Category Archives: Brain & Puzzle

iSlash is a great slashing puzzle game that is played by more than 17 million people.

• Version: 1.3.1
• Requires: Android 2.1 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 18 MB
• Price: Free

Closer Look to iSlash

Puzzle games category is one the most popular game category in the market. Interesting puzzle games are being produced and taking place in our phones. iSlash is not an exception and it is a cleverly designed puzzle game that makes addiction. You are slicing a board with your fingers and trying to destroy most of the play-shape to proceed to the next level. Beware of ninja stars! You should not touch them while slicing. Stars should olsa need to stay together. Bomboo bar at the top of the screen shows how much you have slashed. You should slash until you reach the red knot on the bamboo.

There are 100 game levels at the game and this means you will spend a lot of time if you want to complete all of them 🙂 Levels are divided in to 3 sets and the last set will be coming soon. As you proceed through the game, levels becoming harder to complete.

Items

If you stuck at some level, you have 4 types of items to use:

• Star Killer kills a star dring game.
• Power Blade enables you to slash metal for 1 minute.
• Time Bender will slow down time for 1 minute.
• Skip Master is the most powerful item. You can skip a level by using them.

Other Features of iSlash

The game has Swarm support for social features. This also enables achievements and global leaderboards. You will be faced with new stars and bonuses as you proceed throug the levels. The publishers says that new levels and frequent updates will be coming. Sounds of the game has good quality and adds value to the game.
 

Final Words

iSlash is a really enjoyable and addictive puzzle game. It is a time killer for players at every ages.

Bejeweled Blitz addictive puzzle game that you are trying to match up shiny gems!

• Version: 1.3.4
• Requires: Android 2.3.3 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 40 MB
• Price: Free

Closer Look to Bejeweled Blitz

Match up games become popular in recent years in game industry. Bejeweled Blitz is one of the most famous match up puzzle game that we have know from our PCs. Now, PopCap has released Android version of the Bejeweled Blitz! If you like Candy Crush Saga that we have reviewed before, you will probably like Bejeweled Blitz.

Your aim is matching 3 or more gems in a row or column. You have to match and detonate as much gems as you can in 60 seconds. Matching more than 3 gems will give you a bonus gem that have special effects like Flame gems, Star gems, and Hypercubes. You can also gain some other powerful Rare gems.

There is also a tutorial at the beginning of the game that you can learn how to play. It is short and brief and we recommend to watch it if you have never played the game before.

Other Features of Bejewaled Blitz

• Social support of the game is great. You can play with your friends on Facebook and share your achievements with them. There is also leaderboards that you can see your place in the world players. Challenge your friends and see who is better.
• Detonators, Scramblers and Multipliers will add fun to your gaming experience. Blazing Speed can also be earned by matching gems fastly and can be used to blow gems away.
• The game has high definition graphics and quality sounds that is optimized for Android devices.
• Rare gems can boost your scores up. Use them wisely to  gain more points.
• There is also Daily Spin game of chance that you can earn up to 1 million free coins.

Last Words

Bejeweled Blitz is a really addictive game that can be played numerous times. You can also choose to play on Facebook and continue your game progress thorugh your mobile phone. The game is one of the best among its kind.

Bubble Blast 2 is an enjoyable puzzle game. It is very simple game that you only start a chain reaction.  When you pop one bubble, it explodes and cause explosion to bubbles which are located left/right or above/below of it. Your goal is to clear all bubbles from the board in a given limited number of touches.

• Version: 1.0.34
• Requires: Android 1.5 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 5.5 M
• Price: Free

Game Play of the Bubble Blast 2

Bubble Blast 2 is a simple but highly addictive game. There are many bubbles which are waiting to be exploded. One bubble will explode only if one little bullet hits it or you explode it by touching directly. The goal is to clear all the bubbles from the board. When you succeed it, that level will be passed, too.

