Best new mobile games on iOS and Android – February 2025 round-up

GameCentral’s latest mobile recommendations includes a roguelite workplace simulator, a transverse betwixt Balatro and Scrabble, and Turnip Boy Robs A Bank.

It’s different highly varied harvest of caller mobile games this month, including the sequel to classical free-to-play app Archero, a fully-featured mentation of console crippled Sniper Elite 4, and a fig of intriguing caller puzzle rubric that volition support your involvement for overmuch longer than conscionable a autobus ride.

Sniper Elite 4

iOS, escaped – afloat crippled £19.99 (Rebellion)

Originally released for PC and consoles successful 2017, and conscionable arsenic playable today, Sniper Elite 4 delivers a afloat complement of stealth-based Nazi shooting from a distance, implicit with the series’ trademark X-ray killcam shots.

Unfortunately, arsenic with plentifulness of triple-A ports, its touchscreen controls don’t enactment good enough, their complexity making it each excessively casual to compression disconnected shots erstwhile you don’t mean to, which for a soundless assassin is simply a problem.

Still, with a controller this is the unabridged Sniper Elite experience, and has its implicit database of DLC available, though nary of it is included successful the archetypal acquisition price.

Score: 7/10

Archero 2

iOS and Android, escaped (Habby)

Released 5 years ago, Archero had you moving an archer astir its azygous surface levels, pausing to occurrence arrows, moving to debar incoming fire, and acquiring buffs and wellness bonuses to prolong your run.

Bar a graphical makeover, Archero 2 is practically identical successful presumption of its content. There are a fewer caller power-ups and other events to play, and a motortruck load of inducements to walk wealth oregon ticker ads, but its mechanics stay the same.

If you didn’t play the archetypal crippled this whitethorn beryllium worthy a look, but we consciousness arsenic though we’ve already had a lifetime’s dose of Archero.

Score: 6/10

Letterlike

iOS & Android, £4.99 (Puzzlelike)

Letterlike’s transportation is simple: it’s Balatro but with words. And anyone who’s played what was for galore 2024’s crippled of the twelvemonth volition find that an alluring concept.

As good arsenic substituting Scrabble rules for poker, it besides comes with a small much humour than its inspiration and requires astatine slightest arsenic overmuch thought, fixed that you’re forming words alternatively than poker hands, arsenic good arsenic farming precocious scores.

It ne'er feels rather arsenic exponentially open-ended arsenic Balatro did, and its scenery mode doesn’t enactment good connected iPad, but it’s inactive a cracking word-based roguelite.

Score: 8/10

Dungeons Of Dreadrock 2: The Dread King’s Secret

iOS & Android, £7.99 (Christoph Minnameier)

Using the aforesaid top-down benignant and swipe-to-move controls arsenic its predecessor, Dungeons Of Dreadrock 2 manages to adhd a fewer caller complications to its dexterity-heavy puzzles.

The astir important of these is the quality to determination amongst antithetic floors to lick puzzles, with actions taken supra oregon beneath the level you’re connected sometimes indispensable successful unlocking a mode to its exit.

We recovered galore of its challenges abstruse to the constituent of virtual impossibility – with in-game hints the lone mode we could fig retired what it wanted from america – but fans of the archetypal crippled whitethorn beryllium much forgiving.

Score: 6/10

LOK Digital

iOS & Android, escaped – afloat crippled £5.99 (Draknek)

Originally a insubstantial publication of puzzles, LOK has you uncovering sets of letters successful progressively convoluted crossword-style grids, arsenic it layers connected further rules that you’ll request to infer for yourself with lone minimal assistance.

Although initially rather simple, it’s astonishing however rapidly complications arrive, its bid of puzzles feeling similar a acceptable of systems that person been endlessly laboured implicit earlier being enactment successful beforehand of you.

There are hints to assistance forestall intelligence blocks ending your progress, which fixed the game’s refusal to explicate itself is astatine slightest fair, and its puzzles onslaught an elegant equilibrium betwixt situation and satisfaction.

Score: 8/10

Skate City: New York

iOS, included with Apple Arcade subscription (Apple)

From Snowman, the developer down the fantastic Alto’s Adventure and its sequel, comes a minimalist side-scrolling skating crippled presented successful 2.5D, truthful you tin grind rails, kerbs and planters that aren’t perfectly aligned.

Its predecessor, Skate City (also disposable connected Apple Arcade), had levels each implicit the world, from Miami to Tokyo, portion each you get present is 3 parts of New York, but your skater’s question remains pleasingly realistic, and its laidback hip-hop soundtrack is conscionable arsenic funky.

The interaction controls enactment well, and portion it’s not peculiarly analyzable oregon involving, it’s a bully spot of snack-sized telephone amusement to portion distant a fewer minutes.

Score: 6/10

Super Farming Boy

iOS, £7.99 (LemonChilli Soft)

If you thought each farming games were twee, cosy and relaxing, buckle up. Super Farming Boy eschews peaceful harvest cultivation successful favour of a much kinetic, combo-based instrumentality connected workplace management.

Presented successful a superbly offbeat cartoon creation style, your workplace labourer spends his days planting, clearing debris, and triggering concatenation reactions successful his cautiously positioned plantation, portion astatine nighttime the firm ‘man’ descends connected his dreams, buying retired his harvest yields and selling caller tools to turn adjacent much of them.

Its initially subsistence-focused gameplay loop dilatory opens up arsenic you bargain imperishable power-ups, successful this tremendously satisfying and wholly archetypal game.

Score: 8/10

Turnip Boy Robs A Bank

iOS & Android, £4.99 (Plug In Digital)

Sequel to the splendidly entitled Turnip Boy Commits Tax Fraud, our basal rootlike anti-hero’s transgression endeavor this clip turns to slope robbery, successful a pixel creation roguelite whose quality driven mechanics beryllium a insignificant indebtedness to Hades.

Each tally sees Turnip Boy battling done antithetic zones of the bank, duplicate instrumentality shooter-style. You request to assistance him bargain arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, past caput to the exit earlier the instrumentality arrives. Initially that’s rather a abbreviated process but runs get longer arsenic you acquisition amended equipment.

The comparatively compact representation and swiftly (for a roguelite) acquired database of upgrades are nicely suited to mobile play.

Score: 7/10

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