It is a curiosity of mobile game releases that games can be both out and not out. This is the case for three of the games in this week’s list. Angry Birds Journey is available in a few areas, but is out of reach for most of the world. May’s Mysteries – The Dragonville Secret is available to everyone, but only in the Open Beta. Ditto Dragon Quest Tact, the upcoming tactical RPG from Square Enix.
At least Titan Quest: Legendary Edition behaves. Type of. Titan Quest has come out, but this new version will include all the DLC available on other platforms, which means there will be two Titan Quests soon. Simple.
For a rundown of the best new Android games of the week, check out the Saturday companion to this article.
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The next season of Exos Heroes is just around the corner and will be released on January 28th. It’s called Blooded Rhapsody, and it’s made up of new story episodes, new heroes, and a whole new nation called Saint West. It starts where Season 2 left off and features a character named King John Donk. This is our favorite thing.
You can download Dragon Quest Tact in Early Access now, but the official full version will be released on the 27th of the month. In case you missed our previous stories on the subject, Dragon Quest Tact is a colorful tactical RPG featuring a variety of monsters from across the Dragon Quest franchise.
The Titan Quest PC connector has a long and successful history on mobile devices. It changed hands several times before ending up in the HandyGames stable. It finally seems to be getting the attention it deserves, and HandyGames is announcing a new Legendary Edition that includes streamlined graphics and all of the DLC available. Still no controller support.
Professor Layton, oddly enough, has few imitators considering how popular it is and how easy it would be to recreate its puzzle-book structure. May’s Mysteries – The secret of Dragonville as straightforward as imitations, with the same hand-drawn look and compendium of logic puzzles and gentle brain teasers. That of course makes it a see.
After a series of franchise experiments, the Angry Birds franchise is back on familiar ground with Angry Birds Journey. Rovio describes his latest Angry Birds outing as “extremely accessible,” with the same Slingshot-based gameplay we all enjoyed so much back then. You can get it now in the US, Canada, and a handful of European countries.
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Royale Pass 17 has arrived in PUBG Mobile and brings a number of new features. The most famous of these are rune powers, which you can use in a special version of the Erangel card. There are three different rune energies – flame, wind, and arctic – resulting in three different powers in combat. There is yet another crossover chapter from Metro Royale.
Here’s a relatively quiet update to Genshin Impact after the recent groundbreaking update to Dragonspine content. This adds a new story quest for Ganyu called Sinae Unicornis Chapter. You must be at Adventure Rank 40 or higher to play it. You must also have completed Archon Quest Chapter 1: Act III – A New Star. If it is you, you have it.
