There are also a lot of other games that make use of augmented reality in their gameplay. Whether it involves you going places or simply pointing the camera, or both, these titles take advantage of your smartphone’s capabilities to deliver a truly fun and unique experience. We’ve collected four games that rely on augmented reality, plus one upcoming title, so check out this list if you’re on the hunt for games like Pokemon Go.

Top Five Games like Pokemon Go

5. Ingress

Ingress was released last November 2012 for Android and July 2014 for iOS and was developed by Niantic, the same guys behind Pokemon Go. The game’s plot deals with the scatter of Exotic Matter (XM) all around the globe which is linked to the mysterious extraterrestrial Shapers.  Two factions namely the Enlightened and the Resistance have polarizing views regarding the alien matter and are now at war.

Players are asked to choose between the two factions. The Enlightened believe that humanity will benefit from embracing XM while the Resistance thinks otherwise. Gameplay involves walking around and visiting Portals which are usually on landmarks. Players must hack these Portals to obtain items and Action Points (the game’s experience points). They can also claim it for their faction by installing Resonators and defenses like Turrets and Shields, while enemy Portals can be neutralized with XMP Bursters. Players do not have a health bar and cannot be killed in any way; they can only run out of XM which prohibits actions until it is refilled. XM can be easily found scattered everywhere as you walk.

Ingress attracted thousands of players around the globe. In-game special events called Anomalies propel the plot and give unique rewards to participating players. There are also instances when the lines between the two factions blur and their members cooperate for the greater good. Ingress is great especially when you have a bike and live near a lot of landmarks.

4. SpecTrek

Want an augmented reality game where you hunt down ghosts? Well SpecTrek is for you.

SpecTrek spawns ghosts in a specific search radius. Players must visit these locations and capture the paranormal entities before the set time limit expires. The game uses the device’s camera as the primary means of capturing ghosts.  As the game progresses the radius becomes larger and things become more challenging. Unfortunately some ghosts might spawn in locations that might be difficult to reach like a lake or inside an abandoned building. There are also instances when ghosts run away when you fail to catch them properly.

Fear not as the ghosts here are the “frightening” floating bedsheets with two holes for eyes, so don’t expect a screamer or something scary that will take you by surprise. The game recognizes your efforts through achievements, and there is also a possibility of finding hidden items while you’re out hunting. SpecTrek makes a good alternative to Pokemon Go that you can play while jogging with your kids.

3. Zombies Everywhere

The seventh season of The Walking Dead is still three months away, and if you’re hankering for some zombie-slaying action then Zombies Everywhere is a must for your iOS device. Yes, Android users do not get the chance to play this.

Zombies Everywhere (or Zombies GO) uses your device’s camera to spawn zombies and you must tap them to death with your guns. The zombies rush towards your position and can actually kill you if they manage to land a couple of hits. You are first equipped with a handgun that contains unlimited ammo, and later on you can pick up better firearms like a minigun or a flamethrower. You can opt to turn on your camera’s flash to add a bit of strobe effect to every shot you make.

You can choose to play in augmented reality or in a virtual cemetery. The “Safe” mode allows you to walk around and kill zombies without them retaliating. They’ll just stand around waiting for you to put them out of their misery.

The game usually has a crazy visual glitch where zombies spawn literally anywhere. Point your camera on your desk and you might see a miniature ghoul crawl out. Sometimes they can even spawn inside your computer’s monitor when you aim the camera there. Regardless they can still run towards you and attack.

Zombies Everywhere is a pretty fun game for its price tag of 99 cents. Give it a shot if you can.

2. Run An Empire

Run An Empire turns your daily morning jog into a game of establishing and capturing territories. It was first conceived as a Kickstarter in 2014, and is being constantly developed and geared up for release.

Players capture territories by jogging around a certain location. Expand your empire by stretching your trek towards farther locations. You are required to be active as the territories you obtain falter with each passing day and you must jog around them again to prevent other players from easily capturing your piece of land. It is also heavily encouraged that you pass through the territories of your neighbors and carve your empire’s reach there. The game only works when you’re on foot thanks to your device’s accelerometer. This prevents the use of cars or motorcycles in an attempt to quickly subjugate territories.

Run An Empire is currently available for the iOS in New Zealand while a select number of players around the globe are playing through a private beta. Developer PAN seeks to release the game for all markets this 2016. Get your running gear ready and your legs in shape because, in this game of jogs, you capture or you lose.

1. Night Terrors

Night Terrors turns your device and your camera into a source of nightmares.

The game is still under development. Based on the footages that surfaced, Night Terrors spawns nightmarish creatures that you can see with your camera. The audio also plays out depending on which direction they are standing. It is also reported to be able to send fake text messages and incoming calls to your device which further fuels the terror.

The plot deals with a little girl who is trapped in a different dimension that’s fortunately near wherever you are currently standing. For some reason this causes supernatural occurrences to manifest. So you’ll be having spiders crawling on your screen, ghosts charging towards you, whispers calling you out by your first name, and even text messages that contain threats on your life. It is also compatible with your Apple Watch which can monitor your heartbeat. Not scared enough? That will make the game amp up its NOPE meter and attract unwanted attention.

