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\n\t\tDestiny: Rising is one of the best games of the year (NetEase)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tDestiny: Rising is one of the best games of the year (NetEase)<\/p>\n
GameCentral takes a look back at the best iOS<\/a> and Android games<\/a> of the last 12 months, from Destiny: Rising to The Valley Of The Architects.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been quite a year for mobile gamers, a category that increasingly seems to include just about everyone over the age of 11. From the subaquatic fun of Feed The Deep and the touchscreen version of Subnautica, to delightfully eerie freebie The Mr Rabbit Magic Show, there\u2019s rarely been a better time to seek momentary distraction via your phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Super Farming Boy<\/p>\n iOS, \u00a37.99 (LemonChilli Soft)<\/p>\n It may have had a remaining bug or two at launch, but those have now been weeded out, making Super Farming Boy\u2019s enjoyably unusual take on agriculture a distinct pleasure.<\/p>\n Each crop you plant has its own harvesting technique and direction, letting you place different vegetables next to each other to trigger increasingly complex combos once they\u2019ve ripened. There\u2019s a lot to remember, and everything takes place against the clock, so it\u2019s far from relaxing to play.<\/p>\n When night comes \u2018the man\u2019 turns up in your dreams to buy your produce and sell you new tools, slowly opening up the gameplay as you move from subsistence to cash farming in this skill based and tactical game.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Valley Of The Architects<\/p>\n iOS, \u00a33.99 (Whaleo)<\/p>\n The only architecture you\u2019ll see in Valley Of The Architects is lifts, which you need to use to move a queue of residents to their specific destinations. The twist is that all the lifts move on their own, making the route and timing of each passenger\u2019s journey essential to getting them to the right place.<\/p>\n Although lifts are autonomous, you can place stoppers, which they bounce off when they hit a specific floor. By timing lifts\u2019 motion and bounces with the paths of passengers, you can ensure each one gets to the right place by the time each level has run its course.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tDon’t miss Gaming news! Add us as a Preferred Source\t\t\t<\/p>\n As a loyal GameCentral reader, we want to make sure you never miss our articles when searching for gaming stories. We have all the latest video games news, reviews, previews, and interviews, with a vibrant community of highly engaged readers.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> and tick\u00a0Metro.co.uk\u00a0to ensure you see stories from us first in Google Search.<\/p>\n \t\t While it does require a modicum of trial and error it\u2019s a fascinating process, the game\u2019s interface and generally minimalist design helping you focus on what counts.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Crashlands 2<\/p>\n iOS, \u00a39.99 (Butterscotch Shenanigans) Its sequel is at least as polished and takes an identical course, which includes meeting friendly aliens and slaughtering their inhospitable counterparts, a process made easier as you upgrade your spacesuit and equipment.<\/p>\n Conversations can drag a bit, but it\u2019s a small niggle in an otherwise compelling game that manages to improve on most aspects of the already accomplished first game.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Mr Rabbit Magic Show<\/p>\n iOS & Android, free (Rusty Lake)<\/p>\n As happy birthday messages go, this is unlike any you\u2019ll have come across. It celebrates a decade of independent developer Rusty Lake and their ominous-meets-ethereal house style, in the form of an interactive magic show.<\/p>\n Its story unfolds over 20 separate acts, with regular interludes in the game\u2019s version of the developer\u2019s office space, where you\u2019ll help them party, as well as assisting with debugging the very game you\u2019re playing.<\/p>\n Its puzzles are surreal rather the cryptic and prove intrinsically enjoyable, their style and offbeat character making them a pleasure to explore, especially if you\u2019re a fan of their canon \u2013 if you\u2019re not, this is an excellent invitation to find out more.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n No Way Home<\/p>\n iOS, free \u2013 full game \u00a34.99 (SMG Studios)<\/p>\n Games originally designed with a mouse or controller in mind often don\u2019t work all that well on the confines of a mobile screen, but despite being ported from PC, No Way Home is not like that, managing to play brilliantly without any need for Bluetooth peripherals.<\/p>\n Stranded lightyears from Earth, you need to find a way back \u2013 a process that involves blasting your way through legions of extraterrestrials, while gradually upgrading your ship and its armaments.