It's been a particularly great week for Android games.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android (£2.49 / $3.99)
Artful indie adventure Monument Valley is all about toying with architectural puzzles and twisting them to find new pathways for wandering princess Ida - even if those paths should be completely impossible.
Because whatever you see from your isometric perspective becomes reality. Even if two platforms are metres apart, they become one contiguous walkway if you can twist them in such a way that they look like they've lined up.
It's inspired by Escher paintings, and each screen looks like a painting in its own right. And Monument Valley is consistently surprising you with inventive and ingenious twists on its clever mechanic.
Tiny Dice Dungeon
By Kongregate - download on Android (Free)
There's an element of randomness to any RPG. This game takes it to a whole new level, though, by having you simply roll dice to determine your attack power.
But there's more to it than that. Tiny Dice Dungeon has a clever mechanic about pushing your luck, where you can keep rolling dice to boost your attack power but you run the risk of landing a '1' (which causes you to miss the enemy entirely).
There's also a meta-game where you fix your demolished town and you can catch a team of allied monsters to help you fight.
JoyJoy
By Radiangames - buy on Android (£1.49 / $1.99)
JoyJoy is a game about blasting the butts off of rampaging enemy dots in a furiously tense fight to the death. But it looks and sounds like a pleasant relaxation DVD. It's odd.
It's a nice little twin-stick shmup, though, with a whole bevy of difficulty settings and control modes to satisfy everyone from Geometry Warsgreenhorns to Robotron veterans.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android (£2.49 / $3.99)
Artful indie adventure Monument Valley is all about toying with architectural puzzles and twisting them to find new pathways for wandering princess Ida - even if those paths should be completely impossible.
Because whatever you see from your isometric perspective becomes reality. Even if two platforms are metres apart, they become one contiguous walkway if you can twist them in such a way that they look like they've lined up.
It's inspired by Escher paintings, and each screen looks like a painting in its own right. And Monument Valley is consistently surprising you with inventive and ingenious twists on its clever mechanic.
Tiny Dice Dungeon
By Kongregate - download on Android (Free)
There's an element of randomness to any RPG. This game takes it to a whole new level, though, by having you simply roll dice to determine your attack power.
But there's more to it than that. Tiny Dice Dungeon has a clever mechanic about pushing your luck, where you can keep rolling dice to boost your attack power but you run the risk of landing a '1' (which causes you to miss the enemy entirely).
There's also a meta-game where you fix your demolished town and you can catch a team of allied monsters to help you fight.
JoyJoy
By Radiangames - buy on Android (£1.49 / $1.99)
JoyJoy is a game about blasting the butts off of rampaging enemy dots in a furiously tense fight to the death. But it looks and sounds like a pleasant relaxation DVD. It's odd.
It's a nice little twin-stick shmup, though, with a whole bevy of difficulty settings and control modes to satisfy everyone from Geometry Warsgreenhorns to Robotron veterans.
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