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Towaga

Android Police coverage: Action shooter Towaga from the makers of The Firm is visually stunning

From the character design to the backgrounds to the 2D weapon effects, every bit of Towaga is a treat to look at. Gameplay is fairly simple: your Mesoamerican sorcerer is basically a turret, and you aim his beams and activate special weapons to defeat incoming monster hoards. And though it's simple, it's solid, and the stylish presentation (including a more intense 60FPS mode) makes it worth a look from anyone with an eye for fantastic visual design. $3 with no in-app purchases.

TOWAGA is a fast-paced 2D Arcade/Shooter game where you play Chimù, a masked sorcerer entrenched atop the legendary temple of Towaga. React fast, stay focused and use your lightbeam to exorcise the creatures surrounding you. Prove yourself worthy and the light shall reward your sacrifice. We hope you’ll have as much fun discovering the game as we had making it

Mysterium: The Board Game

Android Police coverage: Popular board-turned-PC game Mysterium is out on Android

Mysterium is a modern take on detective board games like Clue, now popular enough with enthusiasts to get a mobile digital version. This edition is a mere $7, though it does come with in-app purchases of up to $3 for some extra features. Players can go solo to get the 1920s story by themselves or have up to 7 online players, including cross-platform games on iOS and PCs. Neat.

The official adaptation of the famous board game Mysterium. Mysterium is a cooperative deduction game set in the 1920s in which a ghost guides a group of psychics to uncover a murderer, as well as the weapon and location of the murder, using only visual clues. Choose your way to play: take on the role of the ghost who gives others clues, or as one of the psychics trying to decipher the abstract "Vision Cards".

SWORD ART ONLINE:Memory Defrag

Android Police coverage: Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag is the new entry in the hit anime series, available from Google Play

Sword Art Online is a massively popular anime series set in a massively multiplayer online game - it's sort of a mix between The Matrix and Tron. This mobile game blends many of the settings from the various story arcs in a 2D hack-and-slash RPG. Characters use their signature weapons and abilities, and fans will see quite a few familiar places and a new storyline. But because this is a Bandai-Namco mobile game, its IAP goes up to $45.

Brave the virtual world with the heroes of Sword Art Online in one of Japan’s most popular anime role playing games, the brand-new action RPG, SWORD ART ONLINE;Memory Defrag. In SWORD ART ONLINE:Memory Defrag, players will join Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, and other fan favorite characters from the original manga and hit anime series from Japan. Take on the role of legendary heroes in this unique action role playing game as you unleash a flurry of skills to vanquish a formidable army of enemies on the dangerous virtual frontier.

Android Police coverage: Children's card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is now live worldwide in the Play Store

The Yu-Gi-Oh card game is still around, apparently, as are dedicated fans. This digital version seems more interested in telling the stories from the anime series (complete with full voice packs for multiple languages, no less), but those who are here for the strategy of the monster-battling game won't be disappointed. Full single player campaigns and online multiplayer are included, though as usual with this kind of card game, the IAP for randomized packs goes up to $100.

Step into a world that crosses dimensions and connects all Duelists. Here, any location transforms into a Duel Field where heated Duels unfold. The "Yu-Gi-Oh." TCG (Trading Card Game) is redefined on mobile with newly designed, intuitive controls optimized for mobile devices. Also, signature monsters like the "Dark Magician" and "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" make their appearance with dynamic visuals.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links Developer: KONAMI
Price: Free
4.4
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Star Wars™: Force Arena

Android Police coverage: Star Wars: Force Arena launches officially on the Play Store after limited beta

The latest game to take advantage of that lucrative Star Wars license is, well, pretty much what you'd expect. In Force Arena, players "collect" heroes from the Star Wars universe and pit their party against villains in turn-based combat. (Hey, at least the characters are 3D and animated, none of that cheap "card" stuff.) Of course characters have to be collected and upgraded, and there's a multiplayer guild system, the better to justify those $100 in-app purchases.

In Star Wars™: Force Arena you will lead a powerful team of iconic Star Wars™ characters, including new favorites from Rogue One™: A Star Wars™ Story, into real-time, adrenaline-fueled battles against other players from around the globe. Players must form a powerful squad from a roster of over 80 upgradable characters and units to emerge victorious in the quest for galactic dominance.

The Witness

Android Police coverage: Open world puzzler 'The Witness' comes to SHIELD Android TV for $20

The Witness is a puzzle game crossed with the somewhat cynically-named "walking simulator" sub-genre. Players slowly explore a jaw-droppingly beautiful island, without any real tension or conflict. The story progresses by solving a huge amount of line puzzles, none of which really have anything to do with the unfolding story itself. The Witness is pricey at $20, but it's half of the price of the Steam version, even if it's only available on the SHIELD TV.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles.

