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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 Shifts for iPad review: In space, no-one can hear you scream...

In space, no-one can hear you scream 'oh God everything's on fire and we're all going to die'

Alec Meer | iPad and iPhone User

Manufacturer: Threadbare Games
Pros: The difficulty sweet spot between impossible and theoretically possible; blissful panic
Cons: Nasty art; annoying UI; low-quality writing
Price: £1.49
We rate this 3 out of 5.Star rating:

Somewhere between turn-based strategy and a solo boardgame, Shifts is basically Star Trek if Kirk and co were almost certainly doomed. You're in command of a spaceship and its five-person crew, trying to survive a nanobot attack which has all but destroyed humanity, and hoping to establish new colonies before it's too late. Every turn, the relentless nanobots damage your hull, the colonists you carry with you, and your repair capabilities. Every turn, you need to make increasingly agonising choices about which crew members to deploy where, and whether you'll spend your three or four actions on fighting fires or exploring the galaxy in search of habitable planets.

There's no way to beat the nanbots, so it's a race against time, striving to find and found enough colonies before you run out of fuel, hull or colonists. It's hard and unforgiving, so more than likely you'll wind up as so much sad space-junk, but it is possible - and that's why you'll keep boldly going.

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 Shifts for iPad review: In space, no-one can hear you scream...

In space, no-one can hear you scream 'oh God everything's on fire and we're all going to die'

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