Release of the day: Tap Quest: Gate Keeper

Usually, if we are talking about Korean games, then either images of large-scale MMO or no less large-scale battlers immediately flash through my head. But our hero today is far from both the first and the second.

And, unexpectedly, it is difficult to compare him with anyone at all. However, it is still possible, however, not so much within the genre, so much in terms of allusions. If I may, then Tap Quest: Gate Keeper is as if the authors of Tap Titans from the Canadian Game Hive would make their own Slayin, published, recall, by the Germans from FDG.

From the first, the game got the interface, monetization and fonts, from the second – the gameplay (in the most general terms).

The user’s task in the game is to clean up waves of monsters so that the enemies are not in the center of the screen for more than a couple of seconds – on the path at the gate. They didn’t have time to clean up the monsters in time – a dragon flies out of the ground, and the princess breaks on the ground. In general, game over.

If desired, as you can see, the game can also be called minimalistic tower defense. Although during the game I did not leave the feeling for a moment that the developers did both the dragon with game over and the character management only in order to distance themselves as much as possible from the concept of the clicker.

Endless upgrades of the hero and his skills, performed for a soft easily generated currency (here falling from monsters, as in Tap Titants), and carried out, ultimately, for the sake of increasing the speed of obtaining all the same currency – this is what we see so often in clickers and this is exactly what is present in the game.

But it was the presence of gameplay (simple, but so additive that allowed the developers to also introduce an energy system into the game), along with the possibility of losing, that transferred the game to some completely different league (within which the game turned out to be somewhere next to The Executive, which Ilya Eremeev wrote about here).

In general, play around, the project is curious. You can download it from the App Store here.