Archer vs Monsters

Archer vs Monsters starts you in a village rather than a fight. A pixel forest stretches out below, with a smoking timber house, a blacksmith at a lit forge, a stone well, a market stall, practice targets, bridges over the stream and purple mushrooms in the grass.

Five menus run along the bottom of that map: upgrade, tasks, arrows, bestiary and shop. The only thing calling for a press is the wide button in the middle marked go raid.

Press it and the village blurs behind the first stage, Rotwood, a round wooden face with moss on its head and a health bar showing four hearts. It turns slowly on the spot while your arrow waits at the bottom of the screen.

Two shots stuck in its face and took it down to two hearts. There is no aiming here, so what you are judging is when to loose the arrow as the target rotates past, and the bestiary is there to tell you what is coming next.