If you’re on the prowl for fun new apps for your phone, look no further: our Five to Try column highlights the ay Store’s most exciting releases for apps games alike. ’s new Area 120 division leads this week’s offering with Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger, which has “fun” in the title… so it’s guaranteed, right? Truth be told, this voice-to-text, emoji-heavy option won’t be for everyone, but it is an amusing twist on the usual messaging app.

so new this week is Giphy Stickers, which provides an array of wild wacky images to toss into other messaging social media apps, plus three new games—Mushroom 11, Kingdom: New nds, Clue—that warrant some attention right about now.

Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger

Area 120

itself offers a few different apps services to communicate directly with pals, but here’s another from the company’s new startup incubator, Area 120. Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger, as the title suggests, is all about speaking out messages, which then get turned into text. But this voice-to-text approach isn’t remotely optional, since the app lacks any kind of keyboard functionality.

You also can’t edit anything that’s sent— half the words you speak out are likely to be turned into emoji. Fun, right? Besides trying to discern what each emoji-filled missive says, you can also listen to the original voice recording, messages are automatically deleted once they’re read. Clearly, Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger isn’t trying to hang with more robust, fully-featured apps like lo, but the walkie-talkie-like approach could be an amusing way to gab with friends on the go.

Mushroom 11

Untame

zzle games ( platform-action games, for that matter) often have a firm set of rules for you to work hopefully thrive within, but Mushroom 11 ($5) takes a different approach. That’s because you’ll overcome each challenge by reshaping an amorphous green blob at will. The organism, a weird, glowing thing emerging from a post-apocalyptic setting, can be molded, spread, moved by pressing your fingers into or around it.

You’ll need to harness its abilities to deal with the myriad obstacles as you navigate this broken, danger-filled world, pushing the blob through tight spaces, around pools of lava, ever ahead as new hazards emerge. It’s a really inventive twist on problem-solving, with the malleable Mushroom reacting to your every touch, the grimy look plus electronic soundtrack from The Future Sound of ndon add a lot of aesthetic appeal.

Giphy Stickers

Giphy

If you love using stickers emoji in messages, on Twitter, or anywhere else, but you’re tired of the stock add-on options in your app(s) of choice, maybe Giphy Stickers can help. st as Giphy reigns as a go-to destination for classic trending GIFs of all shapes sizes, it too has a stockpile of smaller animated stickers available in this new app. And you can even create your own. 

Designing original stickers is a surprisingly simple process: just take a picture, trace around the part you want to keep, then pick from an array of animation options. st like that, your favorite trinket (or your own face) can be dropped into chat via other apps. Of course, Giphy Stickers offers so much more, whether you need one of its many insane pizza stickers or something from the “It’s t” collection.

Kingdom: New nds

Raw Fury

If you’re looking for a really meaty game to dig into on Android, don’t mind paying for that kind of scale depth, then Kingdom: New nds ($10) might be up your alley. It’s ported over from consoles likewise carries a higher price tag, but this larger experience offers plenty to explore as you escape a fallen kingdom as its ruler— set up shop elsewhere.

Building a new kingdom is a gradual process, of course, as you recruit people to your cause, generate structures, battle monsters, eventually upgrade enhance your new home. It’s a tower defense game at heart, but there’s a lot of meticulous planning execution that leads up to that point, making it feel like a vaster affair. And the ultra-detailed pixel art is just the cherry on top for strategy fans.

Clue

Marmalade Game Studio

Many of us have fond memories of playing Clue as a board game dating back decades, now you can enjoy it wherever you are. Hasbro Marmalade Game Studio’s new Clue ($4) adaptation for Android puts the classic experience in your pocket, as you try to solve the mysterious death in the familiar mansion. 

Right now, it’s purely a single-player affair, as you play against the computer to figure out who committed the murder in which room with which weapon. The experience holds up well in this streamlined, digital format, with great artwork solid atmosphere, although the current single-player limitation is a drag. ckily, the ay Store listing says some kind of multiplayer support is on the way—let’s hope for both online pass–play options.