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What if you lost your phone, then someone found it and managed to somehow gain access to its secrets? No narrative markers intrude, only your queries as you peruse digital artifacts and assemble a narrative from the fragments of a life. Sure, you could kill time on your phone with the latest button-mashing mobile game, or by endlessly scrolling through your photo-sharing app of choice.

But why not put your downtime to better use? The Great Courses 2. You can learn about the universe from Neil deGrasse Tyson, take a drawing lesson from a top artist, or improve your camera skills with the help of a National Geographic photographer. Move over, Snapchat. Instagram rolled out a barrage of updates this year, such as the ability to publish more than one image in a single post, view disappearing photos in the same inbox as normal messages, and add Snapchat-like masks that augment your face.

The company is also growing at a faster rate than ever before, hitting million monthly users in April, which was up from million just four months earlier. Most social apps are designed for making conversation easier and faster, but few are made with the intention of helping those suffering from communication disorders.

The app automatically translates certain text phrases into corresponding emoji, making it possible for those with language loss disorders such as aphasia to correspond with friends and family. A user afflicted by aphasia, for example, can decide what he or she would like to say by browsing through a menu of emoji-constructed sentences.

These strings of characters will appear as text to the recipient, and vice versa. Part social network and part video editing app, Musical. The app has been popular since , particularly among teens, and shows no signs of slowing down. But just like a real gallery, no touching the artwork. No VR viewer? No problem: You can view the galleries in degrees on your phone just fine. Keeping track of all your various bank accounts, credit cards and so on can be a real mess.

Get some help cleaning up with Empower, a new money management app designed to help you make sense of your financial life. Tinytouchtales' game Card Crawl combined a roguelike dungeon crawler with a solitaire-style card game. Now the developer has followed up with Card Thief, a game that seeks to do the same for stealth-style gameplay.

As the eponymous thief, you need to learn how to make the most of shadows, take out foes, steal the treasure and make your escape. It sounds simple, but it's a game of richness and depth that slowly unfolds into something beautiful. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth won't be for everyone. You play a naked heavily stylised child, crawling deeper into the Earth's underbelly, slaying the monsters you find there using your tears as bullets in a grotesque bloodbath after the character's mother tried to kill him at the behest of God it's all very Old Testament.

If this does sound like it's up your alley, you're going to find a game of which you'll possibly never tire: a top-down, twin-stick, randomly generated, roguelike dungeon-crawler that feels like it always has something new to show you.

Heart Star, made by developer Jussi Simpanen for Ludum Dare 48 in , is another platformer, but one that requires the control of not one, but two characters. You need to control them together to activate areas of each level in the form of a maze so that both characters can reach their respective exit. It gets really tricky, but the lack of penalties makes it a really smooth, delightful experience. Splitter Critters is one adorable and clever puzzler.

You have to guide the little critters to their flying saucer by drawing lines to split the screen and move the pieces so that the critters can get to different levels. It's a simple enough concept once you get going, but as you progress, the game keeps throwing challenging spanners into the works, such as new obstacles, and enemies that want to gobble up your critters.

Australian studio Mighty Games of Shooty Skies fame has turned its attention to the idle clicker, and Charming Keep is exactly what the name suggests charming. The idea is to build a bunch of shops, not unlike a tycoon game GLU's L'il Kingdom springs to mind , where you raise funds to rescue hapless princes from the dangers of their princely adventures.

It strikes just the right balance of cute, funny and fun to play, with what feels like decent progression and without growing tiresome like some clickers do. It's one of the most well designed titles of the genre. The roguelike grid-based dungeon-crawler is well-trodden ground at this point, but Downgeon Quest has managed to freshen it up.

With a fairy-tale theme and heroes from famous tales , it sees you trawling levels of a dungeon looking to chase down a mischievous animal. The twist is that, in order to survive, you need to craft spells, weapons and other items from materials that can be found as you delve.

