Currently Playing: April Mobile-5
Qiktionary
I can't believe I've not covered Qiktionary before now. Massive oversight! It's a great little word game! You get a word and you must try to guess the letters that comprise it. When you figure the word out, you are rewarded with a score, and an interesting fact. It's essentially Hangman with a Qi/No Such Thing As A Fish brand wrapper, but it's simple and entertaining. It's great for public transport, as it fully engages your brain but doesn't require you to keep your eyes constantly glued to the screen - so you won't miss your stop!
Infinite West
Infinite West is a cute but tough little strategy game by Ape-X. You must move your character across a Wild West style desert, murdering every outlaw you come across with knives or pistol. It's a tight, tactical TBS, which leaves no quarter; one wrong move, and you're probably going to be be dead within a few turns! I'm so thrilled to see the continued success of games in this style, which first came to popular light with the GO (Lara Croft Go, Hitman Go) series, as they are simple-looking games, but often with a great deal of depth.
Words With Friends [2]
I'm ridiculously late to the party on this one. Most people have been playing this since the dawn of time, or at least since 2009, when it came out in it's first format. But as the last person on earth without a Facebook account, I've only just come to it now. It helps me keep in contact with the people in my life when things are hectic. Everything about it is basically terrible - it's ugly, clunky, stuffed with pointless notifications, useless features and meaningless events, but it's Scrabble, and Scrabble is a good game. So...shrug. Your move.
BAIKOH
Best summed up as "A Word Game That Insults You", I am in love with BAIKOH. The game is continously changing around you, raining down new letters as well as traps and tricks designed to distract, divert or destroy your word-making plans. I love it's shifting sands of difficulty and amusing insults but I suspect it's probably a Marmite game, you're either going to get on with it, or not! It does have a Zen Mode for people who find it's antagonistic ways too stressful, but where is the fun in that?!
City 2048
City 2048 is a 2048 game with a city-building skin. It's a very similar game to Age of 2048, but to my mind, not as enjoyable. Age of 2048 was a really fun game, with one crucial flaw - it had no end-game, so I could never win! But City 2048 is a pale copy, (literally!) The tiles are washed out and difficult to distinguish from one another, and very Western-centric. It's not a true city, its a sprawling American-style suburb, and dull to look at. Further, you also only get one single "undo" powerup at a time; Age of 2048 let you stack them, which was far more useful. One undo is rarely enough to get you out of a jam!
