{"id":70637,"date":"2018-12-21T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-new-games-ios-android-december-21st\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:09:25","slug":"out-now-final-edition-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/out-now-final-edition-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Now: Final Edition 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/out-now-final-edition-2018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>So, here we are &#8211; the final &#8216;Out Now&#8217; of 2018. It&#8217;s been a surprisingly good week for releases, all things considered &#8211; <em>Tropico<\/em> and <em>Rome: Total War<\/em>&#8216;s Android port being the highlights. Today also marks the final day of voting in our Reader&#8217;s Choice Game of the Year award &#8211; I&#8217;ll be closing the form later tonight, so make sure you have your say before it&#8217;s too late!<\/p>\n<p>As far as the next couple of weeks go, we&#8217;re going to be operating a reduced content schedule until we&#8217;re back properly on January 2nd. We&#8217;ll be publishing articles on the following days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday 24th<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday 26th<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday 28th<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Monday 31st<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a couple of year in reviews, as well as Nick&#8217;s usual Boxing Day Gift Guide, and the results of the GOTY vote will go up on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Out Now<\/h2>\n<h3>Heroes of Flatlandia (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/heroes-of-flatlandia\/id1445838121?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">iOS Universal<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.HighlandStudio.HeroesOfFlatlandia1&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Full review coming soon!<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We like to highlight things that haven potential in this column, and <em>Heroes of Flatlandia<\/em> on paper seems like it might fit the bill. A premium strategy game (such a rarity these days), this seems like a very modest, almost &#8216;lite&#8217; turn-based tactics outing with some basic content for genre fans. Two races, 14 units and 4 heroes, the game also features hot-seat multiplayer and a <em>&#8220;cunning AI&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyIqjX7bX8A?controls=0]<\/p>\n<h3>Tropico (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/tropico\/id1264531625?l=en&amp;mt=8&amp;at=11l7vY\" target=\"_blank\">iPad<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/tropico\/\" target=\"_blank\">Review<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much more to add that wasn&#8217;t covered in Brittany&#8217;s steller review, but suffice to say <em>Tropico<\/em> on iPad is a bit of a triumph. There are still some interface issues that come with management\/city-builder games on this platform, but Feral have managed to port <em>Tropico 3<\/em> intact and with all its charm. This is one premium experience you won&#8217;t want to miss out on.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=luosxBtxipQ?controls=0]<\/p>\n<h3>Rome: Total War (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/rome-total-war\/id1106831630?mt=8&amp;at=11l7vY\" target=\"_blank\">iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.feralinteractive.rometw\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-rome-total-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Review<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>Android users, rejoice! You can now purchase Feral Interactive&#8217;s other great strategy port, <em>Rome: Total War<\/em>, for your Google-powered device. Check out what Nick thought of the game back when it originally released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kh1Rf1uyQK0?controls=0]<\/p>\n<h3>Perudo (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/perudo-the-pirate-board-game\/id1199019940?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">iOS Universal<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.asmodeedigital.perudoofficial\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Full review coming soon!<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>You remember that dice game the fish-pirates played on the <em>Flying Dutchman<\/em> in the second <em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> movie? I never quite understood how that game worked. Now I might have a chance to learn, thanks to Asmodee stealth releasing a digital port of the game on mobile. <em>Perudo<\/em>, one of many games derived from the public domain game <em>Liar&#8217;s Dice<\/em>, looks exactly like that game in POTC. Amongst other things, It features pass-and-play multiplayer functionality for up to six people (as well as online), making it an excellent party game candidate.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SLYy5oZ6VxQ?controls=0]<\/p>\n<h2>Sales<\/h2>\n<p>Where to begin! There&#8217;s quite a few sales going on, especially on iOS. We&#8217;re not able to give a complete sales breakdown this week sadly, but these are some of the highlights we&#8217;ve spotted that you may be interested in. Unfortunately, a lot of these deals seem iOS only for now &#8211; we&#8217;ve cross-checked a few, but if anyone spots any additional android deals, let us know!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>ELOH<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kingdom Rush Frontiers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kingdom Rush Origin<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Motorsport Manager Mobile 3<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bastion<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Lords of Waterdeep<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Out There<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Project Highrise<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Crowntakers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Age of Rivals<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Grimvalor\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There may be more, so make sure you keep an eye out if you&#8217;re looking to pick up some extra games for the holidays. If you&#8217;re someone who&#8217;s still not jumped onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/reviews\/review-civilization-vi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Civilization VI<\/em> on iOS<\/a>, your frugal patience has been rewarded. From now until January 1st, the &#8216;Full Game Unlock&#8217; IAP is now <strong>$14.99<\/strong>, making it as cheap what it is on PC currently (Steam Winter Sale). It&#8217; such a good deal, I almost feel sorry for people who purchased it at the previous 50% discount entry point, or even full price! In addition to that, there&#8217;s a schedule for the scenario packs, which will rotate every 48 hours &#8211; the current ones, Vikings and Poland, are free, and the full schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12\/20 \u2013 12\/22\u00a0Poland Civilization &amp; Scenario Pack (Reg: $4.99)<\/li>\n<li>12\/22 \u2013 12\/24 Vikings Scenario (Reg: $4.99)<\/li>\n<li>12\/24 \u2013 12\/26\u00a0Australia Civilization &amp; Scenario Pack (Reg: $4.99)<\/li>\n<li>12\/26 \u2013 12\/28\u00a0Persia and Macedon Civilization &amp; Scenario Pack (Reg: $8.99)<\/li>\n<li>12\/28 \u2013 12\/30\u00a0Nubia Civilization &amp; Scenario Pack (Reg: $4.99)<\/li>\n<li>12\/30 \u2013 1\/1\u00a0Khmer and Indonesia Civilization &amp; Scenario Pack (Reg: $8.99)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you have until tomorrow to pick up those first two scenario packs if you don&#8217;t have them already.<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s all we have time for this week &#8211; we hope everyone has a good holiday break, and The Weekender will return as normal on Friday, January 4th, 2019!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here we are &#8211; the final &#8216;Out Now&#8217; of 2018. It&#8217;s been a surprisingly good week for releases, all things considered &#8211; Tropico and Rome: Total War&#8216;s Android port being the highlights. Today also marks the final day of voting in our Reader&#8217;s Choice Game of the Year award &#8211; I&#8217;ll be closing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}