For this week's Mobile Friday i tried Rail Rescue: Puzzle Lines from developers INFINITY GAMES on my iPhone 14 Pro.
The App store page for Rail Rescue: Puzzle Lines really highlights what this game is. there are train themed single screen puzzles. by completing a set, you get a star. you use stars to build buildings in your town. Whilst the puzzle aspect was pretty good, the building the town aspect of the game did seem to just be filler. there were no bonuses to building the town, nor did you have any control over where they could be built.
The problem with Rail Rescue: Puzzle Lines is that it can come off as rude. when we started there was a download. it's small, but there was no announcement made before hand, no warning about doing the download over wifi and not using your data by downloading it over a mobile network. it didn't even tell me what the download was for. The game has adverts but there was no warning when they were going to start. what's weird about them is how they happen during the results screen, but not once the results are finished. instead the adverts appear in a weird place. there's no effort made to hide them or incorporate them into the game world at all.
The game then does have a sale message about buying the game and turning adverts off. i don't mind the developers trying to push their store. but then we got a sale offer that involved the game's in-game currency. at no point in this video was the currency used. trying to sell stuff to make money is fine, but i've said it for years now, the player needs to know the value of what you're selling. i had no idea about the currency, i don't know if that's a good deal or not. as for the adverts, i cut out 14 adverts from this video!
Rail Rescue: Puzzle Lines looks good. i thought the music and effects were fine, too. the tutorial is good and so is the gameplay. there is a lot to like about Rail Rescue: Puzzle Lines. but the forced download and repeated adverts make it hard to recommend. it'd be worth making this a paid for game instead of releasing a spoiled free to play experience.
Version 1.3 Played.
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