Publisher: Double Fine Productions Price: $14.99/£10.49 Genre: A Moody, Funny Puzzle Platformer Rating Pros: Beautiful design and style, unique and intriguing storytelling that gradually reveals the dark backstories of your emotionless characters, engaging puzzles. Cons: Jerky platforming controls, have to replay certain puzzles to unlock new character stages. Review The Cave is the long-awaited puzzle platformer
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LEGO The Lord of the Rings for Mac Review
Publisher: Feral Interactive Price: $29.99/£20.99 Genre: LEGO Platforming with Lord of the Rings Style Rating Pros: The most impressive LEGO open-world yet, beautiful presentation, a lot of replay ability, some more ambitious level design. Cons: Incredibly easy, core gameplay hasn’t changed much from other LEGO games, some character switching and AI issues, broken navigation. Review LEGO The Lord of
Cargo Commander for Mac Review
Publisher: Digital Tribe Price: $9.99/£6.99 Genre: Explore Lonely Space in this Platformer Info Rating Pros: Impressive cell shaded presentation and style, some great ideas. Cons: Very limited in gameplay, some bugs and annoyances. Review Cargo Commander seems to be going for the rouge-like market without fully committing to the idea. You play as a lonely space cargo commander
Gunman Clive for Mac Review
Publisher: Bertil Hörberg Price: $1.99/£1.49 Genre: Side-Scroller Info Rating Pros: Gunman Clive has a brilliant art style, it’s simply a pleasure to look at. Cons: There aren’t any glaring issues with Gunman Clive, but the gameplay isn’t revolutionary either. Review Gunman Clive is a wild west styled 2D platformer with a simply fantastic art style but rather
Vitrun for Mac Review
Publisher: Trashfaktory Price: $1.99/£1.49 Genre: A Small Ball Rolling Game Info Rating Pros: Good graphics & music, simple controls. Cons: Unresponsive camera, countdown timer. Review Vitrun is a nice little ball runner with several clever obstacles, including magnets, blocks, swinging hammers and cliffs. Yet the game seems conflicted as to whether it wants to focus on speed or skill, making
The Last Rocket for Mac Review
Publisher: Shaun Inman Price: $2.99/£1.99 Genre: 8-Bit Platformer App Store Link Info Pros: The silly sci-fi art style is very well done, good retro gameplay. Cons: The Last Rocket has not been optimised for Mac in any way at all, you even play it in an iPhone/iPad screen resolution, sometimes unintuitive controls. Review The Last Rocket is
RIFT for Mac Review
Publisher: Devm Games Price: $0.99 (£0.59) Genre: Puzzle Platformer Info Rating Pros: Stylish retro look, got the basics nailed. Cons: Floaty controls, frustrating and fiddly, unoriginal and simple puzzles. Review RIFT is a possibly promising platformer about a podgy monster demanding more and more chocolate cake to appease his endless appetite. As the abiding robot servant, you must
Tomb Raider: Underworld For Mac Review
Publisher: Feral Interactive Price: $24.99/£17.49 Genre: Puzzle Platforming Adventure App Store Link Info Rating Pros: Perfect exploration, platforming and puzzling, good environmental detail, good enough story. Cons: Repetitive and skill-less combat, iffy camera, some control issues and glitches. Review If anyone, Lara Croft knows adventure. Travelling to overgrown historic ruins in Thailand, swimming amongst schools of fish in
Trial Xtreme 2 for Mac Review
Publisher: Deemedya M.S. Price: $4.99 (£2.99) Description: Trials Platforming App Store Link Info Rating Pros: Good music, bearable gameplay. Cons: Weightless physics, low-end graphics, frustrating. Review Trials games have been far and few between on the Mac App Store, with the dominators of the genre Trials HD, and more recently, Trials: Evolution having yet to leave the Xbox
DLC Quest for Mac Review
Publisher: Ben Kane Price: $1.99/£1.49 Description: When DLC Goes Too Far App Store Link Info Pros: DLC Quest is a funny game. That’s all it has going for it sadly. Cons: It’s a funny spoof on the DLC of today, but as a game it’s too short, too basic and too easy. Review The first thing you need
