New Releases

Also out: AGRAV, Whale Ball, Astra, Freeze 2, AZZL, Hotel Transylvania 2

And more!

Also out: AGRAV, Whale Ball, Astra, Freeze 2, AZZL, Hotel Transylvania 2
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iOS
| New releases round-up

For whatever reason, all the new iOS games hit the App Store on a Thursday. And that's true this week, too.

Games like Blackwell 4, Hopiko, Champ Man 16, and Disney Infinity have all appeared on iOS. Use our new release tag to see all the big games.

But there are loads more that don't quite deserve their own stories on PG. Interesting games you might want to check out, but not big enough for a dedicated article. Here, then, is the best of the rest.

Floors
By Ketchapp - Free Floors

"Floors is endless arcade platformer with a twist! Run and jump your way through endless amount of floors and deadly spikes! Collect rubies to unlock 30+ new cool characters. How long can you survive?"

Whale Ball
By Joshua Salmon - Free Whale Ball

"Help Kit the whale keep his beach ball afloat in this new fun game! Hold down on the screen to send your water spout high into the air, taking the beach ball with it! Release to let the ball fall to avoid obstacles. Swipe up or down for quick movements."

Tile Tales – Charming number puzzle
By NordicEdu Oy. - £2.29 / $2.99 Tile Tales – Charming number puzzle

"Tile Tales is a unique puzzle game that combines playing with numbers with innovative gameplay. The player’s goal is to navigate through different tilesets and form a path that leads to the highest score. In these tilesets, the player will be faced with different modifiers and obstacles".

Hypersurf
By Fat Baby Games - Free
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"Blast your way through alien infested intergalactic wormholes! Featuring innovative gameplay: 360 degree wormhole surfing, Hypersurf is easy to play but difficult to master - a lightning speed hyperkinetic action, demolition rollercoaster."

Kubiko - Solve 3D pixel art puzzles
By Zedarus Entertainment Ltd. - Free Kubiko - Solve 3D pixel art puzzles

"Welcome to the ?ubic world of Kubiko! Learn to think in 3D as you create awesome creatures and objects from three dimensional pixels in 40 challenging puzzles across 5 level packs. Don’t forget to share your work with your friends and – most importantly – have fun!"

Independence Day - Indian Strife
By Strategy Empire - Free Independence Day - Indian Strife

"The people of Medieval India are ready to struggle for independence! Help the prince of a small and poor principality to gather an army and set his little country free from the cruel rajah that has subjugated many lands!"

Sick Sam
By Appsolute Games - Free
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"Oh no - Sam's Sick! Keep him alive as long as possible - just keep tapping! Warning it gets very tricky."

Astrå
By Pablo Molina Garcia - £2.29 / $2.99
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"Astrå is the adventure of Hemera, the goddess of daylight. Help her fight darkness, and discover the wonders and secrets of the unique Astrå universe."

Stair Free
By Alec Thomson - Free Stair Free

"Stair Free is an infinite climbing game which you play by moving the platforms instead of the climber. Slide the blocks under your climber's feet as she flips up higher and higher. Features: regular blocks, dangerous blocks, bouncy blocks, static blocks".

Freeze! 2 - Brothers
By Andreas von Lepel - £1.49 / $1.99
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"You’ll solve twisted physics-based puzzles by rotating the cells around our heroes with your finger. And of course you’ll have to use the Freeze-buttons to arrest gravity for the brothers. Sounds simple? Well, yes, it is - at first."

AZZL
By Jutiful - £2.29 / $2.99
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"A game mixture crafted to extract the most Yays Per Minute. Our animation puzzles get so juicy even a rumrit could pass. Every event occurs as necessary, otherwise it didn’t. Based on real fantasies."

Space Way Surf
By Konstantin Olegovich - Free Space Way Surf

"Get ready for a space adventure on a starship! Exciting space missions on a starship! Incredibly beautiful and spellbinding 3D graphics of the galactic space! Strategic opportunities of management of a spaceship!"

Hotel Transylvania 2
By Reliance Big Entertainment UK Private Ltd - Free Hotel Transylvania 2

"Build your own monster hotel with Drac and all your favorite monsters from Hotel Transylvania 2! Customize your city, enjoy adventure-filled quests, decorate your own monster hotel, and play fun mini games. Play with Dracula, Mavis, Mummy, Frankenstein, Zombies and super cool monsters! Bleh bleh bleh!"

Thin Ice!
By Blank Games - £1.49 / $1.99 Thin Ice!

"Puppies! They're absolutely adorable, and all kinds of trouble. Save puppies on and off the screen by navigating across the ice to rescue them, and bring them back to solid ground. Blank Games will be donating a portion of sales to the Dumb Friends League, the largest community-based animal welfare organization in the Rocky Mountain region."

AGRAV
By null2 - Free
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"Curve spacetime to escape a strange dimension! AGRAV lets you control gravity itself: Create black holes at the touch of your fingertips, and guide your lost space ship along carefully plotted trajectories."

Beacon 38
By Mobius Digital - £2.29 / $2.99 Beacon 38

"Beacon 38 is a mobile exploration game where you use sonar to navigate through a dangerous, beautiful alien world that constantly surprises and challenges. See if you can navigate your tiny scout ship past massive predators, mysterious creatures, and unknown peril to escape the 38th Dimension!"

Secret Case - Paranormal Investigation - A Hidden Object Adventure
By microids - £2.49 / $2.99 Secret Case - Paranormal Investigation - A Hidden Object Adventure

"Investigate the greatest unsolved mysteries! After foiling an international plot, James, a former FBI agent from the Cold Cases section, is asking for your help! Play the part of Clarice, who is looking for a mystical artefact with huge powers! Show what you are capable of in your first TOP SECRET mission so as not to disappoint your new mentor!"

Forgotten Ball
By joshua croft - £1.49 / $1.99
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"A classically inspired modern ball simulation platformer. Control a singular ball through a cubic towering labyrinth. Overcome challenging platforms and puzzles whilst ascending a seamless connected huge world. Forgotten Ball is based in a huge world, are you able to reach the top of this labyrinth?"

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