If you were wondering what the best reviewed Android games and apps on the web last month were, here’s the Android Quality Index (Qi) round-up for August to fill you in.
The Android Quality Index boasts over 200,000 scores from the world’s best websites, such as Life of Android, Pocket Gamer, and IGN, and uses a unique metric to create a single definitive score for each Android title.
Here are August 2013’s top selections…
Qi Top 10 Android games August 2013
GAME NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 rymdkapsel grapefrukt games 8.8
2 Battle Dragons Spacetime Games 8.7
3 Asphalt 8: Airborne Gameloft 8.6
4 Dots: A Game About Connecting Playdots 8.6
5 A Ride into the Mountains Chia-Yu Chen 8.5
6 Super Mega Worm Deceased Pixel 8.4
7 Drisk (Droid Risk) Brian DeWolff 8.4
8 Kunundrum Hope This Works Games 8.2
9 Slice HD twitchgames 8.0
10 Gurk III, the 8-bit RPG Larva Labs 7.7
Qi Top 10 Android apps August 2013
APP NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Duolingo: Learn Languages Free Duolingo 9.5
2 Fairy Field Wallpaper Tall Mouse Games 9.5
3 Press (RSS Reader) TwentyFive Squares 9.3
4 DU Battery Saver PRO & Widgets DU Apps Studio 9.3
5 SOS – Stay Safe! iXtentia 9.1
6 Screen Speaker Music Wallpaper SetTrueFalse 9.1
7 Flowpaper Diatom Studio 9.0
8 DU Battery Saver & Widgets DU Apps Studio 8.9
9 The Nebulander Gauli 8.9
10 StackNotes StackNotes 8.6
(N.B. The monthly games chart is based on titles released and reviewed in the last month. The apps chart is based on titles reviewed over the last three months. Hence, this is not a cumulative chart and earlier released titles may have higher scores.)
At the top of August’s Android Qi game chart is rymdkapsel, which is far easier to recommend than it is to spell. It’s also a beautifully patient strategy game – not that its wilfully abstract presentation would tip you off to the fact. Gameloft had a thoroughly triumphant August, with Asphalt 8: Airborne taking the #3 slot. With its blend of ludicrous arcade racing thrills and impressive 3D spills, it’s easy to see why. Just behind that comes Dots: A Game About Connecting. The game’s moniker simultaneously describes and undersells this game’s charms. Yes, you’re connecting coloured dots, but you’re doing so in a super-slick and incredibly more-ish way. Finally, A Ride into the Mountains wins our vote as the most beautiful game on the list. It’s a physics-based shooter of sorts, but the unique way your horse-riding archer looks and moves through this retro-arty landscape lifts it to another level.
Duolingo: Learn Languages Free tops the August Android Qi app chart… mainly through its dev’s novel approach to learning a new language. Not only is this gamified app completely free, but it’s also remarkably fun and memorable. In fifth place, SOS – Stay Safe! provides an interesting security tool aimed at women. It sends out frequent location-tracking SOS emails and texts to friends and family when you shake your device a certain way. Down at #7, meanwhile, Flowpaper enables you to make beautiful swirling light trail images with your fingertips, which is ideal for producing your own personalised home screen backgrounds. Finally, the creator of DU Battery Saver & Widgets promises to provide 50 percent more battery life for your Android device. Can it keep it, though?