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Best new apps and games – Sept 30, 2016

Welcome to this week’s apps and games roundup. There have been some cool releases this week including folk tales, murder mysteries, guitar tuition, 3D photography and more – read on to check them out!

Burly Men at Sea

Price: $4.99/£3.99 • Version: 1.0 • Size: 219 MB

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Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure. Set in the waters of early 20th-century Scandinavia, the game’s story branches through a series of encounters with creatures from folklore. You play as storyteller and wayfinder, shaping the narrative around three ungainly heroes. Play through once for a single tale, then set sail again to uncover paths to new adventures.

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Leaf for Twitter

Price: $4.99/£3.99 • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 15.5 MB

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Leaf is a new Twitter client that connects you to the world with an all-new interface, fun gestures and attractive animations. Leaf considers every tweet with photo/video attached and personalizes it by smoothly merging the two together as one, taking up less screen space and in return, allowing you to read more tweets on the screen.

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Paperback

Price: $3.99/£2.99 • Version: 1.0 • Size: 54.0 MB

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You are an author trying to finish kitschy paperback novels. Complete Westerns, Science Fiction, Romance or even a Crime Noir. Live the dream — and maybe pay the bills. Word-building meets deck-building in the unique game Paperback. Players start with a deck of letter cards and wild cards. This is like their own bag of ‘scrabble’ tiles. With each hand of cards you make a word and score it. This score is how much money you have to purchase more cards for your deck. Collect cool letters with abilities, such as drawing more cards or double word score. Buy Novel cards to gain ‘fame’ points to win the game!

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Fretello Lead

Price: Free • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 88.2 MB

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Become a better lead guitarist with Fretello Lead, the most efficient practice routine to learn guitar. Our unique concept can be adapted precisely to your skill level, musical goals, and timetable so you can make fast progress and achieve sustainable results. Fretello listens to you while you practice guitar via your smartphone’s microphone. It uses this information to create individualized practice routines, optimizes your practice speed, and explains to you how you can improve your skills efficiently, and achieve sustained success.

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Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders

Price: $6.99/£4.99 • Version: 1.0 • Size: 1.10 GB

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Your weapon is your knowledge. Your wits will be put to the ultimate test! The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. The player embodies the famous Hercule Poirot in a 3rd person perspective adventure game packed with mysteries. Once again, the private detective will find himself up against a mysterious opponent who goes by the name of “ABC”. Your intelligence will never have been so challenged!

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ProCam 4 [UPDATE]

Price: $4.99/£3.99 • Version: 8.5 • Size: 47.9 GB

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Selected among the best apps on the App Store for two years running, this is a great manual camera app, updated with a new 3D Photos shooting mode on iPhone 7 Plus. 3D Photos mode takes advantage of the iPhone 7 Plus’s dual lens camera system to produce amazing, full resolution wiggle 3D photos (aka wigglegrams).

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