Mobilewalla: Fastest Mover apps of 2015
The following apps were featured in our Fastest Movers columns in 2015. They debuted in 2015 and became very popular, or made huge and sudden leaps up the app charts.
Apple apps
Downwell ($2.99) This pixelated game, with a retro arcade feel, has a boy searching for treasure and shooting foes with his high-powered gunboots. (Score: 98/100)
Best Fiends (Free)* Best Fiends is a mashup of puzzle games, match games and role-playing game adventures. Play a fiend and help fight evil slugs. (Score: 96/100)
Juice Jam (Free)* Juice Jam is a match-three game with a fruity theme: Help the driver of a fruit-juice truck deliver fruit and keep interfering feline bosses at bay. (Score: 95/100)
King of Thieves (Free)* This is a platformer where the focus is on finding gold and gems, keeping them safe from other players, and stealing players’ treasures. (Score: 95/100)
Radiation Island ($2.99) The gamer in Radiation Island is suddenly transported to an island in a parallel universe where he or she must use all of his or her basic survival skills to live. (Score: 92/100)
Android apps
Tiny Guardians ($3.99)* Tiny Guardians features some elements of tower-defense games and card-driven battle games. Protect a girl named Lunalie as she completes quests. (Score: 99/100)
Trivia Crack (Ad free) ($0.99)* Trivia Crack is a trivia game that you play alone or against friends. You choose the category when you challenge friends. (Score: 96/100)
Sky Whale (Free)* Nickelodeon’s Sky Whale features a narwhal that soars through the air collecting doughnuts on its horn. Collect enough doughnuts, and you gain special skills. (Score: 93/100)
Die in 100 Ways (Free) In this game, you attempt to thwart Death, who has devised 100 ways for the characters featured in the app to die. (Score: 89/100)
Tales from the Borderlands (Free)* This is a humorous, action-adventure game featuring con artists trying to pull off a big score in space. (Score: 88/100)
*Available on Apple and Android
Mobilewalla is a search and discovery engine using breakthrough technology to score every app to help consumers navigate the mobile application marketplace. Apps are scored using an algorithm that weighs several characteristics, including user ratings, position within category and staff recommendations. For more app intel, go to www.mobilewalla.com. Anindya Datta is a technologist and founder of Mobilewalla.
This story was originally published January 8, 2016 at 11:28 AM with the headline "Mobilewalla: Fastest Mover apps of 2015."