Ustwo’s perception puzzle adventure Monument Valley is one of my favorite mobile games. The sequel popped up earlier this week as a surprise announcement during Apple’s WWDC keynote, and it’s every bit as beautiful, relaxing and enjoyable as the first.
Monument Valley 2 is now available on iTunes. We loved the original geography-twisting mobile game. Check out more information and the trailer here.
Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It’s so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game’s visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft.)
The next game from the creators of Monument Valley is going to be a virtual reality experience. UsTwo’s Land’s End is due to hit the Samsung Gear VR headset next month.
Apple has released its annual "Best of" list, singling out the top selling, top downloaded, top grossing and all-round top apps of 2014. For "Game of the Year" they picked perspective puzzler Monument Valley and wildly-popular number cruncher Threes for iPad and iPhone respectively. Excellent.
Monument Valley, one of the best games for the iPad, is now even more best, as eight new peaceful puzzling levels arrive in the game's Forgotten Shores expansion. The new levels are available today on iOS via $1.99 in-app purchase, with Android and Amazon versions of the update coming soon.
More Monument Valley is coming and here's a screenshot of a new level.
The next best thing to a genuine new Monument Valley level—us2games accepted the ice bucket challenge:
There's now a full line of figures based on Monument Valley:
Having sold over 500,000 copies for iOS platforms – a pretty tidy return given the £2.49 asking price – in less than two months of App Store visibility, it’s safe to say that ustwo’s Monument Valley is one of the mobile hits of 2014 so far. It’s just launched on Android, too.
A Monument Valley level based on the world of Journey. See the entire image below, as well as Monument Valley plush characters.
Plush totem buddy from Monument Valley by lynnmuffin.
Lego Monument Valley by Iain Heath.
Monument Valley programmer Manesh Mistry posted this footage of Monument Valley being played in first person.
Monument Valley prints are coming "soon":
Cult of Mac posted several pages from the sketch book of Ken Wong, designer of Monument Valley.
In a mobile gamescape cluttered with free-to-play fluff meant to while away weeks, months and even years rises Monument Valley, a premium perceptual puzzle game that offers just an hour of content — the most sublime hour my iPad has ever given me.
Andreas Ekberg made a totem friend from Monument Valley:
Love the stylish look of iOS game Monument Valley? The artist and designer is Ken Wong, who previously worked on Alice: Madness Returns. Enjoy more video game art by him below, including posters you can buy now, and his takes on the Link and Morrigan:
