Witcheye

Witcheye is a delicious love letter to classic arcade/platformers. The pixel art is gorgeous in a market oversaturated with similar art styles. The music is cute too. Most of all, controls are tight and the gameplay is super satisfying. Lots of replay value! Multiple difficulties, boss AND mini boss rushes, and speed runs.

The graphics are great, the music is good, and the level design is charming and fun. Although, I find controlling the player extremely frustrating. Simply put it’s just not fun to be the player. I appreciate the simplicity the developer was going for with the controls, but I feel like a more precise alternative would have been more beneficial. Perhaps the developer could have implemented a seeking behavior where the player would fly directly to wherever the user’s finger is pressed down. Maybe having a virtual joystick instead could have worked too. Even just restricting the player into only being able to move in 8 directions could be better than the current implementation. The swiping mechanic is immensely inconsistent. This game is a breath of fresh air. I haven’t played a game this polished on the App Store in a while. I really want to like this game, but I just can’t with the current controls. All in all, I would still considering picking up this game just to support the developer and encourage them to make more games to this standard. Even with just frustrating controls, I’m still going to tough it through and beat the game.

Not a bad game I’m just not a fan of the controls. I also feel like I should stop once I kill something instead of bouncing off... it just doesn’t feel right the way it is. Also, on the ‘rock’ boss level 1-5 I think, he bounced off to the right side of the screen, through the key/wall never to be seen again so I’m stuck having to redo the level. Not a huge deal but was annoying. If devs want to reply back I can send a video of it.

Great pixel art, tons of collectibles, challenging but fun gameplay, leaderboards and achievements galore, cool and unique story, controls that are perfect for touchscreen - all these things contribute to one of the best mobile games I’ve played this year. And I play a LOT of mobile games. =)

I’m honestly impressed how much effort was put into this game. All the little things like enemy animations and graphics were very detailed. Would definitely recommend.