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The best Android games this week - TriBlaster, Lost Yeti, and God of Light

Vectors, Yetis, and mirrors

The best Android games this week - TriBlaster, Lost Yeti, and God of Light

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

TriBlaster
By Bulkypix - buy on Android (74p / 99c)

TriBlaster

TriBlaster is a decidedly retro shooter, with hints of Atari's trippy shmup Tempest and that wave of wireframe arcade games whose designers appeared to forget to add any graphics.

You're a triangle, and you tumble from lane to lane to shoot incoming bad guys. Dead enemies drop gems, which can power your deadly laser beam of concentrated death.

There are 100 levels to complete, high scores to chase, and achievements to find. If you reckon games aren't like what they were and remember a time when graphics were optional, check TriBlaster out.

God of Light
By Playmous - download on Android (Free)

God of Light

Every level of God of Light starts in complete darkness.

This means that getting your beam of light to the goal isn't your only challenge: first, you need to find exactly where the goal is hiding.

When you've done that, you can start bouncing the light off mirrors, split your beam into two, activate portals, bend your beam around tiny planetoids, and toy with coloured light.

We gave the iOS edition a Bronze Award. We called it "a fun casual puzzler with some novel concepts, let down by an uneven difficulty curve and unnecessary IAPs."

Lost Yeti
By Nuetronized - download on Android (Free)

Lost Yeti

Lost Yeti has you manipulating an icy landscape to help a tubby Abominable Snowman walk home.

You need to shift ice cubes to make paths, match star blocks to make them disappear, avoid traps, re-route enemies away from your Yeti pal, and melt nuisance glaciers.

It's all wrapped up in a cute chunky pixel-art style and boasts a fun bleepy bloody chiptune soundtrack. Here's what Harry had to say when the game debuted on iOS earlier in the year:

"Lost Yeti is a well-put-together, occasionally challenging puzzler with a neat art style and a clever central hook. It's unlikely you'll lose much sleep over it, but it'll definitely keep you entertained, and smiling, while you're in its company."

Mark Brown
Mark Brown
Mark Brown is editor at large of Pocket Gamer