The Witness Developer: NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios
Price: 13.6
4.5
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Shadow Blade: Reload

The original Shadow Blade was a well-received action runner, sort of a blend between games like Shinobi and Jetpack Joyride. The sequel brings in a lot more story to the experience with comic book-style cutscenes and anime-inspired character designs. There's a lot to like in the fluid combat and bright level design, especially for fans of the original, but players will need to be good with on-screen controls to make it through 40 levels. It's a premium game, $5 with no in-app purchases.

Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow. Darkness and chaos are once again creeping into the world of man. The covenant made in a time almost forgotten has failed, the three clans now in a violent struggle for dominance.

March to a Million

Kairosoft's latest mobile manager game is all about talent. Attract singers and other creative types to your agency, book them for shows, expand your office and clientele. It has the same formula as pretty much all Kairosoft games, and unlike some of the developer's latter titles, it uses the standard $5 premium setup with no ads or in-app purchases. Bravo.

Become the boss of a talent agency in this management simulation game. Hire up-and-coming unique talent by advertising and scouting. Start by deciding on a record company. Give your new artists lessons and steady training, and if they can dazzle the judges in the auditions, they'll get the chance to debut as a professional singer. Once they've debuted, hold events and jobs around the country, produce albums and have them interact with fans at concerts to raise their popularity.

March to a Million Developer: Kairosoft
Price: 5.99
3.8
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Journey of Haha

Journey of Haha couldn't be more obviously inspired by The Legend of Zelda if its heroine was wearing a little green cap. But that's not a bad thing, and just because the developers know their classics doesn't mean they have nothing new to offer. The descending stages in this game are all single rooms, not sprawling dungeons, each one more focused on puzzles and mazes than core combat. The retro inspirations make for some intriguing gameplay mechanisms. It's $2 with no in-app purchases, so trying it out won't cost you much.

Journey with "Haha" as she ascends a deadly tower. Face new challenges in each room, including new obstacles, enemies and traps. Don't rely on your speed or strength to get you through this; only your smarts can help you reach the top. Absolutely no ads, in-app purchases, notifications, or any of that junk. Just play and have a good experience. That's how games were meant to be.

Cluckles' Adventure

Cluckles' Adventure is a classic action-platformer game in the vein of Ghosts & Goblins. Also, it stars a chicken, because why not? The fantasy-themed stages are pleasantly spooky (in a Super NES sense, anyway) and combat is fast and tight. Stages are big and tuned for exploration rather than speed, and with more than a hundred of them available in the free game ($2 removes advertising), it shouldn't leave players wanting.

Hello, Id just like to thank everybody who has downloaded and played Cluckles Adventure for making Cluckles a huge success. Cluckles was released two weeks ago and since then I have had overwhelmingly positive feedback along with plenty of requests for additional features. The number one feature requested by users is for touch controls to be adjustable. So just a heads-up that adjustable controls are on their way, with that feature to be released very soon.

The Light Inside Us

The Light Inside Us is an odd name for a stage-based strategy game. This one is all about navigating through the isometric stage and triggering certain conditions along the way, changing the nature of the light-based creatures you control. The low-poly visuals are stark and interesting, though the somewhat methodical gameplay won't appeal to everyone. It's $2 with no in-app purchases, but at the moment it's in "unreleased" beta.

The Light Inside Us is an abstract action/strategy game set in an isometric world where light is sentient. You control a body made up of small particles which are the children of light, and you must guide them through a strange and tough world to reunite them with their mother. By going through differently colored regions you are equipped with different powers. You must use these powers to shoot and convert other sinister corrupted light which try to erode away all your particles.

The Light Inside Us Developer: Dastan games
Price: 1.99
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HERO Unit

HERO Unit is another one of those simulated "assistance" games, a la Lifeline. But in this one you play as a 911 dispatcher, helping out in some very realistic (and very scary) emergency situations. Though everything is text-based, the randomness of the incoming "calls" and the dire nature of the character's scenarios make this one a very high-stress story, so consider yourself warned. The game is one dollar with no in-app purchases.

Welcome to Hotline Emergency Response Operators "H.E.R.O." police emergency hotline. HERO agents play the role of police call operators. Each agent is dedicated to a special device that enables them to respond to emergency calls in real time, right within the HERO app. The game’s premise lies around the concept that each HERO agent is given their own HERO Portable Rescue Device to respond to incoming emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

HERO Unit Developer: Jassim Albuarki
Price: 0.99
4.5
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Z-Exemplar

Z-Exemplar is one of those games that positively revels in its retro sensibilities. This one's basically a carbon copy of side-scrolling shooters like R-Type, complete with pixelated graphics and more bullets than a Tarantino movie. Fans of the style should be in 8-bit heaven, even before they unlock more than 20 kinds of weapons. Z-Exemplar is $3 up front, and the Play Store says it has in-app purchases, but I can't find them in the game itself.

