The best Android games this week - Jet Car Stunts 2, Endless Doves, The Last Door

Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.

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There are moments in Jet Car Stunts 2 during which you realise you're going to crash into something very hard, and it's funny.

You laugh because you're driving a frickin' sports car that's being pushed through the air by a jet engine. It's ridiculous. The damn thing has air brakes, little flaps that rise up when you push a button as if the car is a wannabe Transformer.

You also laugh as, if you don't, you'll probably cry. Jet Car Stunts 2 is tough. It challenges you to handle a car around the bends of sky tracks. It also wants you to fly a car through hoops suspended the air.

But that's its best asset... eventually. It being hard forces you to be better, to play tracks over and over. It's enjoyable in its absurdity, but also in how it has you master that absurdity.

Not many things feel better than smashing your time on a track that you've replayed 20 times.

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If you're looking for a game that's not quite as punishing and demanding as Jet Car Stunts 2, you're in the wrong place.

Endless Doves is even harder sometimes. I can guarantee that you'll crash many more times at least.

You have to tap either side of the screen to direct the flight of a bird-person. The problem is that you can only influence them in arcs, rather than straight lines.

When you're trying to fly through cramped spaces this becomes a big problem.

But it's alright because you collect doves that fly alongside you. Eventually you'll collect enough doves to unlock chickens, and other birds, and then flying creatures that aren't birds at all.

The procedurally generated levels mean you could play this forever. You won't, but you could, and it's engaging enough while it holds your interest.

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Finally, something a little slower-paced. Ah, but it's spooky, so don't expect it to come lightly.

The Last Door: Collector's Edition contains the four episodes of the series's first season. It has you wandering around a dark mansion quite a bit, nervously, expecting something bad to happen.

It's a horror game but not one of the typical jump-scare variety. We're talking Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Victorian London, and big creepy pixels.

It also uses the point-and-click format, meaning that you have plenty of time to scan dark corners as you look for clues.

There are puzzles to solve, but they fall together quite neatly, so you shouldn't get stuck too much.

And even if you do get stuck, it just means you have more time to become unsettled by the game's haunting sounds.

This is the kind of horror game that stays with you, festering in your mind, especially when you're trying to sleep at night.