The 7 Best iOS and Android Games of April 2015

April was a maddeningly good game for mobile. How good? Top downloads like Marvel Future Fight, Halo Spartan Strike, and Mortal Kombat X didn’t even make this list. So which games really blew us out of the water this month? Read on …

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April was a maddeningly good game for mobile. How good? Top downloads like Marvel Future Fight, Halo Spartan Strike, and Mortal Kombat X didn’t even make this list.

So which games really blew us out of the water this month? Read on to find out.

Spirit Lords

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Don’t think a Diablo-style dungeon crawl can fit in your pocket? Think again. Kabam’s Spirit Lords is a great display of what the genre can do on mobile, and it looks fantastic too. Who knew cartoony visuals were what we really wanted from a hack’n’slash dungeon romp?

Tiny Guardians

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A little bit tower defense and a little bit RPG, Tiny Guardians plays with the conventions of both genres to come up with something that’s both familiar and new all at once. Don’t let it’s Kingdom Rush-inspired visuals fool you — this is an experience that’s 100% original.

DomiNations

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If you took Clash of Clans and Civilization and smooshed them together, you’d end up with something that looked a lot like DomiNations. I suppose that makes sense, considering this is the first game from Brian Reynolds’ resurrected Big Huge Games — aka the lead designer on Civilization II.

Lifeline…

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Narrative adventures are all the rage nowadays, thanks in no small part to Telltale Games. But what if I told you that the writer of one of their best series, The Wolf Among Us, had created a new piece of fiction that could only live on your phone? That’s Lifeline — a story that plays out in real time, often through push notifications.

Broken Age: Act 2

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It’s been a few years since Tim Schafer broke the internet with the announcement of “Double Fine Adventure,” a Kickstarter project that would bring him back to his adventure-gaming roots. This month that project came to a close with the sublime second half of Broken Age, a tale of two teens in very different worlds.

Does Not Commute

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A puzzle game about guiding traffic one car at a time — and avoiding the paths of the cars you’ve created — would be great enough on its own. But Does Not Commute ups the ante with quirky little stories for every motorist. It’s like a mellower version of Super Off Road, by way of David Lynch.

Implosion – Never Lose Hope

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Action, thy name is Implosion. Lots of developers try (and sometimes succeed) to prove that console-style gameplay can work on mobile. The release of Implosion is no different. Guide a mech-style samurai-thing across level after level of combat and boss fight, and wear a big dopey smile while you do.

Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.