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Lightracer Ignition – Word Game Review
Lightracer Ignition is a Word/Simulation game from SHENZHEN SMARTMELON TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD, first launched in 21st May 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,173+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Lightracer Ignition Stand Out
This is a game where you determine the fate of entire civilizations, whether they rise or fall.
The game's premise is based on the "Big Rip" hypothesis, wherein all matter is slowly being torn apart by the expanding of the universe. The game tells the story of several civilizations' struggling at the twilight of the universe.
You are the navigator of a high tech "ark," leading your compatriots to escape annihilation by the big rip.
To accumulate the energy required for navigation, you must construct an orbital ring that will envelop an entire planet to consume the planet's mass.
But not all planets are empty.
Will you devour the planets in your path or find coexistence with exotic civilizations? The choice is yours.
But remember, all choices will have a profound impact on the development of a civilization. Consider your choices carefully.
Notes
· You can receive ten free strangelet by paying for download.
· Upgrade technology to increase offline production.
· Allocate your energy between construction and upgrades to discover the most effective method for progress.
· Auto-Answer is enabled by default. Players who wish to explore the story and continue at their own pace can turn off this feature.
· Swipe left and right between screens and pay attention to the upper left corner of the interface, where your AI assistant has marked [Missions] for the navigator.
· Many concepts within the game are derived from existing scientific theories.
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Lightracer Ignition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd July 2021
Recent improvements include:
V1.2.22
Optimizing the Game Experience
Download & Availability
Lightracer Ignition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Lightracer Ignition 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 played this for the first time years ago and absolutely loved the story. We downloaded it again about a year later and played through it again. The story is complex and wild and might need a second play through to completely understand it. Through the years, the story pops in our head every once in a while and after watching the 3 Body Problem and thinking about it again Ill be doing our 3rd play through. Its an idle game, theres not a lot of action, but we find ourselves so interested in it years after playing. Thank you developers, this is absolute gold.
We remember playing this game a couple years back and how amazed we were that a game like this was made no matter how many times we uninstall it we always come back to it later on wanting to read its amazing story again and again just the plot of this game draws us in so much that we can never get bored of it its just we dont know why but being able to choose wether a civilization either lives and you help eachother escape the universe or destroy it to gather its resources and restart the universe so life can begin again every time we play the decision always seem to be so hard for us to make either escape the collapsing universe bringing your allies with you or restart the universe by destruction in the end the choice is yours to make.
As we said in the title, this game has us speechless. The game our seem like just another idle increment game, but it will have you thinking about morality and it has incredibly detailed lore. The dev clearly put in an incredible amount of effort, and it deserves to be recognized. Also we wish we could have a game theory episode on it. Sincerely an exited player.
We just restarted playing the game and in the first part when building the ark the ark reminded us of Scp-2339 or The Malfunctioning Destroyer.
Ive just now stumbled on your work and wanted to let you we think you are an absolute inspiration! We are so looking forward to exploring this incredibly rich game and all this content you so clearly pour your passion into. Thank you.
(Ive had to resubmit this twice cause the app store is bugging out.) we're not exaggerating when we say that we've never been so engrossed in a mobile game's story before. The 'AI' characters were incredibly distinctive, and the tension of choosing the right path was genuinely challenging. Among the three 'AI' that help the player through the journey, Deep Red stood out as our personal favorite. Her character was captivating and unique. Ever onward, to all navigators.
Why do we need to pay for the new chapters.
Amazing Story, With Different Endings and Different Outcomes, The developers spent time to create a story to read to make you really feel like you are apart of the experience, highly recommend this game to anyone who is interested in storys and replaying games to see different outcomes, only downside is the ads but l get it they need funding.
This game has a great story and it may look like your average clicker game but if you have played cell to singularity then you will love this game.
Honestly the story is the best part for us. We love it.
This game is amazing, we couldnt give more support to the devs if we tried. Ads arent in your face, story is actually awesome. You feel like a super cool captain. Im not very far, but we like the choices in dialogue, please please make sure you turn off auto answer. The graphics are amazing. We voice over the comms system, gods we just love this game.
Just wanted to say that the story was amazing and complement the game.
