Cricket is known as a religion in India, would be an understatement. The game is responsible for single-handedly causing losses running into crores if the Indian team happens to be playing on a weekday. But we all know the money spinning tourney IPL eased out the tension with ‘after hours’ cricket (if that is what it can be termed). But, what if someone changed the way the sport is played altogether? No slam bam and reckless shots that go sailing over the fence, with the only way to keep the scoreboard ticking is for the players to scramble between the wickets. Welcome to One More Run.
Developed by SuperSike Games (The Team: Amit Goyal, G Arjun, Sandeep Nambiar, Aman Kulhria, Valiullah Hashmi) the studio behind the games like Yet Another Bird Game (YABG), Go Kane! and Barry and Bruce, the studio has developed a cricket game in-sync with the IPL fever, which is also their first on the Unity Engine. So, cricket fanatics the game is on. Put on your fastest running shoes as the sixes and fours dry up.
The gameplay is simple yet difficult. It is the final over of a game, and you have only one wicket left. You have to achieve the target within six deliveries. The focus is on how fast you can run between the wickets rather than striking the ball itself. You just need to tap as fast as you can to run from one end to the other, and swipe to dive if you need to make that extra distance.
One needs to possess lightening fast reflexes and the taps on the screen have to be spot on; else you might just be left stranded in the middle of the pitch and losing the sole wicket in hand. Even a late tap may cause a run-out. These are important nuggets as the game progresses allowing you to convert those ones into twos and twos into threes.There is an odd six in the game which a player gets randomly (if lucky).
The art of the game is crossy-road-esque with pixel players done beautifully reminding one of Allan Border Cricket back in the MS-DOS games era.The rewarding system too is similar to Crossy Roads but instead of animals; you have 22 different team colours to unlock for your batsman to wear, with even the cities from IPL featuring in the game.
The game is fast-paced and needs your attention with those fast taps, which will certainly leave you with sore thumbs causing frustrating multiple gameplays (but who’s complaining). The music – courtesy G Arjun – has a catchy beat and adds to the flavour of the game giving you those jittery moments when pacing between the stumps.
What would have made the game more engaging would have been an added element like an endless mode, where if the player complete the target within the stipulated balls with a couple of more to spare, then the remaining get carried onto round two, and the total to achieve is calculated according to the balls one has. Thus, allowing one to play more deliveries and making it a continuous gameplay.
The game is currently out on Android with the iOS version currently under development.