Z-Exemplar is a side-scrolling shooter in the tradition of R-Type, Gradius, Nemesis and other classic arcade games from the past. Borrowing its aesthetic from the computers of yesteryear (specifically the Sinclair ZX Spectrum) Z-Exemplar combines bright, bold, 8-bit pixel art with frantic action and an epic mission to conquer a galaxy of almost 1000 planets. Z-Exemplar was conceived as a love letter to the ZX Spectrum.

Gunhouse

Gunhouse is an odd one. The sliding tile puzzles of the main game board control a series of towers that are upgraded and enhanced by your puzzle performance. And that's before we even get to the crazy animated character design - it looks like something Willy Wonka would make on an acid trip. If you're looking for something that is seriously out there, give it a shot - it's only $3 with no in-app purchases.

Load your guns. Rain death from above. Protect your valuable orphans. Defeat giant, improbable bosses. Gunhouse is part puzzle, part active tower defense, as you make big combos to launch a hail of bullets and special attacks at the alien invaders who would like nothing better than to consume your delicious orphan friends. With infinite levels, upgradeable weapons, a unique art style, and music by Fez composer Disasterpeace, Gunhouse from Necrosoft Games will entertain the heck right out of you, maybe.

Gunhouse Developer: Necrosoft Games
Price: 6.99
4.2
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Samurai Saga

If Genji the cyborg ninja from Overwatch had a favorite mobile game, this would be it. Samurai Saga blends some of the classic ninja game elements from the 16-bit era with an endless runner setup that has a surprising amount of movement and verticality options. The art is impressive too, switching from a conventional palette to backlit silhouettes and back again with ease. Samurai Saga is free with IAP going up to only $6.

Samurai Saga combines old-school platformer charm with fluid physics to create an intensely satisfying enemy-stomping experience. Play a sword-slashing shuriken-slinging samurai on an epic quest. Unlock and master legendary skills to counter your many foes. WATCH OUT. Samurai Saga is easy to learn but HARD TO MASTER. You're in for a serious challenge, but the reward and satisfaction for those who can master the way of the Samurai is great indeed. Do you have what it takes?

Avignon: A Clash of Popes

Have you ever wanted to be the pope? Probably not, if you're browsing a website that's all about material possessions. But if you'd like to have a stab at the politics and intrigue of papal ascension, Avignon: A Clash of Popes is a card game here to indulge you. You'll have to petition church leaders and curry favor and influence to get that funny-shaped hat. Single and multiplayer modes are included for one dollar, with another dollar in in-app purchases for expanded cards.

Vie for the papacy in the 14th century in Avignon: A Clash of Popes; petition members of the Church for influence to build your congregation, or eliminate your rival by cleverly positioning your followers.

  • Based on the highly successful card game
  • Petition Cardinals, Bishops, and Inquisitors to use their unique powers to pull characters to your side, or your opponent's side
  • Play against a friend or the Computer in multiple game modes
  • Expand your game with optional expansion cards

Lunaform

Here's an interesting take on the "break the blocks" formula, sort of putting it in reverse. As light comes into the hexagonal grid, it's your job to move tiles around to make sure that the correct spaces get filled up. This gets more complex as more colors are introduced and obstacles can move light around before it gets there. It's a novel spin on an old idea, and the simple graphics do a good job of making a chaotic field clear at the same time. The main game is a dollar, but there's also a free version.

Lunaform is a puzzle arcade game like breakout, but instead of destroying all of the blocks your trying to fill them up. Swap the hexes just in time to catch stars of the same color, and fill up the grid to complete the level. Sounds easy at first, but later on increasingly complex star patterns emerge, and the hex grid gets larger as you work on harder planets. Your goal is to finish constructing the solar system by building each planet, accomplished by beating each level.

Soul Knight

Soul Knight is a bullet hell shooter with a fantasy theme: you're a knight/rogue/wizard/thief in a top-down alien dungeon trying to kill everything that moves. And it's a good thing, too, since everything that moves also wants to kill you. Tons of weapons and upgrades are scattered through randomly-generated levels, along with NPCs that can be recruited for a little AI assistance. The game is unreleased right now, but you can try it for free with IAP that goes up to $3.

“In a time of gun and sword, the magical stone that maintains the balance of the world is stolen by high-tech aliens. The world is hanging on a thin thread. It all depends on you retrieving the magical stone…” We honestly can’t keep making it all up. Let’s just shoot some alien minions. This is the game you have always wanted in your subconscious. Explore the dungeon, collect crazy weapons, dodge bullets and shoot‘em all up.

