DropOut
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | Raymond Curtis Stein | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
"DropOut can get really intense after you’ve played for even just a few minutes, and I found myself getting done with a game and realizing I’d just been playing one game after another for over an hour."
- Martin Grider
"This game is lots of fun, and you will want to keep coming back to top your score, which you can even submit online to show off."
- AppStoreBest.com
"Dropout is a game for people who love quick thinking and puzzle games. You also need fast fingers."
- iPhone Footprint
How to play:
As colored blocks fall down from the top, touch and slide the rows left and right to create matching sets of four. DropOut features two kinds of special blocks, Locks and Falling Stars, that force you to plan your moves carefully.
Locks are eliminated by matching them up with other blocks of the same color, but rows with Locks in them cannot be moved. Getting rid of Locks can be tricky, but ignoring them is a sure-fire way to get stuck!
Falling Stars are worth lots of points if you match up four or more, but beware! If Falling Stars reach the bottom row, they will fall through and be lost, along with your chance to score big!
DropOut can be played in Blitz mode or Arcade mode. Blitz mode gives you two minutes to score as many points as you can. Arcade mode is unlimited, but you have to keep up. If you let the board fill up with blocks, it's game over! Scores can be submitted online to the Game Center leaderboards.
Puzzle mode:
DropOut features 30 puzzle levels where the goal is to find a series of moves that will clear all the blocks. The levels start out easy and get more and more challenging. This brain game will take your DropOut skills to a whole new level.
Other features:
Background music by Aaron McConnell
Color-blind mode
Save and resume games in all three game modes
Reviews
First rate performance art influenced by Zen minimalism
SoliSally
I found this game from a Reddit thread on games under 25Mb. It downloaded and launched without a problem, but, it won't open when prompted by the Play button. Which leads the user to query: What is this? What is the purpose of this ruse? Why am I engaged in this activity? Is this engagement a proxy for a depauperate spiritual life? How does my activity contribute to knowledge and production, and what is the value of that effort? How do external metrics for value position my native skills and disposition in the institutions of socioeconomic hierarchy that I have inherited, and do I have agency to affect change from within those strictures?
Great Game!
Livingtech
From the look of it, I thought this was just another match-3 clone with some additional game elements. (Probably worth $1.) But boy was I surprised. This is actually much cooler than a simple match-3! In actuality, the game *is* quite simple, but the gameplay somehow trancends its simpleness, and gets complicated fast. I like the geocade high-scores. (I'm currently at #1!) Definitely a great game. Highly recommended for fans of puzzle games like tetris.
Can't go wrong
Colonelxc
I rarely buy games, but this one is worth it. It is fun to see the high score breakdowns by different regions, hopefully I'll stay on at least the local high score lists for a while. Smooth gameplay and I haven't found any bugs yet, what else do you want?
