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Domino Story topples onto mobile

But is this domino game spot on, or a flipping nightmare?

Domino Story topples onto mobile
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We're due a domino revival sometime soon – any game that has to be played in a smoky pub while garrumphing whisky like there's no tomorrow can't be bad.

Of course, dominos by itself wouldn't be a particularly interesting mobile game, but Future Design Group has put a new twist on things with its new game Domino Story.

And yes, part of that twist is the designers have put a story around it starring the wonderfully-named hero Nails Mamboo, who has to travel through a valley of undiscovered treasures by... knocking over dominos.

I think that's how real jungle explorers do it too. The tarantulas don't like the clacking, see.

Anyway, the core of the game is figuring out how to knock over all the dominos in order to complete the level. There will be 50 levels to play through, and Future Design Group is making great play of the effort that's gone into the animation and graphics around Nails, to make the game look as polished as possible.

Domino Story is out soon, and we're working on a review as we speak. Just as soon as we've found that double six...

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)