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- Mobage, Inc.
- Mobage, Inc.
- Mobage, Inc.
- Mobage, Inc.
The Drowning
iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Released On: Aug 1, 2013
55
User Score
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5.0
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Metascore
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Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
55
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
68% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
While other mobile FPS games might still be drowning in a sea of shoddy touchscreen controls, The Drowning offers just enough moments of ingenuity and potential insights to these traditional issues that gamers will always be able to keep coming up for refreshing breaths of air.
A game that relies on bothersome microtransactions and generally boring action. [Oct 2013, p.78]
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Based on 4 User Ratings
5.0
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Based on 4 User Ratings
5.0
25% Positive
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There is tons of polish on it and its controls are topnotch, but the rest of my experiences with The Drowned were extremely conflicting. If the gameplay mechanics were more in tune with a survival horror experience, Drowned could have been the definitive horror experience for the iOS format. Instead, it is simply an average shooter that gives a great update beyond the overused two thumbstick-style of FPS control; it simply happens to have great looking monsters and backgrounds instead of your run-of-the-mill FPS baddies.
The Drowning is free to play, but the unrelenting focus on upgrades aggressively pushes players to buy virtual currency so they can upgrade faster...Kudos to the new controls, but the overall experience left a bitter taste in my mouth.
While certainly enjoyable at times, The Drowning's free-to-play implementation hampers the game to an inexcusable degree.
The Drowning is a well designed tech demo that delivers extremely basic gameplay that isn’t worth sinking your time into.
For those who do stick with it, there are an absolute ton of weapons and items to unlock, and a variety of locations with both arena and base defense missions. But the game's ambition and the slow burn for progress may have been more than The Drowning can handle.