Soul Knight Developer: ChillyRoom
Price: Free
4.4
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electronia

Electronia is a puzzle game that should be a particular treat for electrical engineers: all the stages are based on standard electrical diagrams. As you'd expect, the circuits get more complex as the levels progress, eventually leading to some real head-scratching parallel and series issues. It's a fairly niche experience, but it's only a buck fifty with no ads or in-app purchases.

electronia is a minimalistic puzzle game that focuses on beautiful design and electrons on their way through electric network puzzles. It features 50 lovingly handcrafted levels with slightly increasing difficulty level and provides a very relaxing and positive user experience. You can expect a playtime of 1-4 hours, depending on how fast you are. After you finish all network puzzles, a small bonus surprise awaits you.

Planet of Heroes - Action Moba

MOBAs, in the style of League of Legends or DOTA, are hard things to get right on mobile. This one is hoping to win a large following by making the experience faster for on-the-go players, with top-down battles between diverse heroes lasting just 7 minutes. PVP and single-player is available, even in the game's unreleased state, though only 10 heroes are on the roster so far. It's free, and surprisingly, the in-app purchases are limited to just one dollar at the moment.

Planet of Heroes is an exciting realtime action game for smartphones. We settle for quick 7-minute matches in beautiful graphics with stunning effects, tactical depth and gripping battles. Brawl in PVP with friends, explore challenging missions in the PVE Campaigns, and craft items to make your heroes more awesome. There is no reason to miss your Moba when away from home – we’ve got a Casual eSports League with an ELO-like system, real prizes within events, offline tournaments,

Kult of Ktulu: Olympic

The latest game-book to hit the Play Store has something of an obsession with H.P. Lovecraft, with perhaps just a bit of James Cameron's 90s work thrown in. It follows a female protagonist on a Gilded Age ocean liner, who soon discovers that strange things are afoot on the White Star line. Basic Choose Your Own Adventure progression and creepy themes abound. The whole game can be unlocked for $3.

When the ship of the White Star Line leaves Southampton for New York, a frail young girl leaves Old Europe for the New World. Unaware of the cyclopean forces ready to unleash upon her, the long-awaited trip may well change into a nightmarish Atlantic crossing. Kult of Ktulu : Olympic immerses the player in the ocean depths, in search of the dark secrets of a mystical cult.

Sushi Cat

Pachinko is a Japanese arcade game with elements of both slot machines and pinball. Sushi Cat is a cat that likes to eat sushi. This Android port of a web Flash game brings these two elements into glorious conjunction. Gameplay is physics-based and fairly straightforward, with 27 levels including different obstacles and variables. At the moment it's free with no in-app purchases.

He's cuddly. He's squishy. All he needs is sushi and love. Pachinko-style physics puzzle game Sushi Cat is free on Android, with 27 levels of awesome fun for everyone. Based on the hit Flash game series loved by millions, Sushi Cat now fits in your phone for you to get your puzzle game fix on the go. In the name of love, drop your kitty from the top of the screen and watch him bounce off obstacles, nomming delicious nigiri and gathering power-ups, to meet your target goal.

Sushi Cat Developer: Armor Games Studios Inc
Price: Free
4.5
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Odin's Protectors

This isn't the first action-RPG we've seen based on Norse mythology, but I don't think I've ever seen one so varied. At different points it uses turn-based combat, minigames, old-school dungeon crawling, and swapping puzzles. Putting all those differing parts together actually makes for a cohesive whole, though the art style can be a little inconsistent. This one is three bucks with no in-app purchases, at least at the moment.

Odin's Protectors is a character-building RPG based loosely on Norse Mythology. Unlike most role-playing games, your character's attributes and equipment are improved solely through several different mini-games. These improvements will increase the character's Power Level, which is a rough gauge of battle prowess. However, to truly determine one's power, players must battle other Asgardians in the Tower of Valhalla to become a mighty Odin Protector (OP).

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Touch By Touch

Touch By Touch is a puzzle game that tasks players with beating the crap out of an isometric opponent. It's sort of like popping bubble wrap, if that activity was somehow made into Street Fighter. Touching the blocks of the same color in a corresponding order will power up your attacks, allowing you to unlock new bobble-headed skins for your character. The game is free with IAP that goes up to $4.

Please stop thinking that there is no personality in the shape of a square (a,k,a Cube). More than 40 character collections including magical girls, zombie doctor, and Stone Man etc. Explore the cube world. Find the hidden characters popping out. Crush the hidden monsters popping out. Totally new concept puzzle game where each ability is different and can be upgraded in avatar characters.

PixelTerra

"Survival games" in which players gather resources and craft more advanced tools and shelter seem to be taking over gaming on all fronts. PixelTerra has most of the familiar elements of the genre with some good-looking pixel art, but if you've played Minecraft or Terraria there's not much here that you haven't seen before, except maybe a top-down perspective. It's $1.49 with $1 in-app purchases for crafting recipes.

