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New on the Epic Games Store
As we reported yesterday, Epic has added 17 third party games to its Android Games Store, and 15 new titles on the iOS version.
On top of Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys, the store now offers Bloons TD 6 and Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee, which are also the two first completely free games to be offered on mobile as part of the free games program Epic announced in October.
Separately, Playdigious announced that Shapez, Cultist Simulator and Evoland 2 would be coming to the store too.
We’re still chasing Epic for the complete list of games, and will update this article when we get the info.
[Update: here’s the complete list of games, direct from Epic:
iOS and Android: Dungeon of the Endless, Evoland 2, Figment 1, Hidden Folks, Idle Champions, Pilgrims, Out There, Shapez, Samorost 2, Samorost 3, Super Meat Boy Forever, Super Space Club, There is no Game
iOS: Firestone Idle RPG, Gigapocalypse
Android: Blade of God X, Mafia City, Office Fight, The Grand Mafia]
Project Rise (Supercell)
As reported earlier this week in our soft launch games update, Supercell has just held an alpha playtest for this in-development action-RPG, which ended on January 20. There’s plenty of analysis from the Two and a Half Gamers crew above, but still no word on a soft or global launch just yet.
Supercell rebooted Clash Heroes as Project Rise in June 2024, describing it as a “social action RPG roguelite”. After a pre-alpha test in July 2024, we asked several industry experts who took part in the playtest to offer their views on the work-in-progress game.
Grand Mountain Adventure 2 (Toppluva)
This snowy sandbox adventure includes downhill racing, ski jumping, ziplining, wakeboarding, and parachuting, and will be released on February 6 across iOS and Android.
Lok Digital (Draknek)
PocketGamer reports that this new release from cult puzzle label Draknek is out now on iOS and Android.
Crunchyroll Game Vault (Curve Games)
Curve Games is bringing three titles to mobile for the first time this summer via subscription service Crunchyroll. Space Crew is a strategic survival sim from its in-house studio Runner Duck, Patch Quest is a monster-taming roguelite from Lychee Game Labs and Four Circle Interactive’s 10 Second Ninja is a time attack 2D action puzzle game.
Airstrike Assault (FunPlus)
As first reported in our soft launch games update, FunPlus keeps rolling out beta tests, and in this latest one players are tasked with obliterating famous landmarks with missiles. This was briefly in testing, but is no longer available, according to Appmagic.
Chess & Checkers Offline Game (Miniclip)
Another one that first appeared in our soft launch games update, this offline app has soft launched for Android in 29 markets, according to Appmagic.
HypeHype (HypeHype)
The game creation and playing app, which has been billed as mobile’s ‘TikTok for games’, has expanded to new countries. It’s now available in Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam.
Mahjong Wish (Level Infinite)
A listing for a new Mahjong game from Tencent’s Level Infinite publishing brand has popped up on Google Play (via Appmagic), though it’s not yet playable.
Huntbound (Tau Team)
This is a 2D hunting RPG that’s playable solo or in co-op with up to four players. Pre-registration is now available on Google Play ahead of its release on February 4.
