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Top 20 best free games for Windows or mobile

Check out 20 free games packed with fun!

Microsoft has worked hard on making Windows 10 an excellent operating system for gamers. So much so, that the Microsoft Store is now full of amazing free games that will play just as well on your PC as they will on your Xbox One. Gone are the days of only having Solitaire or Minesweeper to play on your Windows PC. Now, PC games can bring intense gameplay action, massive FPS multiplayer battles, and many different game modes for you to sink your teeth into. Don’t worry about Steam, this list is the 20 best games you can find on the Windows Store.

The 20 best free games on Windows 10

Roblox

It would be a massive understatement to call Roblox a big game. This is because Roblox is about building. You build your character, then you build your world, and then finally, if you’re up to it, you build your own game. You can make as many games as you like, and you can also play as many other people’s games as you like. There is a lot of gameplay action here.

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Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode takes the blocky aesthetic made famous by the open-ended player led Minecraft and adds a story. The game plays a bit like a “choose your own adventure” book with the main characters having lots of adventures and you deciding how they’ll act in certain situations. The game is funny and definitely worth a try. Kids will love it too. It’s also available on iOS and Android.

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Jetpack Joyride

In Jetpack Joyride, you use your jetpack to fly nonstop through a never-ending landscape. It plays a lot like other endless runner games, with the only difference being the obstacles and gold coins you find along the way. Great graphics and a catchy soundtrack make for a light-hearted game that’s not too difficult.

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Judge Dredd vs. Zombies

In Judge Dredd vs. Zombies, you must defend Mega-City One from a zombie attack. Using different weapons, you will clean out zombies from different areas as you move through the various levels of the game.

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Roman Empire

A bit like in Age of Empires, in Roman Empire, you take on the role of power-hungry Caesar. Your goal? To conquer Europe. You’ll have to vanquish neighboring villages, create alliances, and make spur of the moment decisions. Time to rule the world.

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Microsoft Treasure Hunt

Microsoft Treasure Hunt is a new take on a classic puzzle game. It builds new elements on to the Minesweeper game as you search through underground tombs in search of long-lost treasure. A great game for anybody who loves to think.

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Monkey Flight

Fans of Angry Birds will enjoy Monkey Flight. The aim of the game is to throw your monkeys at flying fruit that passes you by, taking advantage of all the special items you can find to help your mission.

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My Country

In this copy of SimCity, your mission is to build a bustling metropolis. You’ll have to build and place various buildings, roads, and other utilities to create all the necessary infrastructure. If the people are happy, revenues will increase and your building plans will be safe, but if you don’t organize yourself well enough, you’ll find that you’ll soon lose control of your city planning.

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3D Boat Race

3D Boat Race lets you take part in adrenaline-fuelled, high-octane boat races through some fantastic aquatic locations. Make sure you stay in the arches as you fly around the course though, you don’t want to be disqualified.

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Asphalt 8: Airborne

For more rip-roaring racing action, you can’t go wrong with Asphalt 8: Airborne. Start your engines and hit the streets for this high-energy multiplayer beast. Free games shouldn’t be this good.

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Paper Dash

This game is a remake of the classic, Paperboy. The main character is a paperboy and you need to steer him around the obstacles that he’ll find on his paper route. Simple, but fun.

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Parking Mania

The noble art of parking is recreated in Parking Mania. The aim is to park your car in a particular space. Just as in real life, however, this isn’t always easy – there’s little room to maneuver and the best spots are already occupied by other cars. Unlike with real parking, however, you’ll also need to keep an eye out for coins and other bonuses.

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Radiant Defense

This is a colorful tower defense game. In your role as commander of a space station, you must defend the station against external attacks. Slow down and ultimately defeat your opponents by positioning defensive towers and walls.

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3D Marble Tracks

3D Marble Tracks is an interesting mix of mini-golf, bobsled racing, and billiards. You’re going to need a lot of patience and a steady hand to get to the end!

