Award-winning Tiny Token Empires lets you match-three and conquer the world on Android
The empire strikes gold
The old saying 'better late than never' is particularly poignant when applied to the millennia of recorded human history.
With this in mind, it's forgivable that the Pocket Gamer Silver Award-winning Tiny Token Empires would find its way to Google Play almost two years after it first planted its flag in the App Store.
In the quirky and humorous strategy puzzler, you're given the chance to take control of Rome, Carthage, Greece, Egypt, or Persia as you battle against the others for some old world supremacy.
Carthago delenda estLooking a lot like Risk, Stratego, or perhaps even Settlers of Catan, Tiny Token Empires actually plays a lot closer to casual match-three puzzlers like Bejeweled.
Like most strategy games, players must build and mobilise armies in a bid to conquer nearby territories. Should they run across a rival empire's army, however, the game switches into a full-on puzzle mode to bring the conflict to an end on a 9x9 grid.
If this sounds like the sort of game you've been waiting for, you can purchase Tiny Token Empires from Google Play for $4.99 / £2.99.
