New release roundup: My Talking Tom Friends 2, Coin Master – Board Adventure, and more

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While the deals and the stats of the gaming world are important, nothing would happen without the research, funding and, of course, development that goes into making a great game.

So here’s a collection of the most exciting new mobile games right now, the developers and publishers behind them, and why, exactly, they’ve made the cut.

My Talking Tom Friends 2

Chattering cats and a bustling new neighbourhood await in My Talking Tom Friends 2, the sequel to Outfit7’s 2020 game My Talking Tom Friends.

Five years later, and the new release brings personalised houses for every character, multiple minigames and a day-night cycle to shift up the mood. Talking Tom, Angela, Hank and others are fully voice acted and can go beyond their neighbourhood with a bus ride to a water park – with more destinations planned for future updates.

The new game has launched 15 years to the month after the original Talking Tom.

Dragonheir: Silent Gods

Dark fantasy RPG Dragonheir: Silent Gods has relaunched globally with its Reborn update. Tencent subsidiary SGRA Studio has reworked the game based on player feedback, meaning less grinding and more content, a reworked adventure, and many quests across its open world.

Coin Master – Board Adventure

Currently exclusive to Google Play in the Philippines, Coin Master – Board Adventure is the first expansion to Moon Active’s multi-billion dollar Coin Master IP.

This brand extension lands players on a Monopoly-style board on which they can collect cards and coins, upgrade buildings, and raid villages along the way.

Blood Line: A Rebel Moon Game

Based on the Netflix sci-fi IP, the Super Evil Megacorp-developed Blood Line: A Rebel Moon Game comes to mobile as an online multiplayer action game. The title can be played solo or with friends in games of up to four fighters, with mission objectives spanning rescue operations to sabotaging key Imperium facilities.

The game is available to Netflix subscribers only.

Classroom of the Elite

Shōgo Kinugasa’s 2015 manga Classroom of the Elite has spawned sequels, an anime adaptation and now a mobile game, available on iOS and Android only for Crunchyroll subscribers.

The game has been developed in collaboration with “major anime gaming studios” and allows fans to live out their academic fantasies at the Advanced Nurturing High School.

Emoji Game

Apple has added an emoji-based game called Emoji Game to its Apple News+ Puzzles lineup, developed internally using its Genmoji technology. This means more variety than the standard cast of emojis – serving as clues to solve a range of word puzzles as quickly as possible.

Rogue Slime

Even slimes have dreams, and in Quest Seeker’s roguelite Rogue Slime, those dreams include building a city, collecting the rarest of items and becoming an unstoppable threat to all enemies.

Along the way, players can tackle procedurally generated foes or face off against their fellow slimes in PVP battles, using randomised buffs and collectible cards in their favour to see who comes out on top.

Monster Walk

Talofa Games’ second title Monster Walk continues the studio’s health-conscious initiative, currently available in early access.

Part creature collector, part RPG, Monster Walk encourages gamers to get out walking without tracking them – opting to sync with a user’s pedometer instead of using GPS or building on location-based play.

A user’s real-world steps earn in-game resources that can then be used at their convenience as fuel for battling, bonding with various creatures and exploring a fantasy world.

SNO Snow White

BuchioGames’ metroidvania SNO Snow White thrusts players onto a snow-covered planet ravaged by an AI war.

Gameplay requires switching between dimensions, overcoming 2D action and 3D puzzle-solving, and manipulating objects to discover new paths forward and unravel the mysteries of this algid world.

Baguhan

This PlayStation Mobile game is all about catching insects by tapping or pinching them on-screen. It’s currently exclusive to iOS in Japan, leveraging AR technology to turn any environment into a bug-riddled scene.

Hunters can also earn items as they play and fill in an encyclopedia of critters. The more they collect, the more they’ll rank up.