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Cardinal Land – Education Game Review
Cardinal Land is a Education/Puzzle/Family game from Petro Shmigelskyi, first launched in 22nd March 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 377+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cardinal Land Stand Out
Relaxing jigsaw puzzle game with an educational twist.
Very simple intuitive gameplay. Your task is to combine colorful animal image from pieces of different shapes. Also new surprising facts about the animal will appear, and you can share them with your friends!
Seven continents, more than 80 unique levels with beautiful animals. Playing the game you will not only have fun, but expand your knowledge about different creatures living on our planet.
Challenge your skills in Timer mode. To receive all stars you have to complete the task in 30 seconds. It seems impossible at first time, but then you will be wondered how your skills develop as you play.
Once you have solved a level you can share animal image to your Apple Watch and create unique watch face.
You will:
- Find a peaceful and restful pastime for hours;
- Sharpen your geometrical skills;
- Advance your logical thinking and memory;
- Know more about surrounding wildlife;
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cardinal Land is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd April 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Watch face saving bug fixed.
Minor improvements.
Download & Availability
Cardinal Land is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cardinal Land on App Store
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:
We love this game and we really recommend it.
Loads of fun, but a little tricky at times.
This game is very fun its just like a game we play when we are bored. We really want an update for this game if we could that it be awesome! This game is great you should try it to.
Its very fun. We cant wait to do the hard puzzles after we do the easy ones.
Very relaxing – especially since theres no ads to interrupt it also very fun and we love how its organised into a map just a bit slow on our phone but its a 6 so we kinda expect that for any app but yeah! Great game, you should try it out :).
Simple relaxing puzzle game.we come here when other games get us aggravated.Nice music to calm us down.And before long, Im back to high blood pressure with those other games.
This game is the best game to play when you want to get your mind off stressful moments. We love playing it on our way to work.
Simple and relaxing puzzles are good, but the ability to output all of your adorable, completed animals as watch faces makes this our #1 watch app. Great work on the customizing picture export screen devs.
Our granddaughter was struggling to read. Since we already had the app, she opened it on her own. She loves the activity and she is learning new words and excited about reading because its interesting for her. She loves animals.
Great for relaxing and getting rid of migraines.
Maybe different music will help but otherwise its a nice app.
We downloaded on a whim and its actually very relaxing. We like it a lot so far and its perfect while watching tv or just if you need to relax. Which is definitely what we all need right now.
We ended up liking this app more than we thought we would. We mainly use it in the evenings to relax & unwind before bedtime (esp. Zoning out while doing the easy puzzles which are simply fun & dont really pose much of a challenge, unless your goal is to beat your former time). Regardless, in addition to these tangram puzzles being fun (& relaxing for us), whether you are a young child or an elderly adult (or any age in between), you will no doubt benefit from the brain-sharpening side effect that an app such as this could possibly provide with regular use. After all, similar puzzles or tests can be found in certain mental status exams. So why not play, have some fun, try to beat your former performance times, and, what the heck, maybe youll sharpen up your brain a bit in the process.
We loved this we played it so much it ended to soon!! We wish there were more puzzles or maybe it could be a little harder…anyway, we LOVE IT.
Really awesome game! Music and gameplay are both relaxing and amazing.
Excellent app for exercising brain.
Entertaining. Easy and relaxing and fun.
Fun and educational. We are enjoying this very much. We like that you can pick regions.
We love this game- add more continents or animal categories please! Only criticism is that the plink sound when a piece fits wont turn off. We have tried but it still happens.
This game is so fun, its addictive … Which unfortunately meant we couldnt put it down; and we completed all the puzzles in just two evenings of working on them. The graphics are great, and the music is soothing … An all-around enjoyable way to spend some relaxing time while exercising your eyes and your brain. We want more please. Pretty please.
Pretty relaxing game. Can listen to our own music while playing, or listen to the relaxing music of the game if we so choose. The reason we give it 4 instead of 5 stars is because after we rate the game, it continually asks us to rate it after ever puzzle we complete. We did restart the game, hoping that would make it stop, but that was not the case. It's not a deal breaker, but is kind of annoying. Otherwise, love this game. Updated review: 4/8/2018 They fixed the error that we originally spoke of rather quickly. Pretty fast response from devs. Thanks.
