Sorcery!
By inkle - buy on Android
Not content with simply recreating a gamebook on your Android, Inkle turned Steve Jackson's Sorcery! into a lavish 3D world, with gorgeous interface design and terrific paper cut-outs during battles.
The Room 2
By Fireproof Games - buy on Android
The Room was one of the best games on Android: a claustrophobic puzzler that had you pawing at a disgustingly gorgeous 3D cube. This sequel is just as good, but it's bigger, longer, and more challenging.
Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage
By Nitrome - buy on Android
Never content to stick to just one idea, Nitrome's Icebreaker has you chopping up glaciers, slicing ropes, getting stuck in troll snot, and messing with giant physics-based contraptions.
Card City Nights
By Ludosity - buy on Android
Ittle Dew developer Ludosity combines absurd humour with a smart new card battling mechanic for this funny game.
Kiwanuka
By CMA Megacorp - buy on Android
A weird physics puzzler about building human bridges from your band of survivors, so you can hop between floating rocks and reach safety. Weird, but oh so good.
Threes!
By Sirvo - buy on Android
No game this year has sapped as much time and productivity as Sirvo's compulsive number-crunching time-sink. It's still my go-to game when I need to kill a few minutes or hours or days.
VVVVVV
By Terry Cavanagh - buy on Android
Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh took his time when porting his nutso-hard, retro-styled, gravity-flip platformer VVVVVV to touchscreens. It was worth the wait.
LYNE
By Thomas Bowker - buy on Android
This elegant puzzler has you tracing your finger to link up nodes of the same shape. A graceful difficulty curve will gradually ramp up the challenge and introduce new concepts without overwhelming you.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android)
We knew this atmospheric puzzler was destined for greatness ever since we first laid eyes on it at Eurogamer Expo last year.
Shadow Blade
By Crescent Moon Games - buy on Android
Shadow Blade was a surprise. It's a little rough around the edges, and it's trying to be a speed-run platformer on a device that's really not suited to such a thing. But it works, and it works really well.
Walking Dead: Season 2 (Episode 2: A House Divided)
By Telltale - download for free on Android
Telltale took a huge risk in The Walking Dead's second season, by breaking up the relationship that made season one so deeply engrossing. But it worked, albeit briefly, when episode two won a Gold Award.
Doug dug.
By The Electric Toy Company - buy on Android
A charming, retro-inspired mining game that I honestly haven't played.
Only One
By Ernest Szoka - download for free on Android
A feisty fighting game, inspired by the final scene in Jet Li movie, The One. Knocking little pixelated people off a giant tower is a pure delight.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
By SEGA - download for free on Android
We don't get Mario Kart on Android, and Angry Birds Go! isn't an appropriate stand-in. But Sega's mascot racer does an admirable job of giving us a goofy cartoon kart racer on mobile.
Fighting Fantasy: Starship Traveller
By Tin Man Games - buy on Android
More gamebook love, now. This one, re-created by Tin Man Games from the 1984 book of the same name, takes us into space with a Star Trek-inspired romp through the cosmos.
Out There
By Mi Clos Studio - buy on Android
A feisty little space survival game, that has you managing resources and yapping to aliens, and then getting your finger lopped off in some dodgy machinery.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
By 2K - buy on Android
It's a game of two halves. You've got tense turn-based battles against aliens. Then, back at base, you've got to build your base, set up a satellite network, and protect every country from alien attack. It's hard to know which half is hardest.
Worm Run
By Golden Ruby Games - buy on Android
A cracking little game about out-running a rampaging worm, using a handful of clever gesture-driven controls.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
By Rockstar Games - buy on Android
The fact that one of the PlayStation 2's biggest and most impressive games can now work on your phone is pretty incredible.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf (Act 2: Forest Hunt)
By Bulkypix - buy on Android
This swish gamebook turns into an impressive 3D role-playing game when you enter into battles. The debut act was brilliant, and Act 2 doesn't falter.
