The best of Asian mobile gaming: May 30 to June 6, 2014

These are Games in Asia’s picks of the week spanning May 30 to June 6. If you’ve got a great new game that you think deserves to get featured, drop us a line at news[at]gamesinasia[dot]com. In the meantime, power up that phone for the weekend: you’re going to need it!

Arcade

Manic Market

by Skillshot Labs

Manic Market puts you in the shoes of a kitchen boy running errands to buy recipe ingredients in a grocery store. You are given a list of things to buy for a certain recipe and you have to buy them in the exact quantity and under a given amount of time. After choosing the aisles where the ingredients are located, you will then proceed to run down the aisles (without stopping) and swipe items from the shelves and into your shopping cart. It’s game over you buy too much of an ingredient, buy something that isn’t in the list or run out of time. I tell you, this is easier than it sounds.

I’m not fond of going to the grocery for food I don’t like, but I ended up playing this game so much I had finger cramps.

You can shop till you drop by downloading Manic Market for Android here.

Time-waster

Tapcat

by Seneka Studios

Tapcat is a really simple game, but is something really fun and cute if you like cats. You have three colorful cats in the game and all you have to do is tap on the cat in time to make it catch a falling square bug-like character and avoid the circle bug-like character. It’s game over if you miss three.