The Uncharted: Fortune Hunter Mobile Game Has Its Share Of Valuables

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End isn't the only new game in the series. Uncharted: Fortune Hunter (iOS/Android) is out now for free, and serves as a way to gain bonuses for Uncharted 4's multiplayer. It's also a decent puzzler in its own right.

Fortune Hunter provides a bevy of puzzles presented from an almost top-down camera (there's no need to rotate the camera or anything) where you move Drake to step on switches, collect loot on the board, and survive deadly darts and more in order to collect a board-ending prize.

Through the 50-plus puzzles I played (there are more than 200), the difficulty to that point was moderate; puzzles occasionally offered some decent challenge, but the game is good at introducing its puzzle concepts over time, and there are hint/help systems that cost relatively low-levels of mystic stones, gems you collect in the game.

The puzzles themselves featured the usual components of the genre, from pressure plates, objects you can carry and place on switches, board layouts that change according to your actions, and more. I enjoyed being able to shoot objects to manipulate the environment as well as the rotating dart towers, which kill you instantly.

All this leads to helping you with Uncharted 4's multiplayer. Outfits, weapons skins, boosters, and relics for Uncharted 4's shop are earned as you progress in Fortune Hunter. These are redeemed in Uncharted 4 by logging into PlayStation Network and having an active save in Thief's End. The outfits are earned simply by progressing to specific points in Fortune Hunter; the two weapon skins and top hat are yours if you collect enough of the in-game treasures.

The relics and boosters, meanwhile must be earned by opening Sully's loot crates, the contents of which are random. These are dropped into a separate menu in the game at ever-increasing timed intervals and opened up by keys you earn in Fortune Hunter for solving puzzles in a set number of moves. Loot crates can be opened up earlier by paying gold coins (which you accumulate simply for solving puzzles), and both coins and keys are plentiful in the game.

There is a store where you can buy items for Fortune Hunter like mystical orbs, outfits, and more, but I didn't feel I needed it in the time I played.

It will be interesting to see how or if the rewards tied to Uncharted 4's multiplayer change as time...