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Best android games

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11 years ago
Hi guys,

Got my first android device. What are the best games from the last ~5 years to investigate?

particulary interested in conversions of board games, turn based games, strategy.
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Liberal Crime Squad.

Turn-based: check
Strategy: check
Conversion: check
Murder: check
Mermaid: check

(also included: seduction, brainwashing, torture and jaywalking)
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How big a screen? I've played some good RTS games on my Nexus 7, but I wouldn't want to play them on something with a small screen.

Eufloria is fun as a super-simple RTS. Very slow pace, though, lots of waiting until you've built up enough seedlings for a push. Stylistically it's neat looking - with the constantly-flying stuff and the light space sky it visually reminds me a bit of homeworld (although the gameplay isn't like homeworld at all).

Swords and Soldiers I had a lot of fun with. It's a simple RTS game... not much actual "command" - you choose what units to build and cast spells to enchant them or harm foes, but you can't actually control the units. They just march forwards and attack the first enemy they see. The gameplay is actually just a 1D line where you push the front back and forth. Still, it works and it's solidly good fun.

Both are noteworthy in that most phone RTS games are simply tower-defense, whereas these games put you on even footing with the enemy who uses the same kind of army as you. Eufloria is single-player, and S&S includes a split-screen mode if your'e crazy and have a huge tablet.

I'm actually surprised we don't have Civilizations Revolutions on Android - my freaking WinPhone has it, as does my DS.

edit: 1 day left on the Humble Bundle android sale, including Carcasonne (classic Euro tile-laying boardgame). Carcasonne is fun but I haven't played the Android port yet... in general the Days of Wonder phone games are hit and miss.

https://www.humblebundle.com/
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Battle for Wesnoth is a very good game.

It is open source on PC, but costs like $5 in the app store...though I'm sure you can find it somewhere for less ;)
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Wesnoth was never a very good game, very poorly designed, relies primarily, in the long term, on effective xp distribution to level up your characters as much as possible. This means keeping your characters alive at all costs, and the randomness means reloading, over and over, every time you lose a significant character. If you don't do this you have no chance in later missions.

The randomness and leveling factors so completely dwarf the other, strategic factors that they simply don't matter.
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11 years ago
the single player is for nubs, but the multiplayer 1v1 scene is pretty fun
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Wesnoth was never a very good game, very poorly designed

Disagree.

If anything, the game-theoretic of efficiently maximizing your victory odds is very amusing.

The highly discrete and backsheet-computable amount of probabilistic influences makes for an amazing practice in applied probability theory.

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and the randomness means reloading, over and over, every time you lose a significant character

Try that in multiplayer
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11 years ago
Fair enough, I was not even aware that multiplayer was really a thing.
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