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Google Play Excellence program welcomes Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and six other games

World of Warships: Blitz and Flutter: Starlight also feature in high-quality highlights list

Google Play Excellence program welcomes Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and six other games

Google Play has welcomed seven games and 14 apps into the Android Excellence program.

Android Excellence is a quarterly lineup of what the store considers flagship titles for the platform. Excellence games and apps are a limited selection chosen by Google Play editors to exemplify the best apps on the store.

A spot on the list is awarded to apps that are optimised to run perfectly on Android devices, and make use of new platform features.

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Seven games were chosen to make the list this July. Popular titles like Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and World of Warships: Blitz made the list, but Android also shone a spotlight on smaller titles like moth collector Flutter: Starlight.

Twice as many apps made the list, including organisational tool Trello and podcast manager Pocket Casts

Android Excellence kicked off last June, as an effort to recognise high-quality applications on Google’s mobile platform. The first lineup included games like EA's Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Square Enix's Hitman GO and Kill Shot Bravo by Hothead Games.


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