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The Broken Sword games are brilliant: engrossing adventures that have navigated the path from PC to mobile with aplomb. Social aspects and extra features added over time have made this an enduringly-fun game to keep on your homescreen. Photograph: PR Band Stars (Free + IAP)įancy yourself as a music mogul? Band Stars gets you to form a band and take them to success, hiring and firing members as you go, upgrading their skills and recording hits. Great for stretching your grey cells for a few minutes every day, and tracking your progress over time.īand Stars for Android.
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It finally came to Android in 2014, with its accessible collection of mini-games intact. Lumosity is a popular brain-training game – well, a suite of games really – which claims 60m players already on the web and iOS. But once you're sucked in, it's nearly impossible to put down. It sounds simple: swipe number tiles to make matches, adding 1s and 2s together to make 3s, then adding those.

However, only Threes! could rival it this year for just-one-more-go addiction. Threes! (£1.20)įlappy Bird isn't available any more, so I've left it out of this roundup. It's a faithful conversion of the classic sci-fi game, as you fend off an alien invasion with careful tactics rather than unrestrained shooting.

It may seem expensive by app standards, but if you love your strategy games, you'll get plenty of gameplay-per-quid out of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It gets you to guide a colourful collection of characters to freedom using a glowing staff: a neon-infused delight. Kiwanuka sat alongside Monument Valley as a lovely puzzler for Android this year, although the gameplay takes its cues from different sources: Lemmings, for example. Like those, this is a freemium game: you have to build an island base and invade those of other players, with a military theme and plenty of potential for strategic planning. Photograph: PR Boom Beach (Free + IAP)īoom Beach is the third game from Supercell, the developer that has enjoyed huge success with its Clash of Clans and Hay Day games. Superb animation makes this a treat.īoom Beach for Android. He stars in this virtual pet-style game where you train his skills through trampolining, balloon-popping and ninja-basketball. Clumsy Ninja (Free + IAP)Įasily the best character to make his debut on Android in 2014 is Clumsy Ninja: "the most hapless ninja ever to grace a touchscreen" according to developer NaturalMotion. Again, it's a gripping adventure game pitting you against the undead hordes, with one episode available to play for free, and others sold in-game. The Walking Dead: Season Two (Free + IAP)īlazed through the first season of The Walking Dead? Head straight into season two, which was released a few months after the first one. One episode is free, with more available to buy in-app. Developer Telltale Games' take on the zombie apocalypse has won widespread acclaim, and for good reason: it doesn't skimp on plot or characterisation, and will give you the shivers if played at night.
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The Walking Dead: marvellous as a TV show, but just as good as an adventure game.

The Walking Dead: Season One (Free + IAP) “A physical puzzler, wrapped in a mystery game, inside a beautifully tactile 3D world,” as its developer put it, this is a well-crafted collection of puzzles challenging your logic skills. If you've not played the original The Room, it's well worth a look, but its sequel took the game on a notch or two.
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It's a surreal shape-shifting game that involves guiding a mysterious princess through a series of impossible-architecture levels. Starting with one of those beautiful puzzlers: Monument Valley sold 500,000 copies in its first month on iOS before making the leap to Android. One final note: if you're more interested in iOS, read the separate 40 best iPhone and iPad games from 2014 (so far) feature. Please do pile in to the comments section to tell me why I shouldn't have included X or should have included Y: your recommendations for great games from 2014 are more than welcome.
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IAP means a game includes in-app purchases of some kind: from virtual items and currency being sold through to single-purchase unlocks for full games.īy definition, this kind of selection is personal, shaped by this journalist's taste in games. Prices are correct at the time of writing (9 July) but bear in mind they may have changed if you're reading it even a few days later.
