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The best Android Games this week - Mage Gauntlet, The Nightmare Cooperative, and more

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The best Android Games this week - Mage Gauntlet, The Nightmare Cooperative, and more

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

Mage Gauntlet
By Rocketcat Games - Buy on Android £1.11 / $1.99

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You can already play Platinum Award-winning roguelike Wayward Souls on Android, but now you can pick up its predecessor the Silver Award-winning Mage Gauntlet as well.

It's a sharp-edged retro dungeon crawler that sees you hacking and slashing your way through a fantasy world. There's a rich vein of humour running through the game as well, although it lacks the depth of its more illustrious progeny.

When we reviewed the iOS version we said "simple but well-tuned fighting gameplay, combined with some great humour, make Mage Gauntlet worth conjuring onto your iPhone."

The Nightmare Cooperative
By Lucky Frame - Buy on Android £2.49 / $3.99

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A Gold Award-winning roguelike that's not afraid to play around with the genre, The Nightmare Cooperative is a fun and fraught adventure that borrows ideas from a rich variety of different sources.

The game sees you plunging into a variety of dungeons in order to steal loot. But your band of thieves moves at the same time, so every swipe and direction change can have terrible side effects.

At review we called the game "an excellent, sleek, mobile-friendly roguelike smashed into a slide-based puzzler, with a smattering of clever gameplay mechanics, all beautifully polished."

Beach Buggy Racing
By Vector Unit – Download on Android

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The sequel to the Bronze Award-winning Beach Buggy Blitz is a polished and impressive racer that sees you speeding through a series of different challenges.

It's better looking than its predecessor, and while it is free to play, there's never a huge pressure to throw some cash at the game, at least not in the first couple of hours anyway.

It might be another riff on the Mario Kart model, but it all slots together nicely, and the tilt controls are smooth and responsive.

You can keep an eye on how Peter Willington is getting on with the game in our seven day review by clicking here.

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.