Pocket Gamer: The tactile nature of the iPad offers up more opportunities for communal gaming than most of the current generation of consoles. There's just something about sticking your finger in to help out that makes sense.
It's games like Splice: Tree of Life, with its single-finger controls, that make this fact abundantly clear. While it's putatively a single-player experience, the game's blend of gorgeous visuals, hypnotic music, and puzzling minimalist gameplay are sure to draw in anyone who hazards a glance.
AppSmile: Splice: Tree of Life, a microbiological puzzler from Cipher Prime Studios, is now available from the app store. Featuring gorgeous art design, smooth controls, and heady puzzles, Splice is a bit of a head-scratcher that ultimately satisfies.
Splice: Tree of Life is the latest iOS puzzler from Cipher Prime Studios, known for dabbling in music-driven games like Pulse and Auditorium. They’ve elected to skip music as the central element of gameplay this time and instead create a title with a biological puzzle element.
Touch Arcade: The Fractal and Pulse: Volume One developer doesn't disappoint in its latest dazzling puzzler Splice: Tree of Life [$3.99 (HD)]. Cipher Prime once again sticks to an iPad-only experience, but it only takes one look at the gorgeously large, 70+ levels to understand why the team opted for the larger touch canvas.