Colorbox has released quite a few games over the last year that have earned their permanent places on our iDevices, including Rip Off, Rooftop Escape, Twins Candy, WAVE, Dalton and Arena Arcade. Their latest release, Peak Gold, follows the same sort of casual gameplay that a lot of their games share, making it great for gamers of all ages, and all skillsets.
In Peak Gold, the goal of the game is to get as deep into a mine as you can by collecting gold with a hook. Fans of the Claw Game Machines will probably enjoy this one more than most. Timing is essential, as you tap on the screen to send your claw out, and try and get it to bring back gold, or gems. These gold and gems add to your gold, which you can spend in the store to upgrade your generator, which gives you more time to collect items in the game, your gold detector, which increases the spawn rate of gold, gold collector, which gives you more gold for each bit of gold you snag, then your hook range and forward and backward speeds. Gathering gold isn’t too much of a task, but it’s not something that you’ll snag and then clear out the shop in 15 minutes either. There are no IAPs for more gold, so you can pretty much be sure that you’ll collect enough gold to get upgrades at a decent speed.
There’s also a Fever Mode which you can enter by collecting enough gold to fill up the word “FEVER” at the top of the screen. When you enter Fever Mode, you’re given quicker hooks, and two of them at the same time. This is where you’ll snag most of your gold to spend.
That’s about all I can really say about Peak Gold. It’s a casual game, easy to learn, while the difficulty increases as your skill gets better. If you’re a fan of claw games, this is a title that you’ll enjoy quite a bit, but if sitting there tapping on your screen while controlling where a claw goes, you won’t. It has a decent store with nice upgrades that are priced reasonably.
With the iPod version at $0.99, and the Universal HD version at $1.99, it’s worth checking out if you’re a fan of casual games that can bring a challenge. The graphics are what you would expect from Colorbox, well done, professional, and smooth, with good animations, and fitting music, though the music does sound like it needs to be re-encoded, hearing blips and bleeps like a low-encoded corrupted mp3 file might sound, but you can be almost certain that this will be fixed in an update, as Colorbox is really good about updating their games. It doesn’t have the same sort of hectic action feeling that Rip Off, Rooftop Escape, WAVE or Dalton have, and is more a game to zone out to while relaxing, then buying an upgrade or two after coming back to reality.
With the iPod version at $0.99, and the Universal HD version at $1.99, it’s worth checking out if you’re a fan of casual games that can bring a challenge. The graphics are what you would expect from Colorbox, well done, professional, and smooth, with good animations, and fitting music, though the music does sound like it needs to be re-encoded, hearing blips and bleeps like a low-encoded corrupted mp3 file might sound, but you can be almost certain that this will be fixed in an update, as Colorbox is really good about updating their games. It doesn’t have the same sort of hectic action feeling that Rip Off, Rooftop Escape, WAVE or Dalton have, and is more a game to zone out to while relaxing, then buying an upgrade or two after coming back to reality.
Peak Gold gets a score of 7 out of 10.
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