Kazan

Kazan is real-time strategy on a volcano island. You start with your base and four workers; in every match the volcano wakes up and the lava eats the island tile by tile. Grow fast, defend yourself and, when the time comes, run. BUILD YOUR CITY • Your workers chop wood, mine iron and build; farms make food. • 12 buildings: base, houses, farms, sawmill, mine, market, barracks, factory, towers, forts, radars and walls. • The market trades wood or food for iron when the ore runs out. RAISE YOUR ARMY • 9 unit types: workers, soldiers, snipers, bikes, medics, scouts, tanks, artillery and drones. • The fort is a bunker: put up to six soldiers or snipers inside and they shoot from cover. • Medics heal, workers repair, and an alarm tells you when you are under attack. THE VOLCANO • The lava spreads until almost nothing of the island is left. • If the lava or the enemy takes your base, you lose; when time runs out, the highest score wins. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Solo: against 1 to 9 computer rivals, 20 to 60 minutes, in forest, snow, desert or swamp. Works offline. • Weekly challenge: a big island for up to 50 nations, Monday to Monday. You get a 15-minute shield when you join, your city carries on when you leave (workers gather, troops defend) and you return to it from the same device. • Room with a code: create a room for 2 to 10 people, share the four-letter code and play on the same island. MADE FOR THE PHONE • Tap a unit to select its group, or hold still and drag to select an area. • Pick buildings from a strip with their picture and place them by dragging their outline. • Pixel graphics and chiptune sound. Free, with no purchases. Ads show between matches, never in the middle of one, and you can watch one whenever you like to speed up a building. In Spanish, English and Japanese. A game by Ayotl, made in Mexico.

Easier-to-read Japanese: a new font with bigger kanji, troop names in katakana, and bars and menus rearranged. New launch screen.