Mobilewalla: The best bug-themed apps
While it’s cold and most bugs are, thankfully, gone for the winter, we can enjoy playing bug-themed games — until the real bugs return and we don’t think they are so cute anymore.
Apple apps
Bug Heroes (Free) Bug Heroes is a mashup of tower-defense, shooter and role-playing games. Become a hero among bugs, defending your home base from foes. (Score: 92/100)
Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary (Free)* In this game, you build a beautiful Eden for butterflies and help them through each stage of their life cycles. (Score: 91/100)
Ant Run (Free) Tilt your screen in Ant Run, and you’ll control an ant running through the world, searching for fruit and trying to avoid collisions with obstacles. (Score: 88/100)
Pocket Pest Insect Smasher — Smash Ant Bug & Cockroach (Free) This game features bug-smashing mayhem: Smash as many bugs as you can, and avoid hitting spiders. (Score: 85/100)
Bug Village HD (Free)* Bug Village HD is a world builder where you help build habitats for ants and bees and help them find food in the virtual garden you tend. (Score: 83/100)
Android apps
Bugs War (Free) In this touch-based game, you’ll use your fingers to destroy a variety of bugs that cross your screen. (Score: 96/100)
Greedy Spiders Free (Free)* Spiders have trapped cute bugs in their webs; in Greedy Spiders, you’ll solve puzzles to save the bugs from becoming spider snacks. (Score: 93/100)
Butterfly Bait for[+]HOME (Free) This feminine theme for your mobile device features elements decorated with florals and butterflies that you can use to replace default items. (Score: 92/100)
Talking Butterfly (Free)* This app for children features a butterfly named Beth whom children can interact with through voice and touch. (Score: 89/100)
Turbo Bugs 2 (Free)* In this running game, you play a bug motivated to keep moving by a mean kid threatening to kill it with the sun and his magnifying glass. (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 22, 2016 at 2:27 PM with the headline "Mobilewalla: The best bug-themed apps."