Monument Valley

Mobile gaming is mostly split in 2 types of marketing models: the free to download games with in-app purchases, or the paid games that give you the full content. Most serious gamers coming from console or PC gaming despise the idea of the first group, and are more drawn towards the later which follows the same model that they are used to. Who wants to wait for their stamina to recharge or face overpowered opponents that spent thousands of dollars on the game right?

Monument Valley is a paid game, and it's one of the flagship games for both iOS and Android having sold millions of copies. I am a strong advocate of F2P games for mobile (when done right) and Monument Valley is the perfect example of a paid game that I find vastly inferior to good F2p Games. I don't feel that this game gives you anything. The puzzles aren't challenging, the game doesn't really get you thinking and you just pretty much try the possibilities until it works, the story might as well be non-existent and the game can be completed in about 2 hours. I feel that there is nothing going on for it outside of its pretty art style.

The gimmick of the game is based on the same concept as Fez: a 3D world in a 2D view, and making things rotate unveils more things. There's a few stupid parts where changing the angle of something creates a path that is just unrealistic as it could be. But hey I guess people liked Fez, so it's probably the same appeal that is has here. I didn't find much for me in this game, and it's over before you know it and leaves you pretty cold (unless you want to spend money on the DLC for 8 more chapters!). I don't know, I've been playing Clash of Clans for more than 2 years and I have spend less money than I did on this relatively content empty game. You can do much better purchases than this.