In August of last year, Headup Games and Studio Fizbin announced The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk, a sequel to their fan favorite 2013 adventure game The Inner World ($0.99). Then last week Headup announced that the original game was being reworked for controller play and would be released on the Xbox One and Playstation 4, so that those console gamers could experience The Inner World ahead of the sequel’s release across both desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Now today they’ve released a couple of brand new screens for The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk showing off its fantastic hand-drawn art style. Check ’em out.
If you enjoy adventure games and haven’t yet played the original The Inner World, consider picking it up on the App Store in preparation for the sequel’s launch this summer. It’s a great gaming experience for just a few bucks, and is pretty much guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. There should be more information coming out about The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk over the coming weeks and months ahead of its summer launch, so be sure to watch this space for more updates.
Fire emblem heroes coming today?
Tomorrow is what the story earlier said.
Noticeable huge dip in quality weekly titles since two years back and more. I think iOS as a platform is finally in its last inning.
Yeah, they just posted their highest profit and top sales, writings on the walls boys it has been a good run.
I already started packing my bags, iOS is over because of the few people who skim these lists every week and say "nope, all junk" without trying anything... Meanwhile, Jared and I are literally incapable of playing all the great games that come out every week and are always cutting our podcast short to only talk about our favorites.
In a time where like leap of fate, neon chrome, BOI, crypt of the necrodancer hits your iPhone WhIle people complain mobile is dead lmao.
I have so many recent games on my phone that are it is nuts... I get anxious trying to pick one to play now just like steam haha.
Says the guy who has to ask for donations to stay afloat these days.
A shift in the economics of the App Store doesn't have anything to do with the quality of games released. Many web sites are switching over to similar subscription things just because of the way advertising is moving. *shrug*
First of all, thank you for replying. My comment was a little too glib, and I regret the tone.
I believe that it is the same problem. Premium game publishers used traditional means to get the word out on new games while freemium publishers rely instead on massive free download numbers. I miss the premium games, and I'll bet you miss the premium game publishers.
thanks for apologizing, cause touch aracde is the most valuable subscription money i have spent in a long time
Eh, I'm not sure premium game publishers would make the difference, it's a problem across all forms of web media. You either respect your readers and implement some form of subscription or switch to obnoxious ads and advertorials, far bigger sites than ours aren't immune from this switchover either, we're just lucky enough to be small enough to sustain ourselves on a razor thin budget.
That could be. For my reply, I was drawing from a post you made on the topic when you launched Patreon. That being said, I'm sure that ad blocking software isn't helping draw advertisers, nor are the negative comments that pop up regarding the quality of the weekly game releases. That last issue puts you in a tight spot; Allowing them to stand hurts your site, yet deleting them raises new problems.
Yep, as soon as you start "tone policing" or whatever all that happens is all those people get fired up even more because you're "censoring" them. It's a no-win situation.
I'm absolutely not saying saying mobile is dead by any means... in fact I truly believe in the switch and how it's a game changer. I just think apple and iOS have proven it's not a trustworthy platform. For 30 bucks on amazon prime I bought monster hunter generations at launch day and I'm still playing it now without throwing another penny at it, yet they still keep giving new DLC every month (on the 3ds I know I know , but still a mobile platform). I was an iOS f'ing fanatic for years saying "this is it! It's over for consoles and other mobiles alike" but now, I have no idea what apple is doing. As a long time user and semi apple fanboy in regards to apple laptops too, same story, wtf are they thinking w selling us the old shit of MacBook pro but with "ohhh a touch bar"? Too bad we have to also touch at least three adapters in the same breath.
They are not on their last leg but for others to thing they will continue at this pace for next 50 years is naive. Unless they innovative and improve they will eventually lose to something better and more innovative whomever will make that is still TBD. Look at history for tech companies. Issue apple has is that I do think they have lost their innovation and are just rehashing at this point. Same thing blackberry used to do in its prime time and what knocked them out.
Thanks for the hot take. Newsflash: technology becomes obsolete.
Accept apple fanboys like you that wear blinders seem to not grasp that. I am at a loss.
Who here implied they can and will continue like this for 50 years? Just curious.
50 years is a figure of speech it could be 2 , 5 or 10. My point is would be naive they will be the king of the hill like many are eluding too. I like apple but in last 2 years they have been rehashing and folks like Microsoft have been innovating. Just sayin.
This whole discussion started with the implication that ios gaming is on its last legs. Still don't see where you got the opposite extreme from, as I think most here would agree that both extremes are no realistic.
Agree with you. Both are not realistic.
Really disagree. There are still premium titles of high quality on a regular basis, fans of f2play obviously can't complain, and there are more and more ports of great games from other platforms. I do not see a negative change compared to two years ago. There are great weeks, good weeks, and bad weeks, always depending on what one personally prefers!
