Mobile Game Roundup: Blood Gate: Age of Alchemy, Halos and More

If you’re looking for a new game to play on your smartphone or tablet, this week’s app store updates offer plenty of new options. First, new developer Minidragon launched its first game, a match-three RPG called Rainbowtail, which sees players collecting pets which can help them complete stages. Storm8 also released a match-three game this week, as Hungry Babies Mania challenges players to make matches with food symbols to feed hungry baby animals. For strategy fans, Gameloft released its empire-building game March of Empires, while simulation or tycoon fans can relive the PC classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, which Frontier Developments released on iOS. Looking for something different? Here’s a look at some other games released this week. Blood Gate: Age of Alchemy (Free on iOS, Android) - This match-three puzzle battle game from Outsmart and DeNA takes players to the Gothic fantasy world of Toskyr, and challenges them to ‘put an end to the Dark Countess’ evil conspiracy.’ The game features over 100 levels at launch, with each asking players to quickly draw lines across matching symbols on a board to create lines of three or more identical symbols and attack their opponents. Each symbol has an elemental affinity, with elements relating to one another in a ‘rock, paper, scissors’ style. The faster players make matches, they faster they damage their opponent. Players will begin with a single hero, but can unlock additional heroes (and hero classes) over time. Players can upgrade their heroes with new skills as they progress, or equip them with the gear they receive while playing. Tap Sports Football (Free on iOS, Android, Amazon) - From Glu Mobile, Tap Sports Football sees players building and managing a team of current professional football players, and taking them into multiplayer games against other players. During each turn-based game, players choose their offensive and defensive strategies, and complete their entire possession on their turn. Bonus games are also available, allowing users to play full games (or jump straight to the fourth quarter) without waiting for other players to take their turns. Players can spend free or premium currency on additional players for their team, upgrades for their team and more. Ready Cola! (Free on iOS) - From Pine Entertainment, Ready Cola is a reflex-testing game that challenges players to tap on the screen at the right time to send straws into white bottles of cola as they scroll up and down along the left side of the screen. Bottles come in different sizes, and may change direction without warning. Special bottles are also available, which, when matched with a straw, unlock a ‘fever’ mode for earning bonus points for a limited time. 1849: Gold Edition ($5.99 on iPad and Android tablets) - From SomaSim, 1849: Gold Edition combines the base game of 1849 with two extra content packs: 1849: Nevada Silver and Epilogue: After the Gold Rush. 1849 is a city-building game set during the California Gold Rush. Players are challenged to build towns across multiple campaign levels, each with their own starting and victory conditions, as well as obstacles or challenges to overcome. The game also offers a sandbox mode for additional gameplay. The Nevada Silver expansion offers six scenarios set in the Comstock Silver Rush, while the Epilogue pack features the game’s final two scenarios, challenging players to rebuild the economies of two towns in the post-Gold Rush era. The game is on sale for $3.99 for a limited time. FitFlap (Free on iOS, Android) - A motion-controlled fitness game from BreakFirst, FitFlap asks users to flap their arms in front of their device’s camera to keep their characters in shape while playing a Flappy Bird-style mini-game. Players begin with Bacon the Pig, and can collect coins as they play, which are used to unlock Rocket the Turtle and Sushi the Fish. The game encourages users to play each day, as spending time away from the game will cause the characters to gain weight. In addition to real-world flapping, the game does offer a tap-to-flap control option. If players have spent too much time away from the game, they can spend coins (or watch a video) to access the Sweat Room, where they can shake their device or dance to quickly burn extra calories. FitFlap supports casting to Chromecast devices, so users can play the game on their TV. Angry Cecil: A Lion’s Revenge (Free on Android) - A twist on the hunting genre from Tapinator, Angry Cecil: A Lion's Revenge was inspired by the outrage over the death of Cecil the lion earlier this year. In the game, players take on the role of Cecil and become the hunter of poachers and trophy hunters. Missions will see players protect their young or the lioness, with 50 percent of the game’s profits being donated to the Protecting African Wildlife Conservation Trust. Angry Cecil: A Lion’s Revenge is coming soon to iOS. The game is rated 'mature' due to its violent content. Avoid (Free on iOS) - From Noodlecake Studios and HypnoCat Studio, Avoid asks players to drag their finger around the bottom of the screen to help their character avoid the spinning saw blades at the top of the screen. Players can get hit twice before failing, and can collect coins that randomly appear on the board. These coins are spent on new playable characters. Mazecraft (Free on iOS) - A maze creation game from HyperLiger, Mazecraft allows players to play mazes created by other players, or create their own for friends or strangers to play. Mazes can contain a variety of obstacles and elements, from locked doors and animals to spike traps, rolling saw blades and more. Each puzzle contains one or more collectible items, as well as coins. Players spend coins on each new element they add to their own mazes, encouraging them to continue playing new mazes to earn more money and continue the cycle. Gamers can also spend coins on new outfits or head pieces for their avatar. As players complete mazes, the creator can watch replays of their runs. Farms & Castles (Free on iOS, Android) - From Hapti.co, a Square Enix studio, Farms & Castles is a puzzle game in the style of Spry Fox's Triple Town, which sees players drag objects like bushes and stones to the board to create groups of three or more touching, matching symbols, which fuse into something larger. As players fuse these items, bushes eventually become farms, while stones become castles. Farms produce goods on each turn, which can be spent on the exact resources players may need to create a future match, while castles produce gold that can be spent on three kinds of magical orbs. One orb destroys a single object with a lightning strike, while another transforms an object from wood to stone, or from stone to wood. The third can be used as a ‘wild card’ object for completing any match on the board. Players can also purchase these orbs with real money, rather than waiting to accumulate the right number of gold coins. Monsters Ate My Metropolis (Free on iOS, Android) - A card battle game from Adult Swim and PikPok, Monsters Ate My Metropolis sees players destroying cities with their chosen monster by playing cards which relate to others in a ‘rock, paper, scissors’ style (cards may also have special effects that are activated when played). The monster earns experience points after each battle and becomes stronger as it levels up. Players can spend free and premium currency on new cards to add to their monster’s deck, with players also challenged to protect their own city by assigning cards to its deck. As players collect excess cards, these can be used as food for the monster, giving it additional experience points. The Path to Luma (Free on iOS, Android) - An adventure puzzle game from NRG Energy and Phosphor Games Studio, The Path to Luma sees players take on the role of SAM, a Sustainability Augmentation Model android who has been sent on a mission to save abandoned planets and ‘harness the power of clean energy.’ Players will explore 20 worlds and will solve puzzles by rotating their environment, charging batteries and more, in order to return life and energy to each planet. Halos (Free on iOS) - From Kiz Studios, this reflex-testing title asks players to swipe on colorful circles as they scroll across the screen, sending them to the matching hub at the sides of the area. As circles scroll by, players make the appropriate swipes on the active colors while ignoring the rest. Each game becomes more complicated as players survive, with rings moving faster across the screen. Players can make a few mistakes before the game ends, and can share their high scores with friends. In addition to this endless survival mode, players can complete individual challenge levels, which may ask them to earn specific numbers of points on each stage. Players earn up to three stars on each challenge level, depending on their performance.

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Mobile Game Roundup: Blood Gate: Age of Alchemy, Halos and More

We take a look at some of the mobile games released this week.

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