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Daily iPhone App: Battleloot Adventure tweaks turn-based RPG combat

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2012)

When I first heard about Battleloot Adventure, it was being compared to the great Battleheart game on iOS. That's a fair comparison given the way the game looks, but I think I have a much better one: old-school Final Fantasy, with a focus on combat. As you might have expected, Battleloot ...

TUAW's Daily iOS App: Samurai Girl

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2011)

Samurai Girl is a 2D Korean RPG on iOS that's surprisingly deep. The combat is pretty traditional 2D stuff, but this game has all of the features that you'd expect in a full RPG, including over 50 quests and various skills to earn, a full collectibles and crafting system and even a pet system, ...

TUAW's Daily App: Dungeon Raid

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2011)

I am a sucker for both puzzle games and RPGs, so Dungeon Raid is right up my alley. It's a puzzle game where you have to match up various icons on a grid, as you can see above, but the real draw here is that all of those icons map to various RPG abilities that then let you level and grind out a ...