screen .. Imangi have a great game ... its fun, it seams to do very well on charts ... maybe its about time they be a bit BRAVE ... and try something new(?!) or they can just keep swapping the image files and name of the same game.
i wish the next is temple run the pirate of the caribbean!!!!