Kevin C. Wong

Apple Arcade - Where Cards Fall (2019) [/]

Where Cards Fall is an Apple Arcade puzzle game. In each level you need to get this kid to the exit portal which is on platform usually higher than him. There are other platforms on the map and there is one to three stacks of cards.

You move the stacks around and pinch and expand to build a card house, usually with a flat roof. Use these new platforms to move the kid to another stable platform (the kid can jump across small gaps and climb down a level by himself).

Later levels you have areas where you can stack cards but the kid can't walk on, or stacks that create houses with sloped roofs that allows climbing up a level or two.

In between levels are short vignettes about this kids life and his travails at home, school and with his friends. There is no dialog and the vignettes are short so you're getting 50-odd glimpses that tell a story of this kid.

I did about 20 levels before I got bored and this game has 50+ levels. There is a good hints system that shows an outline of where the next house should be built. Graphics and sounds are good. UI was ok on my 10-inch iPad but sometimes I had trouble pinching and contracting/expanding card stacks (you can't zoom into the scene nor rotate the view).

This was an Apple Arcade release game and it's not bad.