Five excellent games to while away the time, five unique challenges for your phone. There's a music game where you compete in piano recitals, a match-3 puzzle, and an old-school point-and-click adventure inspired by LucasArts and Sierra. How could you not play?
Bik: A Space Adventure
Inspired by the early works of LucasArts and Sierra (just think of classics like Maniac Mansion, Space Quest, and Monkey Island), Bik: A Space Adventure is a point-and-click adventure about a boy who is abducted by aliens and needs to find his way back to Earth. Throughout the adventure, you'll interact with a series of aliens, making allies to return home, and in the process save the planet from a corporate empire. It's clever, fascinating, and a wonderful trip down nostalgia lane thanks to its retro graphics. Developed by Zotnip, Bik: A Space Adventure is available on iOS and Android.
Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
Meet Niko, who wakes up to discover that monsters have made off with the delicious cake he was saving for breakfast. Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake features adorable vector art and a series of puzzles where you have to figure out how to reach the cake, collecting coins and other objects with the help of your monster friends, while avoiding the bad guys who stole the cake. It's perfectly playable in short sessions, with a difficulty curve that gradually increases to a satisfying challenge when you solve a particularly tough level. Developed by SleepNinja Games, Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is available on iOS and Android.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3jd-_s4-F0Piano City
A music game with a similar style to Harmonix, but with a piano. In Piano City (Free Game) you hit the notes when they reach the beat, but you have a much wider range of notes than the four tracks in Rock Band. It's really quite fun, with a campaign mode that includes missions along a journey, where you compete in various recitals while improving your piano skills, and a multiplayer mode to challenge your friends. Developed by Room 8 Studio, Piano City is available exclusively on iOS.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fPQHw7zrIkPlease, Don’t Touch Anything
Please, Don’t Touch Anything: If you do what the title says, you won't have a very fun experience. The idea is to touch everything as much as possible. The game takes place in a control room overlooking a city, while the usual operator goes on a bathroom break. It might not seem like much, but there are cleverly hidden puzzles around the console, as touching things in specific sequences unlocks more things to touch. This has various effects on the city (the first thing you can do is blow it up spectacularly) as well as unlocking a bunch of achievements. Developed by ForwardXP, Please, Don’t Touch Anything is available on iOS and Android.
Puzzle Forge
In a parodic RPG universe where humans, elves, and orcs coexist, you are the kingdom's blacksmith whose mission is to forge epic weapons for soldiers and heroes. Puzzle Forge (Free Game) is a match-3 puzzle game where you combine elements on the board to create various weapons and sell them to customers. You can forge a total of seventy different weapons, unlock ten heroes, and upgrade your forge with the gold earned from sales, which will help you complete the thirty-six challenges the game offers. Become the kingdom's blacksmith and discover the other side of the adventure! Developed by Tuesday Quest, Puzzle Forge is available exclusively on Android.
