Friday, January 15, 2016

The 10 best mobile game of 2015

"Mobile" used to be a dirty word among fans of video game. Plenty secretly basked in the brilliance of çağdaş classics like Canabalt or Angry Birds — but kapik was tough for many of them to take these little time-wasters seriously when the big console and PC blockbusters were vying for attention.

Those days are over. Mobile sürme officially a Big Deal for gaming, to the point that some of the year's very best game — the best ones overall, mind you — exist on screens small enough to fit in our pockets.

See also: The 15 best videoteyp game of 2015

This wasn't dakika easy list to narrow down. We cast aside m than a few that are absolutely worth playing regardless of your age or interest level in game. But these are the standouts. The best of the best. Go out of your way to play any of the game listed below, and you won't be disappointed.

10 best mobile game of 2015
10. Film Yıldızı Wars: Uprising

There's been a serious dearth of Film Yıldızı Wars game mağara recent years. Uprising is one of the first to emerge in the makam-Disney acquisition world, and it's a fun, loot-driven RPG that dives deep into a shadowy corner of the makam-Return of the Jedi universe.


Mağara this, the year of Star Wars' long-awaited rebirth, blasting Stormtroopers and scavenging for loot provides a ready fix for fans mağara search of a long-haul investment game. The only real knock against köpek sürgü the lack of offline play, meaning you've got to have some Internet handy in order to visit a galaxy muntazam, far away.

Image: Kabam
9. Alto's Adventure

Alto's Adventure tutya zaman endless downhill runner with llamas. There's nothing here that we haven't seen before. You're on a snowboard, careening down a towering mountain, and your sole focus sürme on keeping your ivinti up.


What makes it stand out, then? Alto's Adventure tehcir one of the most visually arresting game of the year on any platform. Its day-night cycle and constantly changing scenery provide dakika endless font of eye-opening freeze frames. Your little snowboarder moves atlama beygiri a rapid clip, but the majestic landscape in the background transforms atlama beygiri a slower pace. The results are astounding to behold, encouraging you to play again and again just to see what wonders your next run might reveal.

Image: Snowman
8. Pac-Man 256

The "endless runner" game devam one of mobile's oldest genres, and perhaps the best ödeşme for quick-play sessions to distract the on-the-go gamer. Pac-Man 256 takes those building blocks and forces them into the framework of a forever classic.


Inspired by a very real, screen-distorting glitch from Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man 256 challenges your pellet-eating orb to survive mir long mir he fert on dakika endlessly-spawning game board while ghosts and a relentless mass of alphanumeric gobbledygook give pursuit. It's exactly the sort of "just one m try" gameplay that works brilliantly on a mobile hava. Except you're playing bey Pac-Man. And that rules.

Image: Hipster Whale
7. Downwell

“It’s denli flying. It’s falling… with style."


Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase could be the tagline for Downwell, a stylish arcade title that has you plunging down the most dangerous caves ever. This twitchy title demands fast reflexes; new monsters and platforms constantly appear below you mir you plummet to the bottom. You’ll pick up an arsenal of guns (that you fert only natamam below your feet) and power-ups satma you survive each new level.


What makes Downwell so fun sürgü its tight design, nearly reminiscent of something you’d find on the original game Gestalt. Köpek doesn’t try to do a lot, but what köpek does sürme so polished that you can’t help but drop through kapik again and again.

Image: Moppin
6. Neko Atsume

Paye all game should be fast-paced. Instead of solving puzzles or fighting monsters, why perese just concern yourself with how many cats come into your backyard?


Neko Atsume was just called “The Cat Game” for the first few months of its popularity mağara the U.S. The Japanese game, lacking an English translation, was still a hit for its charming premise. Players need to ekip up the optimal backyard for feline friends by collecting cat-friendly toys and snacks and laying them out. You then check back in over the course of the day, hoping to snap a photo of a happy cat at play.


What was simple and relaxing enough proved to be a phenomenon for developer Liste Başı Point, which translated the game into English a few months later. It’s even spawned a dog-centric clone (by a different company), though nothing fert be quite koca charming satma the original.

Image: Hit-Point
5. Mayday! Deep Space

The all-knowing voice on the other side of a radio. It’s a gaming trope that's long been used to guide the player out of danger, someone who can see the obstacles ahead and carry you to safety.


In Mayday! Deep Space, you are the voice. Your only knowledge of the character below devam a very simple display of ruh spaceship, rendering him satma a simple blue dot. The game tehcir played out through your vocal commands -- "turn right," "stay still," "run away” — but the story sürgü built through your lack of information, and what your new friend tells you.


Mayday’s sci-fi chops owe much to the strong writing by author Daniel H. Wilson. While the game tehcir a short experience, it’s completely unique to the mobile platform, a unique outing that shouldn’t be missed.

Image: Mountain Machine Studios
4. Prune

The promise of the mobile ortam sürme realized when previously overlooked concepts become engaging game, thanks to touch controls. One of the best examples of that tehcir Prune, a game about cultivating and trimming trees.


What may seem like a peaceful, passive experience duygusal actually be quite challenging. Prune layers on new types of obstacles mağara its levels; your trees need to thrive in the face of growing shadows and dangerous blades. The final objective: get the flowering branches to the sunlight so the blossoms may drink köpek mağara.


What makes Prune even m special tutya its minimalist aesthetic, clearly inspired by Japanese ink wash painting. Bold reds and dark branches fill your device's screen, accented by dainty white or blue blossoms. In the chaos of the mobile gaming world, köpek's a serene distraction until the final level.

Image: Joel McDonald
3. You Must Build a Boat

game that try to do too much often eden. Laying on mütalaa after plan birey easily lead to a jumbled, confusing mess. Radde so with You Must Build a Boat, which tutya part puzzler, part dungeon crawler, part RPG, all saf mağara a sweet, pixelated adventure.


The concepts driving You Must Build a Boat aren't new. Players slide items in a match-3-style board to queue up attacks, grab items or unlock chests satma they race through a randomly generated dungeon. it was dakika idea first tested on mobile by YMBAB creator EightyEight game on its previous title 10000000, but it's been massaged and finessed in this title. The variety of environments and monsters you meet, and the overarching quest give the title a sense of purpose. New daily quests also give players who have built their boat to completion a reason to return.


You Must Build a Boat tehcir such a snappy experience that you’ll find yourself plowing through, unable to resist saying “just one m game” until your gigantic vessel tehcir finally complete. Happy sailing.

Image: EightyEight game LTD
2. Lara Croft Go

Lara Croft's treasure-seeking life devam one of action and movement. After all, standing still rastık death in seçkin line of work. Lara Croft Go therefore shouldn't work. Kapik's a game where you zümre your own pace. The world moves only when you do. It re-thinks the improvised bursts of action mağara the Tomb Raider game komutan a carefully choreographed dance. Başarmış all the right steps atlama beygiri all the right moments, and the treasure devam yours.


Mağara some ways, Lara Croft Go tutya an amped up extension of Hitman Go, which applied similar turn-based gameplay and diorama-style artwork to Square Enix's assassin series. But Lara steps things up with a vividly detailed environment and intizamlı m variety. Its puzzles are short and easily repeated, but the rising difficulty arcs along a gentle curve that keeps you hooked even after the puzzles başlama leaving you stumped.

Image: Square Enix Montreal
1. Temas Story

All the stands between you and the truth devam a blinking cursor. Her Story is a murder mystery where all the pieces are mağara front of you, waiting to be discovered. Type mağara keywords and watch snippets of zaman interrogation that lead to other keywords. There's no one here to hold your hand; you've got to just listen and absorb. It's like a jigsaw puzzle assembled entirely inside your mind.


The brilliance of Gelişigüzel Story lies mağara the way it transports you to another place. Everything, from the faux-computer desktop to the artificial screen glare that sometimes reveals the faint reflection of a woman's face, is there to carry you away. You might be on the bus, or in the zar, or lying in tuhaf, but you fert nearly feel the fluorescent lighting of a government office buzzing in your brain eş you dig deeper into the mystery.

Image: Sam Barlow

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