Best new mobile games on iOS and Android – April 2024 round-up

There’s a whole bunch of impressive new smartphone games out at the moment, from Call Of Duty Warzone Mobile to the satirical Recursion.

While mainstream games tend to save up their best releases for Christmas, on mobile you never quite know when there’s going to be a bumper crop. It turns out that time is now.

From the remarkably effective Call Of Duty: Warzone Mobile to the abject surrealism of Ghost In The Mirror and Please, Touch the Artwork 2 it’s a cracking month for touchscreen gamers.

Best new mobile games on iOS and Android in April 2024

Call Of Duty: Warzone Mobile

iOS & Android, Free (Activision)

With a few, surprisingly minor, disadvantages brought about by touchscreen controls, Call Of Duty: Warzone Mobile does exactly what it says on the tin.

It’s not a straight port, as it features some different maps and the odd retooled gameplay element, but you can still login with your PC or console Call Of Duty account and maintain progress amongst your different saves.

Your phone gets hot and your battery gets drained, but especially in Mobile Royale – the slightly smaller, faster game mode – things work astoundingly well, at least on an iPad Pro. At time of writing, word is that the Android implementation has been less successful.

Score: 8/10

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Ghost In The Mirror

iOS & Android, £3.99 (Sui Arts)

Ghost In The Mirror is a charmingly deranged point ‘n’ click style adventure, where almost any problem can be solved by finding the right item in your inventory and tapping ‘Use’.

It doesn’t so much knock on the fourth wall as take a wrecking ball to it, before gleefully jumping up and down on the rubble. The narrator frequently acknowledges the fact that you’re playing a game and having a very good time with that fact.

If you’ve ever had a sense that games were getting too corporate for your liking, Ghost In The Mirror’s delightfully unhinged humour will restore at least a small proportion of your faith in humanity.

Score: 7/10

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Recursion

iOS & Android, £3.99 (Glitch Games)

The appositely entitled Recursion has you solving escape room style puzzles in a time loop, your work unpicking its enigmatic challenges and gradually extending your overall progress.

Infused with a Portal style corporate cynicism, it’s exceptionally well written and we’d encourage you to check out the URL you come across in your play through, which turns out to be laden with clever satire.

Clever, cryptic, and with a wicked sense of humour, Recursion supplies a refined set of tools to go about solving its puzzles, and plenty of hints if the going gets too tough.

Score: 8/10

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