Rods - Rod Roll

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Brain goes brr.

Fun game but can be a little finicky on the initial load screen (a lot of the time it'll take more than one reboot to get it to connect to steam/whatever the load issue is and properly load to the menu).

Let's rod and roll.

Story:

There's no story campaign to speak of.

Graphics:

Rod Roll is by all means a very minimalistic game. All the visuals from the randomly generated path to the rods you use are all very simplistic and it works well for the type of game we're talking about here. It's easy on the eyes and that's all that matters.

Audio:

Another section where there's not much to say. Apart from little bloops and beeps when you move and get a game over the game is mostly silent. It's fine and is quite satisfying when you go fast and chain together moves, but there's background music so you'll have to find something else to fill the void.

Gameplay:

Rod Roll is one of those endless mobile games where the only goal is to see how far you can get. You control a rod that flips two ways and you have to land your moves on a narrow path, if you land it off the path you get a game over, that's all there is to it.

It's fun and simple and is quite mindless. I found it to be a nice time waster, but it's nothing all that special and honestly won't grab your attention for that long. It's obvious that the main attraction here is the steam items the game drops as this was mostly released to chase the trend wave set by Banana.

The skins you unlock are all items you get by playing the game for an hour and every hour you get more drops. That's the only way to keep you playing as there's not much substance otherwise.

Verdict:

I had fun with the 20 minutes I spent messing around, but there's not enough here to go back and play more (no the steam items are not worth it). It's also obvious the devs only wanted to get some of that Banana action to rub off on them, but sadly it didn't work out. I only recommend it if you're extremely bored, but don't expect anything that special.

Final Rating:
6/10

Pros:
+ Fun gameplay
+ I like the simplistic look

Cons:
- Very basic
- Game was only released to chase Banana hype train
- Could have used some background music

NOTE: While the game is free, I was asked to review the game by the developer/publisher, for the group Completing the Backlog,this did not impact my opinion on the game

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