We've got some great games to enjoy on your Android devices this month – and from battling ads to travelling through irradiated wastelands, you're sure to find something you'll love. Read on to find out what our Agents have been playing this month!
Ad Destroyer
Palm Trees Productions
Free
If you hate ads on your smartphone, Ad Destroyer might be either the best or worst thing you'll ever download!
Rather than being an ad blocker or some other useful type of application, Ad Destroyer is a game which literally bombards you with adverts! Fortunately, the ads you'll see are all satirical ones crafted especially for the game – and won't open websites if you accidentally tap on one.
The aim of the game is to remove as many ads as possible within the time limit by tapping on the X in the corner of each advert. What makes this game challenging is the speed at which new ads pop up, usually obscuring the ad below and making it harder to close the ones already open! If that isn't the dictionary definition of frustration, I don't know what is.
If you enjoy Ad Destroyer, you'll probably also enjoy the extra game mode, which is unlocked by signing in to the game with your Google account. Once you've chosen which Google address you'll be using, you'll be able to access the 'Real Ad Mode', which mixes real ads in with the satirical ones and increases the difficulty by quite a bit! Not only will you get a much harder experience, but the ads you see will help pay the developers for their work on this fantastic free game.
Download it today and see how long you can cope with being bombarded with ads on your Android.
Day R
tltGames
Free (Pro version £3.89)
Set in a post-nuclear fallout Russia, Day R is a largely text-based survival adventure in which you must travel the continent piecing together your erratic memories and tracking down your missing wife and daughter.
You'll have to manage your health while you travel, as the water is often dirty and food is scarce. Decisions will be hard to make at times, and you won't always know the best route to take, or which of your gear to keep and which to abandon.
With an interface reminiscent of the first two Fallout games, the game plays like a cross between Day Z and Oregon Trail – yet feels totally unique with over 2,500 cities and towns to visit and even more quests to discover.
More than that, you'll find a comprensive crafting system to repurpose the items you pick up on your travels and repair the broken tools and weapons you'll find scattered around Russia. For a text-based game, I was blown away by how much content this actually includes!
There are two versions of the game available: the regular free version and a 'pro' version, which starts you off with some in-game currency, no ads and a 20% discount on items. You'll also be able to set many more map markers in a wider variety of colours, so you can more easily remember where you're supposed to be going and mark off points of interest to return to.
I'd recommend starting off with the free version to get a feel for the game, then purchasing the full version if you're going to invest some time into the game – although there's nothing stopping you from playing through with just the free version, if that's your preference.
One Touch Drawing
Ecapyc Inc.
Free
One Touch Drawing is a puzzle game which appears simple at first – but will soon have you tugging at your hair in frustration.
As the name implies, the aim of the game is to draw the simple line drawings on the screen yourself, but all in one long line, and without drawing over bits you've already filled in.
This may sound easy, and for the first few levels it can give that impression. But once you get deeper into the gameplay you'll find it gets much harder, with increasingly difficult challenges to baffle your brain with.
The trick to succeeding at One Touch Drawing is to switch up your starting point regularly, as only one of the potential starting points is the correct one. Your starting point is usually also the finishing point – but don't let that trick you into thinking it will always be the case! Sometimes a level can be deceptive and look similar to one you've solved previously, but even a tiny change to the drawing can mean a totally different method to solve the puzzle.
If logic puzzles are what get you out of bed every morning, One Touch Drawing is definitely a game worth installing.
Fast like a Fox
Fingersoft
Free
We've recommended 'endless runner' games in the past – and although the fundamentals are the same across most, there's always something unique that grabs our attention and makes playing them feel somehow different to the others we've played.
Fast Like a Fox also follows this formula, but breaks the rules in a totally unexpected way: you can tap the front or the back of your phone to control your character! Your character – the titular fox – runs at the pace you set by tapping your fingers. You can slow your rhythm to slow the fox, or tap faster to speed up the game and jump larger gaps.
Many games in this genre require you to obscure the screen with your hand as you tap – which can mean missing coins, gems and other items because they're under your fingers. But Fast Like a Fox uses stability sensors inside your phone to detect when your phone is being tapped – which means a tap on the back of your phone is recognised in the same way a tap on the screen would. This frees up the screen for you to enjoy the lush, colourful graphics which attracted me to the game in the first place – and they really are gorgeous.
There are plenty of levels to play through in a variety of scenery – from forests, valleys and temples to lava caves, cities and even ones set in space! There are also three character models to choose from: the Fox, the Golden Fox and a secret character (which may or may nor be a rooster) which you can unlock as you play through this fun little time-filling game.
Definitely one to install if you're looking for a casual, attractive game about wildlife and gold coins.
That's it for this month's roundup of the best Android games – but if there's something you love that we've missed out, why not share it with our readers in the comments below? And for more great articles from our Agents straight to your inbox each month, get your name down below for the Geek Squad newsletter!