The world of PixelTerra is quite dangerous so you need to build a shelter, find some food supply and get ready to protect yourself from monsters in order to survive at least a couple of days. Then you can only hope that the walls of your shelter will be strong enough to withstand the onslaught. If you don’t like Survival mode, you can turn off monsters and hunger in the settings. In this game you will see:

  • Customized world generation and adaptive difficulty;
  • More than 100 recipes in the craftbook;
  • Day/Night cycle + weather effects;
  • Hunting and fishing;
  • Animal and crop farming;
  • Trading with aborigines.
PixelTerra Developer: SKVGames
Price: 1.49
3.8
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Blyss

Blyss is a fairly simple zen/puzzle game. Swipe vertically or horizontally to reduce the amount of dots in a series of tiles by one, eventually clearing the entire stage. It uses some basic logic and spatial skills, relying more on efficient combos than absolutely perfect placement. (Note to developers: puzzle games like this really need a video on the Play Store, come on.) It's free with IAP that goes up to just under $5.

Travel through Beautiful mountains, serene valleys and harsh deserts solving Blyss’ unique and self-evolving puzzles. The endless puzzle adventure along with musical ambient themes will keep you hooked for hours as you write your own high scoring saga.

  • Procedurally generated Unqiue and Unlimited Puzzles
  • 3 Challenging & Exciting Game Modes.
  • Hand crafted Missions to keep the thrill going
  • Special Combo system
  • Facebook and Twitter High-Score Picture Card Sharing
  • Ambient themes with unique handpicked Music
  • Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements

Mesmeracer

Mesmeracer is a simplified runner of sorts. You control two car, uh, ship, things that constantly criss-cross each other for fuel. A swipe will cause them to spread apart or come together so you can avoid obstacles that appear in time with the EDM music. Simple visuals help keep the focus on the twitchy action. Players will need a good eye for multiple vectors to score more than a few points. It's free with a single one dollar IAP to remove ads.

Do you have what it takes to become the Mesmeracer? Control two vehicles at the same time, cross the light trails to fill up energy, avoid obstacles and perform Perfect Crosses. The hypnotizing race starts in 3... 2... 1...

  • Swipe left and right to drive two vehicles at the same time.
  • Criss - cross regularly to replenish energy.
  • Be hypnotized by the dynamic music composed by Mic B.
  • Perform Perfect Crosses and collect Power Cores.
  • Customize your experience with over 30 color themes.
  • Compare your score and unlock achievements.

Dude On Fire

Most endless runners have at least some token justification for the reason that your player character is running, but rarely a satisfying reason for the "endless" part. In Dude on Fire, the explanation is in the title: your inexplicably blue dude is also inexplicably alight. Specifically, his ass is on fire. Avoiding obstacles and jumping on "bloopers" in the cutesy levels opens up more characters. It's free with IAP up to $4.

These dudes are literally on fire. You'll need to drive them through alien planets while avoiding mean and meaner traps like giant spikes, flying rocks and burning meteors among others.

  • Stunning planets & backgrounds
  • Simple but addictive gameplay
  • Amusing dudes to collect
  • Google Play support
  • Swipe up or down anywhere to control your dude
  • Unlock all dudes and check out their differences
  • Some of the traps are moving and may hit your dude in the face
  • Finally, make sure to swipe only if there is a trap ahead or else...

Orphan

Orphans are traditionally oppressed in the Dickensian sense, and this game seems to be all about getting by in the same way. Players must dodge artfully as they pickpocket along the boardwalk, dodging thugs and bobbies (that's policemen). The only real goal is to get enough money to eat each day, strategically hiding and weaving through the crowd as necessary. It's free with no in-app purchases.

Each day presents a challenge to the Orphan - don't starve or get picked up by the police. Pickpocket the unsuspecting townsfolk to fund your need to eat. Avoid the thugs, they'll beat you up and take half your money. The police will throw you in jail, ending your time on the streets.

  • Hold down to move around.
  • Go into alleys to avoid the thugs and police, release your finger to leave the alley.
  • Police spawn twice per day, one morning and one night shift. If you hear the whistle, get ready to run.

Outside World: Remembered

Outside World takes more than a few pages out of the Monument Valley book, but that's not exactly a bad decision for an indie puzzle game. Getting through each stage relies on the usual progression mechanics, portals, boost pads, and other various goodies. It's simple, but effective. The game is $2 with no in-app purchases.

As her journey continues, Kyrsten not only has to solve puzzles and find a way home, but to deal with strange appearances of long lost friends as well.

