Windows Phone Central Reader's Roundup: Games

WPCentral's Reader's Roundup

WPCentral'south Readers Roundup of games for your Windows Phone

Final week we posed the question, "What is your recommendation on Windows Phone games?" and you, our readers, tossed out your peak three gaming recommendations. We tallied up all the recommendations and this week's roundup highlights the pinnacle five games from these recommendations.

The results weren't too surprising but dragon themed games scored two of the top slots. The other three included ii Xbox titles and one game that is a gaming library within itself. If y'all didn't become a risk to offer your recommendations in the WPCentral Forums discussion, feel free to sound off below in the comments.

Wordament

Wordament (free): The Xbox Windows Telephone game Wordament seems to make an appearance on every roundup or all-time of list for Windows Phone gaming. The boggle styled game started out as a pop independent game and exploded when information technology transformed into an Xbox title.

Wordament is an online game where you compete against other Wordament players to see who tin can score the most points solving a word puzzle. The game has y'all creating words by connecting letters on a 4x4 filigree. Each round is two minutes and each letter has its own point value.

Wordament is a great game for brusque bits of time every bit well as marathon gaming sessions. Wordament is a free Xbox game for your Windows Phone that y'all tin pick upwardly here at the Windows Phone Store.

Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja (trial/$.99): Fruit Ninja may accept been around long plenty to be classified as a Archetype Windows Phone game. Classic or non, it'south a fun, entertaining game for your Windows Phone.

For those non familiar with Fruit Ninja, it is a Xbox Windows Telephone game that has you slicing and dicing fruit as it's tossed in the air. Fruit Ninja has three game modes, Xbox Live achievements, leaderboards and unlockable content.

You swipe at the screen to simulate your ninja sword slicing activity equally the fruit is tossed upward on the screen. In classic mode, any fruit missed costs you lot a strike and iii strikes ends the game. In Zen Mode you have ninety seconds to slice as much fruit as possible for score (you lot won't be penalized for missed fruit). Arcade fashion is much like Zen Mode but you have 60 seconds to slice the fruit. Yous do have bonus fruit that will slow the game or actuate a fruit frenzy.

Combinations or multiple fruit sliced in a single stroke will earn y'all bonus points and bombs are thrown in the mix to make Fruit Ninja more challenging. Hint... don't slice the bombs.

While Fruit Ninja has been around for a while, it's nonetheless a challenging, entertaining game for your Windows Telephone. There is a free trial available with the full version of Fruit Ninja running $.99. You tin can find Fruit Ninja here at the Windows Telephone Shop.

Crimson Dragon: Side Story

Ruddy Dragon: Side Story (trial/$.99): Our dragon influence begins with Crimson Dragon: Side Story, 1 the more recent Xbox Windows Phone gaming titles.

Crimson Dragon is a fantasy shooter game where yous control dragons to defeat various enemies on the planet Draco. Virtual flight controls sit at the bottom left corner of the screen and you merely tap the screen at the targets you desire your dragon to fire at.

Equally you lot battle your way through the game your dragon earns experience which in plough unlocks skills. Crimson Dragon has over 170 skills to unlock and you can even breed new dragons as y'all accelerate through the game.

Additionally, you can earn bonus items by using your Windows Phone location services. The further y'all physically travel outside of game play, the more than jewels you earn which are used to unlock skills.

Nicely animated with challenging, fast paced, game play Ruby Dragon: Side Story is worth a try. There is a trial version available and the full version of Crimson Dragon is currently running $.99.

You can Blood-red Dragon: Side Story here at the Windows Phone Store.

Dragons Blade DX

Dragon's Blade (free/$.99): Dragon'due south Blade is a plough based, role playing game for your Windows Phone. It has a fleck of a retro feel to it reminiscent of Zelda.

The game contains seven classes of characters that includes warrior, templar, thief, juggernaut, archer, sorcerer and cleric. Once y'all've created your party of adventurers, you wander near slaying monsters and exploring dungeons.

There is an online component that allows you to chat and collaborate with other Dragon'southward Blade players.

As your grapheme's feel grows, they build in strength and skills equally you would see in any RPG games. All totaled there is virtually 60 hours of game play with Dragon's Blade. Plenty dragon slaying, treasure hunting gaming.

At that place are ii versions of Dragon's Blade available over at the Windows Phone Store. There is Dragon's Bract which is an advert-supported version and Dragon'south Blade DX which is ad complimentary.

Taptitude

Taptitude (gratuitous): Taptitude is your ane cease shop for mini-games. It is a collection of over lxx games ranging from Mahjong to Black Jack to Sudoku to Slots. Taptitude is a penny arcade of sorts for your Windows Phone and is a bully choice for challenging games to pass the fourth dimension with.

Games are sorted in Tiers that are progressively unlocked every bit you earn gaming stars. You earn gaming stars by play the games in the lower tiers.

Y'all also take features such as weekly codes that tin can be used to unlock coins and upgrades, leaderboards and achievements. Coins can be used to buy credits, which in plough can be used to unlock games that are in locked tiers.

While there are over seventy games to the Taptitude collection at present, more games are added on a weekly basis. To help keep you lot up to date on things, at that place is a Message board (accessed through the main menu) for Taptitude. Messages include information on updates, new games and a Redeem Riddle whose answer can be redeemed to unlock coins and upgrades.

Taptitude has a healthy drove of challenging games that continues to abound. Taptitude is a free, advertizement-supported game for your Windows Phone that you can snatch up here at the Windows Telephone Store.

Readers Roundup Games

That'southward your tiptop five recommendations, in order of vote count. Honorable mentions goes out to Wheel of Wealth, Geodefense Swarm, and Dalton the Awesome.

Nosotros'd similar to give thanks anybody for participating in this un-scientific straw poll on Windows Phone games. We'll take more Reader's Roundups in the futurity merely in the concurrently, if yous've got a gaming recommendation to share... toss it out in the comments or caput on over to the WPCentral Forums and strike up a word there.

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