These games demand careful tactics on the battlefield and clever strategy off it – if you can combine the two, you’ll be unstoppable.
Clash of Clans
Build a beautiful base, with carefully placed barracks and fortifications as far as the eye can see. Then watch with glee as other players fall headfirst into your traps, before you wreak havoc on their headquarters in return. This has been one of the App Store’s most popular games for years, and with good reason: revenge is glorious. As are your soldiers’ moustaches.
State of Survival
Zombies are never an easy fight: you’ve got smarts, but they’ve got numbers. You’ll need to move your squad members into position and deploy power-ups (such as zombie-baiting bombs) at just the right moment to survive these tense battles, before taking time out to fortify your homestead against the horde. With the right upgrades, you might even save the world.
Clash Royale
Clash Royale has the strategic depth of chess, the quick rhythm of tennis and the colour palette of a children’s birthday party. For every tactic in this PvP tower defence game, there’s a countermeasure – we’ll never tire of seeing the opposition drop a Giant in the sure belief that they’ll take out our tower only to turn the tables by unleashing a Skeleton Army in its path. So satisfying!