By inkle - buy on Android
Not content with simply recreating a gamebook on your Android, Inkle turned Steve Jackson's Sorcery! into a lavish 3D world, with gorgeous interface design and terrific paper cut-outs during battles.
The Room 2
By Fireproof Games - buy on Android
The Room was one of the best games on Android: a claustrophobic puzzler that had you pawing at a disgustingly gorgeous 3D cube. This sequel is just as good, but it's bigger, longer, and more challenging.
Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage
By Nitrome - buy on Android
Never content to stick to just one idea, Nitrome's Icebreaker has you chopping up glaciers, slicing ropes, getting stuck in troll snot, and messing with giant physics-based contraptions.
Card City Nights
By Ludosity - buy on Android
Ittle Dew developer Ludosity combines absurd humour with a smart new card battling mechanic for this funny game.
Kiwanuka
By CMA Megacorp - buy on Android
A weird physics puzzler about building human bridges from your band of survivors, so you can hop between floating rocks and reach safety. Weird, but oh so good.
Threes!
By Sirvo - buy on Android
No game this year has sapped as much time and productivity as Sirvo's compulsive number-crunching time-sink. It's still my go-to game when I need to kill a few minutes or hours or days.
VVVVVV
By Terry Cavanagh - buy on Android
Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh took his time when porting his nutso-hard, retro-styled, gravity-flip platformer VVVVVV to touchscreens. It was worth the wait.
LYNE
By Thomas Bowker - buy on Android
This elegant puzzler has you tracing your finger to link up nodes of the same shape. A graceful difficulty curve will gradually ramp up the challenge and introduce new concepts without overwhelming you.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android)
We knew this atmospheric puzzler was destined for greatness ever since we first laid eyes on it at Eurogamer Expo last year.
Shadow Blade
By Crescent Moon Games - buy on Android
Shadow Blade was a surprise. It's a little rough around the edges, and it's trying to be a speed-run platformer on a device that's really not suited to such a thing. But it works, and it works really well.
Walking Dead: Season 2 (Episode 2: A House Divided)
By Telltale - download for free on Android
Telltale took a huge risk in The Walking Dead's second season, by breaking up the relationship that made season one so deeply engrossing. But it worked, albeit briefly, when episode two won a Gold Award.
Doug dug.
By The Electric Toy Company - buy on Android
A charming, retro-inspired mining game that I honestly haven't played.
Only One
By Ernest Szoka - download for free on Android
A feisty fighting game, inspired by the final scene in Jet Li movie, The One. Knocking little pixelated people off a giant tower is a pure delight.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
By SEGA - download for free on Android
We don't get Mario Kart on Android, and Angry Birds Go! isn't an appropriate stand-in. But Sega's mascot racer does an admirable job of giving us a goofy cartoon kart racer on mobile.
Fighting Fantasy: Starship Traveller
By Tin Man Games - buy on Android
More gamebook love, now. This one, re-created by Tin Man Games from the 1984 book of the same name, takes us into space with a Star Trek-inspired romp through the cosmos.
Out There
By Mi Clos Studio - buy on Android
A feisty little space survival game, that has you managing resources and yapping to aliens, and then getting your finger lopped off in some dodgy machinery.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
By 2K - buy on Android
It's a game of two halves. You've got tense turn-based battles against aliens. Then, back at base, you've got to build your base, set up a satellite network, and protect every country from alien attack. It's hard to know which half is hardest.
Worm Run
By Golden Ruby Games - buy on Android
A cracking little game about out-running a rampaging worm, using a handful of clever gesture-driven controls.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
By Rockstar Games - buy on Android
The fact that one of the PlayStation 2's biggest and most impressive games can now work on your phone is pretty incredible.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf (Act 2: Forest Hunt)
By Bulkypix - buy on Android
This swish gamebook turns into an impressive 3D role-playing game when you enter into battles. The debut act was brilliant, and Act 2 doesn't falter.
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