The Witness 12+

First thing’s first - this game is a masterpiece. Incredible. I bought the Witness on PS4 earlier this year and immediately saw that the concept would be perfect on mobile. So when it came out, I bought it straight away. And the game is MADE for the small-screen. BUT: I am on iPhone 6, <12mo old, and I get 10 mins of playtime from full charge to ‘Low Power’ warning. It is just so resource-intensive that it invalidates the mobile format. I have to be attached to a power outlet at all times, so I might as well be on the PS4. If they can optimise performance more effectively, this will be perfect. Until then, stick with the console, and keep taking photos of the screen to work puzzles out in your lunchbreak ;-)

The Witness is my favourite game and I only recently found out it’s available here on the app store. I was hesitant to buy it as I wasn’t sure how it would translate from one device to the other, but I bit the bullet and boy was I happy to have given it a chance. I think it’s really smart how they adapted the movement for a touch screen, though it takes some getting used to to be able to line some puzzles up just right. It also doesn’t drain my battery like I thought it would (it does however do so if I try to play it on my phone, so really I’d only recommend this if you have an iPad). Now that I’ve got a portable version of the game I’ve got my whole family playing it and I couldn’t be happier. If you’re on the fence then take the plunge, it truly is a brilliant and beautiful game.

The witness is one of the games I’ve always kept on my playstation hard-drive because it’s so good, but for the LOVE OF GOD please put an analogue control on the bottom left of the screen. The controls are absolutely atrocious. I’ve had to just stop playing it on my iPhone 8 Plus because even with the larger screen the tap to move and the horrific camera angles make moving around to solve puzzles a nightmare - especially the dessert section of the map where you have to move to very specific places to see the outline of the puzzle solutions based on where the sun is hitting the screen. Abysmal. Until this is sorted I can’t bring myself to play it again on my phone. Do yourself a favour, experience this on console - because you really can’t underestimate how much more fun you will have exploring this beautiful game.