{"id":23143,"date":"2023-03-24T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23143"},"modified":"2023-02-05T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:13:41","slug":"devolver-tumble-time-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/devolver-tumble-time-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Devolver Tumble Time (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Devolver Digital has published many a game over the years, and now you can play a puzzle game starring several of their characters. It\u2019s available free-to-play on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Game character heads fall into a dryer style tumbler, and you must tap on ones that are the same and next to each other.\u00a0 If you tap on three or more of the same kind, they\u2019ll disappear, letting more fall in their place. \u00a0Tap on the valve at the bottom of the screen to turn the tumbler if you can\u2019t make a match. \u00a0If you can tap on enough at the same time, you can get a power-up like a bomb or extra time.\u00a0 If you match up enough, you can go into Fever Mode where time stops and you can get bonus points.\u00a0 Also when you match enough, the character you have selected can use a special attack when the meter is full.\u00a0 Tap on the character then and you\u2019ll clear out a bunch of them on screen.\u00a0 Each stage has certain goals to clear, like matching certain characters, using bombs, or going into Fever Mode.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t do the goals before time runs out, you\u2019ll have to start the stage over and you\u2019ll lose a heart.\u00a0 You use your hearts to play but they regenerate over time, like other free-to-play games of this nature.\u00a0 But even if you lose, your selected character can gain experience and level up, although leveling up really doesn\u2019t do much as far as I can tell.\u00a0 This game mostly reminds me of one I reviewed a long time ago called Yo-Kai Watch: Wibble Wobble<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can unlock new character to play as by spending the in-game currency or real money, although I never got enough in-game currency to do so.\u00a0 The designs in this game are so cartoony that I didn\u2019t recognize a lot of the characters at first.\u00a0 Here are the list of games with characters in this one.\u00a0 I even got to review some of these games, so click on the links provided if you\u2019re curious.<\/p>\n

Gorn<\/p>\n

Hotline Miami<\/p>\n

Absovler<\/p>\n

Ape Out<\/p>\n

Carrion<\/p>\n

Crossing Souls<\/p>\n

Disc Room<\/p>\n

Downwell<\/p>\n

Enter the Gungeon<\/p>\n

Gato Roboto<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Gris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Heave Ho<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Messenger<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Minit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Observation<\/p>\n

Pikuniku<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Serious Sam<\/p>\n

Shadow Warrior<\/p>\n

I know these free-to-play games have some annoying yet necessary aspects to make money, but this one is especially bad.\u00a0 You can opt to watch video ads to earn more time in the levels, but it\u2019s really hard to get out of those videos and they always take you to where you must purchase whatever it is they\u2019re advertising.\u00a0 The game also makes it hard to progress after a certain level, and for me it was stage 18.\u00a0 So I lost interest in it pretty quickly.\u00a0 But the worst offender are the ads between loading screens that ask if you want to buy stuff in the game.\u00a0 One time they had the gall to ask if I wanted to unlock everything for 100 bucks!\u00a0 I don\u2019t care how good your game is, no game is worth that much!\u00a0 I know these free-to-play titles have to have stuff like this, but this one was especially bad.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The game looks pretty non-violent and cartoony, but the games these characters are from are sometimes T and M rated games.\u00a0 One of the characters in this puzzler uses a bloody baseball bat as a special attack.\u00a0 But parental supervision is especially recommended for the in-game purchases and ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devolver Digital has published many a game over the years, and now you can play a puzzle game starring several of their characters. It\u2019s available free-to-play on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here. Game character heads fall into a dryer style tumbler, and you must tap on ones that are the same and next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23145,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions\/23145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}