Best Windows 10 apps this week
Two-hundred-and-ten in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on Windows Store in the past seven days.
Check out the best Windows 10 apps of 2016 listing in case you have missed it, as it highlights great apps for the operating system.
As always, if I missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email instead.
The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all deals.
Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.
- Enpass password manager available for $4.99 instead of $9.99
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Windows 10, for $14.99 instead of $29.99
- Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, available for $9.99 instead of $26.99
- Prune, excellent game about cultivating a tree for $1.99 instead of $3.99
New Windows apps and games
The official AliExpress application for Windows 10 is a wrapper of the site's mobile version. Since it is that, it supports the same functionality that you get when you connect to it including searching, browsing and buying items on the site directly.
Beefense is a great tower defense game in which you protect your bee kingdom against flees, hornets and other insects that attack you.
Apart from placing and upgrading towers along the paths, you are also commanding bees to collect nectar and pollen, the two resources in the game.
You need those to recruit additional bees, and to make sure your bees are powerful enough to fight the enemy.
Another interesting mechanic the game introduces is that towers need to be manned by bees before they are effective when it comes to fighting the enemy.
Disko Ultimate is a duplicate file cleaner for Windows 10 that you can use to reclaim disk space.
It scans the system for large files and duplicate files, and displays its findings in its interface afterwards.
You can add custom folder locations that you want scanned, verify the findings, and remove none, some or all of the files found by the application.
Disney Emoji Blitz is a match-three type of game with Disney characters.
The game plays exactly like other games of its type: match three, four or five icons of the same type to remove them from the board. If you match at least four, extras appear that you can use for extra clearing actions.
Disney added a collection of over 500 emoji to the game to give it something that other games of its type don't offer.
Control three Lego vehicles in this new racing game. Pick up power ups, speed boosts and coins, and avoid obstacles on the racing track.
Controls are super easy, all you do is move lanes using the arrow keys.
The game itself is not difficult, but the camera view could be better as you won't see some obstacles before it is too late.
The second game Lego released this week is also a racing game. This is more of a classic Lego racing game.
You control your car and may move it freely around on the track as you try to collect Lego pieces, stars, and speed ups, and avoid other vehicles and oil on the road which slows you down.
Telnet Manager is a free ad-driven application that enables you to establish telnet connections.
It handles basic telnet and terminal functions well, supports advanced configuration options such as selecting custom ports, favorites for quick connects, and more.
This is an interesting endless running, or shall I say climbing, game.
It features the same single-tap or click control mechanics as most endless running games, but changes things up a bit by letting you climb instead of run.
Tap once to move from one wall to the other, and try to avoid all the obstacles the game throws at you while collecting coins at the same time.
Notable Updates
Dropbox updated with full support for Xbox One and new UI adapted to TV screens.
Instagram update brings live video support and self-destructing images/video messages.
Minecraft for Windows 10 out of beta and Ender update.
Photo Scan, OCR application updated with interface improvements, new light theme support, and bug fixes