If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, then you will probably be having school or work holidays soon. Summer is kicking in and there will be lots of time to chill and do what we love the most: absolutely nothing. With sports season on a break too – soccer and NFL preseason will last until late August – you will need another hobby to spend some time.
If you are away from home, just pick your phone and download some cool mobile games to keep you entertained – specially if you are waiting for a train or plane to travel somewhere.
Mobile games are currently under huge development. The technological industry is leveling up mobile performances and the gaming companies view it as the best way to expand towards the new public.
After checking our top picks from this month on iOS and Android devices, feel free to test out the newly released Call of Duty Mobile at E3 2019. Meanwhile, here are other top 5 picks for games to download this month.
- The Elder Scrolls: Blades
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an action role-playing game played from a first-person perspective, just like other Elder Scrolls platform version. The game was designed specifically for mobile devices and features one-on-one combat with a user-friendly touch interface.
Unlike the majority of the series, which are built on open-world and a huge free world map, the game’s design is linear, due to some limitations on mobile devices. Combat includes a variety of options: melee weapons, magic spells, and ranged attacks. Regarding the use of magic, the player can only equip up to three different magic spells to use during combat, a versatile and strategic fighting style.
The story takes place within the fantasy universe of The Elder Scrolls, during the Fourth Empire, and sometime after the Great War. The player’s character is a surviving former member of the Blades, an elite legendary group of spies and bodyguards who long-served and protected the Empire of Tamriel for many generations.
2.Alto’s Odyssey
The follow-up sequel of Alto’s Adventure, recognizes what made the original work so well and, without much revamp, applied the same core to the new game. As always, you play the role of a snowboarder, flying endlessly through an amazing background landscape. Vastly bigger than the first game, you will find surprising amusing the different generated created areas for the same playable zone.
New mechanics like wall-riding that unlocks early in the game and adds a whole new dimension to how you can interact with the scenery. Chain combos together or even balloons that you can bounce off for more impressive backflips, all add up to the embellishments on Alto’s already incredibly polished formula.
3.Oceanhorn
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas is an action-adventure RPG, developed by Cornfox & Brothers and published by FDG Entertainment, focused on an unnamed boy protagonist’s quest to find his lost father and defeat Oceanhorn, the living fortress. In the game, players explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and fight monsters in real-time fights.
A new game is on the way, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, set a thousand years before the events of the first chapter. It takes you on a magical journey across the vast world of Gaia, brimming with mythology and lore. A young knight faces an impossible challenge, as Warlock Mesmeroth has returned with a formidable Dark Army.
Trin, the granddaughter of Arcadia’s leader Archimedes, and Gen, a mysterious robot wielding an old samurai weapon, will join forces with you by exploring and solving the mysterious puzzles of the ancients.
4.The Eyes of Ara
A 2016 adventure game developed by the Brisbane-based, one-man independent games studio 100 Stones Interactive. The game took three years to complete and the design follows a more open-ended view with magnificent complexity of details and puzzles. Dishing up triumphs and frustrations in equal measure, The Eyes of Ara is a game no puzzle lover should miss, while story-driven adventurers should consider themselves warned, as there is a lack of engagement during the game and leads to an odd turn of events.
5.Broken Age
Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure video game developed and published by Double Fine Productions. As a Kickstarter crowd-funded project in February 2012, it originally hit the goal of $400,000 covering the costs of development and documentary filming. Broken Age became the largest crowd-funded video game project at the time, raising over 3.45 million dollars from more than 87,000 backers within the month.
The player-controlled character can be directed to move about the screen, examine objects, and talk to non-player characters to learn more about the game world. The game features two playable characters, each located in seemingly separate worlds where the player can switch from one character to the other via the game’s interface at any time. A fun and beautifully crafted game art with a similar feel to a children’s storybook.
