https://appcriticweekly.uk/App Critic Weekly is a British arts-review magazine that treats apps and virtual-reality games as culture worth arguing about. Opinionated, well-argued criticism, published weekly.en-GBhttps://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-daily-meditation-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-daily-meditation-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A fresh meditation every morning, without typing a word: does that work as a ritual like the newspaper at breakfast, or is the personal touch precisely what's missing?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/blip-robot-stage-manager-laser-thief/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/blip-robot-stage-manager-laser-thief/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Prompter, assistant director and clown rolled into one: we ask whether BLIP, the flying robot from Laser Thief, carries his role or simply gets on your nerves.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mixed-reality-set-design-floor-tiles/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mixed-reality-set-design-floor-tiles/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Tank Avenger leaves the set design to an algorithm and your own floor. We ask whether scenography can work without a scenographer.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-second-opinion-version-2-9/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-second-opinion-version-2-9/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000From 1.0 to 2.9 in barely three weeks: we ask whether such a pace of updates suits an app whose business is calm.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/sozo-tower-defense-preview-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/sozo-tower-defense-preview-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A premiere before the premiere: Sozo as staging, with your own room as the stage and the player as a stagehand armed with fists.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-meditation-library-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-meditation-library-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Everyone talks about the AI generation. We discuss MindIsland's handmade library as if the machine did not exist at all.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-ai-custom-packs-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-ai-custom-packs-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Cricket rules in German, a canal-boat holiday in Dutch: we test what LingFit's AI ghostwriter can do — and where it falls silent.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-video-feed-review-broadcast-schedule/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-video-feed-review-broadcast-schedule/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000We review LingFit's video feed as though it were a television schedule: who is the programme director here, and is an algorithm fit for the primetime of language learning?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-jump-scare-pacing-analysis/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-jump-scare-pacing-analysis/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Ten seconds of calm, six seconds of dead silence, four seconds of black: we count how HAUNTED paces its scares and where the metronome becomes too loud.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/tank-avenger-review-dollhouse-war-on-the-floor/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/tank-avenger-review-dollhouse-war-on-the-floor/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A tank war nine centimetres tall, staged on the living-room floor: Tank Avenger is smaller than it sounds and bigger than it looks.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-second-opinion-after-the-honeymoon/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-second-opinion-after-the-honeymoon/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000A revival review: what in LingFit holds up after the premiere, what is likely to wear thin, and why the main course carries more weight than the fireworks.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-review-made-to-measure-meditation/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/mindisland-review-made-to-measure-meditation/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000MindIsland promises a bespoke guided meditation for every worry. We examine the cut, the cloth and the seams of this tailoring.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/malgrath-hollow-king-offstage-villain/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/malgrath-hollow-king-offstage-villain/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Malgrath shatters the crystal and sends eight warlords ahead of him rather than appearing himself. Is the absent antagonist a strength or an omission?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-review-afraid-you-might-be-bored/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/lingfit-review-afraid-you-might-be-bored/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000LingFit packs a course, a video feed, AI lessons, games and fox newspapers into one app. The question is whether it can ever keep quiet.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/laser-thief-review-heist-in-three-acts/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/laser-thief-review-heist-in-three-acts/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Start pad, the snatch, the way back: Laser Thief stages every heist like a three-act play – and turns your living room into a stage on which you stand alone.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-are-you-alone-review-chamber-horror/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-are-you-alone-review-chamber-horror/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Half an hour of witch, doll and hellhound in your own living room: HAUNTED is a small, nasty chamber piece with more ideas than running time.https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/tank-avenger-chapter-finales-four-acts/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/tank-avenger-chapter-finales-four-acts/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Tank Avenger closes each of its four chapters with a finale that puts everything the house has on stage. Does the arc hold across four acts?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/sozo-realms-as-set-design/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/sozo-realms-as-set-design/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000From Verdant Hollow to Neon Overdrive: which of Sozo's eight worlds has a signature of its own, and which is merely pretty wallpaper?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/dancing-lasers-mode-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/dancing-lasers-mode-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Laser Thief's rhythm mode reviewed as a dance revue: ten shows, three rounds, beams on the kick drum. Big number or nice encore?https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-living-room-theatre-review/https://appcriticweekly.uk/articles/haunted-living-room-theatre-review/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000An overture on the telephone, seven acts on your own wall, a single scene change: we review HAUNTED as one reviews a premiere.