Night Terrors has been developed for many years and was originally thought to be cancelled. Good thing developer Novum Analytics announced that they will be releasing the game on Halloween this year. It is slated for a $5.99 price tag and you can pre-order the game in their Indiegogo page.

There we go with the top five games like Pokemon Go. Have you tried any of these titles? Do you have other recommendations that are worthy mentions? Let us know in the comments below.

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Your trainer level determines what the max CP is and how far up the curve you can power up a pokemon (if you’ve reached the limit, it will say ‘Trainer level to low to power up’ or something similar when you try to power up). Your trainer level also determines how much CP a wild pokemon has and how far up the CP curve it is.

This doesn’t mean you won’t see low curve/CP pokemon at higher levels, but it means that it’s more likely for you to see a high curve/CP pokemon.

Step 2: Determine which pokemon you want to level up. Ok, quick question. Say you have 50 Pidgey candy and let’s pretend the Pidgeot on the left is a CP240 Pidgeotto with the exact same curve. Would you evolve the Pidgeotto or the Pidgey?

If you’ve chosen to evolve the Pidgeotto, you chose poorly.

If you’ve chosen the Pidgey you’re a quick learner.

One might be inclined to use his candy for the pokemon with a higher CP, but it’s the curve that’s most important. At least across evolution stages it is. In this example this Pidgey would have evolved into a Pidgeotto of around CP280 and later on it would become a Pidgeot of around CP650-700. The Pidgeotto on the other hand will evolve in a Pidgeot of CP510.

Keep in mind though this is on a Iv114 trainer. The reason why I’m stating this is because a trainers Iv’ affects what the maximum CP is and what potential a pokemon has. I can have two Pidgeys at the exact same spot on the curve, one caught at Ivl 10 and one at Iv114 and the level 14 has a higher CP (I’m still not certain if this is because of the trainer Ivl at the moment you caught it, so take this with a grain of salt). Other factors are the pokemon’s weight, height and HP. Sometimes you’ve got to make hard choices, pick the pokemon with higher HP but slightly less CP or pick the pokemon with higher CP but slightly lower HP.

And sometimes, something strange happens. For example you have two Pidgeys, one with CP207 and one with CP204, but the CP204 is further on his curve than the one with CP207.

At this point you have a luxury problem, since you seem to have multiple eligible candidates to evolve, so there is no real ‘bad’ choice but there’s certainly a best one.

First let’s take a look at the two pokemon of whom one has a higher CP even though he isn’t as far on the curve as the other. That one is simple, choose the one with higher CP and lower curve, because this means that pokemon’s maximum potential is higher than that of the other one. Think about it, that pokemon is stronger on an earlier point at the curve, so in the end he will be stronger than the other one.

With regards to the HP dilemma, I always look at the attacks. Not so much at the typing (although I imagine later on when everybody has strong pokemon, having an attack with a different typing than the pokemon itself, should be a nice surprise for anyone trying to get it off your gym), but at the damage it does. The quick attacks don’t vary much in attack, but the special attacks do. I usually choose the one with the highest damage on special attack even if it has a longer charge. Simply because if that pokemon is on a gym, I don’t have to worry about it, the Al will handle the timing of using that attack.

So what do you do with that Pidgeotto you didn’t evolve? Well I have a personal rule, but feel free to deviate from it. The rule is as follows: `If it’s not the only pokemon of that evolution within that species in my possession, he get’s processed to candy by Prof. Willow if he isn’t in his last quarter of his curve.’

I make an exception for pokemon in their end evolution if they at least have half of their curve because I find it hard to let 50 candies go to waste. So I keep them with the intention of powering them up if I have nothing better to spend my stardust on.

Step 3: Only power up pokemon on that can’t evolve further. The aforementioned steps should give you powerful ‘vanilla’ pokemon (i.e. not doped up by stardust), but to get the strongest pokemon you usually have to power them up further towards the end of their curve.

I advise to wait with powering up until the pokemon is at it’s end evolution because of a couple of reasons.

People far smarter than me already figured out that the end result in CP is slightly higher when powering up after evolving.

Also powering up costs a lot of stardust (especially pokemon at their end curve, the price goes up quite a lot) and stardust is scarce. You only get 100 stardust for every pokemon you catch and a random amount from pokemon that come out of their eggs and for your defense bonus. So if you wait until a pokemon is fully evolved, you have a better way to compare which pokemon is the best choice to power up and the chance of you wasting stardust is smaller.

When it’s time to power pokemon I usually start with the strongest one I have. But at the same time I make sure I have enough stardust (and candy) for the pokemon that are my second, third, fourth and fifth best. This way I make sure that the pokemon grow in power equally because if I drop off my strongest one at a gym I need some other strong pokemon to conquer other gyms or at least train friendly gyms.

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