20 Best Android Games January 2017

The Holidays are mostly over and now we’re left with the cold of winter. The best thing to do while you’re snowed in is cozy up with your phone or tablet and play some games. The last month was great for new game releases. We’ve got over 20 excellent games for you to check out while you avoid shoveling the driveway. And for those of you in warm climates, don’t rub it in.

Bully Anniversary Edition

Catch the Bus

Has it ever happened to you that you are so eager to get home but you’re on the other side of the street and the only bus you can take has just departed from the stop? In this case, there is only one thing you can do: RUN! And it’s not gonna be easy

Color Glide

Glide colorful blocks across the screen and create new and beautiful colors. Challenge your brain to beat the par, which can be challenging, even on the most simplistic puzzles. Enjoy the beautiful and atmospheric design unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Colt Express


This game is based on the famous train robbery board game. Plot your scheme step by step and dive into the action to loot the wagons. But watch out, you are not the only Most Wanted Man with the intention to become rich today. You might have to rethink your strategy.


Conduct THIS!

Conduct THIS! Is an addictive game of explosive railway action that will challenge your inner conductor. With incredibly simple controls, you race against time to bring passengers safely to their destination by commanding trains, switching tracks and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action-puzzles.


Creature Battle Lab


Enter the world of Creature Battle Lab and experience mad science and crazy fun. Study with Professor Helix and discover the art of genetic creature splicing. Mix up molecules and experiment with DNA to create the ultimate team of fearsome/cute/weird battling creatures.


Cubway

 

Guide the cube through the long way full of dangers and difficulties, visit many interesting and mysterious places. Mechanics of the game are concentrated around different types of interaction with the obstacles.

 

 

Dawn of Titans

 

 

Dawn of Titans boasts the “best graphics on mobile.” Capture enemy lands, grow your army, and come to fight, because in Dawn of Titans you either go big or go home. Join your friends and play for free in the most massive action strategy game on Android.

 

 

Defend Your Turf Street Fight

 

 

In a small town somewhere on earth, a bunch of guys dressed in blue hate another bunch of guys dressed in red. Use your brain as well as your fingers to guide red to absolute victory. You’ll need skill, you’ll need cunning. You’ll need to drop cars on people’s heads.

 

 

Hero Generations

 

 

Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Hero Generations is simple yet deep: 4X Strategy on the individual level. Each turn is a meaningful choice, without the tedious micromanagement.

 

 

Hop Hop Hop Underwater

 

 

 

The latest addictive game from Ketchapp is Hop Hop Hop Underwater. Hop above and under the water. Avoid dangerous monsters and eat mushrooms. Unlock more than 40 funny skins.

 

 

Legends of Callasia

 

 

The Great Callasian War rages across the lands. Choose a faction and awaken the legendary heroes to lead your armies and destroy enemy forces! Build cities, conquer kingdoms, and form or break alliances on tabletop-style maps with bonus cards that can turn the tide of battle.

 

 

Oceanhorn

 

 

 

Explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles, and secrets. Fight monsters, learn to use magic and discover ancient treasures which will help you on your quest. Use all your wits and skill to unravel the mysteries of ancient kingdom Arcadia and sea monster Oceanhorn

 

 

Retro City Rampage DX

 

 

Retro City Rampage reimagines the open-world crime genre like it’s 1989! Rampage the city, steal cars, or play over 60 story mode missions. This remastered pop culture send-up features a full Story Mode of open world missions, along with Arcade Challenges for quick pick-up-and-play action.

 

 

Retro Winter Sports 1986

 

 

Do you remember the good old home computer sports games? Relive your youth in this beautiful pixelated remake of the evergreens. Participate in the 1986 winter sports tournament and compete against other world-class athletes for international recognition

 

 

Shadow Bug

 

 

You are the overpowered ninja hero Shadow Bug! Save your home forest from the evil factory by slicing monsters to pieces. Become the ultimate ninja and adventure through beautiful and twisted landscapes full of action and adventure.


Symmetria

Symmetria is a fast-paced puzzle game about symmetry. A simple yet challenging exercise for perfectionist minds. Symmetria was made to render that strange, yet universal satisfaction that produces symmetry as an elegant, challenging and simple game.


TIME LOCKER

Insanely fun arcade game where when you stop, so does time. The speed of time in the game is controlled by the speed of your finger. Play with lots of different characters, all with different abilities, and see how long you can survive in a world with lots of different types of animals that all move differently.


Tower of the Wizard

The mad Wizard in his tower has sent his minions to terrorize the countryside. With the army away in foreign lands, a lone stranger enters the Wizard’s tower to end his menace. You play as a lone adventurer who seeks to put an end to the threat of the mad wizard.


Gunjack 2

Transporting you to the dangerous Outer Ring of New Eden, Gunjack 2: End of Shift is the sequel to the critically acclaimed and best-selling VR shooter set in the EVE universe.


Layers of Fear Solitude

Completely redesigned for an optimal VR experience, the player takes on the first person perspective of a psychologically disturbed painter trying to complete his magnum opus while battling ghastly visions and a crumbling psyche.


Need for Speed No Limits

Feel the ultimate thrill when you’re strapped into the driver’s seat, exploring a dynamic environment and launching yourself into an unparalleled, visceral ride. Choose your car, choose your track, and enter a new realm of white-knuckle racing reality.

