Let’s Create! Pottery for iPhone review

Lets Create! Pottery HD has been available for the past week and has received rave reviews from a number of websites. This morning it arrived on the iPhone and I felt the need to write up a quick review detailing my thoughts on this unusual game that grabbed me from the very first second.

It is beautifully presented and even on the relatively small iPhone screen it looks and feels just right to capture the full experience. There are few instructions included which is unusually a good thing because it forces you to look around and start hunting out the features. Making a pot is as natural as it could be the first time you try it, but don’t for one minute think that it is going to be a cakewalk. As you progress through the levels and attempt to make pots that customers have requested, you soon realise that it is not as easy as it looks.

Included in the game is the ability to sell your wares which gives you money to buy colours, brushed and some unusual designs with which to decorate your finished works. I have literally only been playing the game for an hour or so, but it is special and unlike anything I have tried before on a smartphone.

Pottery should be the most boring pastime in the world, unless you are the male lead in Ghost, but I now understand why people enjoy it so much. That may sound like a silly statement, but there is a genuine sense of relaxation as you try to create the perfect pot. The graphics and animations are pure quality and the way the screen reacts to screen movements add one more element of reality. The fact that there is progression built in subtly keeps you coming back for more.

I can’t quite find the words to describe Let’s Create! Pottery. It is a game, but doesn’t feel like one. It offers a challenge, but you never feel pushed into completing it quickly. It is completely original and maybe the start of something on this platform- what I can put into words is that it is far better than I expected and well worth the asking price. If you have an iPad the experience will likely be even more immersive.

Available from iTunes.