Game play of the Bubble Blast 2 looks simple but it does not mean that it not enjoyable. May be the most funny part of the game is chain reactions. It occurs when one bubble exploded, after that it throws four little bubbles to four sides at the same time. When one of the little buble hit another bubble it explodes, too. Then it throws four bullets and so on… So it is important to decide the starting point. Because it determines the way of chain explosion.

There are 4 types of bubbles in Bubble Blast 2. They differ from each other by durabilities. Red bubbles will explode with one hit. But green requires 2 hit to explode. Yellow and blue bubbles requires 3 and 4 hits to explode, respectively. So when a green bubble is hit, it turns into red bubble and when a yellow bubble is hit it turns into a green and so on…

You are given a limited number of touches for each level, so you should use them efficiently. Deciding from which bubble to start is important. Because it determines the route of chain explosion.

There are thousands of different levels in Bubble Blast 2 puzzle mode. Also there is chain mode which will be unlocked after completing 20 levels from puzzle mode.

Controls of the Game

Only control in the Bubble Blast 2 is touching to bubbles which you want to pop.

Flow Frenzy is a simple puzzle game that you try to connect all matching colors with lines to fill the entire board.

• Version: 1.2.7
• Requires: Android 2.2 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 7.6 M
• Price: Free

Closer Look to Flow Frenzy

Flow Frenzy is a simple but enjoyable puzzle game that  is suitable for both adults and kids. You are trying to connect colorful dots with lines that have matching color. You can also undo your actions or use hints if you get stucked. The game is easy to play but you have to spend some time to be faster. It is a common game type that you can find in market but it is one of the best. You can also look similar games that we have reviewed before (Flow Free Bridges or Mummy Run).

Flow Frenzy has also great colorful graphics. The game has also HD graphics support which makes the game has good looking in tablets. You can play the game portrait or landscape mode. It is unusual for a game to support both landspace and portrait mode but they have done it.

There are 1500 levels to complete and 450 of them are free. You can also buy additional level packs if you want. Greate side of the game is that it enables you to create your own levels! You can design, test and play your own levels if you desire.

There are two game modes named Free Play and Time Trial. In Free Play mode, you solve problems as casual. Besides that Time Trial mode offers you to race against time. You have to draw between the dots as fast as you can.

Last Words

Social side is not forgotten. You can share your answers on Facebook to give your friends the solution 🙂 You can also earn achievements and share them with your friends on Facebook. We advice you to give Flow Frenzy a try if you want simple puzzle games.

Om Nom’s adventure continues. Now he travels back in time. Its time to see the ancestors and help them to eat candies. Cut the Rope Time Travel is a new adventure of well known Cut the Rope game. If you like former, you will probably enjoy this one, too.

• Version: Varies with device
• Requires: Varies with device
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: Varies with device (36 M on Samsung Galaxy W I8150)
• Price: Free

Story of the Cut the Rope Time Travel

This time, our hero Om Nom travels back to the past and begin a new adventure. At the past, he see his ancestors so there are two hungry cute monsters to be fed at each age. His visit starts with The middle ages. But this is not only destination for him. There are also The Renaissance, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Stone Age to be travelled.

Game Play of the Cut the Rope Time Travel

Cut the Rope Time Travel is physics based 2D brain & puzzle game. Your goal is to feed two little cute monsters with the candies. So you should find a correct way to reach theese candies to mouthes of the those monsters.

These candies can be tied with different kinds of ropes or be in a bubbles. As the name of the game suggests you will cut these ropes and lead to take candies to Om Noms mouthes. Bubbles have different effect on candies. They lift the candies up until you pop them.

There are also stars which are placed on the game board, when a candy touches a star you get it. So you should think carefully while solving the puzzle and find the best way to collect all of the 3 stars.

Controls of the Game

To move the candies to right directions you should cut the ropes or pop the bubbles. In order to cut the rope just slide your fingers over the rope. In order to pop the bubbles just touch them.

Freeze! is a distinctive physics based brain & puzzle game. It is based on rotating the world so that our hero reaches the exit point. As the name implies, soemtimes you need to freeze the world in order to overcome the gravity. In addition, you should be careful to avoid numerous obstacles and traps.

