Monkey King is a fun game thats taken from the Chinese novel “Journey to the west”. In this game, you play the part of Sun Wukong and you must protect the Monk from bandits. You have two ways to do this. You can either swing your staff or use the magic boom spell once the spirit bottle is full. Waiting to fill the spirit bottle will get you more points. In this game, getting a high score usually means drawing wide arcs and taking out multiple enemies with a swing rather than killing one enemy per swing.

The staff hits everything in its path so drawing full circles is not a bad idea if you can do it in time. Its a pretty simple game and practice is the best way to get good at it. Mostly it depends on being able to draw lines around enemies quick enough and being able to see which arcs can most efficiently kill bad guys. Despite its simplicity, its still a good game to kill a bit of time.

Solar is a fun game where you control a sun-like star and must wander through the cosmos and use your gravity to pick up as many stray planets and asteroids as possible. Use the arrows or WASD to move and space to zoom in and zoom out. One thing that you’ll notice quickly is that your sun can only attract planets and the planets can attract asteroids(rocks). Your star can’t directly attract rocks(or at least I haven’t been able to do this). You will also lose your gravitational pull if objects run into the planets or asteroids that are within your system while you move in space.

This aspect of the game makes it kind of an avoider game as well. However, if two objects that are already in your orbit collide, you will lose gravitational hold over both of them for the moment. For this reason, it is best to travel slowly in space after you’ve picked up a few objects. I don’t think you can really control the speed in which objects revolve around you but I’ve noticed that they revolve around you faster if you are moving faster while picking them up. Fast revolving planets are not good, you want slow revolving ones since they are more controllable. The distance you pick them up at also has an effect on this. The gravitational mechanics of this game are hard to learn and even harder to master which makes for an interesting challenge. Even though the lack of control you have over the gravitational forces is a pain at times, its still a good game for a challenge.