Publisher/Developer: Ti Studios
Genre: Word Game
Price: $0.99
Verdict: Average word game. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s just not particularly anything right about it either.
Pros: Perfect for five minute casual gaming sessions.
Cons:There are better word games out there.

Since the launch of the App Store last year, we’ve only seen the release of approximately 300,000 word games. It just hasn’t been enough if you ask me. So I was really pleased to see the addition of Prolix, it seemed like just the sort of game to fill that gap in the market that the lack of word games provided. Ok, ok I’ll put my hands up. We all know that there is a ridiculous number of word games available for the iPhone/iPod Touch, so what does Prolix offer ahead of all the others besides its really odd name? Well not a lot unfortunately.

Prolix is your regular standard Scrabble/Tetris combination. Letters come down the screen at a gradually faster speed and you have to line them up to create words, thereby clearing the board. Reach a certain amount of points and progress to the next level, where things get gradually faster and so on. To shake things up a little (literally in one case), as the levels go on, two types of bonuses are rewarded to the player. One is the bomb, which when placed clears any adjacent tiles to where it lands. The other bonus is the shake bonus which does exactly what it says on the tin, it moves the tiles around on screen which can help or hinder your progress. It’s perhaps the one real strategical bonus in the whole game. Besides those two, random ‘wild’ tiles appear every once in a while; these tiles work as whatever letter you need them to be to create a word so they can get you out of a bind. The problem with the ‘wild’ tiles is they appear randomly meaning you can’t really plan ahead for such eventualities. Besides the typical ‘classic’ mode, Prolix offers a Time Attack mode which is more of the same but you have to battle the clock as well as consistently create words.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with Prolix, although at first I did find it harder to get to grips with compared to other word games, but there is also not a lot to recommend either. Excluding the name (and I really do wish I knew why it was called Prolix!), it’s all just very average. If you like word games, you will most likely enjoy this. I just can’t see any reason to recommend this above any of the other word games available on the App Store. It’s just all too safe and doesn’t try hard enough to be something special.