From the outside, it may look like a clicker game, which we kind of is, but its also a lot more than that because of the story, which unfolds as you reach higher levels. The storytelling is much better than that of a lot of other sci-fi games, and so we were completely hooked. We would def recommend this game. Play it. The one thing that could be improved is the English translation, because there are a fair amount of small mistakes that sometimes make it a little hard to understand. Other than that, its a really good game.
Title says it all. Though the story progression has a problem. As you can see from how auto-answer is turned on, letting the player read the story isnt a big priority in this game. Events would pop up demanding a choice when the chat log hasnt even finished sending us all the details related to the event.
We thought it was going to be cheesy. Its actually Mac&Cheese! It really has a lot more to it, if you take the time to follow through. Ever onward indeed.
Its bugged and we have no way to earn income please help.
We wasnt expecting such an interesting story and attention to detail. 5/5.
This is one of those games that are one in a million, a mobile game where ads arent shoved down your throat (anymore) and it has a coherent story. We enjoyed every second of this game, it was truly the only one that actually had us invested for more than a few days. We look forward to future releases from this studio.
Good game unique but kinda money grab but its somwthing decent then the otjer stuff and we the ui could use some work but good game we like the style.
This is a great game, the visuals could need some work but the story and characters are amazing however sometimes when you read in the comms you cant really read as fast as the game goes but when you try and stay in one spot to read the game keeps pulling you down. Thats our only complaint everything else is great.
The first minute things are easy to buy but then the next you have to wait hours. Not very good if you want to keep players.
So we rarely write reviews but this game is a friggin masterpiece we usually like fast paced game but the heart and soul and the STORY tellin we could go on about the story its sop great omg we just feel like a god sometimes compared to the civilizations it a great feeling lol.
We wasnt expecting much when we first downloaded this game, but when we did we do not regret it. We got hooked in the first 5 minutes.
We downloaded this game just because we were bored but we saw the story mixed with your classic AppStore tycoon and it came out well. Nice job to who made this game.
This game is beautifully made and a joy to play, we love the amount of choices you get and how they shape the game.
Skipping past the clichs like when we first got this game. This game is different, the story is very unique, and the choices you make go along with the story very well. Usually we just get a game then after 2 days delete it, but this game stuck out to us. It had us hooked. The dialogue is absolutely fantastic, but the best part about this game is the choices. The symbiosis and harvest mechanic is absolutely beautiful. You could watch a planet die or watch it rise back up. Hope gets curbed by common sense, and this game gets really Hopey and really Commony. If youre looking for a game that will keep you at the edge of your seat and give you something to think about whilst asleep this game is for you, but if your looking for a crappy mobile game this isnt for you. Also the graphics, they are ABSOLUTELY! Beautiful. The devs killed it with the graphics, it makes the game more immersive and enjoyable. For so long have we looked for a game like this, and we finally found it, and if the devs are reading this, thank you. Thank you for creating such a good game.
We were never into idle games but this game mightve changed our perspective. Usually we hate grinding, but this game made us want to grind harder for more of the plot. We found ourselves tapping for hours just so we could squeeze a little more dialogue. It took us a comfortable 4 days to complete the story and we wish it took us longer. This game is a total masterpiece! They have the character development done in such a unique way, and every planet you visit has you on the edge of your seat with each having a very unique story to tell. The interactive defense as your planets get attacked keeps you on the interface watching the defenses and the beautiful visuals make it easier to sit there and watch them. The choices you make out of betrayal, empathy, anger, and hope really moves the plot.
When we downloaded this game we were expecting some tedious sci-fi idle game but, we were pleasantly surprised by the fact that this is a very well made and thoughtful representation of a clicker game. Its like youre not even playing a clicker game. There are vast amounts of dialog that isnt pushy and Doesnt get In the way at all, plus, you get to make decisions yourself that change the story massively or barely at all depending on what you pick. The ads arent even that bad either :).
Amazing story but Jesuss do the ads come at the worst time.
For a mobile game this tells a very intriguing story and allows the player to make choices which actually matter later on. Sure it has ads but if you can overlook them there is an amazing game here. This is possibly the best free mobile game in terms of story Ive ever played.
To summarize, the space travel and civilizations are grounded in theoretical physics (although its never mentioned). We think the fact that the military AI is called Deep Red is wildly amusing.
Youve gotta read the logs to get the full story & experience.
Its simple, not pay to win, and ads arnt aweful.