We get bored of most games. However this is a game we enjoy very much.
Awesome and entertaining. The only issue we had was that sometimes we would hit the restart button instead of going to the next level. We suggest increasing space or padding between these two buttons.
Our 2 year old grandson has really been enjoying this on our daughters phone. Our only request would be: add some new puzzles. Thanks for these games, our grandson adores these so much.
Is there a way to import to apple watch without resolving the puzzle every time. We mean if we did solve all the puzzles and we want to select a specific animal to port it to apple watch face. We have to redo the puzzle all over again. The game is great and it looks gorgeous on apple watch.
Very simple, but thats the point of the game. If you are looking for something very challenging and mind bending, this is not the game for you. If you want something fun and relaxing that you can pick up and put down, this is it. The game would also be fun to play going back and forth with a 3-4 yo childyou do one, we do one.
While this is a pretty app, its over WAY too fast. Not nearly enough puzzles or variety and the soundtrack is just a repetitive loop. Please add way more and our rating will be higher.
It's a fun way to pass the time.
The only reason Im writing this review is because it kept popping up in the app after every single puzzle we finished. -_-.
Only writing in hopes that the app will stop asking us to to rate the app after every animal. Nope- still asks us to review.
STOP ASKING ME TO REVIEW THE GAME EVERY TWO SECONDS LIKE OMG YOUR GAME IS OF BUT JUST LEAVE ME ALONE EVEN WHEN we CLICK ON DONT ASK AGAIN OR REMIND ME LATER IT STILL ASKS ME BUT we LOVE THE GAME DEFINITELY RECOMMEND.
Very calming game easy to play great music.
Our daughter was spending so much time on online games…But now shes so into it that she doesnt play online much anymore.The game looks very good for kids;It teaches kids geometry and biology.Somehow this game also never has bugs…Theres only one thing that would have stressed evryone: theres timing and to get three stars you need to solve some pretty hard puzzles in 30 seconds…But otherwise this game is worth paying.
The art is beautiful, and we enjoy playing this game with our kids and learning some animal facts after each puzzle. Well done.
This app is fun for any age. The artwork is brilliant, and its very enjoyable to play.
This is the perfect game to just relax after work.
When you want to play a puzzle type game that doesnt get so difficult to keep playing.
We love puzzles and this is a perfect game by rotating the shapes to create animals. Sadly there is only 2 modes that we know of but we love it so far.
This game is really fun and addicting.
Beautiful puzzles. Great app that keeps your mind moving.
Challenging and pretty animal tangrams.
Even though this is timed, it's a very relaxing and enjoyable game. Very Zen.
We love this game and the graphics are awesome. Our only suggestion would to add a mode that wasn't timed. We like to take our time when doing puzzles like these and we currently feel like we're being rushed. Other than that, it's a good game.
This game is addictive and fun!! It's good for a family because it talks about the animals!! Enjoy.
Lots of puzzles. They are decently hard and fun to solve. Star system is based on memorization and repetition, so we ignored it. Good app for the price of free.
We love the elements of the game, we do wish it wasn't timed and that you can just unlock other lands or levels of the game by completing the challenges.
We can't play this game because we just wanted to sit and listen to our audiobook while playing a game… This turns it all off, even when we turn the music and sound off in the app, still shuts our book off. We gave t two stars because it might be a fun game, but we can't play it.
Controls are horrid on iPhone 8. Unplayable.
This is a brain tease and really makes you think. It can get pretty time consuming as well. Great to pass the time. On hard we find it impossible to complete these in under 30 seconds. Just not possible. But it's fun to try, and it also has in game music that is not annoying! Nice Chinese tranquil melodies. Well done.
The feel and theme of the game run together well. The music repeats of course but it is fairly mystifying and really adds to the ambiance. The play is a nice casual puzzle that challenges you enough to make you want to keep playing. The game is polished.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.2
- Size: 43.58 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, RU, ZH, UK
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Petro Shmigelskyi
Last updated: 2nd April 2018 | Genre: Education, Puzzle | Developer: Petro Shmigelskyi