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SoulCraft

This time we have an action-packed role-playing game full of sinister characters. In Soulcraft, you fight your way through a colorful fantasy world as an angel, demon, or human being. You need to build up your character by gaining experience in combat, weapons, and objects.

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Trick Shot Bowling

Trick Shot Bowling is a classic bowling game where you can choose to play against the computer or real opponents. You’ll need to decide for yourself where to aim and how hard to bowl the ball depending on the pins that are left standing in front of you.

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Agent P Strikes Back

This fun adventure stars Perry the Platypus, a character from the animated series Phineas and Ferb. The game is a basic platformer that sees you jump between platforms and defend yourself against a series of animals that Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz has released to wreak havoc.

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Drift Mania Championship 2

Drift Mania Championship 2 is a fun racing game with good graphics and a catchy soundtrack. This isn’t just about being the best driver or winning the race, it is about looking good as you take the corners.

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Guns 4 Hire

In this fast-paced action shooting game, characters are armed to the teeth. The control system is similar to that of Command & Conquer.

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Sniper Fury

Sniper Fury is an excellent First-Person Shooter for Windows 10. As the name suggests, however, the action concentrates on sniping enemies from far away. With amazing graphics, this is one you should definitely give a go.

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Top 5 free puzzle apps that are worth your time

Throw knives and flip guns with some of the games on this list!

When you’re surfing the web or social media, you’re bombarded by dozens of ads for games. Most of these are hardly worth your time. However, some of them look like they might be worth a download!

We sifted through the swamp of bad games and found these five great puzzle games. If you have a few minutes to kill, these can be a lot of fun.

All of these games are free, but they do have a paid version if you don’t want to see ads. However, the ads aren’t that frequent in comparison to other free mobile games.

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Top 5 free puzzle game apps that are worth your time

Slices

Slices isn’t worst game on this list, but it is still very addictive. Basically, you have a pie that’s cut into six pieces. You have to make pies out of different pieces, but you only have six tins. Also, slices come in different shapes, and you can’t put the same shape into the same tin.

This will keep you entertaining, and also make you a little hungry.

The reason it ranks so low is because there are instances when you’ll do everything right, but you’ll lose anyway. In the rest of these games, if you are quick enough, and plan ahead, you can keep playing. Slices doesn’t always play that way.

There is an option to pay for a “save” so you don’t lose a round, or you can sometimes watch an ad to get saved. We’d recommend toughing it out, and starting it over since there’s no guarantee that you won’t lose within the next few slices anyway.

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Jelly Shift

Jelly Shift is basically that old game show “Hole in the Wall,” but without the human suffering.

You control a wad of jelly as it travels through an obstacle course. You have to resize yourself in order to clear various hurdles.

Where the game is really fun is the unlockables. Over time, you’ll unlock different skins for your jelly including ones that make it look like an animal.

After a while, this game can get kind of boring as most of the levels just feel like more of the same. However, if you have 10 minutes to kill, this can be a lot of fun.

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Helix Jump

Oh man, time flies when you’re playing Helix Jump!

In the game, you control a bouncing ball as it makes its way down a twisty tower. On each level of the tower there is a patch of area that will cause you to lose. Your goal is to reach the bottom of the tower without hitting any of those patches.

As you progress, the towers get bigger and bigger and get more and more challenging. However, you have a secret weapon. If you build up some momentum and pass through multiple layers without touching the ground, you can become invincible and bust through a layer.

Helix Jump is a lot of fun; just make sure you don’t spend more time playing than you intended.

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FlipTheGun

This is one of the most non-conventional shooting games that you’ll ever find.

In FlipTheGun, you control a gun that propels through the air by firing. You lose if you run out of ammo or if you fall to your demise. you can collect ammo by hitting the lime-green bullets in the air. You can also collect coins which you can use to buy other guns.

Other guns include shotguns, rifles, snipers, lasers, freeze-rays, squirt guns, and even money-cannons. A lot of the fun in this game comes from collecting the different guns to determine which is the best one for you.

