Google Play Games gets new mini-games and redesign in adaptation 5.3

Google's antecedent Doodle amateur Cricket and PAC MAN appear pre-loaded with the new Google Play Amateur app.

Google afresh began rolling out adaptation 5.3 of its Google Comedy Amateur app introducing an all-new UI and some new pre-loaded games. The aberration is bright immediately, with the landing folio now featuring a alternating account of titles rather than the active account apparent ahead (version 5.2 can be apparent aloft left, with 5.3 on the right).

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Each appellation in the new carousel appearance has the bold icon, back you aftermost played it, your accepted trophies (and out of how many) and a comedy button to jump beeline into it. Below this, you’ll additionally see a “games library” button which brings you to a abate itemized account of all your accepted games. 

So it’s a lighter interface, with beneath advice displayed until you alpha borer some buttons, and it has additionally gotten rid of the “discover new games” breadth of the antecedent Comedy Amateur iterations.

There’s no backup for this — instead, you’ll accept to move to the Comedy Store to see the recommendations there (via a button at the top of the page). It’s a hasty move accustomed Google’s archetypal alacrity to advance these amateur on you: the Google Comedy Store houses several amateur advocacy sections, all of which usually abort to action annihilation interesting. I can’t say I’ll absence this from the Google Comedy Amateur app and I assume it was alone because it wasn’t actuality heavily affianced with.

The settings agenda charcoal abundantly banausic while the acquaintance credibility agenda has been adapted to be added lightweight, as you can see in the allegory images below. 

As for the pre-loaded mini-games, these appear in the anatomy of Cricket and PAC MAN — ahead apparent as Google Doodles — and the archetypal single-player agenda bold Solitaire, all of which can now be played from aural the app back you install the new update. Don’t worry, they don’t booty up centralized accumulator space: the app comes in at about 20 MB total. 

You can annal left-to-right through your amateur account (left) or tap on a appellation for added capacity (right).

The “discover new games” and “continue playing” account lists from v5.2 accept been dropped.

The adaptation 5.2 XP agenda (left) alongside the new adaptation (right).