Comments on: What is a good source of Android games and app reviews?

Question: What is a good source of Android games and app reviews?

One Hand Slowclapping — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:30:26 -0800

Getting a Nexus 7 tomorrow. I need good review sources for Android app reviews: both games and utilities.

My young son, thanks to my generously buying it for myself, is giving me a Nexus 7 tomorrow. I noticed that metacritic doesn't have an Android game section. I've also found a sea of sort-of review sites for games and apps, but haven't found anything that I'm certain is independent.

Any suggestions?

By: reptile

reptile — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:30:17 -0800

The reviews in the Play Store are usually somewhat useful, at least in aggregate. When you say independent do you mean independent from Google?

You might also try the app reviews on Android Central or Android Police.

By: anaelith

anaelith — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:27:24 -0800

You can keep yourself extremely busy with games just by only getting things that are free or very, very cheap... The Amazon free app of the day is a game about half of the time, plus the occasional holiday sales on the Play store, plus the Humble Bundle when it's Android (I have so many games that I've never even gotten around to trying because I have Too Many Games and my total spending on games is probably under 10$ over the past year...mostly on things that were specifically recommended by friends).

For more serious apps, I've also found the Play store reviews to be fairly comprehensive, although mostly I skim the reviews and then skip right to installing the ad-supported/free version of an app.

Edit: Realizing I've missed the point: You don't need a review site, just skim the customer reviews, ignore the obvious astroturf, and don't buy until you've tried it.

By: meowzilla

meowzilla — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:32:56 -0800

For games, there's DroidGamers and Pocket Tactics.

Although I would generally start out with the big sites and filter by category, eg:

Polygon (Mobile)
Wired Gadget Lab (Android)

Also, since it's the end of the year, many sites have their "Best of 2012" posts for Android:

Lifehacker Most Popular Android Downloads and Posts

By: pat3ck

pat3ck — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:02:23 -0800

I'm getting a Nexus 4 this holiday season and I'm also checking Android sites/review sites for apps. Here's what I've gathered so far (based on Alexa rank):

Name (Alexa Rank)
Android Central 2,677
App Brain 5,715
Android Police 6,298
Phandroid 9,366
Android Community 9,420
Apps Zoom 9,551
Android and Me 13,560
Talk Android 18,058
Android Tapp 37,725
Android Guys 46,789
Tapscape 60,848

Hope it helps!

Patrick