We’ve had our eye on the iPad port of Forbidden Desert since it was first announced back in November, and somehow the scheduled release of the game just barely slipped past our weekly Out Now post. However, we aren’t ones to get all bent out of shape over a little tardiness, so we wanted to let you know that Forbidden Desert ($6.99) for the iPad is now officially available. In this game you’ll be working on an expedition team in the desert discovering and uncovering different parts of an ancient flying machine. Being the desert, you’ll have to content with a lack of water and things like sand storms that can really interrupt your flow of discoveries. It’s a cooperative game, so you’ll actually be working with your teammates in an effort to recover the flying machine.
Forbidden Desert is designed for cooperative play for between 2-5 players, though there is a single-player mode which has you playing as multiple adventurers. This is the follow-up to 2011’s Forbidden Island ($4.99), which was another physical cooperative board game that was turned into an iPad game with great results. Both of these games were originally designed as physical card games by Matt Leacock and both iPad versions were developed by Button Mash Games. If you dug the physical version of Forbidden Desert, were a fan of Forbidden Island, or just like the idea of a new cooperative board game, check out this latest release for the iPad and see what folks in our forums have to say about it as well.
I would so do this, simply because my kids would flip out over it, but $30 a month is a little too rich for my blood.
I've been emailing with the guys behind it and they say the higher than average cost is because the quality of the items are higher than the other swag boxes out there. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, as no one is going to stick around for month two if they drop $30 on the first one and it's a bunch of junk. (And I don't think Mojang would sign off on that sort of thing when their brand image is so good right now.)
But, who knows!
Yeah, Minecraft branded stuff isn't cheap and I don't doubt that you get your money's worth. My issue is simply that I can't justify working it into my budget.
My 9 yr old son will go nuts when he sees this
I'm going nuts over it and I'm 29! 🤓
Can always find individual crate items on ebay!
Thirty bucks? Come on now. The problem is they can always bolster the chests "worth" by adding digital "exlusives" that cost them zip all to create.
When I realize: I can't get this... fml.
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Mine chest is pretty cool. I just got the first box (beta age) in the mail on 5/25/16. It was pretty sweet. My favorite item was this random, custom-made stamp. It is in the shape of a Minecraft, oak wood block (about 3" x 3"). There is a rubber stamp of a Minecraft tree on the bottom of the block; "the mark of the tree." It is pretty damn sweet. I would like to keep mine in the box, but I have a insatiable desire to go around stamping everything in site. That + the shirt made the whole box. It also came with a high-quality creeper coffee mug.