Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

This game is amazing and very tense. I love it. Some people may complain that it’s not an online game, but I’m fine with it. Although no one I know has the game, I can just print out the manual, staple it together, and boom. Single player mode. It’s also great since having a physical manual to interact with instead of a virtual one really makes you feel like it’s an actual situation. I personally think this game is one of the greatest out there. So packed with thinking. If you are skeptical about buying the app for 10 dollars, that is fine. I’m just saying what my view of the game is. I love the game and recommend it to all.

This game is excellent overall — it’s been one of my all-time favorites for years now. I could go on and on about its many virtues, but my one complaint is that the port to mobile has changed the control scheme from the original version in a very restrictive way, and to an extent that is in my opinion unnecessary. Two examples are the addition of a fixed “back” button, rather than simply allowing the player to tap away from whatever they have selected, and requiring the player to use the “cut” buttons next to wires rather than also giving them the option to tap the wires themselves. The game certainly has not lost its appeal, but I find myself remembering more often than I would like to that it would be more fun for me if I were playing on a computer. And while this can easily be said of many if not all mobile ports of non-mobile games, in this case I think the developers have missed opportunities to make the difference much smaller than it currently is by providing the player with more flexibility in terms of their control scheme — more options are a good thing. But again, this game is fabulous and everyone should play it.