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Calamari Kid – Action Game Review
Calamari Kid is a Action/Casual game from Sean ODowd, first launched in 15th March 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 78+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Calamari Kid Stand Out
"Calamai Kid hides a lot of strategy in its mechanics" – TouchArcade
Compete in the greatest treasure hunt challenge in the world!
Weave through dangerous passageways.
Defeat those pesky creatures from the deep.
But be nice, it turns out you're stealing their gold, so…
DISTINCT REGIONS
Visit exotic locations, like Antarctica.
DEEP FRIENDS
Play as uniquely skilled characters!
PERFECT GAMEPLAY
Become the fastest in the leaderboards.
TREASURE HUNT
Challenges everyday to build your skills.
Send your compliments to [email protected]
Developed in Melbourne, Australia.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Calamari Kid is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th March 2019
Recent improvements include:
Fixed that pesky bug keeping you all from purchasing premium!
Download & Availability
Calamari Kid is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It is a Nintendo like game the question is. Is it worth downloading the answer is a yes! The other question is is it worth 2.99 that question is up to you is it worth a cup of coffee to us ya. That being said we think that could explain the core game movement in some way that makes the player make less mistakes or like am open reeled or let the player move the chr on the title screen? We dot now it is good.
Im playing on the XR and Ive havent experienced any bugs. The game mechanics/steering is difficult to grasp at first but soon youll be flying through the easier levels. Simple design but by no means an easy game, the developers took the time to create a challenging and addicting game. Would highly recommend.
Drawing heavily on the mechanics and style of retro classics like Super Mario and the like, this game achieves something very new and special. Its movement mechanics make make it hard to get used to, but quickly becomes the most compelling part about it once you get the hang of it. Incredible sound design and music, incredible level design, and above all, incredible graphics. All of the models are stunning, but this games greatest feature is its lighting and backgrounds. Swimming deeper into a level creates dazzling lighting transitions which we have not seen in any game similar. Cannot recommend enough, 10/10.
Great visuals, unnecessarily good music, and of course a great game! The controls take time to get used to, but other than that, 5/5 (and its free!) AND THEIR ARE HARDLY ANY ADS! But we love this game so much Im purchasing premium anyways.
This games really cool. The controls are really creative and we like the pixelated sprites. The game kinda reminds us of splatoon.
This game is a game with great mechanics and a nice pixelated game visual. Definitely recommend.
Its got a learning curve, like flappy bird but with more depth.
A pretty solid game! Controls take a little getting used too, but Ive had fun with it so far.
Squids,shells,obstacles,TREASURE Its amazing .Not everything is a said some things are fish PENGUINS TOO.Obstacles now what could be better than these difficult obstacles. We love a challenge. Treasure,Treasure, Treasure what is a good game without Treasure.The game really wants you to get more treasure, the fact that you lose about 10 gold every time you hit an obstacle.Now the shells… The fact that the shells dont save and you have to recollect them again just to find out when your in the next world oh look to get to the other world we need to RECOLLECT THE SHELLS THAT we AREADY RECOLLECTED LIKE 10 TIMES.
The treasure level can be trollish with the chest not being able to pass certain sections without either you dying or getting physically stuck. Seems extremely difficult if not impossible to keep your coins by levels end. You will die and lose them.
Although its a really fun game actually quite addicting the game was a little hard to steer around we kept bumping in to things and having to start again which we found pretty Annoying but overall it a game we would play again.
We think this game has a ton of amazing qualities and characteristics. However, there are a few things that are not too enjoyable. For example, the game doesnt save your progress and we have found ourselves doing the same levels over and over again. Also, the amount of time given on every level IS NOT ENOUGH. We have never been able to complete a level within the time limit. Overall, we think the game has a great concept, amazing music, great art, and has adorable characters. We really like how there are barely any ads too! Thanks for reading.
We really enjoy this game, but there are quite a few bugs that affect game play. It randomly doesnt save achievements, sometimes enemies disappear for no reason, or reappear after youve killed them, the sleeping fish dont reset to where they started from, the game freezes up after you play for a while, and a couple of times we were unable to collect shells in a level when we reached them. We hope theres an update soon.
So the game is fun but we found that there are some things wrong. Some levels wont save the shells that Ive gathered, no matter how many times we redo it. Thats incredibly annoying because we dont want to keep redoing a level. Also, it doesnt save your progress. If Im playing the game, then have to set our phone down to go do something, and come back to it with the level completely started over. The save points should stay even if Ive closed the game. Also, it does this thing where everything slows down and it freezes? We can go to the pause menu but we have to restart the whole level to get it to work again. We like this game a lot and even paid for no ads, so we feel like we wasted our money on it with all these bugs.
We liked the idea of it at first, but when we tried it, it sucked. Hard to navigate. That one button you press to change direction doesnt do much. Its also pretty laggy, too. Just a frustrating game overall.
Too hard. Not enjoyable whatsoever.
Cute and fun game that would be fun to play if the bugs didnt make it nearly unplayable. The game was working fine for the tutorial and first levels we tried (and repeated), but its doing this thing where if we collide with something, the animation goes REALLY slow. Itll take 10-15 seconds for it to figure itself out and go through the animation. This is obnoxious if you die a lot (like we do). We tried restarting the level, and then even the transition screen was going slow. Would like to play this game more, but Im spending more time waiting than we are playing.
We have no frickin idea how this is ages 4+! Im 21 years old and this game is hard, even for us. It requires A LOT of patience.
Game is trash and we enjoy a difficult game but this one is just kinda boring and annoying…rly super frustrating.
THE CONTROLS ARE SO BAD IF TOOK ME LIKE 40 minutes to pass the tutorial.
Overall great game but does not save progress.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.01
- Size: 200.75 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Sean ODowd]()
Last updated: 15th March 2019 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Sean ODowd