This month’s review of new smartphone games includes one of the best games of the year on any format and a brand new Supercell game. As summer finally begins to take hold it’s been a great month for new mobile games, with the superb All Of You, from the makers of Love You To Bits; as well as Supercell’s Squad Busters, a completely free Franz Kafka homage, Advance Wars knock-off Warbits Plus, and the excellent Katana Zero on Netflix . Add in the recently released Star Wars: Hunters and there’s something for everyone and almost all of it is free – or close to it.
iOS, £3.99 (Alike Studio) From the same developer as the peerlessly wonderful Love You To Bits , comes another real-time puzzle game in their gloriously characterful cartoon art style. In each of All Of You’s levels, a set of circles appears that act like panels in a comic book, except each one is animated.
Some can be paused, others just get on with their action. Your job is to help a mother hen navigate various devastating perils in search of a lost chick in the final circle. Initially, the game is just teaching you how to play, but it soon adds a cornucopia of new ideas, from timing-based challenges to others where tactical pauses allow your chicken protagonist to survive its adorable travails.
The music is beautiful, especially on headphones, it’s polished to a high shine, and as with Alike’s previous games, your only complaint will be that is eventually has to end. Score: 9/10 iOS, Free (Blastodis.
