Spike City Nitrome Explore exciting worlds and solve tricky challenges in this action-packed platforming game! - Spiky platforming action!… Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsExplore exciting worlds and solve tricky challenges in this action-packed platforming game! - Spiky platforming action! - Just swipe up, down, left, and right to move around! - Stick into walls with your powerful spike! - Endless challenges! - Awesome Level Mode! - Epic boss battles! - Collect cool power-ups! - Customise your character! - Retro pixel graphics! -Important information- This game contains third party advertising and cross promotion for other nitrome games, both which can be removed via a one time In App Purchase. Information Seller:Nitrome Genre:Action, Puzzle Release:May 02, 2018 Updated:May 02, 2018 Version:1.0.8 Size:32.5 MB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating:Unrated Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal Game Trailer: Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel sebgo Well-Known Member Dec 26, 2010 833 398 63 Male 95% leisure. Somewhere in a town amidst the Amazon jungle. http://www.google.com #2 sebgo, May 2, 2018 Gameplay kinda reminded me of Tomb of the Mask. Controls work pretty good, although I found myself not moving after swiping in the direction I wanted my character to go a few times. Pretty fun score chaser with plenty of contents to unlock using the coins you collect through playing. Comes with endless and level-based (unlocks with $20 in-game coins) modes. Might be a little hard at first, but getting higher scores is fun enough as you grow familiar with environment hazards/layouts and enemies. Power-ups are pretty important. Good quality game, as expected from stuff published by Nitrome. Jerutix Well-Known Member Nov 3, 2009 1,754 65 48 Male Ministry Oklahoma https://www.discord.gg/kingrabbit #3 Jerutix, May 3, 2018 Yeah, it does kind of feel like Tomb of the Mask - good call. It's like if TotM and Leap Day had a beautiful baby. I'm really enjoying Spike City - probably my favorite new game I've played in 2018! asteroidal1105 New Member Feb 20, 2017 2 0 1 #4 asteroidal1105, May 4, 2018 Spikey Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Took me a while to figure out that sticking to roof thingy. rich1574 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2015 80 1 8 #5 rich1574, May 5, 2018 Really cool game! Only comment I would add is that it would be cool if the no ads purchase came with some sort of bonus rather than simply removing adds. Anotherkellydown Moderator Staff Member Patreon Bronze Feb 10, 2014 4,581 1,134 113 Male CAD Technician I Upstate NY https://youtube.com/channel/UCcvu9xhE7xT-mZrXUZQJr5g #6 Anotherkellydown, May 7, 2018 No ads gives you one free continue in infinite mode and one free checkpoint per level in the level mode. It wasnt totally clear to me at first either. Been loving this too. Finished all 4 worlds and collected all the purple coins. Now working on infinite arcade mode & upgrading the power ups. Good choice for Game of the Week by TA. # neca98 Member Dec 14, 2012 20 0 1 #7 neca98, May 7, 2018 Good game, but needs more levels!! rich1574 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2015 80 1 8 #8 rich1574, May 7, 2018 How is it this only has 2.5 stars? On a separate note Im not sure I like the fact that you can only have 1 power-up active at any one time. As soon as you pick up the 2nd one you deactivate the 1st. Enjoying the levels including the boss battles - very different to anything I have played before rich1574 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2015 80 1 8 #9 rich1574, May 7, 2018 Thanks! Tbh dont use the continues so didnt notice. Worth supporting the developers as personally I think its a really cool game. TheGodless Well-Known Member Jan 15, 2013 207 2 18 #10 TheGodless, May 8, 2018 I think it’s primarily due to the controls either sucking or not being evident for various reasons. The controls were frustrating enough that I wound up deleting the game, but I can admit that I might have just not known what I was doing. All of the places where the coins were in hard to reach places were completely impossible to reach due to the controls being unresponsive or at the very least inconsistent with my sideways swipes or because I just didn’t know what the heck I was doing. What confused and frustrated me was whether I was supposed to be swiping sideways while going up and down or doing this only after I landed somewhere. The reason I got the impression that I was supposed to swipe sideways while traveling was how the character occasionally does move in the direction that was swiped, but the sideways movement was so unreliable as to be almost useless for being able to make it to the hard to reach areas. rich1574 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2015 80 1 8 #11 rich1574, May 8, 2018 So most of that would be down to the lack of a decent explanation regarding the controls. I had to figure out that you can stick to most surfaces. Also if you keep your finger held down you can continue the movement once you hit a surface of that makes sense. All