If you watch Nickelodeon’s Game Shakers, you should be familiar with Sky Whale, the game that the two schoolgirls made for their school project. Sky Whale proved to be popular in the show, so much so that there’s now a real mobile game based on it available for the iOS and Android, and it’s a good one too.
Minions Paradise is a town builder game courtesy of EA, who is no stranger to these kinds of titles. Here, the Minions are on a cruise when Phil accidentally sinks the ship and they get stuck on an island where they the idea to open a resort. This is the set up where you play the resort / base / city / town building game, and it’s actually a pretty cool one.
Fallout Shelter from Bethesda will have you assuming the role of the Overseer, whose task is to manage the vaults / fallout shelters that were built to protect people following a nuclear explosion. As such your goal is to make sure those in the shelter are happy and survive, and it’s quite a task.
Happy Wheels from Jim Bonacci is a physics-based game, and like most titles in this genre it revolves around a simple concept – moving your character on a Segway, but because of the physics, this simple activity becomes quite a task. There are 15 levels and while that may not seem like a lot, it’s going to take a while to finish.
Kitty City – Cat Food Ninja from TabTale takes a page out of the popular cutting and slicing games and adds a bit of twist to it. Your goal is to rescue all the kittens, and the more you slice and dice the more of these kitties you’ll be able to save. If you can collect all the kittens you win the game and while it sounds easy enough, but it’s addictive.
Sometimes games don’t need to be complex to be fun, and Mmm Fingers from Noddlecake Games certainly fits the bill. Here you just move your finger across the screen of your mobile device and try to keep it from getting chopped off. Yes, the game doesn’t sound too complicated and it isn’t, and that’s part of the charm.
Fun Run 2 is the sequel to the original smash hit and the game publisher, DirtyBit , has added a lot of new levels, more characters and essentially made this multiplayer game even more fun. With Fun Run 2 you get all the features you enjoyed in the original game, plus a few more goodies have been thrown in.
Dumb Ways to Die 2 by Metro Trains Melbourne Pty Ltd is the follow up to the original hit, and now it’s even more enjoyable as it comes with several mini games that require quick thinking and action. While it’s a lot of fun and humorous, the message, that you need to be careful, isn’t lost.
At first glance, Retry from Rovio looks like a Flappy Bird game, but while there are some similarities, it stands out on its own. In this physics based game your objective is to fly a plane from start to finish, and as you might expect it isn’t going to be easy. However, it’s still a lot of fun.
