Author: Jennifer Allen / Source: reviewgeek.com
Your smartphone is effectively a portable PC, providing you with endless access to information. It’s also a great distraction tool, with thousands of games at your fingertips. If the latter sounds like more fun, here are some of our favorite time wasters.
These days, both the App Store and Google Play Store offer a wealth of different games. It’s possible to play classic games like Final Fantasy 9 or Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but it’s also possible to play recent hits like puzzle games, Monument Valley or The Room 3. Your options are vast. In many ways, you don’t actually need a “proper” games console any more to still enjoy some great games. But we’re not here for the award winning titles that you should really sit down and enjoy with a dedicated play through and focus.
Today we’re focusing on games you can dip into for a few minutes at a time. Life is busy and you might not always have the time to devote hours to a game, so these titles are all games you can experience for as long as you’re able to, all while still achieving something. They’re the perfect distraction from life’s demands and they don’t require lengthy play sessions. Here are seven of the best time wasters out there.
Universal Paperclips (Android/iOS, $2)
Universal Paperclips is pretty ugly to look at, but despite that it’s astonishingly compelling. As dumb as it sounds, you play an AI who wants to create a massive and ridiculously oversized paperclip empire. Previously successful in browser form, this is one of the ultimate time wasters out there.
Effectively, it’s a form of mathematical simulator. You have to learn to make paperclips as fast as possible, figuring out how to streamline the process and make things more efficient. It sounds incredibly tedious but it’s oddly addictive because you’re never far from another improvement that will increase your productivity. When you’re up against everything in life, it’s satisfying to feel like you’ve achieved something in the space of seconds through your smartphone. Dubious as to whether or not such a game could entice you? It sucked us in hard when it first came out. So hard, in fact, we even wrote up an article here on Review Geek just about Universal Paperclips. Originally just a web-based delight, it’s now available for both Android and iOS.
2048 (Android/iOS, Free)
Previously a browser based game (and still available in that form), 2048 is a simple yet addictive numbers game for Android and iOS. You want a game that is delightfully simply but offers a chance to zone out and focus on one goal? This is it.
The idea is simple enough—swipe to move tiles across and when two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one, thereby doubling. To win the game, you have to create 2048 from your numbers. In reality, you’ll rarely manage to achieve that but it’s great fun to work towards. There are always high scores to chase anyhow, if not the big prize of “winning”. Because of the relaxed paced nature of the game, you can play through it as quickly or as slowly as you like, meaning it’s great for dipping…
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