Apple Arcade review #66: Where Cards Fall

Two days, two Snowman-published games, but this couldn’t be more different from Skate City.

Where Cards Fall is an absolutely beautiful puzzle game, where you expand and collapse stacks of cards to provide platforms for a boy to navigate. It’s not too challenging, at least in the early stages, although the tap controls can be fidgety at times. Sometimes the game would read my attempts to fold or unfold the deck as taps to move, and the boy would jump down from a stack, leaving me to set everything up all over again. This game might be better suited to the iPad, where the truly beautiful art has more room to shine, and where navigation and the two-fingered pinch controls might be more forgiving.

In-between the puzzle platforming, there are remembered moments from the boy’s past (or at least that’s how I read it). I didn’t get far enough to understand the connections and metaphors, and the “Simlish” voice-overs disrupted the melancholy mood, but it’s all so beautifully made, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the game’s unique atmosphere. This is certainly one of the most striking and aesthetically pleasing Apple Arcade games.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/where-cards-fall/id1466331487