Best Windows apps this week
One-hundred and twenty seven in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps and games released for Windows in the past seven days.
Microsoft pushed out another Windows 10 build to Fast ring users bringing improvements but also new bugs along with it. The build ships with a new version of the Start menu that is resizable and customizable now.
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 applications and games are discounted by at least 50 percent this week.
- Fishdom 3 Special Edition, a match-3 puzzle game for $2.49
- Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink (Full), an adventure game for $1.99
- The Bridge, a logic-based puzzle game for $2.49
- No Gravity, action game in space for $0.99
- Drawboard PDF, a PDF reading, mark up and annotating app for $4.99
- Text-O-Matic, typographic app for $2.49
Best app of the week
Remember the Amiga classic Cannon Fodder? Tiny Troopers plays similar to that game as you control a platoon of soldiers in action-packed missions on battlefields around the world.
The longer you keep your soldiers alive in the game the more battle hardened they become. They gain ranks and become tougher with each level you complete.
The game offers a variety of missions from simple destroy and kill affairs to protecting journalists in a war zone.
Coins earned during missions can be spent on power ups that offer airborne support, health packages or supplies.
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Battle Odyssey is a puzzle RPG in which you control a party of heroes, each with unique abilities.
Heroes evolve over time and become stronger in the process.
The puzzle aspect comes into play when you battle monsters or other players in the game.
You attack by combining gems which power the attacks of your heroes.
Seven -- 7 Minute Workout Challenge
The HIT (High Intensity Training) application brings the popular seven minute workout featured in the New York Times to Windows.
Complete 12 different exercises in seven minutes (30 second per exercise, 10 seconds rest between each).
The app features illustrations and spoken instructions, and integrates progress, reminders and a gamifaction element as well.
Defend your village against dragon attacks in this fast paced game.
To do so, you complete various mini-games to create items that you assign to one of the four hero characters protecting the village.
Each item can be used in attacks but also combined to create powerful weapons, for instance arrows for the archer which do more damage to the dragon.
The game supports co-op play on touch devices and single-player battles when the mouse is used.
A modern UI file explorer that is rather basic when compared to Windows' default File Explorer but easy to use thanks to that.
It integrates all libraries and OneDrive by default and displays images as thumbnails in its interface.
New folders or drives are added with a couple of clicks, and there are various view modes and sorting options to display files and folders in different ways.
A right-click displays tools that allow you to perform basic file operations such as renaming, copying or deleting.
Think Angry Birds but in 3D instead of 2D. Use your catapult to knock down enemy soldiers and destroy fortifications to free the princess that got just kidnapped by a dragon.
You earn magic and treasures when you are completing a level which you can invest in power ups that help you complete levels in various ways, for instance by highlighting where your shots will land.
Catapult King offers more than 100 challenging levels.
Timber is a third-party client for the popular online dating service Tinder.
Just like Tinder, it requires you to login using Facebook to find matches for you.
Timber supports features that the basic free version of Tinder does not. This includes changing your location, chatting with matches or blocking unwanted users.
Help divers reach the surface before their oxygen runs out. You do that by removing algae and other debris that is preventing them from rising up.
Since you may only remove blocks of three or more, it can be quite challenging to save all divers before oxygen runs out.
Good then that you have unlimited tries to complete levels.