best android games to play right now

With a name like World of Goo, you wouldnt think the game would be all about building things and managing physics. All you have to do is get your goo balls into a pipe at the other side of the screen, but in order to do that, youll need to overcome each levels difficult terrain by building structureswiththose goo balls. Its like that time you had to build a bridge with popsicle sticks in science class, except gelatinous goo is much less stable. Half of the fun is in trial and error Your gooey structures will fall down in failure, but when you construct a stable bridge that spans a chasm successfully, nothing is more satisfying.

Forget the disguises, stealth kills, and handy gadgets Hitman GO trades all that in for simplistic visuals and turn based, slide puzzle like gameplay thatll definitely have you scratching your head. As Agent 47, you need to make your way to various objectives spread across each level while avoiding and eliminating guard patrols. Its all about studying your enemies movements and positioning yourself in the right place at the right time much like the stealth game that inspired it. Sound too easy for you? Try to complete level specific challenges that have you going for no kill completions, finishing in a limited number of turns, or claiming additional, heavily guarded objectives.

Fallout 4isnt in our hands yet, but Bethesda gave us Fallout Shelter to tide us over. Instead of wandering the wasteland killing monsters and bandits, Fallout Shelter puts you in charge of your own vault (with its own number and everything). You decide what goes, and how your residents live their post apocalyptic lives. Everything from the vaults layout and supply production to your populations happiness and reproduction is under your control. Theres a lot on your plate, but managing it all is one of the most engaging experiences you can get on Android. You wont be able to put it down.

Heres a twist on your standard ghost story instead of being chased by a ghost and trying desperately to escape, youplay asa ghost whos trying to scare people out of the neighborhood so you can rest in peace. Thats the idea behind Haunt the House Terrortown, the mobile sequel to the original flash gameHaunt the House. As you might expect from the title, your job is to haunt various buildings around town to scare away all the people inside, which involves possessing objects and making terrifying spectacles until those people run screaming into the night. Its a cute, simple, and fun title with adorable art and a lot of creative hauntings for you to test out.

It sure does sound romantic to take a whirlwind adventure around the globe, but somebody has to actuallyplanall that travel, y know. In the case of 80 Days, it s you as Passepartout, valet to the massively unappreciative Phileas Fogg. Gorgeous visuals and crisp writing accompany you as you try to find the best route around the world, while keeping an eye on your finances and trying not to lose any luggage. The path you take is yours to choose, as are the experiences you ll have along it. Avoid getting caught up in the brewing revolution (or dont!), chat with the mysterious redhead in the train, shop the bazaar, or just wander through the streets at night. Fogg may be the headliner, but that doesn t mean you can t have some adventures of your own.

If youre looking for a game thatll let you chill on your couch and get lost in some relaxing meditative music, Osmos is perfect for you. In it, you control a mote that gets larger as you absorb other, smaller motes while avoiding the big ones that will suck you up. Its all about using your propulsion sparingly to retain your size, because the more you guide your mote, the smaller it gets. The game modes and goals are simple, but thats the way its meant to be. When you just want to take a load off, Osmos is the way to go.

Frozen Synapse is one of the simplest turn based, tactical strategy games you can find. Your team of armed, neon green soldiers are dropped into an arena with an enemy team and sent to capture objectives or eliminate your opponents. What makes Frozen Synapse interesting is that both teams play their turns out simultaneously, so youll only succeed based on your ability to anticipate enemy movements, set up ambushes, and use reactionary tactics based on your enemys previous turn.

A science student by the name of Taylor has crash landed on an alien world, and you re his sole point of contact. Alone and afraid, he reaches out to you for advice should he try to make camp, or head for that structure he sees in the distance? Lifeline is a text adventure that plays out in real time as Taylor tries to survive freezing cold, hunger, and hostile aliens. Your advice could save his life, or doom him to a grim fate... and will probably do both, eventually, as you play through the game s many different endings. Remarkably well written, Lifeline will have you reaching for your phone to see if you have a message waiting from Taylor, or if he s still somewhere out there, comms off, trudging toward the unknown.

On paper, Super Hexagon sounds simple enough your goal is to safely navigate your cursor through a tunnel of shapes (such as, oh I dunno,hexagons). Each shape has a gap in it somewhere, and by moving your cursor into that gap, youll successfully avoid being instantly annihilated, free to continue enjoying the rockin techno soundtrack. But things start flying off the rails almost instantly. The screen shifts and tilts all over the place, colors change erratically, and the shapes start flying at you faster and faster. But hey, if it gets to be too much, you can always pick up the soundtrack separately and enjoy it stress free.

The Gotta catch em all! structure is everywhere in mobile games, but its not often that theres truly addictive gameplay to match your fiendish monster collecting. Monster Strike is an exception, with a unique and clever battle system that plays a bit like a turn based version of Tin Pin Slammer. Each monster, faery, or Three Kingdoms warrior in your squad acts like a ball on a billiards table; during your turn, you have to angle a forceful shot to try and hit enemies or nudge your own pieces to trigger devastating elemental attacks. Its easy to grasp but tough to master, as you try to perfectly line up a coup de grace trajectory to wipe out all your enemies with a single slam.