of the coins can be reached by working it the sequence of walls / objeta you need to stick to on the way. Shame the developer hasnt bothered to look in on this thread... Anotherkellydown Moderator Staff Member Patreon Bronze Feb 10, 2014 4,581 1,134 113 Male CAD Technician I Upstate NY https://youtube.com/channel/UCcvu9xhE7xT-mZrXUZQJr5g #12 Anotherkellydown, May 9, 2018 I also wasnt clear on the controls at first. Ill try to expand a little on what rich1574 said. All directional movement can be done without taking your finger off the screen. At first I was trying to just swipe and let go, then quickly swipe in another direction. What you want to do is swipe (a nice small swipe) towards a wall and hold. This will stick your spike into the wall, keeping you from dropping downwards. From there (while still holding) just swipe the next direction you want to go. You can do this continually while never removing your finger. However, there are many cases where youll need to hit the wall and drop (no spike) to get to where you need to be. Also, you cant switch directions mid-air. You must wait until you hit a wall. I hope that makes a little sense. 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Gameplay kinda reminded me of Tomb of the Mask. Controls work pretty good, although I found myself not moving after swiping in the direction I wanted my character to go a few times. Pretty fun score chaser with plenty of contents to unlock using the coins you collect through playing. Comes with endless and level-based (unlocks with $20 in-game coins) modes. Might be a little hard at first, but getting higher scores is fun enough as you grow familiar with environment hazards/layouts and enemies. Power-ups are pretty important. Good quality game, as expected from stuff published by Nitrome.
Yeah, it does kind of feel like Tomb of the Mask - good call. It's like if TotM and Leap Day had a beautiful baby. I'm really enjoying Spike City - probably my favorite new game I've played in 2018!
Spikey Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Took me a while to figure out that sticking to roof thingy.
Really cool game! Only comment I would add is that it would be cool if the no ads purchase came with some sort of bonus rather than simply removing adds.
No ads gives you one free continue in infinite mode and one free checkpoint per level in the level mode. It wasnt totally clear to me at first either. Been loving this too. Finished all 4 worlds and collected all the purple coins. Now working on infinite arcade mode & upgrading the power ups. Good choice for Game of the Week by TA. #
How is it this only has 2.5 stars? On a separate note Im not sure I like the fact that you can only have 1 power-up active at any one time. As soon as you pick up the 2nd one you deactivate the 1st. Enjoying the levels including the boss battles - very different to anything I have played before
Thanks! Tbh dont use the continues so didnt notice. Worth supporting the developers as personally I think its a really cool game.
I think it’s primarily due to the controls either sucking or not being evident for various reasons. The controls were frustrating enough that I wound up deleting the game, but I can admit that I might have just not known what I was doing. All of the places where the coins were in hard to reach places were completely impossible to reach due to the controls being unresponsive or at the very least inconsistent with my sideways swipes or because I just didn’t know what the heck I was doing. What confused and frustrated me was whether I was supposed to be swiping sideways while going up and down or doing this only after I landed somewhere. The reason I got the impression that I was supposed to swipe sideways while traveling was how the character occasionally does move in the direction that was swiped, but the sideways movement was so unreliable as to be almost useless for being able to make it to the hard to reach areas.
So most of that would be down to the lack of a decent explanation regarding the controls. I had to figure out that you can stick to most surfaces. Also if you keep your finger held down you can continue the movement once you hit a surface of that makes sense. All of the coins can be reached by working it the sequence of walls / objeta you need to stick to on the way. Shame the developer hasnt bothered to look in on this thread...
I also wasnt clear on the controls at first. Ill try to expand a little on what rich1574 said. All directional movement can be done without taking your finger off the screen. At first I was trying to just swipe and let go, then quickly swipe in another direction. What you want to do is swipe (a nice small swipe) towards a wall and hold. This will stick your spike into the wall, keeping you from dropping downwards. From there (while still holding) just swipe the next direction you want to go. You can do this continually while never removing your finger. However, there are many cases where youll need to hit the wall and drop (no spike) to get to where you need to be. Also, you cant switch directions mid-air. You must wait until you hit a wall. I hope that makes a little sense.
