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Best new iOS and Android games this week: Sunless Sea, Death Road to Canada, Card Thief and more

Cards, Corsairs, and Canada

Best new iOS and Android games this week: Sunless Sea, Death Road to Canada, Card Thief and more
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Hello, and welcome to our regular look at the best mobile games of the past seven days.

Every week we run through the best and most interesting games to have hit the App Store and Google Play Store.

This week we've got a couple of gems that aren't just iOS-only, as has been the unfortunate trend so far in 2017, but iPad-only. But if you've got one of Apple's tablets, they're well worth getting.

Android fans don't have an awful lot to choose from this week, but that's okay. There's only one game you need to be playing, as you'll see.

Have you been playing anything different this week? Let us know in the comments below.

Sunless Sea
By Failbetter Games - buy on iPad

This gothic exploration game is as weird as its wonderful. Set sail into the murky waters of the fantastical Fallen London universe. You'll die a lot, but learn something new every time.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends
By Bethesda Game Studios - buy on iPad

Here's another brave soul daring to take on Hearthstone at the fantasy CCG game. But that daring soul is none other than Bethesda, with its own hit The Elder Scrolls universe. It's a darned good attempt, too.

Death Road to Canada
By Madgarden - buy on iOS

Death Road to Canada is a dungeon crawler with a deliciously modern undead twist. Make your way across the US with a car-full of allies, making perilous stops for supplies along the way.

Super Mario Run
By Nintendo - download on Android

Android fans rejoice! Super Mario Run has finally launched for Google's mobile platform, having hit iOS back in December. In case you missed it, this is one of the slickest and most compelling autorunner platformers available.

Card Thief
By Tiny Touch Tales - buy on iOS

This follow-up to the quite wonderful Card Crawl has a similarly quirky art style, and again riffs off classic card game rules. This time, however, Tiny Touch Tales builds a surprisingly nuanced stealth game out of such simple components.

Jon Mundy
Jon Mundy
Jon is a consummate expert in adventure, action, and sports games. Which is just as well, as in real life he's timid, lazy, and unfit. It's amazing how these things even themselves out.