Elder Sign: Omens – Review

Elder Sign: Omens - Android screen shot

Elder Sign: Omens – Android Apps on Google Play.

w00t! I just beat Ithaqua using Jenny Barnes alone, and scored 6,920 points to boot! This completes my self-appointed “Jenny Barnes Alone Against the Mythos” adventure series—not exactly a recommended play style, though enjoyable. (You’re better off with a complete cast of four adventurers, of course.)

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

If you’re not familiar with Fantasy Flight’s Elder Sign: Omens app, here’s a quick overview. The app is based on the Elder Sign board game of Lovecraftian horror, which involves bunches of cards (characters, mythos monsters, locations, items, allies, and such), nine specialty dice (with symbols for investigation—1-, 2-, 3-, and in some cases 4-point—lore, peril, and terror, with one special “wild card” symbol), and a couple zillion counters for health, sanity, clues, characters (to mark their location), and secondary monsters. Oh, and a snap-together clock face with plastic hands you move to keep track of time, because something bad usually happens at midnight.
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Review – World of Goo

World of Goo is an excellent puzzle game, available on most platforms—including PC, Android, and iOS at the very least. I played it on my Nexus 7. Basically, you build structures of latticeworks of goo balls in various different environments, trying to reach a vacuum hose with a minimum number of goo balls remaining.

The Good: The puzzles are challenging but fun. The graphics and story are professionally tongue-in-cheek. The physics feel right. There are lots of levels, divided into distinctly different parts of the goo world. Some parts of the world honestly made me chuckle.

Oh, and there’s a free trial version, if you don’t want to commit to a purchase up front.

The Bad: I honestly can’t think of a criticism.

The Augury: I predict a lot more fun with this on my Android devices. Highly recommended. 10 goo balls out of 10.