New Android apps worth downloading: Hotel Tonight update, Eufloria HD, The Pyraplex

If you are traveling for the holidays this week or next, you might want download the hotel-booking Hotel Tonight. The newly updated app is all about helping you book hotel rooms with no notice, and getting a discount for doing so. Weve got two games for your travels, including Eufloria HD, a game about planting trees on asteroids and using them to fight enemies, and The Pyraplex, a management title that has you building an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

Hotel Tonight update (Free)

Whats it about? HotelTonight, as the name suggests, is for finding same-day hotel bookings at a discount.

Whats cool? Hotel Tonight is already handy for finding a place to stay when youre traveling and knocking as much as 70 percent off the price. The app recently received an update that adds foreign language support for a number of different languages for non-English speakers and a new redesign of the user interface for the apps checkout page. The app also recommends places to stay and provides you with credits if you use it to book a room, which can be applied to later bookings.

Whos it for? Travelers, you might be able to find some pretty solid deals with Hotel Tonight if youre willing to risk waiting on your hotel booking.

Whats it like? Hotels by Orbitz also provides some handy hotel-booking capabilities, as does Expedia Hotels & Flights.

Eufloria HD ($4.99)

Whats it about? Strategy title Eufloria has a unique look and feel, asking players to explore asteroids by seeding them with trees.

Whats cool? The goal of Eufloria is mostly to expand colonies through space by planting trees that kick off seedlings, and then sending those seedlings to other asteroids to plant other trees. Its an easygoing strategy game, but that doesnt mean there arent obstacles in your way like other seedlings that attack and kill your trees. Each asteroid has different attributes that affect the planets you grow there, so youll need to find, colonize and utilize those asteroids in order to expand your colonies.

Whos it for? Strategy gamers and anyone who likes titles that are more about form and music will find Eufloria a worthwhile investment.

Whats it like? Give Osmos a shot for a similar fluidity of design, graphics and music.

The Pyraplex ($4.99)

Whats it about? The latest in-depth management title from the Kairosoft is set in ancient Egypt, with all the cool mechanics fans have come to expect.

Whats cool? Like Game Dev Story before it, The Pyra-plex has you build a structure, attract people to live and work in it, and make it even better over time. In this case, its a pyramid you slowly construct the pyramid and fill its rooms with various specialized people and facilities, like shops and stone works. You also train staff, attract people to live in the pyramid, send out trade mission and even field tour groups to earn money for your pyramid.

Whos it for? If you like some of the more involved and intricate management simulations, or youve played Kairosofts other games, youll likely have a blast with this one.

Whats it like? Kairosofts other games, such as Epic Astro Story and Dungeon Village, are also great management sims and worth your attention.

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