In the fleeting ecosystem that is the App Store, games live and die by the strength of their core concept, and how well the developers are able to execute such pivotal ideas. Owing to the ease of development for iOS, there are innumerable innovative ideas in games - in terms of raw numbers of releases, eclipsing virtually every other platform out there - yet it is still rare to see them implemented with the quality and distinction of Combo Critters [Free]. While it would be easy to draw parallels to Pokemon, and the creature catching action isn?t particularly unique, Lucky Kat Studios manages to shake up the formula enough to stand alone as its own game. By being able to fuse critters together, amalgamated with an incredible sense of charm and whimsy, Combo Critters is an extremely enjoyable experience that has a lot of potential to expand, grow and develop in the coming months.
Looking at Combo Critters purely at face value may insinuate there isn?t really much to the game - after all, it is a free, casual title on the App Store - but this is an unfair assumption to make. You play as an unnamed, creature collecting cyborg, and must travel through six planets to defeat monsters for coins, possibly recruit your vanquished foes as you go, and ultimately take on a boss, which will let you then create more powerful critters and let you progress to further planets. However, you are able to fuse any two creatures together to create a stronger or weaker alternative, depending on...