Addictive arcade! The best games to get you hooked

Call of Duty MobileWith PubG gone for god knows how long the void is being filled by a bunch of clones including Free Fire and FauG However Call of Duty holds its own amongst the crowded market of battle royale games The game features lots of social elements just like PubG and the players need skills to surviveLudo KingLudo King is possibly one of the biggest casual games in India right now Not too much has changed from the original board version of the game except maybe getting fancy dice and some powerups that can give you a small advantage2048You will find versions of this game all over the place and it isnrsquot a complicated mathbased game It is more of a sorting puzzle game where the objective is to keep combining all the numbers by moving left right up and down till you reach the goal The game ends when you canrsquot move the grid anymorePacman 256The grand ole daddy of gaming addiction is Pacman With its new avatar the game brings a maze that never ends and local coop multiplayer for up to four players There are also newer powerups that do a lot more than give you points Be prepared to fall in love all over again with this oneAngry Birds 2Angry Birds 2 gave us more of what made the first game so addictive Angry birds a slingshot and puzzles The formula worked so well that the game is addictive even today Like PVZ 2 this one also introduced social elements which allow you to form clans and pit your skills against a random stranger on the InternetSouth Park Phone destroyerThis South Park TV showbased tower defence game has you finding powerful character cards and defeating real opponents all from your phone The game has a lot of strategies involved and battles take place all over South Park sporting very familiar locations from the TV show as arenas The game has enough chops to be a serious esports game though there arenrsquot any international championships happening anytime soonClash RoyaleClash Royale is part card game part realtime strategy and part tower defence The object is to defeat your opponentrsquos towers and defend your own in the three minutes of the allotted time As you get to a higher level the competition gets even tougher and thatrsquos the beauty of this gameHearthstoneHearthstone is a crazy popular card game with magic myth and heroes from the Warcraft universe The game is extremely addictive and super fun to play If you are good at it there are actual international competitions where you can play for prize money and gloryPlants Vs Zombies 2While the first Plants Vs Zombies PVZ game was a simple saga from start to finish where you used the power of the plant to defeat zombies The second iteration took that concept and pumped it up with time travel and hundreds of levels There are also options to play with other people online making it a fun social experienceTetrisMost of us would have played Tetris at some point in our lives and this game though the same still has all of the challenge and its addictive qualities intact The official phone version of the game lets you play against other players and also has endless Tetris modeCut the ropeIn case you havenrsquot played this one all you have to do is get the candy to the cute little monster by cutting the rope The game starts slow but it picks up pace quickly with physics playing a huge role in how the candy reaches the monster All iterations of this game are equally fun and you can jump right in from any versionCandy Crush SagaCandy Crush took the world by storm just a few years ago and then faded into the background However it is still a solid addictive matchthree game Fire it up once on your device and you wonrsquot realise where the day months and years have gone