  • Whole new 3D design and soundtracks
  • Codes completely rewritten
  • Escape, puzzle-solving type of game play
  • No ads, no in app purchase
  • Optimized for tablets and phones

Live By Night - The Chase

Live By Night is an action movie with a gangster theme, which slid into theaters juuuuust quick enough to be eligible for the Oscars. That being the case, you'd think they might not care about the typical mobile tie-in promotional game... but here we are. The Chase appears to a be a simple left-or-right driving game set in the prohibition era of the movie, with a little GTA-style vehicular shooting thrown in for good measure. It's free with no in-app purchases, which is more than we can say for a lot of promotional movie games.

Live By Night puts you in the shoes of Joe Coughlin and his gangster associates. Your job is to rob multiple banks throughout the Florida area and escape with cash in hand. Evade or take out the police or anyone else who gets in your way. Upgrade your vehicles and increase the damage of your squad with your hard earned cash. Players can take control of a single character using their machine gun at pivotal combat points. Visit the amazing locations from the Live By Night movie and get taken back to a time when gangsters ruled the streets.

The Human Age

The Human Age is sort of like sliding number puzzles like Threes and 2048, only without the numbers. Instead, players have to combine people: sliding older civilizations on top of one another makes a newer one, which can then be combined into a newer one, et cetera. Progressing through the puzzles advances you to new "ages" a la Age of Empires. It's free with IAP that goes up to $20, and note that at the moment it's in unreleased beta.

A game for the ages. Swipe to join matching stages of humanity and advance them from caveman to scholars. Build humanity's greatest wonders and expand your board in this game that is simple to learn and hard to master.

  • Addictive puzzle gameplay
  • Discover characters from different ages in human history
  • Collect resources to expand your board and build your empire
  • Simple swipe-based controls
  • Leaderboards and achievements

Rocket Shock 3D - Alpha

Rocket Shock 3D is an arena shooter in the late 90s/early 2000s style: fast characters, big guns, bigger explosions. The simple models and environments help keep the online multiplayer action fast and smooth, even on older hardware. At the moment the game is in an alpha release, but it's already showing promise, with support for up to 8 simultaneous players in deathmatch or free-for-all. It's free with IAP that goes up to $16.

If you decide to leave a rating - please consider that the game is in a very early state. :) Welcome to Rocket Shock 3D Alpha - we hope that you will enjoy this early version of the game.

• Up to 8 player online battles

• Two gamemodes, Free For All and Team Deathmatch

• 6 different guns to unlock

• 3 beautiful maps with more to come

Ben 10: Up to Speed

Is Cartoon Network still going on its Ben 10 kick? Apparently so. If only the creativity shown in its alien creature designs was on display in the official mobile game: this one's pretty much a paint-by-numbers runner. Different forms have different special abilities, but once you unlock a few of them there's really nothing extra you can do... except spend money on the $20 in-app purchases, on top of the $3 entry price. A poor showing from the usually-reliable Turner.

Use Ben 10's alien powers to run, jump and smash your way past enemies, obstacles and supervillains in Ben 10: Up to Speed. Ben was on a road trip with his Grandpa Max and cousin Gwen when he discovered the alien watch known as the Omnitrix. Now, he can use it to turn into alien superheroes, each with amazing abilities. Turn into the super-strong Four Arms, the fiery Heatblast, the lightning-quick XLR8 and more incredible aliens. Use their individual powers to blast the bad guys, smash through obstacles and even access alternate paths.

Ben 10: Up to Speed Developer: Cartoon Network
Price: 2.99
4.1
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Into the Badlands Blade Battle

Reliance Entertainment has finally stopped trying to get people to care about those Real Steel games... and now they've moved on to original AMC series. To be fair, the Asian/Western fusion of Into The Badlands does make a pretty good setup for a beat-em-up video game. Characters from the series are unlockable and playable with different weapons and styles. As usual, it's free with IAP up to $50.

Fight as your favorite heroes & villains from Into the Badlands, including Sunny, The Widow, M.K., Waldo, Quinn and more. Survive epic quests in an unforgiving world & forge alliances to conquer the Badlands. The official game of the AMC’s ‘Into the Badlands’. Featuring a never-before-seen, isometric, one vs many combat experience that’s easy to play but hard to put down.

Badlands Blade Battle Developer: Reliance Games
Price: Free
4.3
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Realm Grinder

This idle game takes a lot of inspiration from the old Age of Empires series, right down to the pixelated buildings. But since it IS an idle game players don't have to worry about fast-paced battles or resource gathering, just where to spend their upgrades. Different factions on the good or evil side will influence your performance in game-wide events. Realm Grinder is free with IAP that goes up to $50, just in case you want to idle more efficiently.

Grow your kingdom, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPG's ever. Use your money and influence to grow your kingdom from a single farm to a huge realm that earns wealth even while you're not online. In Realm Grinder, the player is given an incredible array of choices in how they build forge their new kingdom.