 

Underworld Overlord

 

 

Underworld Overlord is an immersive and deep VR game made from the ground up exclusively for Daydream. As a newly-undead Lich, protect your dungeon realm from brazen adventurers who attempt to rob your treasures and slay your precious monsters.

 

How Fallout 3 Saved my Life

 

Jett discusses how Fallout 3 helped him emerge from a depression instigated by an alcoholic father and incessant bullying at school.

How Video Games Saved me From Drugs

Kyle discusses how video games helped him overcome his addicting to painkillers and heroin.

The 7 Best Video Games of 2016

From the fiendish classic that tests your sausage-cooking skills to the summer of Jigglypuffs and a return to first world war battlefields, here are 2016’s best video games

1 Uncharted 4
(Naughty Dog; PlayStation 4)

In some ways, the fourth title in Naughty Dog’s wildly successful action adventure series looks like the archetypal join-the-dots sequel. We’re still following roguish Nathan Drake as he scours the planet for ancient artefacts. We’re still solving simple environmental puzzles and shooting the bad guys. And the script still plunders just about every cliche it can from the Indiana Jones films.

 

But that’s only part of the story. This wonderfully entertaining game is effectively about marriage – or, more accurately, the things we have to learn about ourselves to maintain long-term relationships.

 

Nathan lies to his partner Elena and leans heavily on his friend Sully, but has to learn to be less selfish and irresponsible – a lesson made all the more urgent and poignant by the arrival of his troubled brother, Sam.

 

That a big popcorn blockbuster is exploring these themes so engagingly and movingly is a testament to how this medium has matured over the last five years.

 

Meanwhile, we also get everything we want from a lavish big-budget game: astonishing visuals, imaginative locations and some truly thrilling set pieces – the Madagascan marketplace scene is a classic. Even if you don’t fall for the love story, you’ll fall for the well-paced, well-engineered action – and if the ending doesn’t get you right in the gut, you’re not human.

 

2 Pokémon Go
(Niantic Inc; 3DS, iOS, Android)

 

Sure, many players tired of this slight, stripped-down Pokémon adventure after the first glorious fortnight. But its brilliance lay in how it used augmented reality and location-based technology to captivate not just early-adopter geeks, but whole families. Wandering through towns and parks looking for Jigglypuffs and Caterpies, meeting other players and exchanging tips, proved one of the highlights of the summer. For many of us still, no walk is complete without it.

 

3 Firewatch
(Campo Santo; PC, PS4, Xbox One) 

 

With beautiful visuals and a haunting story of personal discovery, Firewatch was one of the year’s most fascinating experimental titles. Lead character Henry has escaped a difficult life to watch for fires in the Wyoming wilderness, but while he’s investigating odd events in the woods, the real focus of the narrative is his relationship with radio operator Delilah. Using the conventions of an open-world adventure, developer Campo Santo produces something much more haunting, unusual and important

 

4 Inside
(Playdead; PC, PS4, Xbox One)

 

Danish developer Playdead attracted massive critical acclaim in 2010 for its moody, monochrome adventure Limbo. This spiritual successor is, if anything, even more sombre and impressive, set in a dark, Orwellian dystopia where people are mere cogs in an unknowable machine – that is, until one small boy makes a dramatic bid for escape. Employing the mechanics of a 2D platformer, Inside is something much more profound, offering a thoughtful fable as well as a diverting challenge.

 

5 Stardew Valley
(ConcernedApe; PC)

 

Part farming sim, part role-playing adventure, Stardew Valley was the surprise indie hit of the year, offering charm, wit and a beautiful little world. Created by lone coder Eric Barone, it’s an exploration of, and alternative to, the Harvest Moon series, allowing the player free rein to set up a farm, pursue relationships, and take on quests as the seasons pass in a flood of colour and whimsy.

 

6 Dark Souls 3
(FromSoftware; PS4, Xbox One)

 

Set in the same gloomy, hostile universe as its predecessors, the third title in FromSoftware’s uncompromising trilogy offers a new combat mechanic, a gruesome menagerie of enemies and a fresh, trap-laden environment to stumble, slay and suffer through. What still impresses about this series is the purity and steadfastness of its vision – in a world where big games now more or less handhold you through the entire campaign, Dark Souls 3 treats its players as equals, a considerable compliment

 

7 Battlefield 1
(EA Dice, PC, PS4, Xbox One)

 

Publisher Electronic Arts released two brilliant first-person shooters this autumn, but the latest Battlefield title just manages to eclipse the masterful sci-fi blaster Titanfall 2, while rival Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare got lost in space. This took us back to the grit, panic and mechanical monstrosity of the first world war. In such a setting, the expertly balanced weapons, extraordinary vehicles and detailed destructible environments make every battle feel like a bruising cinematic epic.

 

 

PlayStation Live Events App Being Discontinued on PS4 and PS3

DualShockers reports that the Live Events Viewer app will be discontinued in North America on January 10 for PS4 and PS3. This doesn't mean a whole lot for PS4 users, as they can still buy live events from the PlayStation Store instead of the Live Events Viewer app. This also begins on January 10.

It's not the same situation on PS3. There is no replacement on that aging system, so you're out of luck.

The Live Events Viewer app, which launched in 2013 on PS3 and a year later for PS4, lets users watch free and paid live content, among other programming.

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