Feed Me Oil is an excellent fluid-physics game that is definitely worth $0.99!

Overall Score: 5/5

Awesome gameplay, excellent lasting value, and great presentation.

Gameplay: 5/5

In this game, you use a variety of tools to direct oil into the land monster’s mouth. You have flat platforms, wind currents, magnets, propellers, and more to use. The variety in the game is incredible! Each of the levels have their own unique challenge. Plus, there is a help system that gives you hints of where to place items if you ever get stuck. The controls are also unmatched! Feed Me Oil has the best controls out of any other game like this that I have played.

Presentation: 4/5

The visuals are nice and cartoonish, and the music is pretty good (although the 6 or so songs can get repetitive).

Lasting Value: 5/5

You’ll get about 6 or more hours from this game! There are plenty of levels, and they all increase in difficulty. After you’ve played through them all, you can replay levels and try to use as few items as possible, in order to score the maximum amount of stars.

Reader Rating

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Title: Feed Me Oil
Price: $0.99
Publisher: Electronic Arts

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geoDefense Swarm is a must-have game! It is awesome!

Overall Score: 5/5

Truly awesome gameplay, great visuals, and excellent lasting value!

Gameplay: 5/5

This is a tower defense-style game, and I am not a huge fan of tower defense games, but geoDefense Swarm is one of the most fun games I have played! The variety of towers is excellent, and you need to use every single type of tower if you want to win. The difficulty is perfect and remains challenging while not becoming frustrating. The controls are natural and work well. In geoDefense Swarm, you actually create your own path by placing towers, which is a departure from the linear style of the original geoDefense. At first you may not like this change, but after playing it, I found myself enjoying the open-world style even more!

Presentation: 4/5

The visuals are beautiful and colors truly pop out on high-end devices like the Focus S or Lumia 900. The game unfortunately doesn’t have any music, but you won’t notice the silence too much between the sound effects of your turrets and your extreme focus on the game.

Lasting Value: 5/5

Thanks to the difficulty of the game, you can spend a lot of hours playing the medium and hard difficulties. I could see myself getting at least 5 hours of gameplay from geoDefense Swarm. After that, you can always replay levels to try and complete them without dying, and also go for high scores or try to unlock achievements. The score system is excellent, since you receive a multiplier if you kill enemies close to the exit, which entices you to replay levels and be as risky as possible!

Title: geoDefense Swarm
Price: $2.99
Publisher: Microsoft Studios

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This game is an odd mix of Angry Birds and some other elements… but doesn’t have many fun elements.

Overall Score: 3/5

I would recommend avoiding this game. The controls are terrible and the gameplay is uninteresting.

Gameplay: 2/5

The developers must have not even played their own game, because the controls are a disaster. Pinch to zoom is reversed for some insane reason. Also, you can’t pan around to see what you’re shooting after you click the play button. The gameplay itself is pretty boring. There aren’t many challenging aspects to the game, and not much skill is involved. You usually can randomly pick things to add to your wagon and be fine.

Presentation: 3/5

The visuals are average and the sound effects are decent, but the controls make the presentation feel pretty clunky. Also, the game lacks music which is disappointing.

Lasting Value: 3/5

You can get around 4 hours of lasting value from Battlewagon, which is pretty good. However, the gameplay isn’t interesting enough to make me want to play the game.

Title: Battlewagon
Price: $0.99
Publisher: Ironsun Studios

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