When I was in high school, we used to play a simple but addictive shareware game called Scorched Earth, a turn-based artillery game. It involved tanks shooting at each other with crazy weapons, fun upgrades, very basic controls, and a little dumb humor. I was delighted to find out that there is a version of it on the Android platform, called Barrage. I think it captures the essence of the original game perfectly, and is easy to pick up and play on your phone. It’s a lot of fun, especially if you’re a nostalgic gamer.
Barrage Lite
Barrage Lite is free and includes the entire game. You can purchase the paid version to add more weapons, remove the unobtrusive ads from certain non-gameplay screens, and save your high scores and publish them for all players to see. Sadly, there is no online play, though that would be awesome. Still, it’s very good, and I heartily recommend it if you played the original in the DOS days!
