Crossworlds: The Flying City > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

17 of 18 found this review helpful

I Loved it!

PostedMarch 15, 2012

booksnspurs

fromHigh Plains of Colorado

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Word, Adventure, Large File, Puzzle

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Azada® : In Libro Collector's Edition

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I really enjoyed Crossworlds. I played it last year and I still remember it as if I played it yesterday. I thought the story was very good and unique, a lot of imagination went into it. My favorite chapter was Robo City, it had a very apocalyptic feel to it and the old car was fun to drive. Although there are HOG scenes, I believe it’s more of an adventure game (which I prefer). I thought the game ...Show more

I really enjoyed Crossworlds. I played it last year and I still remember it as if I played it yesterday. I thought the story was very good and unique, a lot of imagination went into it. My favorite chapter was Robo City, it had a very apocalyptic feel to it and the old car was fun to drive. Although there are HOG scenes, I believe it’s more of an adventure game (which I prefer). I thought the game was challenging in some parts, but I’m not one to rush through games anyway. I didn’t get hooked until the 2nd chapter, so you might stick with the trial for the full hour. If you are looking for something a little different, this might be worth a try. Show less

I recommend this game!

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5 / 5

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26 HOPS, but more of an adventure style challenge and ambiance. BFG walkthrough available.

PostedMay 24, 2017

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Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Available at BFG since 2011. Review based on completed game. The game is a game of 2 halves. We get the robot/junkyard land, and then we get a nature haven, with alien creatures that resemble- The Grinch! Pretty quirky!

Warning: HINTS are ONLY available in the HOPS. No hints are available as you are navigating around the rest of the game, but you do get black-bar tips (which can't be ...Show more

Available at BFG since 2011. Review based on completed game. The game is a game of 2 halves. We get the robot/junkyard land, and then we get a nature haven, with alien creatures that resemble- The Grinch! Pretty quirky!

Warning: HINTS are ONLY available in the HOPS. No hints are available as you are navigating around the rest of the game, but you do get black-bar tips (which can't be disabled), a diary which stores info and gives you your next task and there IS a BFG walkthrough available- I had to use it several times. The graphics are more than adequate, but there are no bells and whistles here compared to many a 2017 game. Still, they've created a game that is wholly enjoyable!

GRAPHICS – Fullscreen or Windowed (no Widescreen)

HOPS: 26 Wordlists (Also a very satisfying and mellow "thud-kerchink-fizz" as you correctly click on items.) Well hidden, and sometimes small items that I wouldn't recommend for anyone with challenging vision.

PUZZLES: All skippable after around 90 seconds.
SOUNDS - with 2 adjustments – Music being separate to all the other sounds. The ambient sounds as you walk around your environment are great! Like the general humming and operating of equipment in the basement.

MAP: NONE. You should know that there's quite A LOT of back and forth in this game. The tasks in the "diary/journal" will often tell you what and where you should be aiming for.
JOURNAL: YES in the form of a digital pad-type device.
DIFFICULTY SETTINGS – 1 MODE only

HINT: Only for HOPS. Takes 40 seconds to recharge. You do get black-bar tips (which can't be disabled), a diary which stores info and gives you your next task and a BFG walkthrough is available.
INVENTORY – Visible at all times.
CHARACTERS: Minimal interaction. No voice-overs. You read.

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I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

5 / 5

12 of 39 found this review helpful

Easy and Fun Games

PostedJanuary 13, 2012

wahyukusuma

fromSerpong, Indonesia

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Time Management, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle, Strategy

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

I love this game. Make many sequel for this game.

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

4 / 5

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Hope the Sequel is better

PostedJanuary 17, 2012

DutchDoll60

fromPasadena, TX

Skill Level:Intermediate

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Normally, I like this sort of game, but this was confusing. The characters are interesting and the idea was good, but thank goodness for the walkthrough. Though quirky, I think I got the hang of it....I Hope this is continued and I'll look forward to trying it....

I recommend this game!

+18points

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Overall rating

4 / 5

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Entertaining

PostedNovember 15, 2011

tilmalene

fromDenmark

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

A good game, with a variation of challenges

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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Disappointing

PostedFebruary 24, 2012

BabyWombat

fromCanberra Australia

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Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Marble Popper, Puzzle, Mahjong

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Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

I only played the one hour trial.
Storyline interesting - travelling through dimesions to other worlds to find your father.
Graphics good and no annoying background music.
This is really an adventure game with HOS.
The HOS have some very small items that blend with the background and are difficult to find.
However, the HOS is nicely drawn and not cluttered.
There is a lot of back and forth to find ...Show more

I only played the one hour trial.
Storyline interesting - travelling through dimesions to other worlds to find your father.
Graphics good and no annoying background music.
This is really an adventure game with HOS.
The HOS have some very small items that blend with the background and are difficult to find.
However, the HOS is nicely drawn and not cluttered.
There is a lot of back and forth to find objects/items and then use them.
Annoying is the car as you have to repeat: put in the key, start the car, move the gear stick and accelerate.
Hints are available but fills slowly.
Mini-games/puzzles are few and far between (only did on easy fuse puzzle in the whole hour).

This game had the potential to be quite good but was let down by the lack of voice over (they also needed to correct typos in the text), less frustrating HOS and more mini-games/puzzles.

