5 new mobile games to try this week – November 14th, 2024

This relaxing gardening sim launched on World Kindness Day this week, and rightly so – it’s a cosy farming and crafting experience where you’ll dish out all the kindness you can muster as you help bees and woodland creatures with their dilemmas around town.

The adorable hand-drawn visuals add to its charm, along with the cast of quirky bees that each has its own personality and skills. Build the Community Café, Garden Shop, and Decoration Shop, then use your bees’ talents in exploring, crafting, and planting to make Honey Grove the most vibrant forest haven the world has ever known.

Embark on a tactical CCG experience where you’re never quite sure what’s lurking around every corner. This grid-based deck-builder will have you fending off fearsome fantasy foes with the roll of the dice, but every so often, you might just encounter a special boon, a room full of treasures, or a would-be ally in captivity.

There are more than 500 cards to experiment with and 225 characters you’ll encounter along the way, with each one boasting its own set of strengths and weaknesses. You can also pick the best Summoner that you’ll lead on your epic quest. In fact, they’ll literally look up at you to await your command at the risk of breaking their neck – now that’s true loyalty.

We’re all guilty of randomly blurting out words we wish hadn’t said at one point or another, but what if you could control all that and channel it into something more productive instead? Letter Burp is a quirky little word game that lets you burp out letters and arrange them to form the right words – all you need to do is throw in a little bit of balancing to get your letters right.

Adjust the letters and keep them balanced to clear through each level, with chill lo-fi beats in the background to round out the relaxing vibes. And to eliminate all the stress brought on by a bad case of word vomit, you can skip levels at any time and play at your own pace.

Out now on iOS with an Android version soon to follow, Scattered Verse lets you platform through gorgeous dreamlike levels to collect words and craft poems. Leap across 30 handcrafted levels to recreate masterpieces from legendary poets Robert Frost, Rumi, Emily Dickinson and more, all presented in handy portrait mode with intuitive controls.

The landscapes you’ll platform through have an ethereal feel to really immerse you in the poems you’re forming, adding a lovely little twist to your average word game.

Take a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life in Dustbunny, a new meditative experience that prioritises your mental well-being above all else. Tend to plants in your cosy little room, play some relaxing tunes, and pop open a steaming cup of instant ramen while you’re at it.

Underneath what seems like your average casual game is actually an interactive journey to help you reconnect with any repressed emotions you might have. Basically, all your feels manifest as lovely creatures called Emotibuns, and as you catch them and nurture them, you can witness them blossoming into gorgeous plants that you can collect to fill up your Plant Index. You can also get your daily dose of positivity from the winged bunny named Empathy, because self-love is everything in this chaotic world we live in today.