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Spirits – Entertainment Game Review
Spirits is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Action game from Spaces of Play UG (haftungsbeschraenkt), first launched in 8th December 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 64+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spirits Stand Out
"Art so beautiful it could have been lifted from a Miyazaki movie." –WIRED
Autumn is coming. Leaves fall, and spirits rise from the fallen leaves to begin their journey home. You must guide them, without direct control, by changing how the wind blows or by rebuilding the ground. Each spirit can be sacrificed to perform one of four actions – build a bridge of leaves, create a blowing cloud, dig tunnels, or block wind currents in an area. Use your actions wisely or you will run out of spirits. In each level it's up to you to find your own creative solution on how to get the spirits to the goal.
◆◆◆◆◆ REVIEWS ◆◆◆◆◆
"Striking art and innovative gameplay"
–The Escapist
"Spirits is clever, challenging, and beautiful"
–Gamasutra
"Spirits is an outstanding blend of puzzle and strategy"
–DIYgamer
"The overall design — graphics, animation, audio tracks — as well as the whimsical element of soaring on the wind, really make this an enjoyable title to experience"
–TouchArcade
"Gorgeous visuals; ambient music; solid level design"
–Slide To Play
"Where Spirits really innovates is in its look and feel. When the wind physics start to do their thing, the experience is pretty magical"
–TUAW, Mike Schramm
"Spirits is more than just a pretty face, as you'll utilize little creatures to build ladders, dig tunnels, or blow gusts of wind to get their counterparts to an exit. It's similar to what we've seen in Lemmings or Downstream Panic, but the use of wind and the diverse puzzles keep things fresh and interesting"
–GamesRadar
"Relaxing, stunning, and simple will keep players coming back for more"
–148Apps
"Visually, the game is gorgeous. Everything has a soft, ethereal vibe to it, particularly the soothing ambient music and the challenging (but not frustrating) level design"
–The Mac Gamer
"There is so much attention to detail in this game that once you have finished it you will want to play it all over again"
–CreativeApplications.net
◆◆◆◆◆ AWARDS ◆◆◆◆◆
Winner of the IndieCade "Best Aesthetics" Award, Culver City, California, USA – 2010
IGF 2011: Best Mobile Game – Honorable mention
Sense of Wonder Night Selection at Tokyo Game Show, Japan – 2010
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 iOS Games – Honorable mention
◆◆◆◆◆ VIDEO & SUPPORT ◆◆◆◆◆
Visit www.spacesofplay.com/spirits to watch a gameplay video. Search on YouTube for walkthroughs of all levels in Spirits. For questions and support send emails to [email protected].
Supports Retina Display with high resolution graphics. If you experience technical problems, please try to reboot your device.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spirits is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th October 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated to support iOS11 and 64-bit devices.
Download & Availability
Spirits 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:
We, personally think this game is very fun. Its also something that calms you.
This game never worked on our iPhone 11 pro max.
Game doesnt even make it past loading screen.
We were really looking forward to playing this game but we wasted 3 dollars. The game wouldnt even load past the first screen.
Do Not Download. It doesnt work.
We just threw away $3. Paid for this app, downloaded it, and it will not play! We tried to play the first level, but it just keeps playing a loop of the B&W intro sequence – the tree, the leaf, the spirit – then the tree, the leaf, the spirit – then the tree the leaf, the spirit. It never goes to the game. Here is what we have tried: – Tapping all over the screen – Going to the menu and choosing level one (which takes us back to the intro loop) – Closing and re-opening the app – Rebooting our phone – Deleting the app and re-loading it. Nothing works. We feel totally ripped off. We do not see any way to contact the developers – how convenient for them! Someone owes us three bucks.
Thanks for wasting our $3… The intro repeats itself infinite times. This junk game doesnt work. DONT BUY.
This game Shuts down our iPad. Will not load 0 star review if we could give it that rating we would.
Honestly thought it would be completely different than this. It's way too fast for basically $3 game like come on.
Beautiful, almost meditative (except for those tough levels that really stress you out).
Love this game, so beautiful and graceful with excellent game play :).
We played this game for 5 minutes before we were compelled to review it. Normally we'd like to feel the game out before writing a review but it's so simple and elegant that we needed to share. Very classic "Lemmings" vibe but they certainly put their own flare on this. Love it. Well done, folks. We'll be hunting your other creations now to see if your other games deserve our money as well.
We really like this game a lot. It's so magical and makes us feel like we're taking adventures in mystery places. We would like more levels or make a spirits 2. But over all. We really like games like this. Make more.
