The Most Hardcore Android RPGs of All Time
If hardcore is a thing measured by commitment than no genre is more hardcore than the RPG. Scan any RPG-related forum and you’ll come away with the clear impression that…
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The Best of Hardcore Droid’s archives, older articles concerning the best Android games.
Hardcore Droid archives consist of older reviews of Android games. Reviewing specifically core Android games, especially Android role-playing games, Android strategy titles and Android action titles. We gauge an Android game’s value from the perspective of the average core gamer’s experience. These are people who love RPGs, action games and strategy titles of various kinds. So the question of how the average hardcore gamer would engage with a title is always in the forefront of our game reviews.
This premise of how hardcore enthusiasts would enjoy a game is always at the forefront of our reviews. Usually we assess the most well known and critically acclaimed paid Android games and generally stick to genres that are most popular in the hardcore gaming sphere. In other words the types of games found on consoles and on PCs.
This theme of hardcore gaming on Android cuts to the central premise of Hardcore Droid. We are looking to praise quality Android games, more particularly games that contain the depth, richness and narrative complexity of hardcore video games.
To this end, we prefer to cover paid mobile games over free Android games. What’s more, we are more likely to review and assess premium games over freemium games. As we are more likely to assess games that are nuanced, multi-faceted and complex.
Dark Frontier Review
In Dark Frontier, you and the empire you roll with have decided that the best offense is a good defense: you establish a settlement in a disputed territory and set…
Gangster Granny 2: Madness Review
The sinister senior star of Black Bullet Games’ third-person shooter Gangster Granny is back in this sequel, subtitled Madness. From its elderly antihero to its anarchic action, the thoroughly preposterous…
Hardcore Droid’s News and Bulletin Board
12/20/13 – Reicast, a Dreamcast Emulator, Joins the Android Legion The Dreamcast is back! Reicast, a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator, has just hit the Android market. Play some of your favorite…
Riddick: The Merc Files Review
I saw Pitch Black as soon as it was out on video, as they didn’t show it in theaters anywhere near where I lived, and I’ll be damned if I…
Isle of Bxnes Review
Welcome to Isle of Bxnes, an isometric action role-playing game. No, that is not a typo. The “x” probably represents where your face will get smashed in. Yes, your face…
Death Tower Review
The dungeon crawl is a cornerstone of fantasy video games. Every generation of gamers experiences the fear of stumbling upon a swarm of monsters and the heady elation of discovering…
Westbound Review
Westbound is a game that attempts to capture the sense of adventure that early Americans must have felt as they traveled west in search of gold, fortune, and gun-slinging action.…
Luxuria Superbia Review
To get the pretentiousness out of the way up front, one might categorize Luxuria Superbia as an “experience” rather than a game. It’s a visual, aural, and tactile assault with…
Thor: The Dark World Review
There was a time when Gameloft was one of the favorite mobile developers of traditional core gamers. Sure, some of their games cost $7 or $8, but they offered the…
Rabbids Big Bang Review
In a world where mobile gaming is pretty handily cornered by the Angry Birds franchise (albeit, not as much recently), physics-centric puzzle games are, well, kind of the name of…
Rayman Fiesta Run Review
Whenever console games come to mobile devices, there’s always that sense of dread to see what won’t carry over. Rayman had a relatively good run with Gameloft, but last year’s…
Random Heroes Review
It’s hard to deny the nostalgic appeal of a simple side scrolling 8-bit adventure, but there is such a thing as too simple. Canadian Indie developers Ravenous Games and Noodlecake…
Neon Shadow Review
Since my inaugural journey down the demon-infested hallways of Mars, trusty shotgun at my side, I’ve been an FPS addict. I once accompanied a friend on a last minute quest to…
I, Gladiator Review
Late in 2010, Chair Entertainment released an iOS game called Infinity Blade to immense and immediate financial and critical success. Since this game is still sadly an iOS exclusive, here’s…
Pivvot Review
Twitch games—those titles that call on the player to react instinctually to fast-paced, hectic situations— have been around a long time. Pac-Man, most shooters, rhythm games, and arguably the majority…
Hardcore Droid’s News and Bulletin Board
10/31/13 Happy Halloween! The staff at Hardcore Droid says Happy Halloween and have your mom check out those apples for you before you eat them, and don’t worship Satan. …
Star Command Review
Television is largely responsible for the growth of science fiction amongst the general populace. For every person who discovered the world of “what-if” through the writings of Jules Verne, there…
The Most Hardcore Android Phones
Even as the power of mobile devices is outpacing Moore’s Law, and graphics power seems to double every year, it’s a sad fact that phones simply aren’t marketed toward…
Chainsaw Warrior Review
There is something fundamentally odd about Auroch Digital’s decision to bring the 1987 Games Workshop tabletop game Chainsaw Warrior to Android. As we all know, a board game has to use simple…