If you can’t wait to trade your winter boots for some spring-ready kicks, maybe Nike’s SNKRS app will be of interest—it’s one of the biggest new Android apps of the week, it leads our latest Five to Try column. so out this week is OKDOTHIS, another all-caps app that provides fresh photo prompts a community to share your snapshots with.
And if you’re OK with savoring the winter a little bit longer, then to’s Adventure is worth a look: the side-scrolling snowboarder is a pleasant charming free offering. The week’s other big game releases are old favorites, with role-playing classic Final Fantasy IX open-world action romp Gr Theft Auto: berty City Stories hitting Android for the first time. Grab some new apps games for the weekend enjoy!
SNKRS
If you’re into nice kicks, you’ll want Nike’s SNKRS.
Sneakerheads, rejoice! Nike’s SNKRS app is finally available on Android, plugging you into the shoe giant’s constant rotation of new revived kicks. It’s the easiest way to stay on top of Nike’s top releases across all of its sneaker styles brs, whether you’re into Air s, Foamposites, Flyknits, or any of the other bold bright offerings they roll out. In fact, you can customize your feed so you see more of what you like less of the rest.
SNKRS’ year-late arrival on the ay Store is surprising since it’s such a crucial way to try buy Nike’s rarest releases. You can enter The Draw for certain shoes—like this weekend’s Air X OVO collaboration with Drake—or hold your spot in the online queue for other releases as the waitlist thins out. But even if you just want to browse the company’s latest greatest, it’s a slick app with eye-catching photography.
to’s Adventure
to’s Adventure looks even better in motion than in stills.
aying a snow-clad game might not seem too appealing right now, depending on where you live, but to’s Adventure is one cool, cool way to ease your winter worries. It’s a downhill, side-scrolling snowboarder akin to Ski Safari in basic premise, but it has a very different tone look. ere Ski Safari is cartoonish wacky, to lets you savor the slopes as you take in the beautiful scenery evade collisions.
to’s Adventure is a bit simplistic, but it’s also entrancing, thanks to the dazzling, dynamic day-night cycle catchy, piano-driven soundtrack. And it’s free on Android, with no energy meter or limits on play. You can watch a video ad to continue when you fall (or use earned currency), but unlike on iOS, the core experience is totally free.
Final Fantasy IX
Not every part of this cinematic quest is remastered, but overall, the visual tweaks are for the better.
Android has the original Final Fantasy all the way through the beloved Final Fantasy VI, but we’re still waiting for Final Fantasy VII, which hit iOS last year. For some reason, Square Enix decided to skip the list release Final Fantasy IX this week, as the 2000 favorite gets a nicely upgraded remastered port—but also a premium price ($17).
Final Fantasy IX is known for recapturing the classic, whimsical spirit of the series after a turn towards modern futuristic scenarios, the lengthy adventure features a wide cast of characters with more traditional styles (like mages knights). The player models have all been redone, although the backdrops are still blurry, but there are other visual flourishes that make this a better port than FFVII on mobile. If you didn’t already jump on last week’s Adventures of Mana, invest in this role-playing classic first.
OKDOTHIS
OKDOTHIS can provide creative inspiration for your photos.
ve taking snapshots, but crave a bit more direction in your mobile photography? Grab OKDOTHIS, which delivers daily community-made photo challenges that generate on-the-fly pools of themed photos. en you fire it up, you’ll be hit with a quick task: snap a photo of your sneakers, or one that captures why snow reminds you of being a kid. Grab your photo, tweak as necessary, then send it off into the community pool your feed.
It’s a fun way to encourage you to consider other shooting subjects, plus it provides some perspective on what other members see around them, or consider to be a worthy photo response to each prompt. And if you put a little effort into it, you’ll surely have an impressive, diverse photo feed of your own before long.
Gr Theft Auto: berty City Stories
Anything goes in ‘ol berty City.
Here is another beloved franchise dropping a new Android entry this week. Gr Theft Auto: berty City Stories is an enhanced port of the decade-old spinoff of Gr Theft Auto III, letting you run rampant around the titular city as you serve crime bosses, joyride in stolen rides, generally cause all kinds of chaos.
It’s not much of a departure from the big trio of the era—III, Vice City, San Andreas—but it’s another huge, open-world action game that you can easily pour dozens of hours into. And berty City Stories is a mostly comfortable fit on Android thanks to multiple control scheme options, although I noticed some rom audio drops on a Galaxy S6 ge+. The aforementioned trilogy Chinatown rs are the more essential GTA experiences, but for fans, there’s a whole lot of fun to dig into here.