Difficult to tell how long this game is or whether it improved later.
If a game doesn't grab me in an hour its not worth buying and this one didn't. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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Could have been better

PostedMarch 15, 2012

SherrieS

fromUTAH

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object

Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

Based on Demo:
You father escapes in a time warp egg, you goal is to find him.
The graphics are semi good generally.
HOS is junkpile & some items very hard to find, Hint available, but slow to recharge
No VO, mellow music, alot of reading for directional help,
It could have been better with ANY map, interactive maps are even better. Maybe a faster hint recharge or a magnifier.
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Based on Demo:
You father escapes in a time warp egg, you goal is to find him.
The graphics are semi good generally.
HOS is junkpile & some items very hard to find, Hint available, but slow to recharge
No VO, mellow music, alot of reading for directional help,
It could have been better with ANY map, interactive maps are even better. Maybe a faster hint recharge or a magnifier.
interesting storyline, and if you need that extra punch, I'd say it's worth DD, just gt you cyber sneakers on & have at it Show less

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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Good For Strictly HO Gamers

PostedJanuary 19, 2014

JustTheFacts

fromRural Western Australia

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Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

BASED ON DEMO

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
This is a reasonably old game, so I was not surprised by the comic strip style opening, nor the lack of voiceovers. The intro soon has you ready for an adventure across multiple worlds, with the minimum of backstory.

SIGHTS & SOUNDS
The graphics, other than the cut scenes, are quite good. Very much in the realistic style, and generally bright and clear enough to ...Show more

BASED ON DEMO

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
This is a reasonably old game, so I was not surprised by the comic strip style opening, nor the lack of voiceovers. The intro soon has you ready for an adventure across multiple worlds, with the minimum of backstory.

SIGHTS & SOUNDS
The graphics, other than the cut scenes, are quite good. Very much in the realistic style, and generally bright and clear enough to see all you need to. There is some blurring of the edges, but not as much as you might expect.

The music in the intro was very different and interesting, and in the rest of the game fairly unobtrusive. I must say the environmental sounds were pretty inconspicuous.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Your father has finally put together the transporter you and he have been working on, and while you’re asleep, he tries it out. Something has gone terribly wrong; he has left a note saying that he is being chased by something, and that you must not follow him. So of course you do. The world you find yourself in is Roboworld. A depressing junkyard of rusting and defunct machines. You do find some functional robots, and from them you learn the history of this world. There are some interactions with the robots that are really quite amusing. Your father seems to have become irrelevant, and is not mentioned again.

GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is a bit interesting. This is a strictly HOP game. No puzzles at all, and limited adventure activity which is kept within a small area of action. There is no hint, no map and the “notebook” keeps only codes picked up and objectives. Still, nothing is super-hard, and a tour of recently played areas soon turns up the solution.

The HOPs are standard word lists. Some have interaction required, but these items are not indicated on the list. There is little animation in any part of the game, and so the HOP scenes do feel a little flat. The items are pasted into the scene, something I don’t normally like, but it is okay here.

They are sometimes hard to find because they are partially hidden by other objects, and sometimes they are not their full size, but they are rarely actually tiny. The scenes are well lit and as clear as the graphics allow.

Expect to visit an HOP scene up to 3 times. This is where it is interesting. On returning to a scene, you will find the objects have been moved around. Some of the objects you collected will be back again, but in different places! And some new ones will have been added. This simple trick made it quite fun to return to a previous scene.

COMBINED IMPACT
It is hard to decide just how I feel about this game. I like the trick with the HOs, but otherwise I found it dreary without having the virtue of a specifically creepy or dangerous atmosphere.

It depends, too, on what the other worlds might be like. But I wouldn’t want to be spending a few hours wandering around Roboworld. It was just too depressing, despite the occasional laugh.

Still, it is an excellent HOG for those who want more than unconnected HOPs, but don’t want to be burdened with too much adventure gameplay or headaches from puzzles.

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I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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kind of hard and i had to refer to the walkthrough a lot.

PostedApril 28, 2012

denniann2

fromharrisonburg, virginia

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

i didn't really enjoy it all that much. i even thought about quitting in the middle of it. some might like it. i didn't.

I recommend this game!

+1point

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Overall rating

2 / 5

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Could be much better...

PostedJanuary 30, 2012

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fromSP, Brasil

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Match 3, Puzzle

Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

A good story (traveling through different dimensions),... but ...failed to develop a good game! Could be much more interesting and less tiring,
Only few things to do in each place each time you enter, then you have to keep moving back and forth (sometimes by car - and do the same thing over and over again: put the key, start the car, move the gear stick and accelerate).

Scenes of HOS are ...Show more

A good story (traveling through different dimensions),... but ...failed to develop a good game! Could be much more interesting and less tiring,
Only few things to do in each place each time you enter, then you have to keep moving back and forth (sometimes by car - and do the same thing over and over again: put the key, start the car, move the gear stick and accelerate).

Scenes of HOS are repetitive and some things are so tiny... and sometimes even the same color as the background, ...! Impossible to see (like the gnome!).
After half an hour I was with eyes burning with so much effort to see, tired of coming and going to the same places. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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