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Rather than creating a brand new world, Google Expeditions allows you to explore corners of your own. Google markets Expeditions as a teaching tool that turns classrooms into explorers with seemingly-real 3D and 360-degree experiences.

Players can choose from experiences in the realms of:

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Get even closer to your virtual world with added VR experiences in WITHIN.

WITHIN is a storytelling app that offers a chance to immerse yourself in the real world fully. You’ll experience both pure imagination and real-life stories.

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Can’t get enough of Second Life and want to play on the go? While Second Life isn’t yet available for mobile devices, Lumiya offers a chance to take part a piece of the game with you as a Second Life viewer.

Lumiya lets you continue to participate in the chat and instant messages from Second Life, and it enables you to check in on your world by going to your favorite locations and interacting with objects. Use it with Google Cardboard for the full VR experience.

Requirements: Android 4.0 +

Rating: Teen

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Second Life lovers have a second option: Avakin Life.

While Avakin Life differs in context, it’s substance remains the same. Download the game and drop into a 3D world that is as diverse as it is vibrant. You’ll make new friends and discover old friends with 3D chat.

Players have the option to head out into the world to meet new people or create a private world for your current friends. Even if the people in your world remain the same, your surroundings can still change. You’ll choose your avatar, environment, and furniture, which gives even quiet interior designers a chance to shine. Options receive updates all the time, so you can always mix it up when you see fit.

Avakin Life scores high marks because the gameplay is as intuitive as it is beautiful.

Requirements: Android 4.1 +

Rating: Guidance Suggested

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a Kardashian? No need: Kim ​​Kardashian: Hollywood offers a window into her life with a virtual world game.

Enter the game and transform into a celebrity with all the trappings of fame. Get dressed in one of the hundreds of different styles with input from Kim’s favorite pieces.

Once you’re ready, you become the star of your own story as you go on an adventure meeting other celebrities, adoring fans, and even see a paparazzi chase. You might also run into Kim herself.

Kim Kardashian’s game is perfect for letting your inner fashionista out to play. It’s even interactive when you connect it to your Facebook account. Get your friends to join in, and you’ll compete for your share of fame and compare your styles to see who wore it best.

Requirements: Android 4.0

Rating: Guidance Suggested

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Are you a strict fashionista without a taste for fame? Leave Kim Kardashian in 2014 and enter Woozworld, the virtual world dedicated to fashion.

In Woozworld, you choose your own story and your clothes. Woozworld offers new outfits weekly so that you’ll never get bored. There are also millions of players to take inspiration from, so even if you do have to re-wear something in your wardrobe, you’ll never wear it the same way twice.

While there’s not much happening in the way of entertainment, there’s so much fashion that you’ll find yourself entertained regardless.

We like Woozworld because it’s multi-platform and available on your phone or your computer.

Requirements: Android 4.0

Rating: Guidance Suggested

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Egg is one of the best-reviewed games anywhere, and if you play it once, you’ll see why.

Eggs aren’t just for breakfast. According to Nix Hydra Games, they’re also the beginning and of the universe. Eggs started our civilization, and they’ll end it.

What does that have to do with you?

Your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to care for the eggs so that they might grow.

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n the game, players raise eggs like human children. You shape their little personalities and can even co-parent with a friend. When you’re not rearing your egg-children, there are mini-games to enjoy and new friends to make.

Requirements: Android 4.0

Rating: All Ages

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Virtual Families 2 is similar to a Sims type game, but it’s more straightforward because of the mobile platform. To take part, you’ll shape your ‘family member’ avatars, but you’ll do so in a slightly different way: by praising or disciplining them – just like real life.

Your family lives in a house with pets and all the other items you could want. They even get sick and give you a chance to play doctor. Some of the upgrades included it set it apart from other virtual worlds. Where else will your virtual family get psychotherapy?

Virtual Families 2 doesn’t require WiFi, and it is family-friendly compared to other games. If you had to choose one that’s safe for kids – it should be this game.

Requirements: Android 2.3

Rating: All Ages

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The Sims is typically a PC or console game, but EA heard the cries of the masses and now offers an app-based free version called The Sims Freeplay.

Regular players find the app offers the same great features found in the disc. You watch your Sims grow from the cradle to the grave as they find partners, get married, have children and buy houses. The app also channels the interactive nature of the full game by allowing you to visit your friends’ towns to work on your relationships and show off your Sims houses.

The only downside is that you may only play while on WiFi, which means it’s not great for plane trips or when you run out of data.

Requirements: Android 4.0.3

Rating: Guidance Suggested

The games we reviewed above continue to take the world by storm. But if you also find yourself interested in the more practical aspects of gameplay, read our buyers guide to learn more about games, system requirements, and in-app purchases.