Mini Words: Top Games

What you see is what you get but it gets big ups from me for having actually challenging answers. A lot of what look like simple, bare-bones trivia games have incredibly dumbed down questions. By stage three (30-39, not question 3) it'll have you trying to remember who the Final Fantasy creator is and the name of the ship from Dead Space. And if you have a cursory knowledge of the question you can often guess your way there given the letters which is nice. The questions are written well too, not just bullet points from Wikipedia. For example, with the answer "GALAGA" the question is phrased: "A fixed shooter. Destroy aliens that dive towards your ship in multiple formations. Rescue your captured ship to get a dual fighter" There's only so much you can talk about in a short form, minimalist trivia game but the trivia itself - content and question phrasing - is far stronger than I expected. But it's still video game trivia at the end of the day though so I don't want to give you any lofty expectations. I just wanted to praise the developers for going the extra mile while not being afraid to challenge the player. Every answer even gives a drop down message with the Title, Platform, Year, and Publisher of the game too, so that's another mile (Developer/Studio would have been nice though). As for the rest that's there: options are just resolution, sound, and toggling the background animations (floating gaming-related icons). Resolutions aren't YxZ, rather they're just pre-determined screen percentages. There's five options to pick from (100 -full, 90, 70, 50, and 30%). But since the game is natively borderless window there's little need to mess with them. When paused mid-game the menus do get messed up in a way that, it's kind of hard to explain, but in a way that obscures you from easily navigating back through stages. But two clicks to the main menu fixes this and besides, you're likely to finish this in one or two sittings answering question after question so it's not like you'll ever need to open the menu anyways. The sound has a slider for SFX only as there is no music, which I think is for the best actually. Highlighting letters and solving words give off satisfying marimba-esque boops in different keys. The feedback noise for crossing a line already crossed does get a little annoying if you accidentally make the mistake more than once in a row. All of that is to say that there's jank but it has little to no impact on the gameplay. And 12 the achievements are just progress related and can be done in any number of sittings And as of 9/16/2021 the website Fanatical is having a special of 3-for-$1 games where you can get Steam keys for the basic Mini Words, Mini Words Movies, and this one for a dollar. That means I did get this game for 33 cents technically, but I don't think a difference of 66 cents gives me significant bias but I'll mark it as "for free" just in case

Quick and short game where you need to correctly spell the answers to questions related to some of the best known games. Very much in line with the other Mini Words games. Problem I have with this game is you are expected to have deep and intimate knowledge of all those games. Like who was lead designer? What city inspired a game? Who was the third sidekick in the second scene of the original game? Well, that last one is not an actual question... If you haven't played the Playstation, Xbox, NES, Atari, PC or any other of the games featured in this game, there is no way to receive hints or clues. You have to either: [list] [*] try all possible letter combinations. As only the first letter of the answer is given and the answers get progressively longer, this is hardly a viable option [*] use Google [/list] That... is boring. Hence no recommendation from me.

Nemá žádný hint systém, pokud tedy nebudete vědět tak jediné možné řešení je google.

Good puzzle game 8/10 Games Guessed

This game is totally adequate. I knew the answer to at least 90% of the questions without having to read the entire question. I could work out the answers to most of the others by staring at the available letters. For a handful, there was nothing I could do but turn to Google. You know this stuff or you don't. I haven't played Skyrim, so there was no way I was going to figure out the alternate name of some specific dragon without cheating. Fun! Dragging the path you want between letters is frustrating in ways it really shouldn't be. The audio is going for soothing, but it's just kinda irritating. I finished the whole thing in less than two hours. But hey, I did finish it, and I didn't have a bad time. Uneven video game trivia in a bland, word/puzzle game package. It's fine, and I got it at a very low price. It's fine, but I can't recommend it.

'Mini Words: Top Games' is a simplistic cell-phone style word puzzler that challenges your knowledge of video game titles, characters, and facts. In reality this is more of a trivia game than a puzzle game. You either know the answers or you don't. You may be able to suss out some words by process of elimination, but if you get stuck you're going to be looking up the answers on google. In this regard, Top Games fares a lot better than some of the other games in the series. 'Top Movies' & 'Polyglot', two other games of the same style, suffer from obscure prompts that all but require a search engine. This one feels more manageable and should be enjoyable for you if you have a good knowledge base of gaming history. It is a decent value at a cost of 99 cents. It is a simple game and is priced accordingly. The graphics are basic and there is one singular mechanic repeated on each level. There are 100 puzzles total and you should get at least an hour of playtime out of it. As long as you keep your expectations in check, it should be a brief but entertaining experience that will appeal to gamers of all kinds. I would recommend this one as a buy.

Petit oui, les questions sont assez dures, et plutôt intéressantes.

i know all these games... wait no. i don't.