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SokoSave 345-Advanced version of Sokoban

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Few would've thought that a game about packing boxes in a factory could become so popular. Sokoban, which is Japanese for 'warehouse keeper' became popular on gaming platforms of the 1980s and there are now loads of versions available, especially on mobile platforms.

SokoSave is one of the better versions of the game you'll come across. The freeware comes with lots of features and settings designed to make your experience of the puzzler all the more enjoyable.

For starters, there's a playback history feature which allows you to undo one or more moves. This is done simply by sliding the slider backwards - or forwards if you want to redo the move. The playback section also lets you jump to a particular move, and can even replay all of your moves in slow motion.

The game controls in SokoSave are a bit confusing at first as they work differently to other Sokoban clones I've played on Windows Mobile. Luckily though, you get to choose whether to use the touchscreen or directional buttons to move the boxes around - so you can find the best control method for you.

One thing I love about SokoSave is the degree of control it gives you over your game. Not only can you alter graphical elements such as animation, background, orientation, etc., but SokoSave also lets you choose which levels you want to play. This is great for if you get stuck as it means you don't have to complete a puzzle in order to move onto the next.

If you're a fan of Sokoban then I challenge you to find a better Windows Mobile version of the game than SokoSave.

Download SokoSave 345 in Softonic


Snow Rally Canada 1.1-Explore Canada in this Pocket PC rally game

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If you're a fan of classic console touring games like Sega Rally or Colin McCrae Rally then you may be interested in installing Snow Rally Canada on your mobile.

Set across eight different areas of Canada with distinctly different terrain, this game provides a remarkably realistic driving experience on the small screen. The 3D graphics and animation are exceptional, the audio soundtrack is lively and in-keeping with the high octane action. You even get video replays of your races to show you how you did.

You get a choice of eight different rally cars, and while they're not officially licensed (i.e. 'real' models) vehicles, each has its own unique characteristics, meaning that some are better at handling, while others are more suited to high acceleration or very fast top speeds.

While the presentation of the game is first class, Snow Rally Canada suffers somewhat in terms of its controls. The directional buttons on your mobile are used to turn left and right as well as for accelerating and braking. Sounds simple in theory, but I found them to be overly sensitive and the fact that the car auto-accelerates means that you'll need a lot of practice just to stay on the track. I managed to spend a whole circuit time exploring the flora and fauna of Canada , barely touching the road at all - and not deliberately!

However, if you're a big fan of rally games and have the patience to master the fiddly controls, Snow Rally Canada represents a fast and well-presented mobile experience.

Download Snow Rally Canada 1.1 in Softonic

Pocket Sudoku 1.0-Generate Sudokus in five levels of difficulty

Hashira-Tetris clone with a Japanese twist

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Right, OK people who make games based on Tetris or Bejeweled, let's get one thing straight - this is not an original concept and people already have so many of these type of games to choose from on their mobile phone that you're just making things even more complicated. So stop. Now.

Well I guess it's too late to ask Relo Design, who have already developed and released this clone but I'll let them off because it's actually quite good. Hashira is basically Tetris with a Japanese twist. As with the original game, the object is to eliminate as many blocks as possible by joining them up, only this time it's based around matching colours rather than lines.

The graphics are beautifully rendered with some colourfully designed blocks and subtle background photos. You also get lots of options for customising your games, including options to enable or disable sounds, or change the controls.

Hashira is a nicely designed puzzle game that will amuse you for some time. Ultimately though it's just a rehashed Tetris, like so many mobile games these days. I only hope this will be the last of its kind I have to review. Somehow I doubt that.

Download Hashira in Softonic

Towers of Glennoi 2.1-Brain-bending Towers of Hannoi clone

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The best puzzle games are often the ones that are simple to play, yet seem impossible to complete. This is definitely applicable to Towers of Glennoi, a Windows Mobile version of the popular classic, Towers of Hannoi.

