To start off, Boom Beach. You are a general and you have a base on a tropical island. Your job is to free the natives on other islands from the evil soldiers. As you level up you can build more sophisticated buildings in your base, and use more sophisticated troops and weapons. Thre are different missions to play on different days of the week, and you can organise cooperative missions with the other members of your task force. There are also occasional special missions to keep your interest. It's a fun game, easy to learn, no annoying ads, it doesn't ask you for money constantly, and it's not too time-consuming. It's also a beautiful game. It has nice music and I like the animals that live on and around my island.
Next 1010! A simple game, but good for passing a few minutes. You have different shapes to fit onto a board. When you fill a whole row or column it vanishes. Think of it as Tetris without gravity. You lose when you can't fit a shape onto your board. It doesn't have the most sophisticated look, and it does have an annoying habit of playing you an ad when you lose, but nevermind.
Next Atomas. This one is a little difficult to explain. Like 1010! you have different atoms to fit onto a board and you lose when you run out of space for any more. You make space on your board by combining atoms together to make heavier atoms. Ok, it's not how nuclear fusion works, but it's a good way to learn elements' names and atomic numbers, so I guess it counts as educational. Maybe. It's a simple game, but if you're paying attention a game can last a surprisingly long time, though you can leave a game and pick up where you left off later.
Pokemon Go! This game was a surprise hit. Nobody expected it to be as big as it was. Like previous Pokemon games, you catch monsters, level them up, and battle them against each other. What makes this game different to the previous versions is that it's played in the real world. You find Pokemon, not by exploring a virtual world, but by walking around in the real world with the app open on your phone. Yes, you're right, it is very battery-draining. The game has gone through several changes since its release and has a few extra features, but the general idea remains the same. They keep you interested by jiggling the algorithms a bit, altering the odds of certain Pokemon turning up, and have special events where you can catch rare Pokemon. It's good fun to see and catch Pokemon out in the real world. After all, didn't we all want to be Pokemon trainers as kids?
And finally, Tap Tap Fish. Build your own virtual acquarium! Collect vitality, plants different plants and coral and acquire new fish and sea creatures! I think there are other games in the Tap Tap series, but this is the only one I've tried. It's a beautiful game. I'm very fond of my little acquarium, and it's really helped me learn the names of the fish. Hurrah! My mine gripe with it is that a lot of the special event fish are very silly. Like ghost fish for Hallowe'en and picnic basket fish for spring and stuff. I don't collect them.
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