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-standing Games of the Week series.

If you are looking for the best 5 games that are available in the iPhone, iPad or Android stores this week, you have landed just at the right time in the right place. Happiness, luck you.

With this article we bypass the droves of subscription services (Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass, GameClub, Hatch and all your friends), which were introduced over the years on mobile platforms. We also do not consider things like Steam Link or Google Stadia, which enable streaming to handheld devices - and would open this list for almost every game under the sun.

This means that our list is a finely curated list of brilliant, fresh title that you can download and play without subscribing to or installing third-party initiatives. Of course there are some great games for these services, but we focus on the things you can just download.

This week browse in dusty dungeons, solve point-and-click puzzles, conquer the world as a tuber, serving adventurers (literal) food and are made by a massive explosion from the past of mobile playing.

Remember if you want to review some of our previous selections, you can do so at any time in our Games of the Week Hub. This is a great way to find games to fill this empty space on your phone. Or if you like your messages in small pieces that are delivered directly on your palm, you may follow us on Twitter.

Click on the large blue button below without further delay to learn more about our five best games that have been published on mobile devices in the last week.

Castle of the White Night

Developer: Game Stew Editor: Game Stew Available to: iOS Genre: RPG Learn more about Castle of White Night

Before long-running JRPG series such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy took their start, the RPGs were the party-based dungeon crawlers that inspired them. Games like Wizardry, where they are navigated by the 3D area entries and if they had a bad team, they barely did it ... Castle of White Night is a tribute and lite evolution of this classic Dungeon Crawls RPG Format, and it's pretty good.

Let's first talk about the changes. Okay, so it is not party-based. It is a dungeon diver with a character in which you have to move through the dark depths. There are also some decay mechanisms instead of traditional round-based. Apart from that, however, he still succeeds in capturing the gloomy, rapid pace and the high risk earnings loop that had these early titles.

Beyond this page

Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Adventure Learn more about Beyond This Side

If I think of great, modern point-and-click adventure, I immediately think of those who can find themselves in supernatural or science fiction environments. Games like Beneath A Steel Sky and the Blackwell Conspiracy series are exactly there. Beyond This Side has at least fascinated me a little bit.

They take over the role of Sam, a man with a missing woman. Notes are rare, but he is obsessed from the alley in which their separated hand was found. In the city he lives, it is more than he knows, and it is becoming more obvious if his investigation will bring him to the hidden side.

Gameloft Classics

Available to: Android Genre: Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Retro, Shooter Learn more about Gameloft Classics

Gameloft Classics by Gameloft celebrates twenty years of publication and contains a whole series of games that would not have been playable on modern smartphones. We talk about games published in front of the AppStore and Googleplay.

What is nice to see is that our resident puzzle bobble fan Jon Mundy (and of course other team members) have already reviewed these games in the days before the AppStore on their original versions.

Gameloft Classics is great from a number of reasons - but one of the most important of them is the mere story.

Dungeon Restaurant

Available to: iOS + Android Genre: RPG, Simulation Learn more about the Dungeon Restaurant

While the user interface is slightly hectic and time consuming and the instructions are very light, the Dungeon Restaurant is a truly interesting entry into the erupting genre Production / Simulation. You know the games; Follow the instructions or repeat a pattern to achieve a small destination and then switch to ever more difficult over time?

There is an obvious reason why cooking so well in this genre fits and that we have seen games like Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Too Many Cooks and Overcoooked. While, as I said, the Dungeon restaurant on the screen is a bit busy, it is a great game when overcoming the early learning hurdles. Look at it briefly.

DICTATER

Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about DICTATER

Dictada is a strategy game in which you lead a potato. There are idle elements, elements to build the army and lite diplomacy in the game, and as modern CIV candidates on mobile devices this is not a bad attempt at all. The humor is good and although the user interface unfortunately is sometimes get used to, it really fun and the potato gimmick does not agree bad. There is also a surprisingly strong intrigue system.