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The best Android games this week - Wayward Souls, Leo's Fortune, Star Realms

Die for gold and spaceships

The best Android games this week - Wayward Souls, Leo's Fortune, Star Realms

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

Wayward Souls
By RocketCat Games - buy on Android (£2.73 / $4.99)

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Put simply, Wayward Souls is one of the best mobile games ever made. It's a super-hard retro slasher that sees you traversing crumbling dungeons and monster-riddled towers.

You battle a variety of fiends, grab loot and new powers, and spend an awful lot of the time on the brink of death. And then you die, and start all over again.

There's a sharp roguelike edge to proceedings, with permadeath, randomly generated dungeons, and huge bosses that take concentration and skill to defeat.

It's an epic, intelligent war of attrition and experience, a rare Platinum Award-winner, and a worthy addition to any Android game collection.

Leo's Fortune
By 1337 & Senri - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)

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A game about guiding a podgy Russian fur-ball through a series of puzzling physics-enabled levels. You expand to jump, and need to push, prod, and twist lumps of scenery to get through.

The game looks stunning, with rich, detailed backdrops and a cast of interesting looking characters. It's clever as well, playing around with the limitations of touchscreen platforming with aplomb.

There are levels on trains, in dank caves, and in industrial stretches complete with cranes and clocks.

There's a lot of game to enjoy in Leo's Fortune, and while it has its problems, it's definitely worth exploring if you're a fan of platforming, moustaches, or gold.

Star Realms
By White Wizard Games - download on Android (free)

A deck-building card game with a space age twist, Star Realms is full of big, bright ideas. And spaceships. Lots and lots of spacehsips.

You need to build a fleet of super-powered attack craft every time you start to play. There's a single player mode as well as asynchronous online and pass-and-play multiplayer.

There are some clever additions that set Star Realms apart from other games in the genre. Chief amongst them is the slightly chaotic random nature of play. You don't know what cards you're going to get until you've got them.

If you like your deckbuilders fast and furious, and dependant on luck as well as strategy, then you're going to love Star Realms.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.