5 new mobile games to try this week – October 24th, 2024

Doom yourself to a lifetime of cat servitude in Neko Atsume 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the adorable cat-collecting game that boasts over 30 million downloads. While you couldn’t leave your own backyard in the OG title, the sequel features the great outdoors this time around, where you can visit other players’ yards or invite them over to yours.

Now with new features but with the same cat-astrophic antics cats do best, the charming idle game tasks you once again to put food out for strays, wait for them to come to you, and use the gifts they give you to buy more treats for them. Rinse and repeat.

You might think that a quick sleight of hand here and a dash of luck there are enough for a successful theft, but when you’re up against an angry dragon whose artifacts you’ve just nicked, it’s not all that simple. Steal your way through a deck-building adventure in Clank!, a digital adaptation of the award-winning board game where you’ll take on the role of a thief.

You’ll need to burgle a dragon’s lair and attempt to make it out unscathed. Unfortunately, fellow thieves are after the same loot too – plus, there’s a reptilian monstrosity guarding the depths of the dungeon, who’s all too eager to fry you to a crisp.

We humans just can’t seem to get enough of social deception games, can we? The aptly titled Beast Game is one such entry into the boardgame-adaptation trend of late, thrusting you and your frenemies into a fantasy world of myth and mischief. Play as adventurers struggling to survive in the enchanted Northern Expanse, or take on the role of the godlike Beast and eliminate every single human who dares to set foot in your land.

What spices up the experience here is the number of unexpected events that might just pop up every now and then. Will the Monk reveal everyone’s true nature? Can you cast your votes before it’s too late? Or will the Beast devour every player in an ultimate game of betrayal?

Japanese SRPGs never seem to lose their appeal even in this day and age, and for good reason – they’re tactically scintillating, have lovely pixel-art visuals, and almost always feature epic quests to save the world. Eldgear boasts all that and more, making sure to bring on all the nostalgia as you step into an era of magical civilization.

Combat is a turn-based affair, with special EMA (Embedding Abilities) and EXA (Expanding Abilities) you can combo up to eliminate your foes. Explore the land of Argenia with your merry band of partymates, all while getting to know a colourful cast of characters along the way.

Turn up the tactics with this new dark fantasy RPG, featuring stylised character art and an epic quest to fight back against the encroaching darkness. In Grimguard Tactics, you’ll battle to save Terenos from an ancient evil across thrilling turn-based combat.

Strategise the best placement for your heroes on the grid, making sure to take advantage of their Assault, Tank, and Support roles to gain the upper hand. And if you’re itching to prove you’re the better strategist, you can test your might and mettle at the PvP Arena – or even dabble in idle autoplay on an off day.