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Knife Hit

Knife Hit has a dumb name, but it’s an awesome concept. You act like an assassin as you throw knives at a target, trying not to clink off other knives. This one will make you feel like John Wick.

Like FlipTheGun, you can collect different types of knives. However, you have an insane amount of knives you can collect in this game. There are currently 136 knives you can unlock, and that doesn’t include the 40+ you can buy if you really want them. Also, the game is always updating to include new knives.

The game even has boss fights! You can face off against bosses, and if you win, you get a cool new knife!

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Wrapping up

What’s your favorite game to play to kill some time? Do you like puzzle games or do you prefer an adventure game? Let us know in the comments below!

How to play Words Story

Ready to try Words Story?

Words Story is an unusual take on the mobile word game in that it’s part clever word game and part narrative. While the narrative itself isn’t the most compelling, it’s still neat to be given an actual storyline in a free mobile game. The story follows the plight of a crafty but determined prisoner as he attempts to “Shawshank Redemption” his way to freedom.

The game takes place over the course of 200 days of digging, waiting, scheming, and bribing the guards as you dream of sweet freedom beyond the brick walls and steel bars. Get through those 200 days, though, and you’ll reach the liberating embrace of the ocean.

Words Story chapter 2 Trust — The story spans 200 days in prison, divided into multiple ‘chapters.’

How do you play?

At its core, Words Story is a simple word unscrambling game. Each ‘day’ you’re presented with a new set of letters, the goal is to find the correct word hidden among them. Of course, there will be other words you’ll find that are not the correct one, and should you find them, the game rewards you with extra coins (just click the chest to accept them).

Words Story extra words collected for coins — Find extra hidden words and you’ll get to collect extra coins.

Many of the words you’ll unscramble are irrelevant to the plot, such as “hate,” “cat,” “pink,” or “meat.” The game does try to fit in as many related words as possible, so those should be your first guess. These are words like “map,” “beat,” “dig,” “file,” or “bag.” Typically you’ll get a relevant word every two or three ‘days’ of the game, after which you’ll be rewarded a short cutscene and your overall escape progress.

Words Story progress digging to freedom — Dig your way closer to freedom – day by day, inch by inch.

When you’re unscrambling words, there will also be a couple of tools to help you. One trick is to deliberately submit a word that’s not correct. Doing so will eliminate any letters you used for that word that are not in the solution. Also pay attention to the color of the letters after you place them: Blue means correct letter in the correct spot, while yellow means right letter, wrong placement.

Words Story wrong letters earn coins — Find hidden words to earn extra coin and eliminate variables

On the bottom left, there’s also an option to re-scramble the letter pool, which can help if you’re having a hard time visualizing the solution. On the bottom right there’s a bomb, which removes several incorrect letters from the pool immediately. You have unlimited uses for the bomb, but it does have a cooldown you have to wait for.

If you’re trying to get the most coins, you probably won’t be using the bomb much; it just eliminates letters you could otherwise use for extra words.

Words Story bomb remove letters — Remove multiple variables at once with a powerful bomb

How difficult is the game?

While typically word games will grow in difficulty by asking for longer words, Words Story does not do this. All the mystery words in the game typically vary between 3-6 letters, the tough part is that there are so many letters to choose from.

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What starts as four possible letters to pick from turns into 15 by day 160. Additionally, since the mystery words are not always relevant to the prison escape story, it can get pretty hard to guess what random word the game wants.

Words Story tap letters to spell mystery word — More and more letters are added as you progress further

That said, the game is not too tough. There’s no time restriction and there’s no punishment for incorrect guesses, which means it’s just a matter of time before you get the right one.

If you find the game too difficult, there are plenty of online walkthroughs to help you out:

Is the game free?

All levels in Words Story are free, as are the hints. You can choose to buy coins, but there’s really no point to doing so; you have nothing in the game to purchase.

Words Story in-game purchases, coin shop — Words Story has microtransactions, but coins in-game don’t serve any purpose.

Can you remove the ads?

