The best mobile games of 2017 according to Lifehacker

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Projects for iOS and Android with noteworthy design solutions, unique gameplay elements and captivating stories.

Monument Valley 2

A direct sequel to the highly acclaimed 2014 puzzle. In Monument Valley 2, you must lead a mother and her daughter through intricate mazes that consist of optical illusions and impossible figures. The player must move different elements of the environment, solving puzzles and thus allowing the heroes to go further.

Beholder

Dystopian spy simulator inspired by the stories of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

The main character is a man who must keep an eye on the tenants of an apartment building and report suspicious actions to the authorities. The player must constantly make a choice: to destroy the lives of people, each of whom has their own problems, or to try to break the rules and endanger themselves and their families.

Sunless sea

A survival game inspired by the works of Lovecraft, in which you have to explore a randomly generated world on a steamer. The enemies are not only giant crabs, intelligent icebergs and bats, but also madness and cannibalism. Death is inevitable, but your belongings can be passed on to the next captain. This is how Sunless Sea turns into a game with a high degree of replayability.

Framed 2

The sequel to the game that legendary game designer Hideo Kojima named the main project of the year in 2014. It's still a puzzle game where you put the pieces of the story in the right order to create a kind of coherent comic.

Players will experience a dynamic storyline, stylish visuals and appropriate music. Framed 2 is a film far more powerful than many of Hollywood's creations.

To the moon

Released back in 2011 on the PC, the adventure has recently reached mobile devices. This is a story about two doctors who must implant in a dying person the memories of an unfulfilled dream - a flight to the moon. To do this, they are taken to the patient's head with the help of a special machine.

At first glance, a simple game will make even the most persistent person shed tears due to a powerful plot and shrill music.

To the Moon X. D. Network Inc.

To the Moon X. D. Network

Old Man's Journey

One of the most beautiful iOS apps in the Apple Design Awards 2017. This is a colorful and emotional story of an old man's life. The main advantages of the project are visuals and interesting and moderately complex puzzles.

Old Man's Journey Broken Rules Interactive Media GmbH

Oxenfree

A girl named Alex and her friends go to rest on a deserted island, where supernatural things begin to take place.

The game will have a lot of conversations with other characters. The dialogue system is unique: the heroine can interrupt the interlocutor or not answer at all. All this affects her relationship with friends. Oxenfree is also very attractive visually and in terms of storyline.

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OXENFREE Night School Studio

The witness

Project by Jonathan Blow, author of Braid, a time-game platform game. The developer has been working hard on The Witness for a very long time. The result is a colorful first-person puzzle.

The player explores the open world and solves interesting puzzles created according to the same scheme: you need to draw lines between the points. But the very principle of solving problems is different everywhere and in most cases is completely not obvious.

The Witness NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios

The Elder Scrolls: Legends

A collectible card game set in one of the most popular RPG universes. The principle is the same as in Hearthstone: you attack a live or AI opponent with cards from your deck and try to reduce his health level to zero.

There is a full-fledged story campaign, the division of the playing field into two parts with changing battle conditions and a number of game mechanics that do not allow calling the game a clone of the Blizzard project.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends Bethesda Softworks LLC

Stranger Things: The Game

The mobile adaptation of Stranger Things is so good that Netflix could make money from it. However, the app is completely free and ad-free.

Stranger Things: The Game is pretty long, even by the standards of modern PC and console games. She embraces the best of classics like The Legend of Zelda, but does not hesitate to offer something of her own.