Did you ever pretend that you were a superhero? Maybe you tied a dish towel around your neck and jumped off a wall while pretending to be an epic hero. Did you have your own superhero that you created from scratch? Maybe you created a helmet and armor from cardboard. If you ever dressed up and played pretend superhero than Playworld Superheroes is the app for you and your kids. I was given a code for the new app, Playworld Superheroes, released today, so that I could play it and review the app. Opinions are 100% my own.

In Playworld Superheroes you choose your avatar from many different kids of both genders and different ethnicities. Your avatar then finds a treehouse in an abandoned lot. The treehouse is the base of operations and also a place where your avatar can craft their various parts of their super hero costume, tools and armor. Your avatar crafts and creates their character from different items that they find around the abandoned lot. As the avatar builds their costume they open up portals into Playworld where their cardboard and recycled materials costume becomes a real superhero costume. In Playworld the avatar can fire blasters, fly and have super strength to save the world from some aliens called Golumites.

Gameplay is fun. You start off running around the lot finding items to use for your costume. Then you craft them and then you go into Playworld to face the Golumites. You tap on the Golumite to shoot them with your blaster. Some Golumites throw things at you and if you tap the object then your avatar can catch the object and hurl it back at the attacker. You can also swipe side to side to collect gems and also get to cover. As you progress in the game you find more items and build more gadgets for your hero’s suit so you can face stronger enemy Golumites. Eventually you get the power of flight to take on the biggest Golumite monster.

I had both Eva and Andrew playing this game and they both really enjoyed it. I love how the game captures the excitement of a child pretending to be a superhero and then getting to act out that adventure. The graphics are fantastic and gameplay is smooth and fun. I see this game as only getting better.

Here is the press release on the game.

An ambitious new venture from Evolution Studios founder and MotorStorm creator Martin Kenwright, the crafty challenge of Playworld brings more than 30 years of experience developing more than 69 console titles to the world of mobile kids’ gaming. Designed from the ground up for children aged 5+, Playworld forms the brand wrapper for a series of action adventure games fused together by themes of crafting and creativity. Players are invited to enter a world where the boundaries of what’s possible are exploded by their unique creations, crafting in real time the tools and suits needed to overcome enemy invasion in Playworld – a portal to another realm of power play.

Each installment of super-powered playtime begins in the treehouse, a crafting hub in which players let their creativity run wild! Gamers can paint, cut, build, and modify their ultimate superhero suit and logo before jumping from the calm tranquility of the treehouse to the action-packed spectacle of Playworld – the land of player imagination! Under attack by the mischievous Golumites, Playworld needs a hero to save the land from certain destruction.
Defeat playful enemies on the ground in intense moment-to-moment action, and jump back to the treehouse to craft new tools and gadgets to level up powers. Then take to the skies for the ultimate showdown with a towering intergalactic monster! Armed only with their imagination, players must skip between two worlds to save them both in a Hollywood blockbuster-styled extravaganza.

Playworld Superheroes is available now on iPhone 5S, 6, 6 Plus, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Air and iPad Air 2, and will cost £2.99, €3.99 and $3.99.