It’s the dragon apocalypse, and yes, that is as cool and terrifying as it sounds. Humanity has been forced into space and it’s up to Stanley and Sydney to skydive back down to Earth through the atmosphere, battling dragons the entire way. EarthNight is technically classified as a runner, but don’t panic and click away just yet. This is a far more complex runner than a simple mobile game, even if the entire thing is controlled by only two buttons. Easy to learn and hard to master can be a cliched phrase, but it applies with flying dragon colors to EarthNight’s deceptively simple mechanics.
Flying colors is an understatement when it comes to the gorgeous hand painted visuals. Between the skydiving “level select” as you fall through each section of the Earth’s atmosphere and the actual side scrolling running, from the tail end of each dragon to the head, there are some stunning visuals. Each colored dragon represents a different difficulty, filled with smaller beasts to impede your quest to the head, where you proceed to stab the dragon’s eye out, either with a knife as Stanley, or with your hand while possessed by a dragon spirit as Sydney. Yup, she stabs dragons in their eyes with her hand. It’s just as badass as it sounds. The way they kill the dragons isn’t the only difference between Stanley and Sydney. Each character controls completely different from the other. Stanley could be considered more of an easy mode,...