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The best Android games this week - Polymer, Monster Adventures, and The Voyage

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The best Android games this week - Polymer, Monster Adventures, and The Voyage

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

Polymer
By Noodlecake Games - buy on Android (54p / 99c)

Polymer

Polymer is a weird puzzle game from Pivvot man Whitaker Trebella. It's all about sliding columns and rows to form bizarre gelatinous blobs that, when tapped, give you points.

In his Silver Award review of this one, Harry said that "Polymer is a brilliant, addictive puzzler, and its blend of logic and shape building make it a game almost anyone can enjoy."

The game contains a handful of modes (mixing fast-paced reaction tests with more relaxing variants) and procedurally generated puzzle boards.

Oh, and the only in-app purchases are cosmetic changes.

Monster Adventures
By Foursaken Media - buy on Android (60p / 99c)

Monster Adventures

Foursaken Media plans to port its back catalogue of iOS games - including Heroes and Castles, Block Fortress War, and Bug Heroes 2 - to Android.

And it's starting with Pokemon-style role-playing game Monster Adventures.

It's all about nabbing monsters, delving into dungeons, and fighting off rivals critters in scrappy real-time brawls.

Reviewer Peter was cautious with his praise, saying that "running about smashing things is fun for a bit, and the experience grind loop is certainly powerful, but otherwise it's a pretty standard dungeon-crawler."

The Voyage
By Mojo Bones - buy on Android (59p / 99c)

The Voyage

The Voyage is a big bumper book of puzzles. Kind of like those ones you get in WH Smith... but with more pirates and less sudoku.

It features riddles, sliding block puzzles, memory tests, and other such brainteasers. And as you solve 'em, you unlock more of a curious narrative about some peg-leg pirate bloke and his treasure.

The game wandered off with a Bronze Award at review. I said: "The Voyage is an intriguing, vexing puzzle collection, but is let down by some less-than-enjoyable puzzles and a few unwelcome IAPs."

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