Island of the Lizard King

Critic reviews

• TATouch Arcade

  Shaun Musgrave · Dec 31, 2013

  6.0

  It's a wonderful conversion of a fairly weak adventure, and that ending sequence is definitely something to experience, but I wouldn't even have it in my top 10 choices for Fighting Fantasy adaptations. Set against the overall iOS gamebook landscape, it's hard to recommend unless you're a big fan of the genre.

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• GGamezebo

  Matt Thrower · Dec 23, 2013

  8.0

  But besides being a great nostalgia trip, it reminds us of the simple excitement that sophisticated fantasy has lost. Sometimes those primal thrills of adventure and exploration get buried in the desire to justify and explain everything. Besides, any book that lets you fight a lizardman riding a styracosaurus gets two thumbs up from me.

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• 1148Apps

  Jennifer Allen · Dec 17, 2013

  9.0

  Adventure gamebook fans will, yet again, love this and the nostalgia it brings. Arriving at this time of year, it’s the ideal story to curl up with at Christmas time. After all, what says festive more than inciting a mutiny against lizard enslavers?

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• PGPocket Gamer

  Harry Slater · Dec 19, 2013

  8.0

  Still, Island of the Lizard King is an enjoyable, old-fashioned adventure that's held together by far more modern components. It's fun, it's slick, and it's another worthy addition to the digital Fighting Fantasy canon that Tin Man Games is so ably accumulating.

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