{"id":96215,"date":"2019-07-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/best-new-mobile-games-july-5th-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:00:00","slug":"the-weekender-tower-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/the-weekender-tower-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekender: Tower Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a slightly short and sweet entry this week because I\u2019m out and above for work reasons, but still a few things to catch you guys up on. We\u2019ll be cooling it a bit with Harry Potter<\/em> content unless some news pops up and I\u2019ve got nothing better to do, although I plan to look more into the Auto Chess<\/em> stuff as it seems more our speed.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got more reviews coming as well, so don\u2019t worry about that \u2013 most new, a few we missed from last month, and then looking at trying to keep things dynamic with more features etc\u2026 I\u2019d especially be interested in what you thought about the Brave Exvius<\/em> guide we ran<\/a>. I\u2019ve always wondered if there was room for content that\u2019s on trying to ride the \u2018free\u2019 part of Free-to-play for as long as possible, making the most of what free resources one can get. I know plenty of people are turned off by the grind-mechanics themselves, but plenty do enjoy having something to whittle away idle time and I\u2019m hoping this helps with that somewhat.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in mobile gaming\u2026<\/p>\n

Out Now<\/h2>\n

LEGO Tower (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

We reported on this a week or two ago, but the LEGO themed Tiny Tower<\/em> spin-off is finally here. If you played the original game (or Tiny Death Star<\/em>) you\u2019ll know what to expect, but for anyone not in the know this is a free-to-play experience where you need to build and manage a tower complex. LEGO figurines will come to work and live in your tower depending on what you build, and you can keep going as high as you can.<\/p>\n

Standard Free-to-play warning applies with premium currencies and timers, although Tiny Tower<\/em> never had a reputation for being that bad with its monetisation. Still, this isn\u2019t going to sway anyone who\u2019s definitely anti-F2P, but it might be a nice distraction for anyone else looking for something to idle some time away without much thought. Plus, LEGO!<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTwEBcE4y_Q?controls=0]<\/p>\n

Chess Rush (iOS<\/a> & Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Tencent is a Chinese company you may have heard off because they\u2019re kinda buying stakes in, like, everyone right now. I think they own a share of Paradox Interactive now? Perhaps I\u2019m mis-remembering that, but they definitely own an interest in Riot Games, makers of League of Legends<\/em>. Recently, they\u2019ve done two things: The first is to partner with Drodo Games and Dragonest to help publish Auto Chess: Origin<\/em> in China, the second is to just go ahead and launch their own similar game, Chess Rush<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I tried to fire it up for a spin but it couldn\u2019t get it get past the \u2018checking for update\u2019 screen. It also asked for access to my microphone, to which I was like \u2018hell no\u2019. It’s mean’t to be a more fast-paced take on the genre though, with quicker matches lasting no more than ten minutes. I’ve always thought this was something that mobile-facing auto-battlers should try to deal with, as 30-40 minute matches that you can’t leave are problematic for a game that can be played on the go. If I can get it to work I\u2019ll report back and most likely update our master list of Auto Chess games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xpuMoxTITd8?controls=0]<\/p>\n

Sales<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s still a fair few sales going on at the moment since it\u2019s \u2018the season\u2019, and a few more interesting ones have popped up that you may be interested in:<\/p>\n

Seen anything else you liked? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a slightly short and sweet entry this week because I\u2019m out and above for work reasons, but still a few things to catch you guys up on. We\u2019ll be cooling it a bit with Harry Potter content unless some news pops up and I\u2019ve got nothing better to do, although I plan to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96215","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\/96215","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=96215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}