SPACEPLAN which people should buy but this is not about that was an idle clicker/tapper. You got more energy tapping the button, although you will eventually gain other passive means of income, hence the idle aspect. What made SPACEPLAN great was the narrative and charm of engaging with the aspects. Put in the position of an decider aided by a buddy of sorts. It was silly and every little thing oozed charm. Whenever you bought or upgraded anything, it was accompanied by delicious visual changes. A more serious take on this ideaand free to boot with only ads you can choose to subject yourself to for rewardsthe narrative is much more serious, but contains the same basic idea that we just outlined. Where it differs is in what youre fundamentally doing and the level of narrative engagement. You have more people and environments to interact with here than in SPACEPLAN and there is actually something akin to lore and worldbuilding. You can literally read about characters on these planetsand its genuinely intriguing. Pretty beefy too, for an idle game. Its nice, actually, since this genre features a lot of waiting between upgrades and progression. Our only complaint is the buddy text goes pretty quickly, but you get comms logs that let you read it back at your own pace, so its not really an issue. We highly recommend thisalong with SPACEPLAN. Theyre both good. EDIT: Ive come upon a problem in choosing choices. The text moves too fast to read, and the when we sometimes scroll up and down, it seems to pick a choice for us. Big pop-up choices are also problematic in this way. We dont want to read the story after having made the choice.
In our entire play through Ive gotten 2-3 forced ads, the rest of the ads Ive actually wanted to watch as the rewards are good, amazing story, beautiful graphics, easy gameplay and great world building, overall amazing albeit a little short, the only thing we want more from it is more story, like instead of back to the beginning you explore the area we escape to (avoiding spoilers).
We rarely rate an app above 4 stars. We feel Lightracers is a hidden jew among the masses. We absolutely love all the work put into this app, from the different A.Is to the different chapters that evolve. Get prepared for a LOT of reading and lore! Would recommend 5/5 stars, Thanks to the developers for creating this masterpiece of an app! Ever onward, Navigators.
If youre even somewhat of a fan of Star Trek then this is definitely a game youre gonna enjoy.
This was way better than we had expected.
We loved this game so much. Thanks to the developers for putting that much work into it! We strongly recommend this game! Thanks developers!! P.S you guys should make a second one.
This game is absolutely amazing! We love all the story and lore in it we got one of the endings and was insanely happy with it!! Id 100% recommend this game for people who love story and grinding. Speaking of grinding- we would love to play this game again 100% and get all the endings but the grinding is painful it already took us one week just to get to the center. Maybe again in the future when Im bored we will come back to this game. Keep up the amazing work.
The only thing we have to complain about is how the menus can sometimes block animations.
Played though a few times, but game locked up and wont restart after singularity ending.
We love the game, it was an interesting story with some repeatability to unlock different endings. The only downside is occasionally the game will bug out and youll get stuck on a planet with no way forward except to entirely restart.
OK, the game itself is good, but you pretty much have to watch ads to progress, and to get some of the achievements, you have to pay, which is very stupid. Make it so one can be obtained by simply going to another planet, and the other actually registering when you get credits from the daily gift.
The game is really nice our only fault would be the ads.Thinking we could spend some money to buy some things is ridiculous hopefully this is fixed in the future.
Is so much fun and is like am making our own show !!! We like it very much.
The game it self is amazing but what bothers us is the ad.Its just that every thirty or sixty seconds there is a ad. And its hard for us to make progress when every minute there is a ad.
Im on our third play through of the game, all was going well until we reached the fourth planet. After we beat the level and did symbiosis, it wont let us warp speed. Jt says we have the option to, but the text is yellow and when we click on it, it plays the sound as if we dont have enough currency to buy it, although warp speed is free. We literally cant continue the game with this bug and we dont know what to do. That is the only serious but ive faced playing this game.
Alright look we know its difficult to produce a game like this and keep it running but we dont like the fact that we have to either pay money or watch an ad to continue playing the game. We wish it was just keep going. Other than this pretty good.
If youre gonna do ads, fine. But dont do it where we have to be constantly tapping the screen or we get the umpteenth ad of the day for Puzzles and Zombies! At least have an option to make them go away! And not temporarily either.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.22
- Size: 359.76 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SHENZHEN SMARTMELON TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD
Last updated: 22nd July 2021 | Genre: Word, Simulation | Developer: SHENZHEN SMARTMELON TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD