Best fresh Android games to download in August
Update: Elder Scrolls: Legends, Team Guardian and The Vengeance of Shinobi added
Android has an awful lot of games, and each month fresh ones are released. Knowing which ones are any good can be tricky. So we’ve put together a list of the best games that we’ve been playing – we’re only adding two or three each month to ensure that only games we’ve played make it onto the list. This month we’ve added Elder Scrolls: Legends, Team Guardian and The Vengeance of Shinobi.
August
Elder Scrolls: Legends
The fresh Elder Scrolls: Legends has ultimately arrived on Android phones as of last week. If you’re familiar with Magic: The Gathering or Hearthstone, this is a game much like those. This card battle game permits you to play offensively or defensively, depending on your style, thanks to having numerous lanes.
The game is effortless to learn, but very strategic, so it can take a long time to become truly good at it. If you have patience for a card battle game and you’re a fan of the franchise lore, this is a must-have title.
The Vengeance of Shinobi
Whether you’re nostalgic for the SEGA era or a fighting game fan, you’ll love this game. You’ll advance through stages, and of course, rescue your fiancee. A little romance in a ninja game can’t hurt, after all. Whether or not you’re a fan of the console game, you’ll find yourself caught up in the story and gameplay quickly.
If you’ve grown too used to the practice of playing on a console, or you’re into games with more modern graphics that take your breath away, this may not be the game for you. It’s charming in a retro sort of way, and a excellent way to waste some time.
Team Guardian
Have you ever wished to be a hero? This is a heroic fantasy game, with medieval elements like stories of magic, castles and other typical elements of the genre, that permits you to fight with your character. If medieval fantasy happens to be your thing, this is a excellent choice.
It’s not a game you can pick up quickly, as it’s a bit complicated and takes a while to get used to. But, it’s a pleasant game to play and offers several types of gameplay, like PVP for competitive players. The graphics are a bit ordinary, even childlike, but still provide a nice practice.
Sonic the Hedgehog
As part of Sega Forever, the collection of classic games recently released on smartphones, Sonic the Hedgehog is making a comeback. This time around, you can expect the same classic gameplay as the original, but with a mighty dose of nostalgia. You’ve got two little on-screen joysticks to work with, and perhaps remarkably, it’s not frustrating to play on a phone.
Sonic and the other games released with Sega Forever come with online leaderboards and cloud saves as part of their modern makeover. The game is free to play, but the ads are a bit annoying. You can get an ad-free practice for $1.99.
Turretz
For fans of arcade games, this one’s a winner. Turretz provides you with a space battle that’s reminiscent of the style and graphics of Galaga. The object of the game is to protect your planet by using turrets to defend it. You actually stir the planet around to dodge enemies, and as you shoot them, you rack up money to buy more weapons.
The gameplay is ordinary and the controls are effortless to get the dangle of, which is good, as you’re dumped straight into battle after only a minimal tutorial. It’s activity packed and you’ll need to think strategically to do well. The game is free and offers in-app purchases.
Angry Birds Evolution
Over a dozen Angry Birds games have been released, each with a fairly unique take on the franchise. Some involve racing, some involve Starlet Wars, and now we’ve got an entirely different practice in the latest release: Angry Birds Evolution. It’s just as ridiculous as all the others, and that’s what makes it wacky and joy.
If you’re impatient to penalize some pigs, you’ll find yourself in luck here, as the game leaps straight into battle and is effortless to get the drape of. The difficulty level increases over time, and you can level up your growing gang of birds as you go along. You just point your bird, and it shoots off and bounces around the combat zone like a pinball. The game is free and offers in-app purchases.
Asphalt Street Storm Racing
Are you a speed pervert? The fresh Asphalt game just launched by Gameloft is the greatest racing game of the moment, and it concentrates on the wild world of haul racing. You can drive across several cities, like Paris, Fresh York and Hong Kong. And for a challenge, you’re faced with brutal weather events, like rain and snow storms.
The single player mode is joy, but multiplayer is much more thrilling. You can go up against up to three other players at once. In Asphalt Street Storm Racing you can bet pink slips to win your opponents cars in haul races, and amass a little collection of your own dearest cars.
The graphics in this title make the act come to life, thanks in particular to the light reflections. The details in the cities are so well done that it makes you almost want to slow down to take a closer look, but the races are just too much joy to do that!
Pokémon Magikarp Leap
As you can imagine, this game is for Pokémon fans. We leave aside the escapade of Pokémon GO and the many Pokémon available there to hunt, and we concentrate on Magikarp, the most worthless Pokémon. Fans of tamagotchis could well find something here that they like.
The purpose is indeed to evolve your Pokémon by taking care of it. Training will be part of your daily routine and this may be a problem for some, especially Pokémon fans who want to see many Pokémon everywhere, not just the worst in history.
At very first glance, we might think that this game is aimed at children as the graphics are ordinary: light colors, joy drawings and so on. This does not stop it from being pretty enough to attract youthful and old, whether fans of Pokémon or fans of tamagotchi.
Galaxy on Fire three Manticore
This is for all the sci-fi fans and wannabe spaceship pilots. You feel a bit like the resistance in the Death Starlet attack, but the difference here is that you are not fighting for such a noble cause: you are a mercenary in a world where chaos is king.
While the screenplay is a bit bleak, in the end that doesn’t matter, as the game is entertaining and free. One drawback: piloting is fairly difficult, so it takes a lot of time (and patience) to get used to. If you want to download the game, recall to connect by Wi-Fi because the game is at least one GB.
The environment is relatively dark (as it’s set in space) so playing in a very sunny environment may not give the best results. Nevertheless, you will love the graphics when you are able to see their utter potential. It’s beautiful, it’s quick, it’s fluid and it’s exactly what one expects from a game of this type.
Blessed Portions
Glad Portions is like the classic tic tac toe, with a twist. Two eight-year-old twins came up with this game in a restaurant, and it’s indeed something. The very first thing they’ve switched is that the nine squares are split into sections: two, three or up to eight, depending on the difficulty level you’re after. When it’s your turn, you mark one of these areas with your color, and the objective is still to get three adjacent areas in a row to connect. For example, you get one point if you can make the left sides of three in a row your color.
So far so good, right? But, it gets more difficult: both players are able to spin each of the nine squares. Now it’s truly rough, as all of the effort that went into making a triple chain can be gone with just a twist.
You can play in single player mode or multiplayer mode. It’s not possible to have more than two players, which is a little sad. The game is free, but there are ads.
Glad Portions / © Screenshots: ANDROIDPIT Blessed Portions
Tempest
RPGs, or role playing games, are often set in fantasy worlds, and Tempest finds its home in a swashbuckling pirate world. In this open world RPG, you fight against other pirates on the high seas, fulfill orders and work your way up to better ships and a better squad. The very complicated game gives you an overview of the most significant functions in the very first few minutes. If you’ve ever desired to captain a pirate ship or play a role playing game with good graphics, this is a sure bet.
Tempest costs $7.99, which isn’t exactly cheap. There aren’t any ads or in-app purchases, tho’.
Blue Edge
Do you choose an endless runner or pre-made levels? You can have both with Blue Edge. In principle, the game is fairly ordinary: you guide a ball through a path utter of obstacles that would cause it to shatter. The objective is, naturally, to make it as far as you can. In arcade mode, Blue Edge is an endless runner, while the story mode is a joy.
Having joy with the app is free, but you’ll have to suffer the ads.
Blue Edge / © Screenshot: ANDROIDPIT Blue Edge
Lumino City
Lumino City is a game with indeed incredible graphics. It is now on Android, whereas before it was only on Mac, Windows and iOS. The story revolves around a little female called Lumi, who is attempting to find her grandfather. The game environment is an intricate city painstakingly crafted by paper and scissors. This alone should have taken the developers three years. The graphics take the paper aesthetic and unique depth of field and run with it, providing the Lumino City a distinct look. The puzzles and riddles aren’t always effortless, but they’re manageable.
The gameplay lasts about ten hours, and it’ll cost you $Four.99. It’s undoubtedly worthwhile for fans of puzzles and riddles.
Lumino City / © Screenshots: ANDROIDPIT Lumino City
April
Super Mario Run
Originally available only on iOS, Super Mario Run only arrived on Android very recently. Fans of the good old plumber in overalls will be delighted to find Nintendo’s big starlet back in act.
