Best of Android games:

[Isaac Sauvage]

A colleague of mine is moving from Reddit to the Fediverse, and beginning to post all-new content. He just published a roundup of 20 Android 'hidden gems,' and I'll copy-paste a couple of my favorites below:

(click the link for source & pics)

• Bounty Hunter Space Lizard - Ah, so delicious. It’s a fun roguelike, a bit like Pixel Dungeon, but with more condensed runs, and loads of character. As with PD, you’ll move through different stages and battle different end-bosses.
• Choppa - This is a ridiculously fun, hilarious, physics-style helicopter game in which you set out to rescue disaster survivors amidst annoying obstacles and deadly explosives. It’s got a nice leveling-up system so that you can build yourself better whirlybirds over time, and features a small but excellent collection of scenarios to try. Let’s face it, tho-- altho it’s a real challenge stringing together a series of successful rescues, it’s just as much fun getting blown up, drowned, or causing a chain-reaction of explosions, especially when carrying a survivor, who hates getting wet or covered in soot, and will endlessly berate you when that happens.
• Enyo - And here we have an absolute masterpiece, something of a chesslike game, but with all new pieces, in which you battle the enemy across a paved lava pit (which becomes progressively un-paved). It’s fortunate that your small army of enemies aren’t very bright, because you only have one piece to play with, which features a deadly grappling hook and (Captain America-style) a flingeable shield. Not only is this a highly-inventive game design, but it’s fun, and endlessly replayable.

The other 17 games are here:

20 Android 'hidden gems,' i.e. excellent, mostly free, mostly lesser-known games. - lemm.ee

<click the bolded for Play Store links, which includes pics & more info> - Asterius [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.boopsgames.asterius] - Terrific, sprawling, puzzle-ish roguelike, easy to play but with lots of secrets to discover, and a long learning curve to win. (note...

lemm.ee

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Me, I'm just finishing up Lara Croft GO, by Square Enix.

It's sort of a companion to Deus Ex GO (cyberpunk-themed) and other puzzle games in the "GO" series, but IMO Lara's got the best art & environment of them all, as she works through jungles, crypts & ancient temples to solve the levels. Seriously, it's almost hard to believe how good the game looks on my little phone's screen. Really nice with headphones plugged in, too.

 

[Jan7jf]

Thanks for the information!

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

"Tiny Tales" are a similar series, altho they're adventure-oriented, not quite the same as these linear puzzles.

I need to update this list a lot...

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

So, maybe you're a fan of escape games, but get tired of the usual 'wah-wah-wah' format of such, well there -IS- a pretty cool-ass, different way to go, i.e. the amazing ROOM series, in which one solves incredibly intricate, beautiful little work-of-art puzzles from late Victorian times. (haha, that's my best attempt to describe them, see what you think)

The Room: Old Sins - Apps on Google Play

The 4th entry in the multi-award winning ‘The Room’ puzzle game series

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Now, yes, they're paid, and IIRC, I bought the first four for ~$9.00 or so, combined!

All hail, and they really are some genius, exquisite games which make you feel like you're solving the most beautiful of old, artistic puzzles. <3

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That said, (and just for me) sometimes "The Room" puzzles felt a bit overly-elaborate, requiring the user to 'hop all around' a certain location endlessly in order to discover which little clue they might have missed. I've never been a big fan of that part.

Haha, it's a petty-bitch, yes, yet there it is!

Anyway, I'm just loving some alternatives, which tend to put *every single bit* of the action in to a single subject, i.e. a fabulously elaborate Victorian puzzle-box, which one keeps turning in their hands such as to discover all the amazing goodies, little by little. <3

Here's my working fave:

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