Apple Arcade review #91: Don’t Bug Me!

Don’t Bug Me! is a terrible name for a pretty interesting game. It’s a visually stylish tower defense game with some basic first-person shooting, set on Mars. You have to harvest resources and build turrets to fight waves of “Martians”, while you banter with a computer. The dialogue isn’t great, and there’s a strange dichotomy between the cool and minimalist art and the jokey writing that feels…off.

It took me a few minutes to get comfortable with the game mechanics, but once I did, I had fun — for a while. The difficulty ramps up quickly, and I struggled to progress beyond a certain stage. I plan to give it another go, however. The game looks and sounds great, the user interface and controls are good, and there’s definitely a moreish quality there that keeps you hooked. For how long depends entirely on how you adapt to the difficulty curve. I expect most of you will do better than I did.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/dont-bug-me/id1213139362