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Games

Cosmonautica

Android Police coverage: Find A Crew, Find A Job, And Keep Flying In Space Trade-Em-Up Cosmonautica, Now Out Of Early Access

We've covered Cosmonautica before, but now it's out of beta and available as a "final" game. This is a space trading sim at its heart: buy low, sell high, avoid relativistic effects of faster-than-light travel, you know the drill. It's the personality in Cosmonautica that makes it worth a look - the characters and ships are oozing with cartoony charisma. The Android version of the game syncs up with the PC version: buy the Humble edition from the developer website and you'll get both.

Cast off. Are you ready for some hilarious adventures in outer space? Start by boarding a washed-up space cruiser and fulfill your destiny as an aspiring captain on the hunt for fame and fortune. Cosmonautica combines elements of space trading and crew simulation to create a unique experience. Only if you take good care of your crew you will be able to succeed. Do you have what it takes to become the best trader, smuggler, pirate or even space taxi? It’s your choice.

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Android Police coverage: Jump Scare Fans, Pull Out Your Wallets: Five Nights At Freddy's 4 Is Live In The Play Store

Another few months, another Five Nights at Freddy's game. You'd think that the people in that creepy world would have caught on and burned all animatronic mascots to the ground by now. The latest release takes place in a child's bedroom, and your only defense against toothy horrors is a flashlight and your own twitchy compulsion to check every nook and cranny. There's a free demo available if you want to be jump-scared on the cheap.

In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows. Playing as a child whose role is yet unknown, you must safeguard yourself until 6am by watching the doors, as well as warding off unwanted creatures that may venture into your closet or onto the bed behind you.

Prismatica

Android Police coverage: Prismatica Is An Original Color-Focused Puzzle Game That Will Spin You Right Round

Prismatica is a unique take on the color matching game, a sort of two dimensional interpretation of a Rubik's cube. The board is made up of a number of wheels with colored hubs and spokes that intersect in secondary colors. The board is then scrambled, and it's your job to rotate the colors to make all of the original wheels and intersections fit again. Three dollars with no in-app purchases gets you 48 levels of increasing difficulty.

Prismatica is a puzzle game with a brand new twist, inspired by Rubik’s Cubes, Sudoku, Dodecahedrons and way, way too much caffeine. The goal is to unscramble a series of puzzle boards by rotating multicolored pieces to match a logical pattern. It’s easy to learn and simple to play but surprisingly deep and difficult to master at later levels, presenting even the most veteran of puzzle enthusiasts with brain-tickling challenge.

Prismatica Developer: Loomus Games
Price: 2.99
4.2
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Gabriel Knight Sins of Fathers

Android Police coverage: Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers, Another Classic Adventure Game, Comes To The Play Store

Gabriel Knight was one of the better-known point-and-click adventure games of the early 90s, and it's recently been remastered with 3D characters, new 2D backgrounds, and tons of extra animations. The Stephen King-style murder mystery plays out across several days in New Orleans, as our starving author protagonist tries to unwind the plot. The free download gets you chapters one and two, but the rest of the story will cost you $11 across three in-app purchases.

As struggling author and bookstore owner Gabriel Knight, investigate a series of savage ritual killings in New Orleans and their connection to voodoo’s sinister mysteries. The deeper he dives into master storyteller Jane Jensen’s tale of terror and suspense, the closer he'll come to discovering the secrets of his own family history–and unfolding his destiny. Experience one of adventure gaming’s most stunning masterpieces all over again in this blockbuster retelling of the award-winning 1993 murder-mystery, which adds all-new puzzles, scenes, and HD graphics.

SPACECOM

Android Police coverage: SPACECOM Is A Minimal Multiplayer Sci-Fi Strategy Game From The Makers Of The Anomaly Series

Spacecom puts a new spin on real-time strategy with a minimalistic system. This PC pilgrim is more focused on the decisions you make as a space commander than getting 150 actions per minute. Expand your territory across star systems and build up your infrastructure, then take on the computer or human opponents in the 6-player online mode. Check it out if you're looking for a strategy game that breaks the mold.

SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat. No coincidence, no luck. Spacecom pushes your ability to strategize with a focus on real-time tactics and planning. Use proven maneuvers learned from military legends or devise your own plans. Test your wits in single player campaign, go head-to-head with up to 5 opponents in multiplayer or experiment with new strategies in AI skirmish mode.

SPACECOM Developer: 11 bit studios
Price: 2.99
3.7
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A Day in the Woods

Android Police coverage: Help Little Red Riding Hood Escape Toothy Death In Hexagonal Puzzler A Day In The Woods

A Day in the Woods is a hexagonal puzzle game where you try to avoid feeding Little Red Riding Hood to the bears, wolves, and spiders she haphazardly stumbles through while checking every cabin in the forest. The swapping gameplay is interesting enough, but what's really compelling is the art style, which makes the game look like a living set of painted wooden tiles. It's five dollars with no ads or in-app purchases.

In A Day in the Woods - a stylish re-imagining of the traditional sliding puzzle game - you plays as Little Red Riding Hood’s wispy winged sprite friend. By moving tiles around each board, you’ll help Little Miss Red avoid scary woodland creatures while collecting flowers and berries along the way. There’ll be some friends to help you too, including bunny rabbits, beehives and the local woodcutter.

Clandestine: Anomaly

Android Police coverage: Save Your Neighborhood From Aliens In Augmented Reality Tower Defense Game 'Clandestine: Anomaly'

The Anomaly series is a favorite among tower defense fans, but what happens when you bring it (wait for it) into the real world? This augmented reality game has you battling aliens on a real-world grid of about four square kilometers, tracked via your phone's GPS. The story plays out in your little augmented reality window. It's an interesting place to take the genre, to be sure.

In Clandestine: Anomaly your mobile device becomes super-charged with alien software, allowing you to see a hidden conflict all around you, and quickly build and deploy colossal structures to launch attacks and defend your neighborhood. With the help of a covert organization charged with defending Earth, you’ll become Earth’s first and last line of defense against a planet-wide infection.

Piloteer

Android Police coverage: Piloteer Is A Beautiful Physics-Based Jetpack Sim With Punishing Difficulty

Take a look at that app icon and try not to think of the Rocketeer theme song. Go on, I dare you. Piloteer might wear its inspiration on its double-breasted sleeve, but the hand-drawn, cardboard cutout art style is all its own. The gameplay isn't quite so innovative - basically it's another one of those frustration-focused games where head-smashing two-button controls make for more of a challenge than the stages or objectives.

In Piloteer, a whimsical and serenely challenging physics-based game about learning to fly, a renowned inventor is determined to overcome the stigma associated with flying a jetpack and convince the world that jetpacks should be revered by all. Blending elements of both physics and trick-based games, players will need to maneuver their state-of-the-art jetpack through the skies while completing a myriad of increasingly difficult missions to change public perceptions.

Sparkle 3 Genesis

Android Police coverage: Sparkle 3 Genesis Adds Some Much-Needed Structure To The 'Float Around And Eat Stuff' Genre

Sparkle 3 is another one of those "amoeba" games - eat everything smaller than you and try to avoid everything bigger than you. But this one distinguishes itself with some truly magnificent graphics, which change with the microscopic creatures as you progress through the various levels. Crafting-style missions for specific types of food, which influence your microscopic development, offer some variety in this oddly crowded genre.

Step into the amazing world of Sparkle – a surreal ocean, where life is thriving and conditions are perfect to make an evolutionary leap.A beautiful visual experience. Control the fate of a single dreamlike organism through the course of it’s life. Explore the vast ocean in search of micro-elements that will help you evolve from a tiny speck of life into a magnificent Sparkle. You can choose whether your Sparkle will become a quick and relentless hunter, a peaceful plant-eater or a creature whose feature lie in between.

Battle Golf

Android Police coverage: Kappsule's Latest Game 'Battle Golf' Is A Free Way To Defeat Menacing Creatures With A Solid Stroke

Golf and I have never gotten along. It's so amazingly boring. Maybe if getting the ball in the cup in real life was the same thing as fighting voracious sea monsters it could hold my interest. So it is with Battle Golf, where you're either fighting said monsters or against a human opponent, with either one or two devices. The mechanics - trajectory and power - are similar to other golf games, and by chance, also similar to Worms or Scorched Earth.