<\/p>\n Its conversations are amusing, space battles are fast and fun, and the extra weapons you acquire look and sound satisfyingly devastating.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Feed The Deep<\/p>\n iOS, free \u2013 full game \u00a36.99 (Luke Muscat)<\/p>\n In Feed The Deep you\u2019re a diver in search of extremely big underwater prey, the sub-aqua behemoths you hunt only being found at the end of labyrinthine, flooded 2D cave systems.<\/p>\n Earning extra air tanks, faster flippers, and heavier load carrying capabilities lets you hoist more treasures to the surface, which in turn lead to better upgrades, all of which you\u2019ll need to track down later beasts, who can be hidden very deep underwater.<\/p>\n There are hidden secrets and more puzzles elements as you progress, in this decidedly unconventional fishing simulator.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Subnautica<\/p>\n iOS & Android, \u00a38.99 (Playdigious)<\/p>\n Crash landing on a watery planet, your first order of business is survival. Nibbling on edible sea creatures, and chipping off mineral deposits for crafting, you slowly start to eke out an existence on a mostly submerged, very alien world.<\/p>\n Upgrading your gear gives access to the nether reaches of its ocean, where rarer materials await, letting you construct more advanced technology and better underwater bases, while avoiding unfriendly sub-aquatic fauna.<\/p>\n Moving about in water actually lends itself surprisingly well to the slower pace of touchscreen controls, making this port feel right at home on mobile, especially on iPad where its impressive alien vistas have more room.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Destiny: Rising<\/p>\n iOS & Android, free (NetEase)<\/p>\n With Destiny\u2019s console and PC players increasingly disaffected with its direction, a shift to mobile at least hedges the franchise\u2019s bets in an uncertain future. Although an already restless player-base may have had initial concerns about the addition of gacha heroes and multiple currencies, redolent of the worst of touchscreen gaming.<\/p>\n Luckily, Destiny: Rising also gets a lot of things right, most centrally the rock solid gunplay for which the Bungie original is justly famed. It\u2019s also relatively generous with its unlocks and not quite as prone to excessive grind as some of its competitors.<\/p>\n It may indeed prove quite tempting to drop real cash into its effectively bottomless pit, but that\u2019s also a testament to the addictive qualities that remain as strong as its console counterpart\u2019s used to be.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Maze Mice<\/p>\n iOS & Android, \u00a34.99 (Trampoline Tales) \u2013 out 10 October<\/p>\n Vampire Survivor-inspired games (see below) are not exactly a rarity these days, which is understandable given the runaway success of the original game. Maze Mice goes a lot further though, by splicing familiar swarm control with Pac-Man style mazes and Superhot\u2019s conceit of enemies that only move when you do.<\/p>\n For the rest of the time, the game\u2019s effectively paused, giving you the space to think about where to go and what to do next. That\u2019s useful because enemies have quite different trajectories \u2013 some of them casually ignoring walls \u2013 and the mazes you unlock as you progress require completely different tactics for success.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a spectacularly subtle hidden gem of the iOS and Google Play Stores, with a strategic depth that belies its simple graphics and apparently derivative design, its true nature only gradually revealing itself as you open up more of its mazes and mice.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor<\/p>\n iOS & Android, free \u2013 full game \u00a38.99 (Ghost Ship Games)<\/p>\n Like Deep Rock Galactic, your dwarf is contractually obliged to extract a set of minerals from each of its subterranean levels, and like Vampire Survivors you do that from a top-down perspective while defending yourself against swarms of inbound enemies.<\/p>\n No premium indie game would be complete without a roguelite structure, that lets you very slowly improve everything from the radius within which you can pick up items to the speed you run and mine.<\/p>\n Enemies change as you go deeper into new zones, as do the minerals and weapons you pick up, with the drip feed of additional power creating a steady and engrossing sense of progression.<\/p>\n Score: 8\/10<\/p>\n Email\u00a0gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a>, leave a comment below,\u00a0follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n To submit Inbox letters and Reader\u2019s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our\u00a0Submit Stuff page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more stories like this,\u00a0check our Gaming page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"GameCentral](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767126134_465_SEC_278479390-558f.jpg\")
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