MARVEL: Avengers Academy

A smiling femme person talking to another femme person in a city. Dialogue reads 'I know, but it's a total soap opera! Who's gonna backstab who?! Maybe they were brothers all along! What if one of them is pregnant? What if they both are?! Who's the father? These are the days of our lives!'.
I’ve been playing this fairly consistently for more than a year now, mostly ‘cause it’s a fun way to kill time and learn a little more about Marvel’s comic heroes. This one’s on the list because of the inclusion of Union Jack (a gay man), whose sexuality is openly acknowledged in the app, so yay!

There are also a few lesser-known heroes that feature fairly prominently, but some of the more well-known ones are hidden behind pay-walls. They do pop up every so often though, even if you don’t recruit them, so there’s that?

You should play this if…

You’re particularly interested in Marvel heroes, and you like the sound of building a little academy for them to interact in. It’s a good one to play in short bursts. Mostly the game itself just involves sending heroes on missions, reading their dialogue about those missions, then waiting for them to return to collect the loot. There’s mild strategy involved in deciding who to send out when, however, and there are frequently in-game themed events that shake up how the gameplay works! It’s enough to keep me entertained, anyway.