The first rule of Battle Golf is that you do not talk about Battle Golf. The Second rule of Battle Golf is please share Battle Golf on Twitter. Play Golf against the clock or against a friend, head shots are encouraged.

Battle Golf Developer: Brad Erkkila
Price: Free
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Deadlock: Online

Android Police coverage: After Four Years, Popular iOS Twin-Stick Shooter 'Deadlock: Online' Comes To Android With Cross-Platform Multiplayer Support

Deadlock is a popular top-down, twin-stick shooter with a focus on online multiplayer. You might already know that if you've got an iOS device - in fact, you might have known about that four years ago when it came out for the platform. At least the Android version includes cross-platform multiplayer, so the game has a built-in playerbase (most of whom will dominate you until you learn the ropes).

Join in on the action and play against thousands of other players in online matches. Compete in daily and weekly tournaments to win unlock points. Over 30 different weapons, armor, and attachments - including different pistols, rifles, machine guns, grenades, scopes,and flashbangs. Practice your shooting skills before entering in online matches by playing Survival Mode and Bot Matches offline.

Captain Sabertooth

Android Police coverage: Captain Sabertooth Sails Into The Play Store To Take Kids On A Pirating Adventure Inspired By 25 Years Of Lore

Before today I had never heard of Captain Sabertooth. Apparently it's a popular children's franchise in Norway and a few other places. This game takes the pirate theme and runs with it, focusing on some cartoony real-time naval battles with a collection of nautical mini-games thrown in. The licensed title probably won't hold adult attention for long, but it's pretty great for kids, and it has zero in-app purchases.

A pirate game that will keep children occupied for hours, with challenges large and small in an exciting and varied universe. There are no in-app payments or third-party advertising in this game. Heave ahoy. The King of the Sea smells gold. Join Captain Sabertooth and his most trusted men in sea battles and treasure hunts, in storms and hurricanes, with fun and games. Tully serves up rat soup. Are YOU ready for a dangerous voyage on The Dark Lady?

Angry Birds 2

Android Police coverage: Angry Birds 2 Lands In The Play Store, Sits Perched Atop A Mountain Of In-App Purchases

It's taken years for Rovio to release a "true" Angry Birds sequel. Those years haven't been particularly good to the franchise, or the state of mobile gaming as a whole. What was once a simple physics game with endless replayability is now a slick "experience" intended to suck you in, get you to share it with as many friends as possible, and (of course) spend money. The new animations are nice and the bird powers are nifty, but fans of the originals and more recent versions will take one look at the pay-or-wait lives system and fly away.

The Angry Birds are back in the sequel to the biggest mobile game of all time. Angry Birds 2 starts a new era of slingshot gameplay with super stunning graphics, challenging multi-stage levels, scheming boss pigs and even more destruction. It’s the ultimate slingshot strategy – YOU choose which bird to fling next. “But that makes it easier, right?” WRONG. You’ll need to choose wisely if you’re going to stop those eggs from getting scrambled. Plus, destroy blocks to fill up the Destruct-O-Meter and earn extra birds.

Barmark

Barmark is a point-and-click adventure game with an art style that's unlike anything else on the Play Store right now - it looks like a mix of paper mache and sumi-e. There isn't much of a story; the only real point is to wander around and activate various otherworldly machines, which will in turn affect the surrounding land and animals. There aren't any goals or enemies, just a bunch of pretty stuff to look at.

Barmark is a point n' click exploration game, where you can alter the game's environment in order to achieve harmony and personal perfection. There are no goals, no points and no death. Barmark let's you be in control of your own experience. For each new game in Barmark five landscapes out of eight possible will be randomly chosen. Also a randomly selected pair of Archanimals will be chosen to inhabit Barmark.

Trulon - The Shadow Engine

It's rare that we see a quality Japanese-style RPG on Android, at least one that's 1) new and 2) not laden with ridiculous in-app purchases. Trulon bucks the trend with a unique Victorian-fantasy setting, an interesting art style that combines 2D and 3D, a card-based battle system, and a winding story. The only real downer is that the game's description says its primary story is only 5 hours long - a bit skimpy for a $5 game.

