TouchArcade: It was just over a year ago that I reviewed Douglas Cowley's excellent strategy game Hoplite [$1.99]. I found it to be a superb game, as many did, with tremendous depth and not an ounce of fat on its bones. It's one of the most efficiently-designed mobile games I've ever played. I can't say for sure if Mucho Party [$3.99] developer GlobZ was inspired by Hoplite when they made their latest game, Lamp And Vamp [$1.99], but it sure feels like they were. Not in a bad way, mind you. Lamp And Vamp certainly feels familiar, but it's different enough that it doesn't feel superfluous. Like Hoplite, you're trying to make your way across a single board, divided into hexagons, to an exit. In this case, it's a coffin. All you need to do is survive the gauntlet of enemies that lay in the path. It's harder than you might think.
The people behind Mucho Party have a new game, and it's called Lamp and Vamp.
TouchArcade: Lamp and Vamp [$1.99] is definitely the underdog release of the week, but one that's more than worth your time checking out if you're into highly-strategic games. At first glance it might just look like a Vampire-themed version of Hoplite [$1.99], one of our all-time favorite games, and to be honest the two titles do have a lot in common. However, the more time you spend with Lamp and Vamp, the more you realize it's very much its own thing while still holding onto many of the core concepts that made Hoplite so great.
TTP:" A new roguelike game is now available on the App Store, a really interesting game developed by a team which is more known for casual games."