So beautiful, so serene, so relaxing. The perfect companion too busy day at work.
Very weird game. Weird weird. We don't think we like it.
Love playing this game but It is messing up.
The game goes a bit fast for $2.99. Some levels are very easy so it is a bit disappointing at the end. But overall very fun (like Lemmings fun) and visually neat. Make more levels and we'll raise our score.
We like how the game is supported for the iPod 5G widescreen, but why not the Retina display too? Everything looks pixelated, it makes no sense. And, when we tap on the spirit, the five abilities don't pop up. It takes several attempts to make it pop up. It's annoying, controls are very unresponsive. It lags and has a crashing problem. We barely played the game from the bugs, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix it.
Never worked properly. Waste of money.
When you tap the spirits, it doesn't register. Therefore the five abilities don't show up. You can't even get passed level one, as the controls are unresponsive.
We love it! It just needs to be fitted for the iPod and iPhone 5.
Such a Beautiful game ever the sounds are amazing the little spirits MMM fantastic.
This game is just so beautiful :).
Love the artwork/graphics/little creatures! Perfectly challenging for the brain.
We highly recommend this to anyone looking for a fun puzzle game.
It's visually awesome! It's challenging and you gotta use brain power. We are an addict! So much fun.
Finally a game like pingus for the iPod.
We love this game it's so fun and we can't stop playing! Five star game. It's very addicting.
Polished graphics, very smooth animation and soothing background music as well as step-by-step tutorial, well-designed game controls and cute little creatures are some of the features this Lemmings style puzzle game has to offer. A few starting levels are simple but quickly progresses into a challenging and strategic game.
Good art good performance good puzzles.
LOVE IT!!!!! Really fun! Very addictive and challenging! A MUST GET.
This is a technically and esthetically well presented strategy game. With so many hidden object and "real estate" clones out there, we're glad someone took a run at Lemmings-style strategy again. On the other hand, this is not a clone of Lemmings. It has it's own unique and robust tool set. It uses up its little creatures differently, one for every tool use. It also adds a collection/bonus goal mechanism. While not without traps, this has the much softer, prettier presentation of many iOS physics puzzlers we see now days (Osmosis, Naught, etc.), so don't think you'll get some frustration out with a Lemmings-like nuke option. All the same, we're really, really glad to have this until Lemmings hits iOS… And even after.
Relaxing but challenging with beautiful graphics.
Love this game, thanks Appoday.
We have been Waiting for this to be free. Yay finely.
This is the puzzle game that you would like to play. You need to use your mind very well.
It's an awesome game, no doubt, but how do you come up with this? Maybe we're not as imaginative as they are but, still… Anyway, a must buy/download, whatever.
If you ever played the old Apple II game, Lemmings, Spirits will seem very familiar. Little creatures, mushrooms with legs, can be imbued with various skills to help the others reach a goal. Unfortunately, Spirits lacks the humor of Lemmings, replacing it with pseudo-mystic-new age music and imagery. Also, the mushrooms can be given only 5 different skills, making puzzle solutions fairly limited. Not a terrible game, but if you're going to copy another game, why not add something to your copy to make it better.
Needs to be updated to the iPhone 5 screen… And don't double charge iPhone and iPad… Make it universal.
Lets just say LAME we are cool with one star because we think the graphics are great… The game & concept: bored us to tears.
Fun game! We like the ambient music.
Update is ok. Hasn't crashed yet. Not much change.
The art style is wonderful and the puzzling gameplay is very good also. For 99 cents, we think it's a must buy.
This game is so enjoyable. The concept is genius. Our four year old likes to watch us play, but she isn't able to just yet. We're hoping for a part two or something more from the creators asap.
This is an excellent strategy-based game. A great buy.
Thanks for the game. We're really enjoying it.
We also got it a few months ago when it was free. Our cousin wanted to do something and she accidently deleted it. We're just wondering when it will be free for a limited time again. But, 5 stars.
Got it a few months ago when it was free. Now we see it's $3. Figured the least we could do was rate it 5 stars since we didn't have to pay for it. Really good and challenging game with good graphics. We're still blown away that we can play games like this on a phone.
Really great game to get Love the music graphic everything.
This game is one of the best we have on our iPod. The graphics are really great and the puzzles are challenging and fun. It's a lot like lemmings, but we honestly like it better! Get this app; you will not be disappointed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 86.09 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Spaces of Play UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)]()
Last updated: 8th October 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Spaces of Play UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)