Yes. Ads in this game another way you can earn in-game coins. As we said earlier though, coins in this game don’t actually serve any purpose, so there’s no incentive to watch ads. The good news is that Words Story lacks any online features other than the ads so if they’re bothering you all you need to do is turn off your internet connection or cellular and you’ll no longer be bothered by them.

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All in all, Words Story is an easy word unscrambling game for all ages that serves to pass the time and test your vocabulary a bit. For a free game, it definitely accomplishes what it sets out to do. Enjoy the game, and if you get stuck check out this video that takes you from day 1 to 200. Until then, feel free to check out Words Story along with Zhou Jiaping’s other work right here.

Jurassic World: Alive lets you feed the dinosaurs

The new update for Jurassic World: Alive lets you feed your dinosaurs!

In its newest update, Jurassic World: Alive is giving players the option to feed dinosaurs!

To feed your dinosaurs, follow these steps:

Log into the game as you normally do
Click on the Jurassic Park logo in the menu below
Click on one of the dinosaurs in your team (If you don’t have any dinos on your team, you can’t feed your dinos)
Click on AR (it’s to the right of your dinosaur’s name)
Make sure you are in an open area where you can spawn your dinosaur
Tap the screen in order to spawn your dino
Use your finger to move him to a specific location. You can also pinch the screen to resize the dinosaur.
Click on the food button (It’s a picture of a steak next to some vegetables)
That’s it! You’re now feeding your dinosaur

Depending on whether you are feeding an herbivore or a carnivore, you will feed him either plants or an animal.

Feeding an animal is not nearly as exciting as the scene in the movie, but it’s still fun!

Basically, your dinosaurs are now like Tamagotchis… just bigger, scalier, and with a lot more teeth.

If this sounds like fun to you, you can download the app below, and let the feeding frenzy begin!

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Guide to Polysphere

This free game is great for relaxing.

Have you ever stared at the sky and try to pick out shapes in the clouds? That’s basically Polysphere in a nutshell. And just like staring at clouds, the game is simple, relaxing, meditative – and now it’s right in your pocket for free.

What is Polysphere?

Polysphere is a mobile game from German developer Playgendary, and at its heart is a simple 3D puzzle experience. Available for free on Google Play and in the App Store, the game is a series of ‘puzzles,’ that are all fragmented images. What you’ll see on-screen is a series of colored shapes that stationary. Your job is to drag and spin the cloud of 3D pieces around until you angle it just right and the picture becomes apparent.

Tips

The best strategy to solving the puzzle is to start by matching the colors. This is especially useful with images that only use one two or three colors. If you start by matching them together, the image will quickly become more apparent. When you’re dealing with a smattering of green and a whole sea of red, clumping the green together makes the strawberry a lot easier to visualize. Another good tip is to remember to swipe up and down, too; not just left and right. All the puzzles are 3D, so depth is just as much of a factor as width and angle.

Polysphere strawberry puzzle — Pro tip: Match the colors together, then slowly rotate the image.

Once in a while, you’ll figure out what the image is, but things aren’t lining up quite right anyway. That usually means you’ve got the image backward. Try spinning the puzzle 180 degrees to reverse it, and it’ll probably match up right to the solution.

Unwind and decompress with Polysphere

Sure there are a couple of tips to mastering the game, but for the most part, this is not a difficult game; that wasn’t Playgendary’s goal. The game’s simplistic charm and intuitive controls are the real selling point, and for the price of “free,” you can see why the game has over 10 million installs.

“It doesn’t really have an objective,” wrote one 5-star reviewer. “Tranquil music plays while I spin the fragments round and round in space. There’s no pressure to achieve anything. I don’t have to slay dragons [or] play like I’m some kind of sharp shooter. With this game, I don’t have to be anything, just have fun. This is a great game for relieving stress, and just relaxing.”

Polysphere unicorn puzzle — After a busy day, chilling with Polysphere is very therapeutic

Polysphere takes up 54M of space and is available for free right now. Grab it today and enjoy!

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Top 8 mobile games for children

These 8 games can entertain your kids while helping them learn.