• Version: 1.51
• Requires: Android 2.2 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 36 M
• Price: Free

Gameplay of the Freeze!

Freeze is a 2D physics based game in which the gravity is the main force. Our hero in this game is an eye shaped creature.  He moves by rolling under the gravitational attraction. He must go to the exit point from its starting point thanks to your help. So, you should lead him to reach the destination.

But it will not so easy as it looks. There are some obstacles like stable and moving sharp gears. You should avoid them because any contact with them will cause the level failed.  In order to pass the levels, you should change the gravity direction continuously and take the right actions under the changing conditions.

Freeze game has a good feature that helps you when you got stuck in harder situations. This feature’s name is what the game’s name: Freeze!. Freeze is used for freezing our hero so that he is not affected from any gravitational attraction. Sometimes you will really need to use this power up to pass challenging levels.

Controls of the Game

Freeze has a very simple control. Just use your fingers and rotate the world by swiping to any direction. Importing point here is that you should carefully adjust the power of the movement to pass our hero from dangerous places and bottlenecks.

Levels and Worlds

There are four worlds and extra bonus levels in the Freeze game. World 1 is completely free. 10 bonus levels will be opened if you rate the game in the market (you are free to give any number of stars here). Other worlds are paid and will be opened if you buy them using in-app  purchase.

Unblock Me Free is an addictive brain & puzzle game which has very simple gameplay. But this simplicity can be misleading because it has very challenging levels that you should try hard in order to pass them.

• Version: 1.3.5
• Requires: Android 2.1 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 13M
• Price: Free

Closer Look to Unblock Me Free

In Unblock Me Free Android puzzle game, there are one board and several wooden blocks on it at each level. One block is red clored and that means you will try to move it to the exit point.

In order to solve the puzzle, you should make some movements to open the way of the red block. However, narrow game board and closer blocks make this subject really hard. So, you should make so many different movements just for reaching the exit point which is only a few units far away.

There are four difficult levels in the game from beginner to expert. And there are so many different puzzles (4200 puzzles in total) in each of these difficulty levels.

Gameplay of the Unblock Me Free

There are two simple rules and one objective. Rule one is each block can be slided by only one direction. That means you can slide them either horizontally or vertically. Second rule is blocks are blocking each other, that means no block can pass through any other block. And the objective is very simple, too. When you get the red block out of the board you pass that level. That is it!

Considering all the rules above, the game seems so easy, doesn’t it? But simplicity does not always guarantee aesiness.

Game Modes

There are two game modes in Unblock Me Free. These are relex mode and challenge mode. In relax mode, number of your movements are not counting. But in the challenge mode, number of your movements to reach the solution is recorded. So you should get a degree in stars for your effort. If you want to get three stars, you should complete that level with the minimum number of movements as much as possible.

The Croods is an unique prehistorical game from the creators of famous Angry Birds series, Rovio. The game based on the upcoming animation of DreamWorks.

• Version: 1.0.3
• Requires: Android 2.2 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 27 MB
• Price: Free

Closer Look to The Croods

The Croods is a brain and puzzle game which includes basic gameplay of classical strategy games . The game consept is totaly prehistorical. You are helping The Croods family which is the first modern family on the earth. They have a new idea about “Hunt & Gather” to break out the stone age. You will help the family by building and developing their settlement. Taming fantastic and uniquely designed creatures will help you to gain resources and construct new buildings.

Creatures, Resources and Missions

Aim of the game is developing your settlement and leveling up by completing various missions. Creatures are the key point of the game. You will use them to gain resources and develop your settlement. You have to build traps to catch animals and tame them in your base. Catching and taming isn’t enough. You must also build homes for these creatures and feed them to gain resources in time.

Your base resource is berries which are growing in the center of your city. You have to manage spend and gain loop of resources. For example, Molarbears will be fed with berries and they will give you carrots. You will use this carrots to feed Bunny Beast which will give you stones. You can use these stones to construct buildings. And so on. These relationships can be listed at a stone board which you can find at the right side of your base camp.  These Ugga will also help you to exchange your resources with her soup that you will use to develop your creatures.

