While Hopeless: Space Shooting shares the same great gameplay, it doesn’t feel like enough new content has been added to consider this entry much more than an entertaining re-skin. Bonus points for an amazing game trailer that will probably give you a photosensitive seizure.

What’s New:

Multi-Touch shooting allows you to blast space monsters as fast as your little yellow marshmallows can squeeze the trigger.

The game comes with two modes: The traditional Arcade Mode which challenges you to rack up as many points as possible, and the fast paced Survival Mode, which challenges you to hold out as long as you can against increasingly difficult waves of space monsters.

A new, mask wearing monster variant has also been added, requiring two shots to kill, and giving you even less time to save your squishy comrades.

Super sweet space lasers!

What’s The Same:

The adorably terrified blobs are back for more punishment, and to prove that in space, no one can hear you get eaten by ravenous monsters.

What Doesn’t Work:

The eerie “oh crap, what was that” atmospheric sounds have been replaced by an upbeat soundtrack that takes away from the “hopeless” vibe that worked so well in the original game.

Hopeless: Space Shooting is available on iOS and Android now.

For those of you who loved the original entry, Hopeless: The Dark Cave, you’ll enjoy more trigger happy blasting with Hopeless: Space Shooting, but don’t expect much in the way of groundbreaking gameplay changes.

For those of you who missed out on the original: A- it’s FREE in the App Store/on Google Play, so stop sitting there and download it. B- This new entry is an entertaining entry in its own right, and one that you can easily jump into without having played the original.

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The simple, one-touch controls dictate where your blobs shoot, but it’s up to you to determine friend from foe. The stripped down mechanics help set Hopeless apart from other games as the barrier-free user experience drops you into a new game with a single tap, and the method for survival is immediately apparent.

The dark, atmospheric sounds drive home the eerie, “Oh crap, what was that?” feeling within the game’s static, desperate setting. With every cricket chirp, gust of wind, and squeaky metal door, I found my fingers twitching to shoot a monster that hadn’t yet appeared.

As the pace and number of the monsters increased, I found myself with less time to identify friend from foe and opting to shoot first and not tell anyone that I shot Bob later. Every time I blew one of my jiggly little friend’s heads off, I let out a dejected and audible, “Awww!”

The game runs smoothly on iOS, but I did encounter a few frame rate issues as more characters crowded the screen, which resulted in some of my blobs getting picked off as soon as a monster appeared on my screen, or my shots not registering. These instances were few and far between, but I actually felt like they added to the game’s desperate atmosphere and my feeling of being overwhelmed.

Hopeless: The Dark Cave is a fun, quirky, and very well executed game. The dark, yet approachable setting, and pick-up-and-play mentality make this a great addition to any mobile game library. Plus, it’s FREE on iOS and Android right now, so you really don’t have a good excuse not to play it.

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