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The best Android game this week - Skullduggery!

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The best Android game this week - Skullduggery!
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Platformers can work on mobile. League of Evil and Mikey Shorts are proof of that. But you can't call them a perfect fit when they're so much happier on a console with a controller.

But you know what does work on mobile? Angry Birds. Firing a slingshot into a bird's bum to send it flying across the screen has a springy, tactile feel that works perfectly on touchscreen.

And that's why Skullduggery! works so well. It borrows the catapult mechanic from Rovio, and uses it to control a character in an adventurous platformer.

That character being a lopped-off skull, which you move about by pinging its exposed brain like an elastic band. This fires it across the screen, often into enemies or over obstacles or away from giant screen-sized nasties.

Skullduggery

It's more than just a good control scheme, though. Skullduggery! has a charming retro sensibility with loads of hidden rooms and crazy boss fights and a tough-but-fair difficulty curve.

I called it "a terrific little game for iOS, with an ingenious control scheme that nicks a mechanic from a casual game and applies it to a tricky, exacting, hardcore platformer" when I reviewed the iOS edition last year.

But you don't even need to trust a corrupt, colluding journalist like me as the game is free to play on Android. Though, not in a crappy evil way. Get it from Google Play here.

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