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The best Android games this week - SpinRush, The Inner World, and Super Crossfighter

Point and click and shoot and spin

The best Android games this week - SpinRush, The Inner World, and Super Crossfighter

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

SpinRush
By Lubiterum - download on Android (Free)

SpinRush

This inventive spin on Super Hexagon is all about aim, precision, and colour coordination.

You're a spaceship, orbiting around a planet. The planet is surrounded by coloured atmospheric rings, that spin in the opposite direction. When your ship and a gap in the ring line up, you need to tap to drill down and remove the coloured band.

It's easy enough at first. But then it starts to speed up, a harsh timer counts down the seconds until your demise, and you have to only attack the ring that is the same colour as your ship.

SpinRush is scrappy and rough around the edges, but it's a worthy challenge for those who like to swear at their phone or kick their stupid tablet out the window.

The Inner World
By Headup Games - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)

The Inner World

The Inner World is an imaginative world, it turns out. Asopsia - a weird hollow planet powered by the wind - is a land of tumble mice, wooloofs, deadly gorfs, and multi-coloured reptiles called Basylians.

But while the world design is utterly barmy, this point and click adventure's puzzles are far more grounded.

These are smart and tightly constructed, complicated multi-step riddles. And there are subtle hints in dialogue and description nudge you in the right direction without ever spoiling the solution.

So come for the charming presentation, stay for the clever puzzles.

Super Crossfighter
By Radiangames - buy on Android (69p / 99c)

Super Crossfighter

Okay, so this one might be a bit of a cheat. Super Crossfire had been out on Android for some time, but Radiangames was forced to pull it due to a trademark tangle with some free to play FPS you've never heard of.

(Not the first time Radiangames has been scuppered by the world of free to play).

But now it's back, under the new name Super Crossfighter. And it's a bit of a slow week, so we're counting this slick, feisty, neon-lit shmup as a new release. Sue us. Wait, don't.

Back in 2011, Chris Schilling called this gravity-flip shooter "a decent shooter retooled into something approaching a classic," and recommended you "buy with confidence". Seconded.

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