Enter a world of steampunk and magic by experiencing the debut title of the Trulon series. Trulon - The Shadow Engine is an adventure RPG with a unique card combat system. Battle enemies mutated by magic as you explore the kingdoms of peaceful Tripudia and dangerous Maelon. Unravel the threads of an insidious plot and uncover dark secrets to help bring an end to the mysterious disease threatening Tripudia.

Shooting Stars!

Shooting Stars is a nonsensical top-down space shooter. Well, sort of a space shooter - you play on the ground, and you're shooting celebrities like "Kanye East" and "Justin Belieber." The game follows the conventions of the genre pretty closely, but shrinks the experience down to bite-sized chunks with a quick and dirty roguelike structure. One dollar gets you all the fake celebrities and Reddit-grade memes you can handle, with no in-app purchases.

This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can. Shooting Stars is a refreshing colorful and funny take on the classic arcade shoot'em up, bullet hell, shmup, space invader like, whatever you want to call it – but finally, with evil aliens disguised as superstars, cats and rainbow lazers. Superstars like Justin Belieber, PewDerPie, Kanye East and many more.

DOT - Space Hero

DOT is the name of the game's hero - the Department of Transportation isn't branching into mobile games. But if they were, DOT - Space Hero would be a pretty good place to start. This is a charming little mix of side-scrolling space shooter and level-based runner, with a two-button setup that lets you operate the jetpack with one thumb and a laser pistol with the other. Optional in-app purchases for currency are present, but they don't seem to affect gameplay.

In a far away galaxy lives DOT, a space traveller whom loves to play videogames and eat super delicious stardust. But one day, while he is asleep, somebody steals his beloved and shiny delight. When Dot realizes that he was robbed, he decides to go out and find the thief. Join DOT in this exciting adventure across the galaxy and discover beautiful and amazing worlds where you will encounter terrible enemies and challenges. You will be able to fight them all with your jetpack and special weapons.

Sometimes You Die

The only point of this game is to kill yourself. It's incredibly morbid and also kinda fun. You control a little square whose only mission is to find a way to use the environment of each stage to die. It's more or less the opposite of every platformer ever. There's a bit of variety in the physics-based puzzles, and the $1.79 game (in USD, anyway) has no ads or in-app purchases.

This one is different. In this game, you have to die. What is your motivation? What do you expect from this game? Do you want to beat it? How do you know it can be beaten? This game plays with expectation, illusion, and reality. Think before you act. Who knows what it means to die behind the screen? Is it only a number that goes up? Pixels that change their intensity? Solve disturbing, surprising, and malicious puzzles.

Sometimes You Die Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer
Price: 1.79
4.4
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Shibuya Grandmaster

Why is this fast-paced puzzle game named for a busy neighborhood in Tokyo? Search me. But it's an interesting take on the falling block puzzle, requiring speed and spatial awareness to master. Empty blocks fall one at a time, which you can fill with linear colors. Match the fallen blocks up to clear them, earning bonuses for consecutive cleared spaces or completely wiping the board. It's unique, sort of like Tetris one block at a time, and the IAP is entirely cosmetic.

Can you become a Grandmaster? Featuring a stunningly simple and award-winning mechanic, Shibuya Grandmaster is a fast-paced arcade game of depth and old-school challenge that will have you honing your skills for years.It's simple to learn, but you'll be tested as your brain adapts to a whole new way of thinking and your fingers try to keep up. Don't give up. As you learn to effortlessly plan ahead, form combos, and dig yourself out of tight spots, the feeling of being in the zone is unlike anything else.

Beastopia

If you've ever seriously considered cosplaying as the Beastmaster, this is the RPG for you. Your job is to collect and train as many wild critters as you can and pit them mercilessly against your enemies. (Don't worry, they're anthropomorphic animals with weapons and armor - this isn't a Pokemon-style cockfight.) The hand-drawn graphics are nice, if somewhat lacking in animation, and the game is free with no ads or in-app purchases.

