Android Mobile: Budget Friendly Addictive Games

With thousands of apps available through the Android Market, it can be challenging to find something worthwhile. User ratings are of course a help; but here is a direct lead on a few budget priced games that offer hours of addictive play.

If you enjoy tower defense arcade action, then HexDefense is certainly worth a look. The game offers open field (place your towers anywhere) tower defense gameplay. Played on a grid composed of hexagonal shapes called tiles, players must stop the enemy from reaching their home tile. Four types of towers with varying strengths can be gradually acquired during the game to defend the home tile. Strategically placing them throughout the playing field helps to destroy the enemies as they make their way across the screen. The game offers multiple levels of play, excellent graphics including particle effects, varying enemies with bosses, four types of towers with four upgrade levels each, vibrant music, and autosave if you have to take a call.

There have been a number of variations of the classic Simon electronic game on different platforms over the years. With play that requires repeating an increasing pattern of light and sound, fans of the game can easily find themselves deep within a game instead of perhaps doing some work. For Android based mobile phone users, CopyCat is a very well put together and clean looking Simon look-a-like that offers a variety of settings to alter and enhance the gameplay.

Radiant is fantastic action arcade shooter that is reminiscent of classic 8 bit gaming. With brilliant blocky pixel based graphics, gamers plunge into a storyline that will have them thinking Space Invaders. Featuring 100+ levels, boss fights, upgradable weapons, power-ups, and more, players must make their way through wave upon wave of creeps that have returned from the past to wreak havoc on the present. Offering varying difficulty levels of play, players can record scores on a leaderboard and share their progress directly on Facebook. Radiant is available as a Lite demo version, and an HD version is also available for enhanced play on certain devices.

Airport Mania has made its way to Android. The popular desktop casual game now has mobile users landing cute whimsical aircraft within 8 different airports. Playing like a time management game, players must manage every plane's take off, landing, gate arrival and more, while purchasing upgrades to avoid delays and successfully move from level to level . Game features include 48 unique levels, an award system, autosave, and a secret paper planes mode. Airport Mania is also available as a free trial.