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Quality Index: The week's best Android games - Spoing, Trainyard

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Quality Index: The week's best Android games - Spoing, Trainyard
Every week, Pocket Gamer sister site Android Quality Index (Android Qi) highlights the newest games to make a critical splash in the cool, seductive waters of the Google Play pool.

Grabbing scores and opinions from all corners of the web, including from Gamezebo, Know Your Mobile, and Tapscape, Qi answers all your Android-related questions before you've even asked them.

Today, we're going to focus on two new contenders vying to be crowned king of your Android device. Both are worthy, but do they have what it takes to win your head, your heart, and your wallet?

Bouncy ball

Bouncing onto the Android Qi this week and into the #1 spot is the elastically exhilarating physics-puzzler Spoing.

It is your duty to guide the titular black sphere out of a series of complex caves and reunite him with his precious rainbow diamonds.

To do so, you must propel him from one springy platform to another, using your finger to flick him towards the shiny jewel that resides at the end of each dungeon.

You can even use green gems to build your own platforms, which should help you evade some of the game's toothy winged enemies.
AndroidTapp's reviewer was jumping up and down over Spoing, deeming it "immersive and continually fun".

All aboard

Pulling into the station a little further down the Top 10 is Noodlecake's port of steam-powered iOS puzzle classic Trainyard.

The goal is to guide all of your trains to their appropriately coloured destinations. This is more complicated than it sounds, however, as tracks start to overlap and obstacles create troublesome bottlenecks.

Eventually, you'll be combining tracks to create new colours, and solving head scratchers the likes of which would trouble Stephen Hawking. Maybe.

The folks over at Android Rundown couldn't escape Trainyard's coal-driven charms, saying: "trying to solve one puzzle to get to the next becomes irresistible".

You can get the up-to-date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Android Quality Index.
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