Updated on November 15th, at 9:20: Waking Mars is now available on Google Play, too.
Tiger Style's atmospheric indie adventure
Waking Mars is now available to download on Android. And, as an extra special treat, the iOS version has been updated with full voice acting.
PhobosWaking Mars takes place deep in the belly of the red planet, and has a jetpack-toting astrobiologist cultivating the alien lifeforms inside. You'll study the Martian organisms, and hijack their ecosystems in order to produce more plants and animals.
All this, while hunting for a lost robot rover and searching for secret messages hidden inside the fourth rock from the Sun.
In our glowing Gold Award review, we called the game "Captivating, elegant, and fiendishly clever," and said that "
Waking Mars delivers a science-fiction epic that's a delight to explore, and rewarding to play."
On Android you will be able to get the game from
Google Play for £3.15 / $4.99. Or, as part of the latest
Humble Indie Bundle (where you can pay whatever price you like).
DeimosOh, and there's a special "Director's Cut" update for owners of the iOS version. Those lame stock photography character portraits have been improved, and they're now fully voiced by a cast of actors. The game is
£2.99 / $4.99 on iOS, if you haven't got it yet.
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Ahh yes, I remember how much it sucked being an Android user and a gamer. Switched to the iPhone this year when iPhone 6 gen came out and mobile gaming is 100x better. Non-gaming apps are generally a lot better on the iPhone too, and not as many crashes as there are on Android.
Have not tried this game but I might give it a go when a new sale brakes out
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jeffyg3 | 23:15 - 8 November 2012
Awesome game on the iPad & iPhone. It's good to see Android users are getting another good game from the massive iOS exclusive collection of good games. I don't mind a bigger file size for voice acting, as long as its not ridiculousy much bigger
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Lonely Tylenol | 20:25 - 8 November 2012
I'm excited for this. If I remember the reviews right, the dialogue boxes and the character portraits--which never seemed to match the tone of the dialogue--were pretty much the only common complaint from reviewers. More importantly, though, it shows the devs are still willing to show this game some love, even after its release.
However... Previous releases that have gotten voice-acting have ballooned in size (Chaos Rings tripled in size after the voice acting update--which only included Japanese voice acting, rendering it useless for a large majority of the US App Store). I'm not sure if that was just poor handling on Square's part (their Crono Trigger app is more than a half a gig in size), or if this app will become massive as a standard feature as well.
Any indication of file size post-update?
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