Alien Hive has been in App Store's feature list recently as free game. I had downloaded and play it for awhile and now i write a review, just my personal ideas about this game as a player and as a game designer.
First thing i mention about is art style. This game has a beautiful graphic with clear and big Play button. Its graphic suited to alien theme. I really love its art.
The music is charming. I can listen to that music all day. The sound effect is very rewarding and suits to background music.
But the game-play is not interesting enough for me. The mechanic of upper level match with the mechanics of puzzle seem to work but it's not very affective. I played a lot of dull move until i got what want (May be i'm too dull to make a good move). The energy mechanic is the ending condition. You can earn more energy by matching crystal or seed. So there are four hierarchy in this game: Crystal, seed, alien, robot but the map is so small it's 6x6 board (equal to Triple Town but triple town is only 2 hierarchy: building and bears) .
There are a lot of power up in game but it require money. You can you power up to make gameplayer easier. It's unlimited but it's cost much. May be the freemium model of this game make it so hard to balance the difficult level of the game. Without power-up you just can't go far in this game because their so little crystal to create energy, even crafting crystal cost you energy. So...., power-up and money.
Personally i think they should reject some of the hierarchy such as crystal and plant. Just robot and alien. That will make the game more easier for such a small board.
Recently i've watched on Youtube about their blitz mode. Yeah! no more sliding with only one slot. Now you can be in worm mode all the time. That make the game more easier and classic. That's fine. Classic is good.
CONCLUSION: I love its graphic so much but gameplay bother me like hell. I hope the developer will add some twist so it's easier to enjoy.
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