Realm Grinder Developer: Kongregate
Price: Free
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Geeks vs Gangsters - Idle Game

Here's another one of those idle games, this one focuses on either building up a programming and design company or... selling drugs, a la Breaking Bad. You don't actually do both at once, they're just separate factions within the game, keeping score on a global leaderboard. So I guess the point is to see whether crime pays? I dunno. It's free with in-app purchases (up to $90) to speed up your skill progressing, which would seem to defeat the point of an idle game.

Welcome to Geeks vs Gangsters, an incremental masterpiece, a clicker game to outplay every other clicker game. Are you ready to idle for serious bucks? It’s strangely addicting. Side with one of the two factions and join the capitalist race for incremental money, idle game style. Participate in monthly seasons where we reward the best idler players in whichever of the factions is winning with lots of money worth in GG bucks, our very own idler currency.

Sky Dancer

Holy CRAP, this game is pretty. The combination of a low-poly visual style and stark, monochromatic environments makes Sky Dancer look unique and appealing. It doesn't hurt that the game takes the tired runner formula and adds some ridiculous gut-wrenching drops, where the stage turns into a bit of 3D platforming to make it the next stretch of floating road. Give it a shot if you'd like something different in this type of game - it's free with, unfortunately, $95 in-app purchases.

In Sky Dancer you will join the dangerous game called Sky Dancing and push yourself to limitation with every wild jumps through a stunningly beautiful planet. Sky Dancer is for people who love Skydriving and also for whom never experiencing the beautiful of risk while being airbone. Especially when you learn how to get used with the game, you will discover that everything around you isn't matter anymore, it's just you and the endless Sky Dancing's challenges.

Sky Dancer Run - Running Game Developer: Topebox
Price: Free
4.5
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Xtreme Racing 2 - Speed Car GT

Xtreme Racing 2 is an odd one: it's a serious, arcade, RC, racer. All those adjectives mean that the tracks and controls are meant for speed and tricks, being somewhat forgiving versus a sim racer with effects designed to enhance the zoom-zoom factor. It's free with in-app purchases that go up to $95, meaning that the online multiplayer is going to be a little one-sided if you don't shell out.

Challenge yourself in exciting Radio Control races in the best driving simulator. Race extreme speed cars in this arcade RC racing game. Perform stunts, avoid obstacles, collect and upgrade all the vehicles and drive to victory in a crazy fast racing game. Ready… Steady… GO. The competition is hotting up – so download Xtreme Racing 2 - Speed Car GT for FREE and get racing.

WarFriends

Chillingo's latest Android game is a bit surprising: it adapts the well-worn cover-based shooter genre from consoles into a mobile format. Players used their customized, adorable mini-soldiers to take on waves of enemies, either alone or in co-op mode with online buddies. There's also a one-on-one combat mode for two players if you'd like something a little more personal. Since Chillingo is EA (and EA is, well, EA) it's free with $100 in-app purchases.

Go to war with your friends and become the world’s best squad in WarFriends, a unique 3D tactical action game from the makers of Mega Dead Pixel. Dodge bullets, dive between cover and take out the invading enemy forces by any means necessary.

  • ONLINE WAR – Create a squad and enlist your friends to fight alongside you in ranked online deathmatches. Can you lead your squad to the top of the leaderboards?
  • RAISE AN ARMY – Build an army of shotgunners, drones, and even jet pack troopers to deploy strategically in the heat of battle
  • INTRODUCING WARCARDS – Build a deck of WarCards with game-changing perks. Deploy them in battle to slow your enemy, boost your weapons, inflate heads and much more.
  • INCREDIBLE FIREPOWER – Unlock a full arsenal of weapons ranging from pistols to anti-tank bazookas.
WarFriends: PvP Shooter Game Developer: About Fun
Price: Free
4.4
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The Wolf

Hey you. You wanna be a wolf? Of course you do, who wouldn't? Running around, killing things and eating them... and also some other stuff, I assume. But if there are indeed other things that wolves do, this game doesn't seem to know about them. The online arena throws randomized players together in forest stages, then lets them eat stuff. There are a few boss battles and some new wolves to unlock, but otherwise it's a lot like the "simulator" games clogging up Steam. Dual currencies and $100 in-app purchases are present.

Dive into the world of wild wolves and live your life as one of them. The best wolf RPG on mobile is finally here. Explore the amazing environment, develop your character and upgrade your skills to become the Alpha of your pack. You can try your strength in one of two modes: CO-OP or PVP - everything in Online Real-Time Multiplayer. Play with people from all over the World.