Once your child is a teenager, they are able to navigate their mobile apps on their own for the most part. Before that, it can be difficult to decide what you want your child’s mobile device to have on it. Thankfully, there are games out there for children of all ages. Typically, these games are educational, and lack many of the ads that you see on mobile games for older audiences. This can prevent your child from accidentally accessing sites and apps that you don’t want them to go to. Since smartphones are more readily available for kids then ever before, it’s important to have something safe and fun for them to do on these phones. Here are some of the best mobile apps out there to help you keep your child entertained.

8 best tablet and phone games for kids

8. PBS Kids Games

PBS is well known for providing educational and entertaining content for kids, and their games app is no exception. With a plethora of games to choose from, young kids will never get bored of all the exciting stuff that this app has to offer. Each game teaches valuable lessons to the kids who play them, and it even has integration with some of its PBS Kids television programming, so if your child is a fan of PBS Kids then they will see some familiar faces, like Elmo from Sesame Street.

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7. Super Why! ABC Adventure

Similar to PBS Kids Games, the Super Why! ABC Adventure game takes the characters from the popular TV show of the same title, and adapts them to a group of mini-games that are addicting and educational for young children. In case you don’t know what Super Why! is, it’s a popular PBS kids show with a superhero protagonist. This superhero uses spelling (and other English-learning skills) to solve problems and fight crime, and the game follows this same principle. It’s great inspiration for young minds.

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6. Pokémon Playhouse & Camp Pokémon

Unsurprisingly, Pokémon has two games dedicated specifically to kids. Of course, all Pokémon mobile games can be enjoyed by kids, but these two provide minigames that are created for specific age groups. Pokémon Playhouse is reminiscent of Mickey Mouse’s playhouse, and is made for children under six, while Camp Pokémon is for children over six. The minigames are filled with some great interactive options that teach kids various skills as they play with their Pokémon.

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5. LEGO Juniors Quest

One of the few highly recognizable mobile game companies that doesn’t have in-app purchases, LEGO has done an excellent job of creating an immersive game that lets children express their creativity to the fullest. This game will save you a lot of stubbed toes, as it lets you keep all your child’s LEGOs in a digital format. They can essentially do anything they could with regular legos, which makes the game very intuitive. There are a variety of LEGO Junior games out there, and LEGO Junior Quest is the best game for following a storyline.

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4. Artie’s World

For children who like to draw, this game lets you save money on drawing supplies. There are surprisingly few games that actually focus on drawing for children the way a coloring book would, and none are as interactive as Artie’s World. Though this game is primarily for young children, it allows drawing and coloring of many different objects and images. It can help teach your child early artistic skills, while also letting them express themselves through their art. It is a great game for any creative child.

3. Justice League Action Run

A superhero version of Temple Run that your kids will be sure to love. It is also one of the few games on this list that requires very little reading or sound, as the game itself is self-explanatory. This means your child can pick up this game at any age and get wrapped up into a world of superheroes.

2. Rosetta Stone Kids

Learning a new language is not only easier for kids, but it can be a fun and exciting process. Anyone who has used Rosetta Stone or Duolingo to try and learn a new language may know the kind of games and challenges they entail. The kids’ version is similar but specifically created for young people to keep them engaged. Whether you live in a bilingual family or you’re just trying to give your child more opportunities, this app is a free way to help your kids learn something new and have fun while doing it.

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1. Minecraft Pocket Edition

While not exclusively a kids’ game, Minecraft is one of those games that appeals to all ages. It gives the creative freedom for a child to create a whole world of their own. It even has a vibrant community of children, so your child will be able to talk to their peers about it. It allows a kid to bring imaginative play to the next level by letting them create their own world. Whether they choose to be a builder in creative mode, or an adventurer in survival mode, your kid will find more amusement and opportunities for self-expression from this game than any other out there.

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If your child is more into puzzle games, then you’ll want to check out our Softonic Solutions page where our community has ranked the eight best puzzle games for kids.