Spikes Are the Enemy Review
Basic: The New Nightmare Mode This game wants you to suffer. It disguises itself as an unassuming 2-D arcade platformer with its charming little beeps and blips. It lulls you…
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Hardcore Droid’s platformer game reviews cover an assortment of Android platformers and subgenres. We review Android platformers and iPhone platformers both 3D and side-scrolling platformer games. Hardcore Droid platformer reviews also assess plaformers with strategic and RPG elements. Our writers assess a mobile platformer ‘s value from the perspective of the average hardcore gamer. These are people who love action games, RPGs and strategy games. We understand this because our writers are core gamers. Always, the question of how the average core gamer would enjoy a game is the focus of our Android game reviews.
We assess the best and most critically acclaimed paid Android games. Our writers generally cover the genres that are most popular in the core gaming sphere. In other words, the types of video games found on PCs and consoles.
Hardcore Droid celebrates the efforts of indie game developers. We laud especially those who develop games for iOS and Android. Our reviewers are particularly interested in celebrating the work produced by indie houses who develop indie platformer games.
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Mr. Hopp’s Playhouse Review
Little Bunny Foo Foo Mr. Hopp’s Playhouse manages to make bunnies terrifying in this retro horror adventure game. American publisher PhatMojo brings British indie developer Moonbit’s 2D side-scroller to mobile.…
Ninja Arashi 2 Review
Old Shinobi, New Jutsu Developed and published by Black Panther, Ninja Arashi 2 offers players an entertaining platform game experience combined with minor RPG elements. It places you back into…
Rewind Review: Alto’s Odyssey
Uncover the Mysteries of the Desert An award-winning little gem that launched on multiple platforms in 2018, Alto’s Odyssey puts players on a sandboard and sets them loose to glide,…
Moon Raider Review
Aim for the Stars You can practically smell the nostalgia wafting off every second of Moon Raider. Developed by Cascadia Games and Published, appropriately enough, by Crescent Moon Games, this…
Pep’s World Review
Super Pep Bros. From the moment you fire up Pep’s World, its obvious comparison to Super Mario Bros. is undeniable. Pep’s World doesn’t simply pay homage to the legendary Nintendo…
Levelhead Review
“Butterysmooth” Butterscotch Shenanigans’ Steam profile states: “We make humorous, butterysmooth 2D games and inject our souls into each one.” Having played their most recent project, a platformer-maker called Levelhead, I…
Odd Eye Review
Two Worlds with Little to See Odd Eye breaks few boundaries, employs an uncompelling atmosphere and feels entirely derivative—not a surprise given most YouTube comments sections beneath Odd Eye videos…
Chamber Review
It’s Red, You’re Dead, But There Is No Redemption Do you like the color red? Are you partial to Sega Genesis-esque pixel graphics? Do you enjoy a game that’s punishingly…
Charlie’s Angels: The Game Review
Good Morning, Angels In true Die Hard fashion explosions are in the air this holiday, just not from the unceremonious hero John McLane. Instead, this go around takes the form…
Flashback Mobile Review
Flashback Mobile Isn’t New School Or Old School – It’s Classic You know that feeling you get when you play a remastered classic such as an early Zelda game or…
Reveal the Deep Review
I love the ocean. Marine Biology fascinates me, I learn as much about ships and boats as I can, and I’m suspicious that my entire fascination with Lovecraft is based…
Geometry Dash: Meltdown Review
I’ve never been a gamer who loses her cool when things get crazy. But I couldn’t help but wonder how I’d fair with a game that’s known to induce…
Devious Dungeon 2 Review
You are falling. You jumped before you realized that this was more dangerous than you could stomach. You could end up on a nice safe platform from which you can…
In Between Review
How does one react when they learn the end is near? What do we say to illness, misfortune, and the problems of life? What must we do to confront and…
Lara Croft GO Review
Reducing Square Enix’s greatest hits down to single-player board games is not a formula that should work. It’s not even an idea that should cross an executive’s desk and come…
Epic Eric Review
You know those awful sections in platformer games where you have to swing from pole to pole or vine to vine where the timing has to be absolutely perfect and…
X-Men: Days of Future Past Review
The world of X-Men is an excellent backdrop for storytelling, especially in games. It has a huge array of memorable heroes and villains, a winning combination of political strife and…
Almightree: The Last Dreamer Review
I’ve talked at length about the problems with platformers on mobile. Virtual buttons just don’t seem to have the precision that’s required of traditional twitchy action games like Super Mario…
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Review
The growing trend of bringing console and PC games to mobile is both a blessing and a curse. While we occasionally end up with an unexpected bit of brilliance, they…
