Four Great, FREE Games For Your Smartphone

With a crowded appstores full of games for your smartphone, it can be hard to find a great value experience for your daily commute, waiting room, or toilet seat. Other than Angry Birds and Temple Run, there are some great free games out there for you to try. Here are some of the best of them.

Dots

Dots is a simple connect the dots game in a similar vein to the gem and candy collecting you do in Bejewelled and Candy Crush. You connect same-coloured dots to achieve the highest score possible, and you have to this with a limited amount of time or of turns (your pick). Each dot you earn can be spent on Power Ups, which will then significantly boost your score. 

It's simple, easy to learn, and you can play it whether you've got five minutes or five hours.

Heroes of Dragon Age

Whether you've played the Dragon Age series on consoles or not, this free strategy game is not only fun, but you can sink hours into it without realising it. You'll collect various heroes and creatures from Dragon Age lore and can then take them on epic adventures across the lands of Thedas. You can even pit your heroes against those of your friends!

So whether you're a fan who wants more Dragon Age, or you just want a more strategic game, Heroes of Dragon Age is the game for you.

Star Wars: Tiny Death Star

If you're a fan of games, you've probably been in charge of running a virtual city (or farm or theme park or zoo) before. But here's a new one: run the Death Star from Star Wars. It's your job to find people to house on the planet-crushing space station. There, you'll provide floors that accommodate both your citizens' needs and the needs of the glorious Emperor Palpatine. You'll also be able to re-create classic scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy, featuring characters like Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. All while you are perfecting the perfect weapon of planetary destruction?

Is that a moon, Obi-Wan? No, it's just my smartphone. Feel the hate surge within you, young Skywalker.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Speaking of running cities, Homer Simpson has gone and done it! After a typical mishap at the nuclear plant, Springfield has been flattened. Now it's up to you to rebuild Springfield. You'll choose where to plop down and rebuild classic buildings like Krusty Burger, the Simpsons' house, and Bart's favourite place to be: the school.

In the meantime, you're also sending characters from the show on various missions to help put the town back together, and it's quite fun to see your favourite character change into an outfit better suited to the task you're sending him or her on.

The game is also very good about updates, with seasonal and episode-based updates being incorporated rather regularly, as well as the addition of Krustyland, Krusty Clown's theme park.

It's got character, it's got characters, it will keep you coming back, and it's completely free! A must for any fan on the Simpsons. 

Jared Salter is a graduate writer who has been playing video games since little Link played his first notes in the Ocarina of Time. He often uses Flexirent to try out the latest in gaming technology.