Cards! – MonkeyBox 2 9+

Name: Cards! – MonkeyBox 2
Rating: 4.5 (13 reviews)
Author: TheCodingMonkeys

Cards, Cats and Curiosity

TheCodingMonkeys

Designed for iPad

- 4.5 • 13 Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

The first two chapters are a free trial. Unlock the full game with an inApp purchase.

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Lush forests, wild oceans and howling caves.
Hot air balloons, cats and deadly deserts.
Swipe your way through a dangerous world.
Your fate lies in a deck of cards.

Cards! is a story driven puzzle adventure specifically designed with mobile in mind. Simple to start and easy to get lost in.

Cards! is entry #2 of the MonkeyBox Series from TheCodingMonkeys. A series of playful, experimental, handcrafted titles.

Feb 1, 2022

Version 1.1

• the game is language independent but we localized the settings menu to 9 additional languages
• made the first two chapters free - full game can be unlocked via in app purchase, previous full purchases are honored

4.5 out of 5

13 Ratings

Challenging, creative, occasionally confusing

Sort of like a challenging old-school adventure game, where you’re expected to fail in order to learn how to do better next time (possibly with different inventory). But some elements only work in the visual medium.

The card UI was often annoying (why can’t I swipe any card up to play it?) and the story didn’t always make sense. The puzzles were pretty fair, however.

Absolutely worth playing for free (it was on sale)!

Greatly enjoyed, but wanted more!

This was a thoroughly enjoyable game. It’s very intuitive, and the design is so well thought out—especially how easy it was for me to pick up and play without any kind of written tutorial! I like the variety of gameplay as I progressed, but each level took between 10-20 minutes to complete, so I’d say it took only a few hours for me to get through all 8 levels. The game controls are much better than Monkeybox 1 (no pointing your phone around the room to snap photos here), but I do miss some of the poetic/storytelling elements that came with that game.

TL;DR
Great short puzzle adventure, but seemed to end sooner than I expected.

Short but Entertaining

This game/story is very short, took me about half a day to finish and realistically probably only about an hour or 2. But I really enjoyed it! Mostly the gameplay was just trial and error but it was enough to make me think without delaying the whole story. The story was fun, it didn’t make much sense really but I liked the whole thing. Overall, this is a fun little game that will tell an odd story in a strange way and steal your attention for a while.

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