I've been dying to get my hands on Morphite [$7.99], the new action adventure title from developers Crescent Moon Games, Blowfish Studios, and We're Five Games, ever since I gazed upon its luscious low-poly environments when it was originally announced back in May of last year. It's been a long year and a half wait, but finally Morphite has landed its dropship directly onto the surface of planet App Store. Ok that was a super cheesy line but I don't care, Morphite is here! To coincide with the launch of Morphite on the App Store the developers have put together a brand new launch trailer showing the game in action, check it out!

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We've covered Morphite a bunch over the past 16-ish months, and it's easily become one of the most highly-anticipated titles in our community. I played a wee bit of an in-progress version of the game when it was in beta, and I REALLY enjoyed it. This is the type of game that you'll enjoy more if your expectations are set appropriately. For example, many have taken Morphite's colorful visuals and how you travel from planet to planet to mean that it's trying to be a portable No Man's Sky. There certainly are some similar aspects, but the scope of Morphite is definitely not on par with something like No Man's Sky, nor was it ever trying to be. What Morphite is greatest at is offering up visually interesting environments to explore supplemented with some light first-person shooting action, some surpri...