New game digest: Dave the Diver, Aniimo, new Game Freak, Moon Active and Noodlecake titles, more

 

Here every Friday you’ll find the latest global releases, game dates, new soft launches and everything in between.

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Dave the Diver (Mintrocket)

The award-winning adventure/restaurant-management hybrid Dave the Diver has launched worldwide on iOS and Android.

This mobile version also bundles the Dredge and In the Jungle DLC packs and boasts several mobile-only features and optimisations, including gyro tilt and a “three-level view distance” option.

Aniimo (Pawprint Studio)

The free-to-play creature-catching open-world RPG Aniimo launched on PC, PS5 and Xbox this week, with iOS and Android to follow on September 23.

Players can discover, meet and collect more than 200 Aniimo, including different rarities and forms depending upon the biome and weather.

Dream Bay (Moon Active)

A renovation-themed merge game from Coin Master maker Moon Active, AppMagic suggests Dream Bay has soft launched in the UK, Austria, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. Right now, it seems only available via the Google Play store.

Ame no Chi Hare Onna / Rain, then Sunny Girl (Game Freak)

A free-to-play “laundry game” for iOS and Android where real-world weather affects gameplay, Ame no Chi Hare Onna is directed by Pokémon’s Shigeru Ohmori and is expected to launch in Japan this winter.

Flick Shot Rogues (Noodlecake)

This physics-based turn-based roguelike, previously only available on PC, is out now and is being featured as an ‘incredible indie’ on the App Store.

Developed by Butter By The Fish, it shipwrecks players on an island and tasks them with taming the cannon-toting crabs, blade-wielding apes, and more in each turn-based encounter.

9 Kings (Playdigious)

Playdigious’s mobile port of the roguelike kingdom builder is coming to iOS and Android on October 12. It’s already sold over 1.1m copies in PC early access, and Android players will be able to play across both PC and mobile if they’re using the same Google Play account.

The Posthumous Investigation (Critical Leap/Mother Gaia Studio)

This time-loop noir murder mystery launches on Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android today, September 17. It’s set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro and was previously only on PC.

Astrae Oratio (NC)

NC’s anime RPG Astrae Oratio was out for its first playable demo at Tokyo Game Show this week. We don’t yet have a release date, but it’s slated to arrive for iOS and Android in 2027. A PC release will follow.

RyzaChat:AI (SpiralAI/Koei Tecmo)

RyzaChat:AI is a free-to-play AI conversation RPG built around Atelier Ryza’s Ryza, officially licensed by Koei Tecmo. Now live on iOS and Android in six languages, including English, but it’s only currently available in India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and the US.

Doki Doki Literature Club (Serenity Forge)

As we revealed yesterday, this cult visual novel has returned to Android via the Epic Games Store. Google had previously removed the game from its Play Store for its depiction of sensitive themes.