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Seeking puzzle treasure? Uncharted: Fortune Hunter delivers in spades

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<p>Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test (http://www.macworld.com/column/freemium-field-test), we’ll take a recent free-to-play iOS game, put it through its paces, and let you know if it’s really worth your time (and money).</p><p>The mobile world is overflowing with clones and me-too games, so the release of <strong>Uncharted: Fortune Hunter (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uncharted-fortune-hunter/id1104415942?mt=8)</strong> might seem like a real bummer to fans of last year’s excellent Lara Croft Go (http://www.macworld.com/article/2985531/ios-apps/lara-croft-go-does-touchscreen-tomb-raiding-right.html). The popular console game series have already had this back-and-forth: Uncharted took cues from the earlier Tomb Raider games, and Tomb Raider (http://www.macworld.com/article/2097961/tomb-raider-review-lara-croft-is-back-slinging-arrows.html) repaid the debt by making its recent reboot entries much more like the action-packed Uncharted in feel and focus. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3079973/ios/seeking-puzzle-treasure-uncharted-fortune-hunter-delivers-in-spades.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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