Best mobile games of March 2023

Best mobile games of March 2023

August 30, 2024 Games TOP

Mobile devices are the most widespread and most profitable gaming platform with the worst reputation. Free-to-play farms, clickers and other crafts are trying their best to make users forget their way to Google Play and the App Store. However, individual developers continue to struggle and prove that good games are everywhere.

AI Dungeon (free on the App Store and Google Play)

The flowering of text adventure games came at the end of the last century, when technology had not yet kept pace with the imagination of the authors. However, this does not mean that the genre at the junction of literature and video games has been forgotten. On the contrary, it continues to develop using the most advanced technologies. For example, a neural network writes stories for AI Dungeon.

At the very beginning, the player is invited to choose an existing setting or set his own. Just enter a few descriptive sentences and the game will begin. Further everything will develop depending on your teams and AI mood. Want Michael Jackson armed with a shotgun to suddenly enter the room? This will happen immediately, and very organically. However, such freedom has a flip side – plots easily reach the state of delirium, if they are not restrained on their own. Plus, sometimes AI gets confused, forgets details and surroundings. Nevertheless, the experiment looks interesting.

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LEGO Builder’s Journey (Apple Arcade)

LEGO games are a whole separate genre that can be recognized at a glance. Yellow men, light humor and a flying environment of cubes. Whether it’s Hogwarts, the Death Star or Gotham City, the recipe for these children’s action platformers remains unchanged. The more surprising LEGO Builder’s Journey is.

Unlike many other games in this franchise, LEGO Builder’s Journey is a puzzle. Elements of riddles are not news, but now this is not fun, colorful entertainment, but a deep and meditative process in which you need to build a road for the heroes. The figures of characters are not made in the form of familiar little men, but are created from separate blocks, which further excludes the game from “relatives”.


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Minecraft Earth (free on the App Store and Google Play)

Augmented reality is one of the few advantages of mobile devices over other gaming platforms. To be honest, catching Pokemon from your PC in the bosom is not very convenient. Therefore, large projects using this technology always attract a lot of attention.

In December, early access to Minecraft Earth opened. Like the original, the spin-off focuses on construction, only now the platform for creativity is not the screen, but … well, in general, also the screen, but adjusted for augmented reality. Users can also collect resources in the vicinity and find other buildings players. However, it is worth considering that in the earlier version there are a lot of bugs.


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She Sees Red (₽229 on the App Store and ₽239 on Google Play)

Interactive cinema still cannot find its place – is it a movie or a video game? Where should they be distributed: on Steam or on Netflix? One day someone will give answers to these questions, but for now this genre feels quite comfortable in the midst of uncertainty, replenished with new paintings.

“She is angry” is a thriller that stands out almost nothing. It does not have any revelations or obvious omissions; it is just a good movie. History develops in two time lines. One is a criminal, the other is an investigator. The actions of the first at certain moments are controlled by the viewer / player, which affects the entire plot and ending. Thanks to this, “just a good movie” begins to play with new colors.


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Very Little Nightmares (₽529 on the App Store and Google Play)

There are many ways to port games to mobile devices. If technical capabilities allow, only the adaptation of control occurs. In the days of J2ME, and sometimes even now, new and completely different games with the same names are created. But some developers have resorted to a compromise.

Very Little Nightmares is a prequel to Little Nightmares. To please the mobile platform, the game changed its genre – now it is an isometric puzzle, not a three-dimensional platformer. However, the main character remained the same, and the scenery, although new, is just as creepy. On iOS Very Little Nightmares came out in May, now it is also available on Android.


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60 Parsecs! (₽299 on the App Store and ₽269 on Google Play)

Four years ago, a peculiar survival simulator 60 Seconds !. Its essence was quite simple. At the beginning of the game, the player is given exactly one minute to gather his family, the necessary supplies and hide in a bomb shelter. After that, a long (not a fact) and fascinating process of survival in the post-apocalypse begins, filled with various quests and random events.

60 Parsecs! Is a spin-off 60 Seconds !, which is almost no different from the original. We exchange the house for an exploding space station, the bomb shelter for a ship, and the family for a crew. There are still a lot of quests and tons of black humor, the need to make difficult decisions and the atmosphere of retro-futurism. There are some innovations, but they will be visible only to veterans of the previous game.


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Esports Life Tycoon (₽599 on the App Store and Google Play)

One of the immutable rules of the Internet can be reformulated into the phrase “If it exists, then there is already a simulator about it. With no exceptions”. The publication of Playboy magazine, the development of video games, the life of a youtuber, the management of an e-sports organization – there are secret about all this. The last of them was ported to mobile devices in December.

Esports Life Tycoon will offer to take over the management of the e-sports organization. Users will be responsible for hiring players and distributing their free time, as well as other important aspects such as customization and conflict resolution. On Steam, the taikun has collected “mixed” reviews. Mostly users complained about the same gameplay and compared Esports Life Tycoon with a mobile game. Perhaps not in vain.


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Simulacra 2 (₽379 on the App Store and ₽369 on Google Play)

Esports Life Tycoon was just the seed. In fact, the simulator even exists about the fact that you have a smartphone. The Simulacra series is vivid proof of this. Technically, this is a kind of quest in which you need to quite habitually search for and solve something, but with one “but”.

Simulacra 2 simulates a screencast, i.e. a screen recording. And if on the PC this does not give anything special, but only limits the playing field, then on the smartphone you can feel complete immersion. The whole game takes place on the phone of the deceased girl, whose death is to be investigated. Various applications act as locations: mail, social networks, gallery, etc. If you strain your imagination a little, you can imagine that you are a real detective, and you have an important material evidence in your hands. A tangled story with notes of a thriller attached.


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Terraforming Mars (₽699 on the App Store and ₽599 on Google Play)

A significant part of good mobile games are ports from PCs and consoles. Formally, Terraforming Mars is no exception, because it appeared on Steam back in 2018. However, the PC version was, in turn, an adaptation of a board game. It remains only to write a book, make a movie, and you can start the cycle in a new way.

Gameplay Terraforming Mars almost completely repeats the original game, even for the map used the same image of Mars. Users take on the roles of corporate leaders who seek to ennoble the planet for the benefit of all and their own benefit. They do this with the help of special card projects that bring bonuses, points and resources. You can play against bots or other people, including through crossplay.


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Dumb Ways to Dash! (free on the App Store and Google Play)

Video games based on “desktops” are not a rare phenomenon at all. There are times when developers are inspired by much stranger things – for example, social advertising Dumb Ways to Die. The first game based on “Silly Ways to Die” was released back in 2013, but this time we have a runner.

At first glance, the game resembles not ordinary runners, in which everything is tailored to reaction and speed, but a show in the style of the American Ninja. Here, the playing field is an obstacle course from various platforms, trampolines, pins, pendulums and others. Heroes are not tied to the “rails” and can freely move and dodge. In addition, the game is multiplayer, which definitely should brighten up the races.


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What’s good about mobile games is that they don’t know that winter and New Year’s holidays are considered a lull in the industry. Therefore, during this period, no less interesting releases happen than at any other time of the year. This month, in addition to the aforementioned games, PewDiePie saw a rogue about a worm fighting enemies with its intestines (Poopdie), an aircraft designer with advanced physics (Machinaero), a spin-off of a global strategy (Age of Civilizations II Europe) other.

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