Carry the roar of the forest in your pocket with this Beast themed turn based RPG. Assemble your party of beasts, visit taverns, collect loot and defeat the King - in an adventure sprawling 3 maps and lots of carcasses. Embark on an adventure together with Vincent-Van-Goat, Doctor Hoo, Fat-Boar Slim, Jane Doe, Megunn Fox and everyone's favorite hawkentist - Stephen Hawk.

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Drop Hunt

Tired of 2048 and want something with a little more personality? This game has you sliding little glob-monsters to their matching petri dishes. All the drops move in the same direction with every slide, so getting them around the grid-based puzzle stages requires a bit of finesse. The free version allows you an impressive 80 levels. In-app purchases are present, but small.

Drop Hunt is a game where you are tasked with moving colored droplets into their corresponding jar. You will have to solve eighty puzzle levels that are spread across four different locations to restore the elixir and save the daughter. Drop Hunt is nicely animated and game play can be challenging. Join an adventurous puzzle race to cure a little girl. Help Dr.Dunno to collect all drops of his unique miraculous elixir. Hunt for drops.

4x4 Jam HD

4x4 JAM (or possibly Jam, the description conflicts with the title) is a standard off-road racer with some impressive track environments and truck models. There's not much to it - just four tracks and six vehicles at launch, with no multiplayer - but it sure is purdy to look at. The game's progression is currency-based with in-app purchases, but they top out at $4 or so - more than reasonable.

4x4 JAM HD is the most unique all-terrain Off-Road Racing extravaganza you've ever seen. Dash through the river, jump over your opponents, roll down a steep hill - there are no limits and no boundaries in 4x4 JAM HD. Challenge your opponents on rainy meadows or hot sand dunes and experience the excitement of hill climbing with custom built Off-Road vehicles.

4x4 Jam HD Developer: Invictus Games Ltd.
Price: Free
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Vault!

Vault adds an interesting twist to endless runners with its pole vault jump mechanic. Tap to engage the pole, hold to rise up, and release to finish your jump. It requires some forethought and timing to get the motion just right - too soon or too late before a gap and you're toast. The only point is to collect coins and unlock new characters a la Crossy Road. Ads are included, but a single IAP will remove them.

Pole vaulting has never been so fun. Cascading cliffs, huge bouncy springs and those infuriating red balls. How far can you go? How long will you last? Can you get the highest score? Classic intuitive physics arcade action with easy to use, hard to master tap and hold controls, mean that things aren't as simple as they seem.

  • Intuitive single touch pole vaulting gameplay.
  • Simple concept that anyone can grasp.
  • Collect coins to unlock unique characters
  • Full game centre support to compete with friends and foes

Adventure Time Puzzle Quest

The appeal of Cartoon Network's surreal series Adventure Time continues to elude me, but the RPG-puzzle mix that is Puzzle Quest is much easier to understand. This game is basically the same as it's always been with an Adventure Time skin. Unfortunately, the Google Play reviews say that it's having slowdown and compatibility issues on a lot of hardware - it's a good thing it's free.

The original match-3 RPG™ comes to the Land of Ooo in Adventure Time Puzzle Quest. Join Finn, Jake, and their friends for epic puzzle battles. Match gems to attack your enemies and earn piles of loot. The Ice King's got a rat problem. Princess Bubblegum needs saving. And Flame Princess is ready to declare war. Go on rad quests and help the residents of Ooo by teaming up with your Adventure Time friends.

Mammoth Gravity Battles

This is a combination strategy and puzzle game that has you shooting stuff through space using intense gravity fields. You'll have to warp your cannons around planets, asteroids, and stars in a 3D environment to hit your opponents (unless you'd rather use the easier 2D mode). It's an interesting take, certainly, and the inclusion of a multiplayer mode doesn't hurt. One dollar gets you in with no ads or in-app purchases.

Mammoth gravity battles is a game of skill and turn-based strategy with gravity, planets, physics, black holes, missiles, mammoth explosions, crazy weapons and best of all, woolly mammoths (in flying saucers). A game based on the classic gravity wars; played in turns with ships aiming deadly weapons at each other, trying to adjust for the effects of gravity from the planets, stars and asteroids that makeup the current sector. Black holes, wormholes, turrets, bases and other exotic stellar objects are randomly generated to make for a varied game.