It spruces up the tried-and-true formula and puts a fun new spin on roguelike gameplay. Riverman Media makes some very strange games that are also very lovely see: Deathfall, The Executive, Pizza vs. It's based on Pong, except it's a single player version where you control both paddles, and the aim is not to score goals but to use the ball to destroy glowing biomechanical sea creatures in ancient times.

It's very strange, and very lovely, and a game that will challenge even the very best Pong players. Back in the days of floppy discs, games would sometimes be constructed from symbols on the screen representing the elements of the gameplay. The game itself seems to be fairly basic on the surface, but bosses and collectibles in the glitch-filled screens mean you'll be coming back to see what other secrets you can find -- and chase down a new high score.

Those who miss the intrepid, witty and urbane lady detective now have a reprieve, thanks to Tin Man Games , famous for its gamebook adventures. Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze is part point-and-click, part visual novel, seeing you scouring various scenes for clues and fabulous outfits to solve a series of mysteries. It's a delightful return to Phryne's adventures, with the beloved core cast of characters all making appearances.

This is a surprisingly sweet and hilarious RPG about, as the app description reads, "an avuncular unmarried unemployed man who lives alone making an RPG by himself. Spurred by unrequited love for a girl he's never met and who is half his age , Yamada develops ever more fantastical levels where he can be a hero and where you can slay monsters, collect treasure and win the princess.

The setting of Stagehand is one with which you ought to be intimately familiar with by now: the side-scrolling platformer. However, rather than controlling a little character leaping from platform to platform, you're controlling the landscape itself -- moving the platforms so that the autorunning character can move smoothly, without getting left behind and squished as the screen scrolls across.

Causality looks a little like Lara Croft Go , but it's only a superficial resemblance. Yes, you have to move your pieces around on the board to reach the exit, but there are no enemies to avoid. Instead, you need to navigate multiple astronauts around the board, avoiding crossing paths because they can't and hitting buttons so that the astronauts can reach their respective exits. It ramps up when the time manipulation aspect comes into play, which brings clones onto the board. The game is a lot more complex than it looks on the surface, and will tie your brain in knots -- in a very good way indeed.

You thought Where's Wally was challenging, didn't you? The incredibly charming Hidden Folks uses a similar principle, but way more so and with a delightful soundtrack made up entirely of vocalisations.

The game is made up of hand-drawn, black-and-white scenes, in which you need to locate the people, animals and items displayed on the bottom of the screen. But the scenes aren't static -- you need to poke around, move things aside and trigger little interactions to find some of the targets.

It's an absolute treasure of joyful discovery. Make no mistake, that element is still there -- we'd expect no less for the adaptation of the very first title in Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy books. But the Tin Man team, avid tabletop gamers themselves, have also added a tabletop element, with turn-based combat where outcomes are determined by a toss of the dice.

The love that has gone into making this game absolutely shines -- it's a must-buy for fans of Fighting Fantasy. Dungeon Rushers is a really solid top-down RPG experience.

You explore dungeons, square by square like a board game, encountering foes and defeating them with turn-based combat. There are 10 characters most of them need to be unlocked , and your party can contain up to five, each with their own skill trees, and a crafting system means that you can experiment with making equipment -- and later in the game, you can make your own maps and play PvP.

It's a strong combination of elements that works beautifully. Michelle Starr Dec. Planescape: Torment You might have seen, thanks to its recent release, a bit of buzz about a game called Torment: Tides of Numenera.

See More. Monument Valley 2 Monument Valley by maker ustwo is such a wonderful, unique experience. Silly Walks There's something of a Katamari Damacy feel to Silly Walks, a game in which you, a cocktail in a pineapple, need to rescue your fruit pals before they get turned into fruit smoothies.

Arkanoid vs Space Invaders We're not entirely sure why no one ever thought to combine Arkanoid and Space Invaders before, but the combination of Arkanoid's ball-bouncing and brick-breaking with Space Invaders' alien smooshing is perfect.

