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(R)evolve – Casual Game Review
(R)evolve is a Casual/Action/Entertainment game from Team17 Digital Limited, first launched in 12th June 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 61+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes (R)evolve Stand Out
Play (R)evolve, the winner of 2014’s ‘Great British Game Jam’ – FOR FREE!
Life is evolving on an alien planet and it’s your job to protect it! Weather a constant bombardment of meteorites from outer space, spin the planet to save its inhabitants and evolve and spread life. The more life you can evolve and the longer you can keep it alive, the higher your score will be!
CUTE AND COLOURFUL ALIENS – Play well and your planet will be teeming with green three eyed monsters!
FAST PACED TWITCH GAMEPLAY – Those meteorites travel fast, spin the planet around to avoid the danger and keep your alien population alive and growing.
SIMPLE CONTROL SYSTEM –Simply tap the left and right sides of the screen to rotate the planet.
BEAUTIFUL RETINA DISPLAY GRAPHICS – (R)evolve looks great, with beautiful HD graphics that take full advantage of retina displays.
GAME CENTER SUPPORT – Log in with Game Center and post your high scores to the online leaderboards. Beat friends and strangers alike to climb to that coveted No.1 spot!
(R)evolve was prototyped in just 48 hours, as Team17’s entry into 2014’s ‘Great British Game Jam’. The game came in first place, winning the competition! The theme for the competition was ‘resilience’ – our take on this being that the evolving life was resilient to the dangers posed.
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, (R)evolve is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th June 2014
Recent improvements include:
Various bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
(R)evolve 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:
This is the greatest game and the most useful app GET IT NOW.
This game is challenging and fun but also cute and makes you wnt to save the aliens except we just want to know does the plant give birth to the aliens.
We are Azog the Mighty. You Earthlings may call us The Great and Powerful God. We have arrived from Haipithaka to destroy the land of ice and snow, Antarctica. Any human life found will be exterminated.
This is a great game, but the only issue is that whenever you lauch the app it automatically takes you to Facebook. We never use Facebook so it would be great if you could disable this.
Good but it needs upgrades like things u can do with the aliens to help defend the planet like a separate page for upgrades when u get enough points go to the page buy upgrades then resume the game.
Amusing game, nice graphics, but if you get an achievement in GameCenter during the game, you can't see the meteors coming! Our own success killed us.
2 things: 1. When the app is opened it immediately opens Facebook. This is very annoying, but is avoided by closing that tab in Safari and just going back to the app itself. 2. How to play? We tried, but have not been able to find instructions, and when we attempt to play the game we fail miserably because we have no idea what to do.
The game seems like it might be fun,but we don't have a Facebook and we're not gonna make one so make like an offline option or something so us and all the others having the same problem as us can actually play it.
Can't even play due to them having us log on Facebook.
Every time we launch it a Facebook page opens. We don't use Facebook and never will so this is far too annoying. Deleting the app until this isn't an issue. Fun game otherwise.
This game is the worst and by far the most useless app dont get it.
Sends us FB every time it starts. Uninteresting game play.
We love revolve. It's a great game. But there is a lot of ads, but besides that it's a real fun game.
This game is amazing, very addicting. We currently hold third place on the all time leaderboards behind the two players that have 99,999 points. We are retiring after having this game for only a day and recommending it to our friends.
,Ok. This is an ok game, very addicting, and also awesome because it's from Britain. But we prefer having a use of those little green things. Like give them an ability to destroy the meteors or give you a boost to turn or a slo mo. Idk. But we think it'll be much cooler that way.
It's like super hexagon, but with planets and asteroids. Took a star off because our scores don't show up because of "no internet.".
Well, it's not awesome, but it is cool. It is odd. It literally is what the title says.
Please allow us to spend .99 to get rid of ads and the you can't see your scores because your not connected to internet message even though we clearly am connected is very annoying.
The first couple of levels are a good challenge but after mastering it, becomes very boring. It stayed on our phone for a record 5 min.
Wow… The ads.. Amazingly crazy amount of ads. The gameplay is kinda fun, but the density of ads had us uninstalling within a few minutes.
Reasons for deleting: 1. Immediately takes you to the Facebook page on Safari to link your account (we don't use, nor need Facebook) 2. No way in settings to disable this Facebook "feature" 3. ADS, ADS & more ADS. Blatantly over-the-top ADS… We can do without this nonsense in a game.
Won't even open if you don't sign into Facebook. That's a dealbreaker.
Thought we'd try anyway but it's super annoying, deleted in less than a minute.
If you remove the ads and the auto Facebook login, you get a game that is fun and addicting… For about 30 sec. Our dumb brain must have missed the "how to play" screen, since they expect you to just pick up the game and rotate the little plant from comet inducing extinction. While the pic showing the controls is nice, it might be useful to actually say what the object of the game is, and avoid killing the tree on the planet. While we love forced Facebook logins and 15 sec video ads, we gotta pass on this one. It must be a "British" thing… Because we just "don't get it". Oh and how am we NOT connected to the internet? Didn't we just connect to the App Store to download this thing.
This is a nice simple idea but its too hard. Cant see our own highscore because of a bad internet connection?? Why should we need any internet to see our own LOCAL SCORE? So the game has no local highscore table showing names and scores. Dump us into Facebook as soon as we launch game. When will developers EVER GET IT? The world doesnt revolve around Facebook and internet connections. Hard games are NOT fun. DUH.
Ok game play but forces users to sit through watching stupid videos.
Three strikes against this game: immediately sending us to facebook to sign in (we hate fb and refuse to use it) even though this is not required to play the game; ads, ads, and MORE ads (we realise they need to make money somehow but yikes) and lastly, it says our "phone isn't connected to the internet" when we're on an ipad and clearly we just downloaded their game AND they sent us to fb first thing so we DO have internet.
Didn't even play this game. We won't waste our time with a game that reroutes to facebook when you open it.
Step 1: Open Facebook app involuntarily. Step 2: Display abrasive ads including 15 second videos. Step 3: Rage delete.
We never got a chance to actually try the game. We deleted this as soon as it tried to automatically connect us to Facebook.
We DON'T WANT TO LINK MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT.
We like to listen to music when we play games, and though there is option to turn off the sound fx it does not work. Very annoying.
Immediately after you open the game it tries to get Facebook access. Bye.
We can't play long enough to know if we want to pay to remove ads before they start popping up. Appears to be a Facebook data mining app.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.02
- Size: 120.98 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Team17 Digital Limited]()
Last updated: 17th June 2014 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Team17 Digital Limited