One Button Travel 12+

It's a great app, but needs more plot to keep us interested. Also no matter what you do you don't seem to be able to affect your fate much

You've booked a trip - apparently, through time. But, it's not quite that simple.. and suddenly, you begin receiving messages from somebody in the future, warning you to cancel your trip. Of course, that's not so simple either. You're in occasional conversation with this mysterious scribe as they try to work out how to cancel your trip, sometimes offering advice on how they should proceed.

It's an unusual gameplay dynamic, with these brief conversations sometimes minutes, sometimes hours apart, making for a more realistic sense of progress. As such, it won't be for everyone, but I'm very pleased I bought this, and look forward to seeing what the developers come up with next.

There haven't been any reviews of this for 3 years or more. Plus the developers, the fabulous TheCodingMonkeys, have tweaked it a couple of times in 2020 already, so 'One Button Travel' deserves at least one up-to-date review. Here's mine...

I've had this app installed for quite some time, but as I don't play many games, I hadn't ever got around to playing it for more than a couple of minutes. Well, I've finished it now, and I'm impressed.

To be clear, I'm pretty sure that I bought this due to my friends and I being long-term players of their EXCELLENT (and now sadly removed) Carcassonne game. THAT game was perfectly implemented, with no bugs that we ever found (I reported what I thought was a bug at one point, but they politely pointed out that I was wrong!), even after years of playing, so their attention-to-detail is exceptional.

'OBT' is no different. It's clever, detailed, and bug-free - at least in my perfectionist opinion. I thought I'd found a typo at one point - but quickly realised that was a plot device, and therefore intentional!

Obviously, no spoilers here. It's a medium-length, interesting, real-time, quirky, funny adventure. I highly recommend you put a little time into it, you won't be disappointed. It's certainly worth the current GBP 2.99 asking price for a few hours of fun. Just ignore the old, negative reviews found here!

Oh, and I played it on an iPhone, which worked perfectly. I plan to get an Apple Watch soon, and I suspect that this game would be even better on that - the Watch is probably the ideal medium for such a real-time, interactive game!

Overall, thanks and well done to TheCodingMonkeys!