  • Online Real-Time Multiplayer RPG
  • Stunning 3D graphics
  • Character development and upgrades
  • Cooperative multiplayer hunting and PVP Battle Arena modes
The Wolf Developer: Swift Apps LTD
Price: Free
4.6
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Super Why! Power to Read

The latest PBS game for kids comes with a superhero theme. As with most educational games/apps, it's actually a series of themed minigames that each attempt to work on a child's basic skills, in this case literacy and writing. This one's $4 with no in-app purchases - always a plus for games aimed at children - with four mini-games focusing on basic alphabet, reading, writing, and rhyming.

Award winning Super Why. app has a new look. Super Why and the super readers are here to help your child with the critical skills they need to learn to read (and love to read.) These super readers need YOUR help in each literacy game, empowering your child with the power to read. Features:

  • 4 unique games hosted by a super reader each focusing on a core literacy skill
  • earn 100+ stickers for your sticker book to make your own storybook sticker pages
  • Play All feature which allows your reader to play through all the super reader games back to back
Super Why! Power to Read Developer: PBS KIDS
Price: 3.99
3.2
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InMind VR 2 (Daydream)

Daydream games seem to have fallen off fairly quickly, but this one is actually a port of a Google Cardboard title. The Daydream edition of InMind VR 2 tells the same story, sort of like a more biological take on Inside Out that's full of learning about brain structure and chemistry. It's free with $3 in-app purchases, and of course you'll need a Daydream View headset and a compatible phone to play.

InMind 2 is an action/arcade VR game with a bit of decision making strategy and neuroscience of the human brain. Enjoy time-controlling and shooting gameplay with your Daydream Controller. You'll take part in the process of one teenager named John becoming an adult, and help shape John's future self, while experiencing an exciting journey inside the unusual micro world of the carefully recreated human brain. Remember that in this world even one small molecule can change a person's destiny.

BFG: Leviathan - Free

Battlefield Gothic: Leviathan is a digital version of a galaxy-spanning board game set in the familiar Warhammer 40K universe. (It's like Star Wars meets Game of Thrones, with WAY more shoulder greaves.) The full version is ten bucks, but if that's too rich for your blood, give this free edition a try.

Dive into Battlefleet Gothic with the epic void battles of the Shield of Baal campaign, from Warhammer 40,000. Control the devastating fleets of the Imperial Navy and the brutal hard-hitting Space Marines to repulse the dreadful and voracious Tyranids. Use strategy to manage your warships through the Cryptus system, protect the galaxy, improve your gigantic fleets and annihilate the invader before it's too late.

WTF Game(s) Of The Week

Horse Adventure: Tale of Etria

Android Police coverage: Ubisoft's disturbing equine fetish continues with Horse Adventure: Tale of Etria

Someone at Ubisoft really loves horses, possibly to a disturbing level. This is the third horse-crazy game the publisher has released on Android, and by far the most ambitious: it's essentially a full 3D action-RPG in the vein of Zelda. But instead of combat (or, well, action), it has horses. Magic horses, mystical horses, saddles and riding clothes and tack and a billion other things to do with your horses. Oh, and also a story, maybe, and $100 in-app purchases. Just say neigh.

Join the magical world of Etria and get ready for an amazing adventure. Train and ride your horses through poetic lands to solve mysteries and help the Ancients find their Millennial Horses. The Ancients need you. The Millennial Horses have disappeared and only you can bring them back, and restore balance and peace in Etria.

  • RIDE freely in a wide magical world and through magnificent settings
  • LIVE an epic adventure full of surprises
  • CARE for your horses by stroking and grooming them
  • TRAIN your horses and develop their personality
  • CUSTOMIZE your hero and your horses with hundreds items
  • COMPETE with your friends and other players in jumping events and amazing races across Etria
  • HELP EACH OTHER OUT and visit your friends' paddock to look after their horses
  • GIFT and EXCHANGE items with your friends within the game
  • TAKE PICTURES of you and your horse anywhere in the world

MEGA MAN MOBILE

Android Police coverage: All six original Mega Man games are now on the Play Store, and yup, they're terrible

Capcom hasn't done much for Android gamers so far. But after releasing inexpensive ports of no less than six of its classic Mega Man games on the Play Store... well, it still hasn't done much. Somehow these mobile ports have performance and framerate issues on hardware 100 times more powerful than the old NES. No Bluetooth controller compatibility, no cloud saves, no Android TV support. No shame. Mega Man Mobile 1-6 is included on this list for the sake of completion only: do not spend real money on these games under any circumstances.

Play a piece of gaming history with the original Mega Man, the action-packed classic platformer. In the year 200X, six robots created by master roboticist Dr. Light are tampered with by the evil genius Dr. Wily, and go on a destructive rampage. Only one robot remains who can put a stop to Wily’s plans and restore world peace: the heroic Mega Man. The original Mega Man captivated users at the time of its release with its challenging gameplay and innovative concept of taking the weapons from your enemies, then using them to exploit weaknesses in the bad guys yet to come.

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