The 5 best games for your phone

Published Dec 1, 2015

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Looking for a little distraction? Need to pass the time? Brett Phipps has some game suggestions for your phone.

Alphabear

Alphabear is the adorable yet challenging game in which players are simply required to make words from tiles of letters on a board. Sounds like a simple game of Scrabble, but the catch is each letter has a limited number of turns for it to be used before it turns to stone, affecting future turns, and your ability to create a larger board, and thus, a bigger bear at the end of the game.

Daily challenges and dozens of bears with different stat boosts make this more than a game you play for a few train journeys. Alphabear is a great time for those who enjoy word games.

Hex FRVR

Think of Tetris without the falling pieces and taking place on a hexagonal board and you have Hex FRVR. This is a fiendishly-difficult puzzler that’s incredibly easy to pick up, but to get the high scores takes time and careful planning.

Much like many of the games on this list, Hex FRVR scratches that “one more turn” itch that’ll keep you coming back way more than you originally planned to when you booted up the app.

Temple Run 2

For a quick dash for a few minutes on the trip to work, Temple Run 2 is a great little game. Also, it’s the only game on the list that lets you play as Bruce Lee. By jumping, ducking and dodging obstacles, the objective is to make it as far as you can in this endless runner. Unfortunately, the better you get at it, the longer you’ll be playing it, so you soon may need to start taking the scenic route to the office.

Crossy Road

An update of the classic Frogger, only with an all-star line-up of different animals and people, Crossy Road is a wonderful, if addictive, endless runner. The game rewards you for returning to it with coins to unlock new characters, which is always a good reason to jump back in and try to dodge the swathes of traffic.

Fallout Shelter

Bethesda produced a quite brilliant vault-management sim in Fallout Shelter. Starting with just a few rooms and inhabitants, you’ll soon be expanding your dwelling with generator rooms, labs, gyms and welcoming new Vault dwellers whom you can watch interact with each other during their stay. Also, eventually, some couples will form and further add to your flock.

Training your team for the outside, post-apocalyptic world will keep you playing for hours on end. – The Independent

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