You can take missions from other family member, Gran. Missons are vital to gain coins,gems and experience. You will use coins and gems while constructing buildings. Gems are harder to gain and you can use them to speed up things. They make you development progress faster (faster construction) and can also be purchased in-app. You can also level up your buildings to gather the resources faster. As you level up, you will unlock new missions to complete.

Final Words

3D graphics are great and make the game more addictive. Creatures are uniquely designed and sounds are very good.

The game is completely free to play but keep in mind that there are some in-app purchases to speed up your constructions etc. Creators of the game is noted that you can disable in-app purchases if you do not want to use this feature.

The Croods is a unique game that you can easily spend hours while playing. If you like gather and develop typed strategy games, you will probably like The Croods. The game can be seen hard to understand but there is a tutorial at the beginning of the game to help. You will get familiar with things as you play the game. Give it a try to see if the game is suitable for you.

Train Legend is another great path drawing puzzle game in the market. It is based on matching and binding same color stations. Find the ways between stations and draw railways without lefting any empty area.

• Version: 1.0.10
• Requires: Android 2.2 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 24 M
• Price: Free

Gameplay of the Train Legend

Gameplay of the Train Legend is similar to other path drawing puzzle games like Mummy Run that we reviewed before. In Train legend, you are given a board that consist of empty square cells and station couples which have the same color with each other. You are supposed to fill almost all the cells by drawing railways on them.

Rules are simple: two railways can not cut each other and at the end of the both sides of railways, there should be two same colored train stations.

In order to get high scores and more stars, you should comlplete each puzzle with minimum number of movements and maximum fill rate. You can see the fill rate just below the screen.

Controls of the Game

Controls of the game is also so simple. Just drag your finger on the cells that you want to fill in. Just tap the train station when you want to cancel the drawings on that station.

Story mode

There is story mode in Train Legend and it makes it more addictive. There are different countries that you will construct railways and buid locomotives. As you complete levels in one chapter, you collect train components like whistle, wheel, crank, chassis, smoke stack, body, windows, lamp and flag. After collecting all of these, you you will be ready to construct a new locomotive and unlock next country.

Additional Secret Stages

There are additional free secret stages which you can unlock just one tap or downloading other proposed games. Here you can find more challenging levels in different board sizes (medium, hard).

Shift It is a novel brain & puzzle game application. It is inspired from the Rubic’s cube, but it is in 2 dimension, not 3. Because it is in 2D, blocks can be rotated on an infinite loop.

• Version: 1.1.6
• Requires: 2.2 and up
• Category: Brain & Puzzle
• Size: 14 M
• Price: Free

Gameplay of the Shift It Android Game

In Shift It Android game, you are given different size of puzzles in different difficulty levels. At each level, your goal is to group same coloured blocks together. Number of colors may vary level to level. You can either rotate horizontally or vertically, if there is an extra limitation like “locked blocks”. If you see locked blocks, remind that they can not be moved.

Like other puzzle games, number of movements to reach the solution is important. That means, if you complete levels by less movements, then you will get more stars.

Advence levels include different blocks like rotating blocks and blocks in piece. Rotating blocks differ from ordinary blocks in terms of sliding characteristic. While you are sliding them, pieces in them are rotating at the same time. So, this behavior may make it more complex.

Levels and Stages

In Shift has 3 different stages which are “small”, “medium”, “big” and “bonus”, respectively. As the game board gets bigger, solving the puzzles gets hard, too. Whem you first run the game, only “small” stage is unlocked. Others will be unlocked if you get enough number of stars from previous stages. You need 120 stars to unlock “medium” stage, 240 stars to unlock “big” stage and 180 stars to unlock “bonus” stage.

All the stages which are mentioned above are located in the “classic” mode. There is also “lightning” mode which requires 720 stars to be unlocked.

Final Notes

Shift it has different gameplay and that you can play it to spend time.  It includes so many different levels in different diffculty levels that you will not get bored quickly. If you love brain & puzzle games, then you should give it a try.