Welcome to the 236th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the big headlines and five biggest releases from the last week:
Price: Free
Outsider: After Life is a mystery-adventure game with plenty of puzzles. The story involves a nearly extinct human race and an Android that can save the universe. The game doesn’t have the most impressive graphics, but the puzzles are fun and contextual to the story. There are some darker themes so this may not be safe for younger kids, but the mechanics and game play are outstanding nonetheless. It runs for $3.99 with no in-app purchases or ads. Alternatively, you can get it with Google Play Pass for free.
Price: Free
Jio is making headlines these days and not for the best reasons. JioMeet is a new video conferencing app that is basically a completely rip off from Zoom’s mobile app. The features are pretty good, though. You can have up to 100 people with meetings that run for 24 uninterrupted hours for free. However, it looking exactly like Zoom already gave the app some detractors. Technically, JioChat isn’t a new app, but a recent face lift made it look, act, and behave almost exactly like WhatsApp. It is what it is, though. JioChat is available here and JioMeet is available at the button.
Price: Free to play
Soda Dungeon 2 sounds like something like Candy Crush, except it’s not. This is a dungeon crawler and one of the deeper ones on mobile. A dark lord locked away a bunch of treasure. You set out to find it. The game has a ton of loot, a gear crafting system, and even some light idle RPG mechanics. Perhaps the coolest part is a script generator that lets you dictate the behaviors of your NPCs. The combat is turn based so it’s not quite as exciting as some, but some people seem to really like it.
Price: Free / Up to $6.49
Mi Control Center is an Android customization app. It makes your phone look and behave a little more like MIUI without needing actual MIUI. The app takes the place of your notification shade and you can check notifications, enable quick settings, and customize in other ways. Some additional features include full color customization, music controls, and some other neat stuff. It’s not too different from other Mi control center style apps, but this one seems to be quite clean. There are some bugs, though, so watch out for those.
Price: Free to play
One-Punch Man: Road to Hero 2.0 finally launched worldwide this last week. The game is a gacha style RPG with a story, online PvP, an extreme trial mode, and some other stuff. It honestly plays like most gachas. You summon characters, combine similar ones to make more powerful heroes, and engage in the turn-based combat to progress through the story. However, the game seems reasonably F2P friendly and its early release in other countries helped iron out a bunch of bugs so we don’t have to deal with it.
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11/07/2020 04:00 PM
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