These familiar trappings wrap themselves lovingly around a standard turn-based role-playing game. You dictate your players’ actions (though I suppose you could let friends choose what skills to level up and what actions to use on baddies) as they take on random encounters and epic quests alike. They gain experience and you earn cash, which can be used on more powerful equipment, adding additional party members to your table, or snacks.

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Aside from a few crashes on my Transformer Prime tablet, the game has been an absolute joy to play, taking me back to the days when most of my gaming was done with one hand in a bag of dice and the other in a bag a chips.

Knights of Pen and Paper - $1.99 [Google Play]