Super QuickHook

Super QuickHook is a Super NES-style platformer with only two movement mechanics: a grappling hook and rocket boots. Use these in conjunction to zip through the levels like a physics-driven Sonic the Hedgehog. Levels are big and contain lots of secrets, but they also seem to have been designed with speedruns in mind - ghosts are recordable and shareable, like in a racing game. A few extra goodies like costumes and powerups are available in the in-game store.

Conquer Eagle Mountain with the help of your trusty grappling hook. Swing and run your way through meadows, frost-tinged fields, ice caverns, volcanic caves, and more. Find secrets, loot, and special encounters. Race against your friends. Explore peaceful landscapes, or try to outrun an endless avalanche. QuickHook combines heavy replay value with deep variety.

Bunker Constructor

Bunker Constructor is basically Angry Birds in reverse: you built the most impenetrable fortress possible to protect your goods, then the enemy flings stuff at you trying to knock it down. The mechanics use variable materials and physics settings, not unlike those innumerable bridge building games you played in school. Two bucks gets you 45 levels with no in-app purchases, though the progression is currency-based.

In Bunker Constructor you build strong bunkers that protect against enemy attacks. You must build resilient bunkers through 45 levels and in 5 environments including desert, forest, beach, mountains and city ruins, because the next attack wave is already underway. You will know if your bunker is strong enough when the enemies attack with either their artillery, tanks or bombs.

Bunker Constructor Developer: Headup
Price: 1.99
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Tappy Lap

Tappy Lap is a top-down 2D racer that evokes the console and arcade games before cockpit or behind-the-car graphics were feasible. Two-button controls keep things simple, but I found the locked track perspective disorienting. More nuanced techniques like slipstreaming and blocking might scratch your itch for racing. The game is free with small in-app purchases to boost your progress, and $1 removes the advertising.

Just "Tap" to change steering direction. Hold the screen to straighten up, speed match the car in front, or just brake. It's brilliantly context sensitive. Get bonus points by Drafting other cars using the slipstream, blocking faster cars for a speed boost, or racing clean laps. Race 18 tiers of varied race modes: star grabbing, rival races and more. Get faster cars as your skills improve for some some intense Tappy Lap action.

Tappy Lap Developer: Jakyl
Price: Free
3.7
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PAC-MAN CE DX

If you still play through the classic Pac-Man mazes in your sleep, you probably already know that the "Championship Edition" has been available and praised on other platforms already. This deluxe edition (yes, deluxe edition of the championship edition) includes shiny new graphics, 132 levels, and various game modes. The $5 premium title is also available in an Android TV version for the same price.

It’s Your World. EAT IT. Get ready for more ghost chain gobbling and frantic action in PAC-MAN® CE-DX. The award-winning chomping video game makes a shattering debut on mobile with even more content than ever before. PAC-MAN® Championship Edition DX is the official mobile version of the most beloved arcade game of all time. IGN gave the video game a perfect 10/10 and an Editor's Choice award, calling it "a master class in game design.”

the Sequence

The Sequence is a simple puzzle game that tasks the player with moving a sliding circle into the target with an increasingly varied collection of unique tiles. Some push, some pull, some fling, some swing, you get the idea. This $1 version has no ads or in-app purchases, and there's also a free demo edition if that's too rich for your blood.

The Sequence is a unique puzzle game. Build a sequence using special modules to transfer binary cell. Find solutions to solve more than 50 levels with simple and complex structure. Are you ready for a challenge?

the Sequence Developer: One Man Band
Price: 1.99
4.6
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Hot Seat: quickfire party game

Hot Seat is a minimalist party game that centers on word association. It's kind of like Family Feud without the surveys: each player is given a letter assignment, a limited amount of time, and then a series of categories. Pick a matching word that starts with the letter and you get a point, skip it and you lose ten seconds. It's a simple little game that's easy enough to pass around, and the settings are tweakable in a few relevant ways.

Hot Seat is a fun and fast-paced word association party game for two players and up. Players are given a letter, and have to answer categories with words beginning with that letter as quickly as possible. The fastest player to answer ten categories wins. Try and keep a cool head while fast and furiously answering diverse categories such as: Reasons to quit your job? Things you see at the zoo? Things you can get your finger trapped in? Things that smell bad? Reasons to smile?

