Shadow Fight 2
Shadow Fight 2 is a one-on-one fantasy fighting game featuring lifelike animations, intuitive controls and tons of weapons. It's relatively slow paced for a fighting game, meaning bouts are often as much about strategic decisions as they are quick reactions: trying to hold your nerve and defend against an onslaught of attacks with dwindling health is nerve-wracking. A free-to-play, offline classic.
Roll the Ball
Roll the Ball is a slide puzzle game that requires you to use physics and engineering to win. Well, you at least have to do some planning which requires a good amount of strategy. This is a brain-training game that keeps you actively focused and planning ahead. So if you're in for a challenge, then this is for you. The goal of the game is to get the ball from the start to the 'goal.' You do that by configuring the tiles so the ball can move through a continuous tube. Remember, it's not always necessary to use every tube tile, so get creative with your moves. There are different features and bonus games that earn you hints that you can later use if you get into a jam. You can also earn them by watching videos. The only complaint is the ads. Unless you pay, they pop up every third game.
Cut the Rope 2
Our current favorite puzzle game on Android is Cut the Rope 2, in which you feed candy to a little green critter known as Om Nom. How do you do this? By cutting rope, of course. This free-to-play title features painterly graphics and fiendishly clever puzzles. Don't be fooled by the cutesy visuals, though: Cut the Rope 2 gets seriously tough by the time you reach the later levels. But because success is only ever a few snips away, this one never gets old.
Stack
The name says it all: Stack is a block stacking game that requires good timing and nerves of steel. While it's action packed, it has a simplicity that's refreshing. That's because the blocks and background colors change during the game and from one round to the next. Timing is key in Stack. You need to build a tower with blocks that slide in from the left and right side of the screen. If you are just a tiny bit off, you will lose part of the block. As you lose more and more, it becomes more difficult to time and soon enough you miss entirely and your game is over. If you continually get perfect timed stacks your base will increase in size and it will become easier. As you play more, you unlock gems. These gems go towards new block styles you can use. There are plenty of different choices you can make like retro, zigzag, brick and platinum. You can also watch a video to get more gems.
Plants vs Zombies 2
Plants vs Zombies is one of the classic free-to-play tower defense games and its sequel might be the shining star of the genre. Plants vs Zombies 2 sees you employing the services of assorted shrubbery to defeat an approaching zombie army. PopCap delivers a colorful, addictive, well-balanced strategy game with near-endless replay value. It's continuously inventive and each stage has its own set of unique traits, which means that progressing through them always throws up new challenges. As far as free-to-play games go, Plants vs Zombies 2 is pretty generous in terms of the unlocked content that is freely available.