The object of Towers of Glennoi is to move the tower of blocks from one side of the screen to the other. Sounds simple, right? Well, it's not, because you have to move the blocks one and a time and can only put blocks in ascending order of size.

As a result, Towers of Hannoi becomes a question of shuffling the blocks between the different poles in order to be able to stack them in order on the correct pole (the one on the far right).

Towers of Glennoi proves an enjoyable and challenging puzzle game, although it is pretty limited. There is only one game mode and you only have eight levels to play. The graphics are neat and tidy without being sensational. Also, I would've liked to see the inclusion of an 'Undo' feature that lets you take back the previous turn if you've made a mistake.

A perplexing timewaster, Towers of Glennoi is worth downloading for a long train journey. Just don't expect to be playing it forever.

Download Towers of Glennoi 2.1 in Softonic

NS Pairs 1.01-Test your powers of recall

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Since before brain training was fashionable, the game of Pairs has been one of the best ways to put your gray matter to the test.

NS Pairs is a Windows Mobile version of the memory-enhancing game, which challenges you to match the cards in the fastest time possible. There are three difficulty levels to choose from: Easy (you start with 12 cards), Normal (20 cards), and Hard (36 cards).

Once you click 'Start' you'll get a few seconds to survey the cards and must try to remember which card is where. When the time is up the cards are flipped over and the game begins. You just need to select a card by clicking on it to turn it over then, if the next card you select has a matching picture, the cards disappear.

There is a high scores table for each of the difficulty levels in NS Pairs, where you compete with yourself to achieve the lowest possible number of moves in the shortest amount of time possible.

Pairs is a tried-and-trusted game format, and this version makes for a stimulating and enjoyable brain-teaser. Unfortunately, NS Pairs fails to really add anything to the format so don't expect any extra features, customization options, or anything.

Put simply, NS Pairs is a good way to pass a bus journey but it's not exactly mind-bowling in its originality.

Download NS Pairs 1.01 in Softonic

Travel Genius 1.0-Test your knowledge of geography

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Travel Genius tests your knowledge of Planet Earth with a series of quizzes about countries, cities, oceans and flags.

The game poses you a question about a place and you have to locate it by clicking on the relevant grid on the map. In most cases you don't need to be too specific in Travel Genius because the grid squares are quite big, but it can still be quite tough especially on the hardest of the two difficulty levels.

After each level you complete in Travel Genius you will open up new quizzes, all of which are displayed on a bookshelf in the main menu. Your performance is measure in an 'IQ' section, where a graph displays your progress over time. Here you can see how your scores match up to the recommended averages for beginner, expert and professional levels. Travel Genius even includes an online high scores table so you can challenge the rest of the World.

If we were to pick one hole in Travel Genius it would be that same questions come up quite often when you go back and play levels again, which gets quite annoying.

But if you want to discover how much you really know about our planet then Travel Genius offers a fun way to do so.

Download Travel Genius 1.0 in Softonic

Puzzlic 1.01-Brain-bending jigsaw puzzle game

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Jigsaw puzzles are great fun, but they're not particularly portable, as anyone who has tried playing one on the bus will testify.

Puzzlic is a jigsaw game that you can take anywhere with you on your Pocket PC. The object of the game is to arrange a picture from a series of pieces within a given time. It sounds quite easy, but believe me - it's not.

Puzzlic starts with a picture that's displayed on screen for a few seconds. You must then use the pieces that are displayed at the bottom of the screen in order to assemble the picture. You can change the piece by clicking on the left and right buttons and add it to the picture by clicking on a blank square on the board.

The most challenging, and ultimately, the most frustrating, part of Puzzlic is that if you try to put a piece in the wrong place a couple of torpedoes are launched, firing outwards from the square your own and destroying any pieces that are in that row or column. It becomes quite sickening when you've almost completed the puzzle only to make a couple of errors and the whole thing is destroyed.

Puzzlic is certainly an interesting take on the jigsaw puzzle format. However, I'd liken trying to play Puzzlic to having a baby brother who thinks it's funny to come and bash up your puzzle just as you're putting the last piece in. Hence, I would've preferred a game where you're just playing against the clock, without the stupid torpedoes.

