Best new mobile games on iOS and Android – November 2024 round-up

GameCentral reviews this month’s astir absorbing caller mobile games, including deck-building crippled Bloons Card Storm and the superb Poly Bridge 3.

The prima whitethorn person gone away, but the mobile games merchandise docket rolls on, with this month’s releases including a full oversea alteration for Bloons successful Card Storm, Wizardry Variants Daphne’s aged school dungeoneering, and Poly Bridge 3 – perchance the finest bridge-building crippled devised by humanity.

Bloons Card Storm

iOS & Android, Free (Ninja Kiwi)

As changes of absorption go, this is simply a beauteous large one. Bloons Card Storm spins Ninja Kiwi’s bestselling operation defence franchise into a turn-based paper collecting crippled with multiplayer astatine its core. It’s a brave move.

Bloons has ever relied connected strategy, but present you’ll request to deliberation astir some onslaught and defence, launching balloons that harm your opponent, portion laying down monkey-based turrets to disarm theirs.

Progress is sedate, and astatine motorboat it does person immoderate balancing issues. It’s biggest occupation though, is that if your opponent’s losing and quits, during what tin beryllium rather protracted matches, you get a smaller reward than if you’d simply lost, which feels unfair. Still, with Ninja Kiwi’s customary polish and attraction to item there’s a large woody of committedness if it tin clasp a decent player-base.

Score: 6/10

Poly Bridge 3

iOS & Android, £2.99 (Dry Cactus)

There’s a amazingly precocious fig of prime span gathering franchises, the astir established being the imaginatively titled Bridge Constructor, but adjacent amongst truthful galore standout competitors, Poly Bridge 3 is noticeably better.

As ever, you’re required to assistance vehicles traverse a acceptable of gaps, with expanding complexity and other goals; planes flying done the level, gangly ships sailing underneath your bridge, and different much progressive intricacies arsenic you summation experience. You’ve got to negociate each that with constricted materials and bash it arsenic cheaply arsenic possible.

The interface is frankly gorgeous, and astir uncanny successful its quality to cognize conscionable wherever you wanted to resistance each piece, its neat, chunky dependable effects letting you cognize erstwhile things click into place, with a jaunty philharmonic accompaniment to your civilian engineering.

In a delightful twist, each level besides has a planetary leaderboard, showing however creatively different players managed to bash the job, letting you presumption and larn from their structures. It’s a beautifully made game, and the mobile larboard is beauteous adjacent to perfect.

Score: 9/10

Zombiepunk: Fight & Survive

iOS & Android, escaped – region ads £10 (24 HIT Riga SIA)

Smash up pieces of scenery to cod materials utilized to upgrade your melee weapon, gun, and antiaircraft turrets, past blast question aft question of zombies portion waiting for crafting projects and upgrades to complete.

You tin ticker ads to skip 15 infinitesimal chunks of waiting times (which are soon implicit an hr each), but you’re forced to ticker an advertisement each mates of minutes anyway, and if that wasn’t capable advertising, determination are imperishable banners astatine the bottommost of the screen. It’s besides beauteous buggy, the dependable regularly disappearing – though seldom during the ads.

The occupation is that contempt its glitches and inherent mindlessness it’s really oddly compelling, adjacent if the terms to region its overwhelming tsunami of advertizing is acold excessively much.

Scor: 4/10

Age Of Empires Mobile

iOS & Android, Free (Level Infinite)

Epic humanities real-time strategy Age Of Empires is the latest longstanding franchise to get the mobile treatment… by which we mean ignoring everything that made it bully successful the archetypal place.

Rather than an progressively heavy operation and subject strategy game, what you get is simply a linear way telling you what to physique and when, with waiting times that get progressively longer truthful you’ll wage to skip them. Battles are basic, relying astir wholly connected the level of your units and gacha-acquired heroes alternatively than tactical cleverness.

Eventually you unlock a Vampire Survivors-alike mini-game that’s really moderately entertaining, but the remainder is simply a uniformly bland currency drawback that is perfectly not worthy your time.

Score: 3/10

Wizardry Variants Daphne

iOS & Android, Free (Drecom)

Like past outings successful the Wizardry series, Variants Daphne is astir arsenic classical arsenic dungeon crawlers get. Played from a archetypal idiosyncratic perspective, you swipe upwards to beforehand on its constrictive corridors 1 representation quadrate astatine a time. Older gamers volition recognise it arsenic being akin to Atari ST classical Dungeon Master but the Wizardy franchise is acold older, going backmost much than 4 decades.

Explore, unfastened doors, work unusual inscriptions, find treasures and initially impassable objects, and conflict countless monsters successful inspiringly pacy turn-based battles.

Levelling is initially swift but slows considerably, to promote in-app purchases. You tin bash without them but beryllium prepared for an perfectly monumental grind. If you don’t caput splashing rather a spot of cash, this is simply a cracking aged schoolhouse escapade expertly refined for touchscreen.

Score: 7/10

Clash Royale (updated)

iOS & Android, escaped (Supercell)

Clash Royale was primitively released successful 2016 and has had a mixed reception implicit the years, resulting successful rather an aggravated assemblage connected societal media – and with bully reason.

Developers person to wage their mortgages, but each update has seemed designed purely to beverage much wealth from players. New characters were overpowered, offering a impermanent vantage to anyone consenting to pay, portion the accomplishment of an further paper level, and almighty cash-only evolutions, seemed to travel from the aforesaid tone of nett implicit fun.

Royale’s latest update has present had a period to bed-in, and it’s a invited change. The two-tier conflict walk has been slimmed down to 1 – the escaped mentation present considerably much generous – and the shards needed to bargain evolutions are easier to travel by. A hole for the game’s creaking clan wars strategy is presumably successful the works, but this already feels similar a large measurement successful the close direction.

Score: 8/10

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