Yep. I think it's complaining for the sake of complaining or the rose colored glasses of nostalgia causing these same comments week after week. Games are getting better, looking better, and are supported better than they ever were. As I've mentioned before, our *job* is to play iOS games, and there's no way we have the bandwidth to play all the good ones. Even more puzzling to me is when people look back to the early days of Gameloft reskinning the same old game engine to fit whatever game they were cloning as the "glory days" of iOS or whatever.
Sure, there's more free to play stuff than ever before, but you've really got to purposefully ignore a ton of fantastic games to constantly be ranting about how bad the App Store is. Hell, last year there were so many great games we straight up did a top 100. That's one insanely great game you could play every three and a half days and never play the same thing twice.
But, sure, mobile sucks and the App Store is dying or whatever.
I'm sure that if some of the games that people obsessed over five years ago came out today for the same price tag, people would be demanding refunds.
The bar keeps moving in terms of quality and expectations.
Exactly! I've been around here for 6, 7 years or so and always see great stuff ALL THE TIME!! Sure, you gotta wade through the muck to get at the good lots of times, but it's just like everything else in life, people! Mobile is not dying at ALL!! It's thriving and healthy! A lot of stuff is better than its ever been! Unfortunately, IMO, there's more spoiled kids out there that don't know how to do anything else but whine these days, in general, and don't know what they're talking about! I just take it all with a grain of salt, consider the source, and keep having fun and enjoying myself! I know that just because a bunch of ignorant kids wanna spew a bunch of BS doesn't make it so! 😉
I agree that the quality of games is nothing like it used to be from 09-13. The hero of Sparta games, the uncharted clones, final fantasy clone, Space Miner Ore Bust, Dead Space, Bug Heros, Infinity Blade.... list goes on and on.
It was like true fleshed out games that were console quality that you followed from announcement until release and loved playing every second of it without Timers, 4 different currencies, etc. so tired of base building, match 3s, card games, timers,
There are good games still but I just don't find myself excited about much on iOS anymore. I exclusively played all my games on my phone from 08-016.
I just bought the PS4 Pro, PSVR, 4K TV and I've been going nuts playing Tomb Raider, Uncharted , Werewolves within, Battlezone, Eve, Dark Souls, Resident Evil 7 VR. I haven't had this much fun gaming in a very very very long time and throw in Nintendo Switch and mobile gaming will be all but dead for myself.
Exactly! I know a lot of people here wanna campaign for these companies doing the f2p model but I firmly dot believe this is how it will all end up...
Look at TA's top 100 games from last year.
Subtract the F2P games you don't like.
Subtract base builders and match 3s.
That list still goes on and on.
Then compare the quality of those games to a similar number of games from, say, 2010.
Death road to Canada plzzzzzzz
Been waiting for soooooo long😥
Agreed
I have been enjoying Downgeon Quest quite a bit already, but still hoping for some big surprises this week :) If not, I still have a big content update for Exiled Kingdoms to look forward to.
Me too! Cool game. I'm hoping for XCOM 2 to pop up! Lol. I'm praying for it anyways. As far as mobile goes, I will always mobile game. And I have xbone and pre ordered switch. So i anticipate playing the switch lots , but i will always have my phone with me, so I will always game on it. I spend more on mobile games than any other type of games.
Frostrune should drop tonight too
Isnt the new nintendo fire emblem due on the '2nd'? Dont recall nintendo honoring our time honored wednesday night release heh, but one can always hope :)
So I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say Eli is doing a "sterling", and complaining as a sarcastic joke because of nearly every thread on this forum being full of f2p whiners. I'm grateful for what's come out and there isn't enough time in the day to play all the games on mobile that are good let alone all the console games I'm trying to keep up on. If you wanna complain about games not being what you want maybe you should ask the 6 million people who downloaded MARIO run and didn't buy it why they think fire emblem shouldn't be super f2p cash grab. Because you people thought $9 was too much for a MARIO game I had tons of fun with.
Sorry double post but charming keep is great people should be playing it!!
Found one I liked but still waiting to make sure it's not wifi locked or have energy in it -_- not paying for a wifi locked energy ridden game ..
Otherwise all these are freemium or nothing interesting ..
Our devices can run more then these games ...
Look at binding of issac, This war of mine, crashlands, there are a lot of pc ports,
We need more of them ! Sims 4 would be nice x.x or Sims 2...
I'm tired of freemium i try them, I have a couple I've kept that are offline playable & one online one but otherwise I mainly grab the premiums... good ones ...
I look for ones that are decent, if I'm paying for a game I don't want timers, wifi locks, or energy systems ..I also don't want huge game breaking bugs rendering the game unplayable ..
It's getting harder and harder to find the good stuffs ..
A year ago if I got iTunes money it be gone in a month or two ..
Now ..now it just sits, sits till something decent comes ...
Here's hoping this list grows by later tonight ..
Why are tappers so popular?! These games drive me absolutely nuts x.x....
So wait are people still saying the App Store is dying? Really?