Heroes of Kalevala
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $4.99 | 10tons Ltd. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
"If you are looking for one of the best Match-3 games to play on your iPhone, give Heroes of Kalevala a look. You won’t be able to stop playing!"
5/5 mobiltechreview
"Beautiful soundtrack; highly addictive gameplay; interesting mix of puzzle and simulation."
Slidetoplay.com - Must Have
"Stunning graphics. Plenty of match-3 fun to had. Lovingly crafted blend of match-3 and building sim."
4/5 GameZebo.com
"It’s all dressed up in gorgeous graphics [...] worth every penny. A really good game."
5/5 thesixthaxis.com
AppSpy.com video review: http://bit.ly/hok_videoreview
DESCRIPTION
Choose a hero you like the best and lead your tribe to a bright future in the lands of Kalevala!
Exciting match-3 gameplay, amazing hero powerups and fascinating village building feature provide hours of imaginative entertainment. Experience more than 140 hand crafted levels featuring unique match-3 gameplay such as lock bomb combos and tar fights.
Build your village from scratch and watch it thrive and produce wealth. Can your tribe acquire the fabled Sampo?
FEATURES
- Match your way through more than 140 hand crafted levels
- Create your very own village
- Eight powerful heroes with distinct abilities
- Story with voice overs
- Play as long as you like after completing the story
- More than 30 Achievements with and without Game Center
- Retina display support
Gameplay video: http://bit.ly/hok_iphonevideo
Reviews
You won't be dissapointed!
JMShank
If you love these types of games like me you wont be dissapointed! I've played about 20 levels and it's only getting better and better. I don't understand yet what I'm sposed to do with my village though.
The Best
Free-dog
If you are looking for a fun well-made match 3 game presented with a great new style, look no further. This game is excellent... interesting story, good graphics/sounds, superb and addictive gameplay, all with a top notch presentation. This is the match 3 I've been waiting a long time for. I always wanted a port of Big Kahuna Reef to hit the iphone, but this one beats that game by a mile. It has the same style gameplay (like Big Kahuna Reef and Jewel Quest II) plus 5X more added in in new style and innovative gameplay content, and a much more interesting theme. The main theme/story of the game is about a tribe building villages and trying to eventually acquire a rare special device of magic power called Sampo. The story is told in between levels and blends well with the gameplay. The core match 3 levels of the game are played on a traditional board where the goal is to clear the highlighted background tiles until the board is all blue, completing the level. Other than just the swapping of tiles to make matches, the gameplay also involves breaking frozen or locked tiles to free them and using bombs to break and clear tiles as well when they become available. Each level is timed, a bird will slowly begin to fly around at the start of the level and the level must be completed before the bird is able to fully encircle the board. You earn a bonus for completing levels with extra time left, but fail all together if the given time limit runs out. At the completion of each level you earn coins for doing well, and then use the coins to buy things for your village in the shop between levels, then build/arrange your villages the way you want. A well built village attracts heroes, characters that you usually unlock/acquire every few levels throughout the game to fight with your tribe. The heroes are all different, all have their own character/background details, and most importantly.. their own crazy special attacks to be used in the game. You can choose whatever hero you've acquired that you prefer to use for each level, the heroes will then represent tiles on the board and will serve as powerups when they're matched together. Each hero's skill or powerup will have a different wild effect on the board to help you clear it, so part of a level strategy can be choosing which hero you want to use. Really cool stuff. This game is not only a great match 3 game, but I consider it one of the better games for the iphone overall. Totally recommend it. There's video and screenshots for this game that make it look good, but people need to play it to really see what a gem it is. Finally a match 3 that has been taken to the next level, imo its the best made match 3 game in the store.
Kalevala
Jed Merrill
My favorite puzzle game since Tetris! Kind of a cross between Jewel Quest 2 and Settlers of Catan combined with a true epic of Finnish/world literature. Worth the $2.99 and more!
Excellent, but....
Miss.Kittie
The only qualm I really have with this game is that it's just so darn sensitive. When I try to move one tile, often a couple will move, or an entirely different one will move and mess up my whole strategy. But I would deffinately reccomend this game. 10tons Ltd seems to be putting out very good puzzle games (I'm also a huge fan of Azkend). Hopefully someday I'll see one based on an Egyptian theme.... ;-)
Fun
Agrellies
The game itself is good. I like the challenges, however I've noticed that tiles move in the wrong direction a lot of the time and it ruins my plans and takes me longer to complete a level. Please fix this.
Games annoying
Outlet
Every game they make has the most annoying mechanics ever, they really need to make these games fun not aggravating... It's sad because you can tell the art/story has so much work done
A+ Game
soldat7
Heroes of Kalevala is an amazing game that has a higher production quality than your typical iOS title. The Retina graphics are amazing, the music wonderful, and the gameplay better than any of the 'match three' titles on the market. The only problem with the game is the loss of battery life and time. :)
Perfect!
Coloursound
I am a huge fan of 10tons (or known as Myth People). Azkend, Dragon Portals, Rope Raider, Sparkle, and now Kalevala (The list does go further by the way) The five games I just named are all great games. I have an iPad and recently picked up an iPod Touch 4th gen. This game looks incredible with the Retina display. It also looks wonderful in HD iPad Native resolution on the...iPad :) If you like Match 3 games, this is one of the very best.
