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GAMES OF THE WEEK - The 5 best new mobile games for iOS and Android - April 16th

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GAMES OF THE WEEK - The 5 best new mobile games for iOS and Android - April 16th

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It's that time again! Time for another entry into our long-running GAMES OF THE WEEK series.

If you're looking for the best 5 games which have hit the iPhone, iPad or Android stores this week then you've landed yourself at the exact right place at just the right time. Lucky, lucky you.

With this article, we skirt around the droves of subscription services (Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass, GameClub, Hatch, and all of their friends) which have launched onto mobile platforms over the years. We also don't factor in things like Steam Link or Google Stadia which allow streaming to handheld devices - and would open up this list to almost every game under the sun.

What that means is that our list is a finely curated list of brilliant, fresh titles which you can download and play without subscribing to, or installing, any third-party initiative. Of course, there are some great games on those services, but, let's focus on the stuff that you can grab right now.

This week you're going to be rummaging through dusty dungeons, solving point and click mysteries, conquering the world as a tuber, serving up (literal) grub to adventurers and all while being hit with a massive blast from mobile gaming's past.

Remember, if you're looking to check through some of our previous selections then you can always do that at our Games of The Week Hub, it's a great way to find games to fill out that empty storage space on your phone. Or, if you like your news in bitesize chunks, delivered straight to your palm then maybe follow us on Twitter.

Anyway, without any further delay, click on the big, blue button below to find out more about our top five of the games which released on mobile over the last week.

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Castle of White Night

Developer: Game Stew
Publisher: Game Stew
Available on: iOS
Genre: RPG
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Castle of White Night

Back before long-running JRPG series like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy got their starts the go-to RPGs were the party-based dungeon crawlers that inspired them. Games like Wizardry, where you navigated 3D space using cardinal-direction inputs, and if you had a bad team then you barely made it a floor down... Castle of White Night is a tribute and lite-evolution of that classic dungeon-crawling RPG format, and it's pretty good.

Let's get talking about the changes first. Okay, so it's not party-based. It's a single-character dungeon-diver where you have to muscle your way through the dark depths. There's also some cooldown mechanics in place rather than the traditional turn-based. However, all of that aside, it still manages to capture that gloomy, trudging pace and high-risk-reward loop that those early titles had.

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Beyond This Side

Available on: iOS + Android
Genre: Adventure
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Beyond This Side

When I think of great, modern point-and-click adventures my mind immediately goes to those which toe their way around supernatural or science-fiction settings; Games like Beneath a Steel Sky and the Blackwell Conspiracy series are right up there. So, Beyond This Side has me at least slightly intrigued.

You take on the role of Sam, a man with a missing wife. Clues are scarce, but he becomes obsessed with the alleyway where her severed hand was found. There's more to the city he lives in than he knows, and it becomes increasingly obvious as his investigation sends him probing into the hidden side.

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Gameloft Classics

Available on: Android
Genre: Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Retro, Shooter
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Gameloft Classics

Gameloft's Gameloft Classics is a celebration of twenty years of releases and includes a whole bunch of games which would otherwise have been unplayable on modern smartphones. We're talking about games which released before the AppStore and GooglePlay were a thing.

What's nice to see is that even back then in the pre-AppStore days, ourresident Puzzle Bobble fan, Jon Mundy, (and other team members of course) were reviewing these games on their original releases.

Gameloft Classics is great for a bunch of reasons — but a key one of those is for the sheer history of it.

Dungeon Restaurant

Available on: iOS + Android
Genre: RPG, Simulation
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Dungeon Restaurant

While the UI gets a bit hectic and time, and instructions are very light, Dungeon Restaurant is a really interesting dive into the erupting 'production/simulation' genre. You know the games; Follow instructions or repeat a pattern in order to complete a small objective, then move onto progressively harder ones over time?

There's an obvious reason why cooking fits so well into this genre, and that we've seen games like Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Too Many Cooks and Overcooked all excel. While, as I said, Dungeon Restaurant does get a bit busy on the screen it's a great game once you've got over the early learning hurdles. Give it a quick look.

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DicTater

Available on: iOS + Android
Genre: Strategy
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DicTater

DicTater is a strategy game where you lead a nation of potatoes. There are idle elements, army-building and lite diplomacy elements in the game and as a modern Civ contender for mobile, it's not a bad attempt at all. The humour is good and while, unfortunately, the interface does take some getting used to, it's really quite fun and the potato gimmick doesn't age poorly. There's also a surprisingly strong intrigue system.

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Dann Sullivan
Dann Sullivan
A job in retail resulted in a sidestep into games writing back in 2011. Since then Dann has run or operated several indie game focused websites. They're currently the Editor-in-Chief of Pocket Gamer Brands, and are determined to help the site celebrate the latest and greatest games coming to mobile.