5. Pac-Man 256
The Pac-Man formula hasn’t aged one bit. You, your father, your little sister and even your grandmother probably love some pellet munching across all game consoles. Old school arcade fans who played the game back in the day know about the infamous Level 256 glitch. Pac-Man 256 adopts that arcade cabinet error and brings it to life in a new endless runner mobile game. The devs behind Crossy Road challenged us to keep Pac-Man alive, munch on pellets, pick up fruits and steer clear of a dangerous set of glitches. We never thought we’d sweat so furiously at the sight of some multicolored numbers and letters. Plenty of gamers (including us) had a ton of fun with this trippy take on Pac-Man’s maze traversal formula.
4. Lara Croft GO
For the retro Tomb Raider fans out there, this mobile puzzler provided you all with the Lara Croft of old. Lara Croft GO took gamers back into the lush jungles and magma filled caverns seen in the 1st line of Tomb Raider entries. Only this time, it placed everyone’s favorite treasure hunter on a top-down plane as she had to carefully move around all types of dangerous hazards. It felt great to solve stage puzzles and not get harmed by one enemy, plus we enjoyed figuring out how to cut down each boss we encountered. The lush visuals will pull you in and the amazing gameplay will keep you. We’re totally down for a sequel, Square Enix!
3. You Must Build A Boat
This pick on our list is the perfect mashup of match-three puzzlers and RPG’s. You Must Build A Boat is pretty self-explanatory when it comes to it’s concept – you start off on a small boat with only two other passengers. In order to build a much larger ship, you have to run into dungeons and pick up the supplies needed to do so. When it comes time to defeat the monsters that step in your path, the match-three puzzle gameplay pops up. Most of the fun from this game comes from getting big match combos to pull off big damage dealing attacks and successfully crafting the finest boat to ever sail the high digital seas. We’re still adding more shipmates, gear and monsters to our boat, so we’ll keep enjoying this game well into 2016.
Download You Must Build A Boat here.
2. Downwell
Traveling down a well doesn’t sound too exciting, right? Well, traveling down that well with a pair of Gunboots on sounds way more fun! Downwell is the ultimate twitch shooter that offers up incredibly fun procedurally generated stages. We got a heavy Mega Man mixed with Metroid vibe from this retro-stylized shooter. Downwell threw gamers into 8-bit caverns that were jam packed with all types of creatures, power ups and hidden locations filled with useful goodies. This shooter made us travel deeper and deeper into the proverbial foxhole, which is something we never thought we’d do in a mobile game like this. Blasting baddies with boots that emit lasers is just one of the many awesome activities Downwell allows everyone to do.
1. Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter completely caught us by surprise. When it became public at E3 2015, plenty of gamers had their reservations about a mobile Fallout game. But when it finally reached the iOS/Android games storefront and we downloaded it, all of our fears were dashed away. This building simulator gave us the tough task of maintaining our own vault. That task involved keeping our vault dwellers happy, taking down invading raiders and sending out our strongest denizens to pick up some much needed supplies. The continuous updates given to this game have made it even better since release. Fallout Shelter is the perfect post-apocalyptic SimCity we never thought we wanted until now.
Download Fallout Shelter here.
