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 October 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 October 2013’s top selections…
Qi Top 10 Android games October 2013
GAME NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Reaper Hexage 9.4
2 Empire Crazy Monkey Studios 8.7
3 Dumb Ways to Die Metro Trains 8.6
4 Fist of Awesome I Fight Bears 8.5
5 Perplexicon Greenrift Software 8.5
6 Orborun Bulkypix 8.5
7 Greed for Glory: War Strategy Perblue 8.5
8 Deer Hunter 2014 Glu Mobile 8.4
9 Qvoid Gavina Games 8.4
10 Real Steel World Robot Boxing Reliance Big Entertainment 8.3
Qi Top 10 Android apps October 2013
APP NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Zorbit’s Math Preschool Free Best Boy Entertainent 9.8
2 Thuuz Sports Thuuz.com 9.2
3 JustResizeIt! free Perspectives Software 9.2
4 trakAx MovieExpress HighAndes 9.0
5 AirCover Security BlueSprig 8.9
6 Guiddoo – AV Travel Guide Guiddoo Tours 8.8
7 The Fun Way to Learn Algebra Henry Borenson 8.8
8 Topiclay Topiclay 8.7
9 oneSafe password manager Lunabee 8.7
10 Edge: Quick Actions Reactiv Studios 8.7
(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.)
Topping October’s Android Qi games chart is Reaper – Tale of a Pale Swordsman, which marks the triumphant return of Hexage. This time around, the esteemed developer has created a compelling action-RPG with neat bite-sized levels. At #2, however, Empire has been impressing ‘droid critics the world over with its incredibly mobile-friendly blend of strategy, boardgame, and deck-building elements. Nothing so serious in third place this month, mind, with Dumb Ways to Day delighting all with its 15 madcap mini-games. Tap and flick your way to victory in this impossibly polished timewaster. Sticking with the humorous theme, you have to beat up bears in Nicoll Hunt’s retro beat-’em-up Fist of Awesome. As you do.
Zorbit’s Math Preschool tops the October Android Qi app chart with a familiar approach. Yep, educating young kids without their even realising it. Its light mathematical posers are mixed stealthily into an entertaining sci-fi story, you see. At #2, meanwhile, we have Thuuz Sports, an app that helps US users keep up to date with the latest goings on in sport. Its maker does so by smartly notifying you of the games and match-ups on which to keep an eye. By contrast, JustResizeIt! enables you to re-size your photos on the fly, then share them with your friends and family. Finally, there’s AirCover Security, an all-in-one Android security app whose creator claims it contains the benefits of Lookout and Kapersky, with anti-virus, anti-theft, and call blocker capabilities built in.