Layton's Mystery Journey Layton's Mystery Journey sees Professor Layton's daughter Katrielle take the mantle of mystery-solver, setting up her own detective agency, with the help of an assistant and a talking dog. Pigeon Wings The birds in Pigeon Wings ain't no walking slouches -- they're ace pilots, and only one is good enough to save the city.

Age of Rivals Designed to be played in quick, minute sessions, civilisation-building card game Age of Rivals is not without depth and complexity. Zip--Zap This physics-based puzzler is minimalistic and heaps of fun, playing out in bite-sized levels. Linelight Puzzle game Linelight is a representation of the very best mobile gaming has to offer. Sunless Sea If you like exploration survival games with a rich story and complex depths, Failbetter's steampunkish Sunless Sea is an experience not to be missed.

Egglia: Legend of the Redcap Created by a team of former Secret of Mana developers, Egglia is as strange, and as lovely, as you might expect. Spin Addict Side-scroller Spin Addict is a fabulous take on the runner. Beholder Beholder deserves a place of honour alongside brilliant dystopian titles such as Replica , Papers, Please and This War of Mine.

Framed 2 Framed was another fresh and beautifully-designed game when released -- and Framed 2 really hits the mark, even improving on its predecessor. The Pavilion You're going to spend the first little while of Pavilion watching a little man run around, baffled as to what to do. Castle Battles There's usually a lot of depth to real-time strategy. Robot Unicorn Attack Forever While the magnificent rainbow core of Robot Unicorn Attack has been retained across the franchise since the first game landed in , each iteration has had its own spin.

Sky Dancer I initially did not care for this game. Prison Architect Prison Architect coming as no surprise tasks you with building a maximum security prison.

Vignettes Vignettes asks you, just for a while, to forget about goals a little. Onirim Asmodee Digital is building a really solid little stable of board and card games ported to mobile. Potion Explosion Potion Explosion is a board game ported to mobile, and in my opinion it's the better for it.

Oxenfree On the surface, graphic adventure Oxenfree looks laden with horror cliches -- a group of teens, an abandoned location, spooky ghosts speaking over a radio.

Pan-Pan If you like minimalist exploration games with hearts that beat for discovery, Pan-Pan is for you. Edo Superstar Remember " Ukiyo-e heroes ", the art series that reimagined video game heroes as traditional Japanese woodblock prints? Death Road to Canada Death Road to Canada is another game that you need to play a little to have it click.

The Escapists When you land yourself in prison, there's only one thing to do -- plot an elaborate escape and get the heck outta there. Kingdom: New Lands This is a game that puts you right at the ground level of trying to build a kingdom.

Polywarp Polywarp wears its Super Hexagon influence proudly on its sleeve, but it's absolutely its own beast. Mushroom 11 This side-scrolling platformer is unlike any other. Beglitched At last, a game that combines hacking and witchcraft! Slayaway Camp Slayaway Camp is, at its core, a Sokoban -style puzzler, but it's what's wrapped around that core gameplay that makes it brilliant. Card Thief Tinytouchtales' game Card Crawl combined a roguelike dungeon crawler with a solitaire-style card game.

Heart Star Heart Star, made by developer Jussi Simpanen for Ludum Dare 48 in , is another platformer, but one that requires the control of not one, but two characters. Splitter Critters Splitter Critters is one adorable and clever puzzler. Charming Keep Australian studio Mighty Games of Shooty Skies fame has turned its attention to the idle clicker, and Charming Keep is exactly what the name suggests charming.

Downgeon Quest The roguelike grid-based dungeon-crawler is well-trodden ground at this point, but Downgeon Quest has managed to freshen it up. Glitchskier Back in the days of floppy discs, games would sometimes be constructed from symbols on the screen representing the elements of the gameplay. Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze " Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ", the Australian period murder mystery show, was cruelly cut down in its prime although there might be a movie.

Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada This is a surprisingly sweet and hilarious RPG about, as the app description reads, "an avuncular unmarried unemployed man who lives alone making an RPG by himself. Stagehand: A Reverse Platformer The setting of Stagehand is one with which you ought to be intimately familiar with by now: the side-scrolling platformer.