Poltron

Poltron is a pretty simple endless runner game, but it's stylish and (for the moment) free. You run from a monster across a greyscale world, jumping over and sliding under obstacles. That's about it. Check it out if you want something with a bit more flair than the usual fare, and has no ads or in-app purchases.

On a beautiful spring day, Godefroy is declaring his love to her dear, pretty Eleanor, when suddenly a giant comes and tramples her under the incredulous eyes of our lovesick. And here's our coward who immediately starts to run in order to escape the shoes of the monster. Arm yourself with your best reflexes and avoid the many obstacles to help Godefroy in his flight. " Poltron " is a small game, fast, simple and unlimited.

The Journey Back

The Journey Back is a minimalistic first-person Adventure game about the events following a car crash. That's all there is to it, though fans of the recent wave of pastel-shaded art games might find something to enjoy here. The game is $2 with no in-app purchases.

The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.

Burn The Boards

Burn the boards is a puzzle game with a message, specifically one about e-waste. The puzzles center around deconstructing electronic trash, but they're more or less just an excuse to talk about the poor working conditions and low wages in third-world countries. 50% of the proceeds reportedly go to supporting Indian migrant workers.

In the unique puzzle simulation game Burn The Boards you can not only experience the reality of an informal worker, who breaks down e-waste for a living, but also contribute to change. The player takes on the role of Arun, a villager who came to the big city with his wife and child to try his luck. Arun gets work in Chopra’s e-waste scrapyard, a small backyard factory where a dozen workers recycle electronic components. In order to feed his family, Arun has to recycle as many boards as possible, while toxic fumes will also poison him at the same time.

D.I.S.C.

DISC (ain't nobody got time for all those periods) is a minimal twitch game where you have only one button. Tap the screen to switch the red and blue markers between the left and right lanes and try to get them correctly aligned as targets fly at you. The TRON-inspired graphics are nice, if simple, and the setup is enough to kill a few minutes in line.

Avoid the wrong colors as long as you can. Tap the screen to rotate the discs. How far can you make it?

D.I.S.C. Developer: Alphapolygon
Price: Free
4.1
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Alco Invaders

Alco Invaders is a pretty typical horizontal space shooter, with the addition of "retro" voxel graphics and lots of of memes. Oh, and dubstep. (Is that dubstep? I think that's what you call it.) In-app purchases are present, but largely optional.

The Galaxy is under fire. Only you can save the Galaxy from Alco Invaders, which want to steal your alcohol resources. In this game you can ride the Flappy Bird space ship, mix cocktails and even feed the cat. Deep space and colorful stars say Welcome to you. Let's fight.

Matchiiz

Matchiiz is a puzzle game about burning stuff. Seriously, that's the whole point. Arrange matches on the board so that the heads light up as the flame passes to get to the goal. It's a simple little idea that will appeal to your inner pyromaniac. Shifting backgrounds and kooky contraptions will keep you interested, at least until the IAP grind sets in.

Please welcome the MATCHIIZ game. Your mission : Burn up all the MATCHIIZ (matches) to gain point and bonuses, all the MATCHIIZ left unburned on the table will be lost so be careful .

  • A fun and refreshing 3D Puzzle game based on matchsticks.
  • Addictive 250+ Levels with progressive difficulty
  • Google+ Cloud Save
Matchiiz ( matches ) Developer: HyperDevbox
Price: Free
3.1
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Plancon: Space Conflict Free

This is a free version of HeroCraft's Plancon, which we covered back in May. Since the original twin-stick shooter included $100 in-app purchases on top of the $3 purchase price, it really should have been free from the start.

Near space, the future - year 2600. Your home - the training orbital station - has been destroyed by a treacherous alien attack. There are thousands of casualties. Only one pilot has survived – and that pilot is you. Your trusty ship and your thirst for revenge will guide you to the correct orbit. On your travels, you will encounter a dangerous stranger who happens to know your childhood secrets. Space bandits will make offers that are impossible to refuse.

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  • it has to be original, ground-breaking, well-reviewed, interesting, fun, etc - the cream of the crop

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