On vacation, in the plane, on the train, sometimes you just don’t
have mobile internet on your phone and you find that many of the
features and functions, including apps, become useless! Thankfully, the
Play Store is full of games that will help you get through these boring
moments that life sometimes presents to us. Here are some of the best
games that can work offline and at any point in time when there are no
data bars to be seen.
Knights of Pen and Paper +1
Indie game Festival award winner Knights of Pen and Paper is a
pixelated role playing game bearing heavy similarity to your classic
Dungeons and Dragons type dice game (hence the title). You control a
group young kids playing a dungeon crawling tabletop game, with each of
their personalities mimicking one of a cast of traditional RPG
characters, and while the characters remain at the table in the
foreground, the background changes as you journey through a fantasy
land, fighting monsters, finding loot and levelling up. It’s a really
sweet idea, playing an RPG of people playing an RPG, and the +1 version
has been updated to add even more content to an already brilliant game.
Check it out.
Sorcery! 2
Continuing the fantasy themed game, Sorcery! 2 is a cross between a
“choose your own adventure” storybook, and a role-playing game. You play
as a knight traversing the landscape where your progress is largely
governed by your answers to questions. Do you risk entering the festival
of thieves, or turn back? There is a lot of reading involved, arguably
more so than gameplay, but the turn-based combat system keeps things
fun. The interface is lovely, as is the medieval art-style, and it
features a clever save system to let you effectively “rewind time”,
letting you change answers if you get yourself into trouble. Definitely
worth a look.
Shadowrun Returns
A favorite among the Humble Bundle squad, Shadowrun Returns is, yes,
another award-winning turn-based fantasy RPG. (I'm just full of them
today!) With a murky cyberpunk setting, amazing 3D graphics, and
featuring a huge array of weapons, spells and abilities, Shadowrun
Returns is about as polished a gaming experience as you are likely to
find on Android. It’s a murder mystery set in a futuristic Seattle city
with an incredible amount of depth, including hacking mechanics,
shooting, spell-casting and more. Shadowrun Returns is possibly one of
the best games currently on Android, offline or otherwise.
World of Goo
Ahhh World of Goo. Brilliantly designed, imaginative, clever -
despite being a few years old now, this physics-based puzzle game still
holds up and is one of the finest games in the Play Store. Similar to
the Sega Mega Drive classic “Lemmings”, your job is to guide a group of
creatures to the end of a level without killing too many of them in the
process. The challenge comes from trying to navigate through the levels,
working out how best to avoid traps and obstructions, and this is also
what makes the game so satisfying. Successfully completing each stage
genuinely feels like a personal victory, not just success you have
achieved because you paid for an in-app item. The combination of the
colorful visuals, gorgeous music and fantastic gameplay makes this a
must-have game.
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