Since the battle of the social game giants has begun, I decided to try out some of the games available on Google+ to see if the newcomer has an edge on incumbent Facebook.

So far, Google+ is working fine. The interface is well-organized and pretty simple. You just click on icons to initiate a game and they’re all pretty self-explanatory. When it comes to the mechanics, user interface or presentation of games, Facebook doesn’t really have any advantages over Google. And so far, Google has done a decent job of getting fun games with variety in its first batch of titles.

Facebook has many more users and a lot more games, but that imbalance will likely be corrected in time. But it will take a long time before Google can match some of Facebook’s more nuanced advantages such as a good recommendation and distribution system.

Google is in the process of rolling out Google+ games to its estimated 29 million users now. With Google+, you get to the games by clicking on a game icon at the top of the Google+ page. (It will appear in the coming days for most of the network’s users). You can see a bunch of choices of games, but so far there are no ads on the landing page or the game page at all – just a lot of white space. Eventually, Google will make use of that white space; otherwise, they should just set it aside for more game screen space.