7 Mobile Games Worth Paying For

After paying for your phone, your mobile service, and an extra data package, the last thing you want to do is pay for a mobile game app. With the number of free games on the market, it might seem like there isn’t much of a point.

But while there are plenty of great free games out there, sometimes you really do get what you pay for. Here are seven mobile games so great they’re worth paying for.

The Arcana: A Mystic Romance

Let yourself be whisked away into a magical world of mystery. You’re an apprentice in a magic shop who doesn’t remember much beyond a few years ago. As it turns out, there’s a good reason for that. There are six different character paths you can follow, each offering a different unique story.

This game for iOS devices is free, but it has paid content well worth spending money on. The two primary objects you can purchase are coins and keys. You can get plenty of keys by regularly playing mini-games like Heart Hunter. Coins, on the other hand, are much more difficult to come by. Coins are also the only way to get bonus scenes in the game. They’re definitely worth the purchase.

Catan

Catan has an amazing mobile game available in your app store, perfect for those times you want to play but don’t have three friends around to play it with. It’s just like the classic board game. Several tiles are laid out with numerical values assigned to each. The tiles represent resources you must earn to purchase cities, settlements and cards. You build around each tile to claim those resources.

Also just like the board game, each round you play is different. The placement of the numbers on the tiles, the rolls of the dice and the decisions of the computer based players means each round is unique. The price for the game varies based on OS and the package you buy, but the basic game is a steal at $4.99.