If you want something to challenge you on long journeys, Puzzlic will oblige. Most people will soon get annoyed by its difficulty though.

Download Puzzlic 1.01 in Softonic


Myst 1.21-PPC version of the surreal logic-adventure game

Shift 1.06-Eliminate squares using the touchscreen

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I love a good puzzle game to keep me occupied on a long bus or train journey, but I'm fed up of all the Tetris or Sudoku clones that keep springing up on mobile platforms.

Shift makes for a refreshing break on Windows Mobile, with some innovative gameplay that will keep you hooked for ages. The game consists of a series of coloured blocks with faces on that you must match together in groups of three or more to clear them. The difference between this and games like Tetris is that all the blocks move as one big lump.

Shift makes full use of the touchscreen, allowing you to tap any of the four directional arrows to move the blocks in that way. I'll admit that, at first, it tried my patience somewhat, and I thought I'd never score more than a few points. With a bit of persistence though I was able to rack up combos and hit some seriously good scores (even if I do say so myself!) After that it would take a meteor (or, in reality, the fact I had to write a review about it) to get me off this one.

It can become somewhat repetitive but the inclusion of two difficulty levels and a high scores table adds to the longevity of Shift. You can also choose to show or hide the next bricks to test yourself even further.

This is an innovative puzzle game with colourful graphics that's perfect for those tedious bus journies. Just be careful you don't miss your stop!

Download Shift 1.06 in Softonic

Bubble Golden Pack-Try these three bubble-connected games on your Pocket PC

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Match the colors and pop the bubbles. These games are as addictive as Tertris and even more fun! All the games of Buble series combined into one! Now you can install these games - Bubble Shooter, Bubble Thriller and Bubble FlyTrix in one go, and have great fun for months to come. This is a version for color devices.

Three fun games in one download!

Download Bubble Golden Pack in Softonic

Sudoku Master 1.55-4 themes and 5 levels of addictive Sudoku action

Pocket Kokonotsu 1.01-Excellent production of a hyper-addictive Sudoku

MooreGames 1.0-13 free minigames for Pocket PC

SuperDoku 1.1-Eight levels of difficulty in this Sudoku game

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Few can have read a newspaper or commuted to work in the last couple of years without coming across Sudoku, the hugely popular Japanese logic puzzle. For those as yet unschooled in the art of writing numbers on grids, Sudoku is really much simpler than it looks. Of course, the best way to find out what all the hype is about is to try Sudoku for yourself.

SuperDoku is a free Sudoku program for Pocket PCs which combines the original simplicity of the basic puzzle with a range of new and handy features. Because it offers you the chance to play with skins (like gems or ancient hieroglyphs) instead of numbers, SuperDoku extends the longevity of each game, and offers a practical way of demystifying the puzzle for those with a fear of numbers.

Along with its pleasing design, SuperDoku is packed with features to make your Sudoku experience more fun. The game boasts 8 levels of difficulty which can only be accessed on completion of the previous level. Along with 2 hint modes (one which shows you a good cell to start from and another which actually fills in a cell for you), SuperDoku has one feature we liked in particular: the ‘reveal mistakes’ tool. For anyone starting out with Sudoku, this feature – which would be impossible in a newspaper – is an excellent way of checking if your first tentative steps toward completing a puzzle are in the right direction.

SuperDoku also offers you the chance to enter the puzzle in today’s newspaper so that you can take that Sudoku with you without having to carry the newspaper. This feature also means that you can use SuperDoku to help you with printed puzzles if you’re having trouble solving them.

On the down side, the game does feature a save and load function but this is limited to just 5 puzzles. We felt that the ability to have as many grids saved as you like would be a better implementation of the save function but 5 is clearly better than none. This small disappointment is certainly not enough to put us off this great little implementation of Sudoku on Pocket PCs. Other standard electronic features (pencil marks, auto pencil marks, bold original puzzle and more) are all included and are often better implemented than in other choices on the market.

