Mobile Games of the Week (June 22, 2017)

The best mobile games of the week, along with some old ones, await you in this edition: Dungeon Raid (a mix of Puzzle Quest and RPG), Kidu: A Relentless Quest (platforming in the best Monument Valley style) and Scribblenauts Remix (summoning objects by writing words), among other equally great games.

Dungeon Raid

Dungeon Raid is a game that will challenge your strategic skills to the max. Your mission is to trace a path through a set of matching tiles, but beware: you can be attacked by enemies that are just as fast as you. As you advance, the goal is to collect as many resources as possible, such as gold and experience. Plot a course and match tiles to gather treasure, buy and upgrade weapons, and defeat monsters in this exciting and addictive RPG. Things move fast in Dungeon Raid, so muster your courage and dive into this addictive puzzle RPG! Developed by Fireflame Games, Dungeon Raid is available on iOS and Android.

Grayout

Grayout is a prequel to Blackbar, a game about censorship in a totalitarian state of 1984. However, where Blackbar had you filling in blanks, Grayout is closer to an approximation of a condition called aphasia, a communication impairment. Here you take on the role of Alaine, a young woman who had an accident and was left paralyzed... or at least, that's what the doctors tell you. Now you must reconstruct Alaine's story by selecting the right words to advance her communication, figuring out how she got to where she is and how she can get out of there. Developed by Neven Mrgan & James Moore, Grayout is available exclusively on iOS.

Kidu: A Relentless Quest

Kidu: A Relentless Quest (Free game): Accompany Chack through five worlds and fourteen levels set in different civilizations of the planet, from the ancient Mayan civilization to Eastern culture. Kidu: A Relentless Quest is a platform game that uses your mobile device's accelerometer and your sense of perspective to solve puzzles (in the style of Monument Valley 2). Thanks to the gyroscopic function of your mobile device, Chack can run, jump, roll, and duck to discover hidden platforms and avoid traps in order to reach the treasures in each level. It's worth noting that the game adopts the freemium model on iOS (like Super Mario Run) with two free levels. Developed by INvoluntary Games, Kidu: A Relentless Quest is available on iOS and Android.

oO

oO: Without a doubt, a game that hits all the right notes for a totally addictive little arcade experience. oO is very simple: you control a point that travels around the circumference of rings. Tapping the screen takes you out of your current ring, and that's where the challenge begins. You have to travel through a series of connected rings, tapping the screen at the right moment to jump to the next ring. If you forget to press the screen, you'll end up crashing on the outside of the ring and lose automatically. There are also a series of spike obstacles that you have to avoid at all costs if you want to reach the end of each stage. Developed by Rainbow Train, oO is available on iOS and Android.

Scribblenauts Remix

The premise and promise of Scribblenauts has always been extraordinary: write any noun (a concrete noun, no proper names) in the game and the virtual object it represents will appear. If it can be used, your hero can use it. If it has a brain, it will act and interact with anything else in the world. Scribblenauts Remix offers forty levels from Scribblenauts and its sequel, Super Scribblenauts, along with ten new levels for mobile devices. The game's mechanics are based on Super Scribblenauts, allowing the use of adjectives in addition to nouns. Developed by 5th Cell along with Iron Galaxy Studios, Scribblenauts Remix is available on iOS, Android, and Amazon.