SuperDoku is a robust, fun and well designed way of playing Sudoku on the go. The range of features included on this freeware product is truly impressive. Perfect for experts and beginners alike, SuperDoku guarantees hours of fun on your Pocket PC.

Download SuperDoku 1.1 in Softonic


Obulis 1.0-Use the power of gravity to your advantage in this original game

RushHour 4.4-Rescue your car from parking lot carnage

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In the rush to get their stores built as quickly as possible, many supermarkets are now cutting corners when launching new outlets and using sub-standard materials, or sub-standard building crews.

I have many heard horror stories about car parks collapsing and floors subsiding and I've often wondered how I would react if I was trapped in such a grim situation.

Well now I know exactly how I would react, after playing RushHour on the Pocket PC.

This entertaining logic puzzle game provides an interesting distraction for sharp minds.

The premise of the game is that you go to collect your car from the parking lot only to discover that the floor of it has completely collapsed.

In order to get your vehicle out you need to undertake 40 levels of tormenting puzzles, moving all the cars in the right order to get to yours.

OK, when I say move the cars, I mean move a series of coloured rectangles that actually look nothing like cars, not even if you squint your eyes or turn the screen upside-down.

Yep, the graphics are very basic to say the least. There's nothing in the way of sound effects either, so in terms of presentation RushHour is a bit of a car wreck.

Ignoring these issues, the game is actually pretty captivating and although negotiating the levels can get infuriating, it's one of those where you simply must solve them to avoid lying awake all night thinking about coloured blocks.

Download RushHour 4.4 in Softonic

Snow Rally Canada 1.1-Explore Canada in this Pocket PC rally game

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If you're a fan of classic console touring games like Sega Rally or Colin McCrae Rally then you may be interested in installing Snow Rally Canada on your mobile.

Set across eight different areas of Canada with distinctly different terrain, this game provides a remarkably realistic driving experience on the small screen. The 3D graphics and animation are exceptional, the audio soundtrack is lively and in-keeping with the high octane action. You even get video replays of your races to show you how you did.

You get a choice of eight different rally cars, and while they're not officially licensed (i.e. 'real' models) vehicles, each has its own unique characteristics, meaning that some are better at handling, while others are more suited to high acceleration or very fast top speeds.

While the presentation of the game is first class, Snow Rally Canada suffers somewhat in terms of its controls. The directional buttons on your mobile are used to turn left and right as well as for accelerating and braking. Sounds simple in theory, but I found them to be overly sensitive and the fact that the car auto-accelerates means that you'll need a lot of practice just to stay on the track. I managed to spend a whole circuit time exploring the flora and fauna of Canada , barely touching the road at all - and not deliberately!

However, if you're a big fan of rally games and have the patience to master the fiddly controls, Snow Rally Canada represents a fast and well-presented mobile experience.

Download Snow Rally Canada 1.1 in Softonic

Simbsoft Volleyball 1.2-Block and volley in this cool summer game

Real Bubbles Free Edition 1.0-Burst the bubbles to score points

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Real Bubbles is a Pocket PC version of a classic puzzle game. The object of the game is to burst as many bubbles as you can and clear the board.

You're faced with a collection of different-colored bubbles and must fire bubbles at these in order to form a cluster of three or more same-colored bubbles. When you do this, the bubbles disappear and any bubbles above will shift upwards. You need to keep going until all of the bubbles have gone.

This is easier said than done though, and the truth is that Real Bubbles becomes really repetitive really quickly. It seems to take forever to clear the board of bubbles, and you start to lose interest after a while.

It wouldn't be so bad if there were combos, power-ups and the like included in Real Bubbles to spice it up. You are able to change the size of the bubbles and choose the colors, though.

All in all, Real Bubbles is a distinctly mediocre Puzzle Bobble clone.

Download Real Bubbles Free Edition 1.0 in Softonic

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