Best new mobile games on iOS and Android – June 2022 round-up

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Big name games including Apex Legends, Diablo, and Ni No Kuni come to mobile and one of them is the worst game of the year so far.

In one of the biggest months ever for mobile gaming, we’ve seen launches of Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, Apex Legends Mobile, and Diablo Immortal – all in the same four weeks. Although all are big names in their own right, they could not be more different in their approaches, as they range from highly playable to an early candidate for worst game of the year.

Apple Arcade (Coffe Stain Studios)

Messy, glitchy and with terrible controls, Goat Simulator is a game that revels in its multiple shortcoming and basks in its innate absurdity. In it, you guide your four-legged anti-hero to head butt everything in sight – or lick it with a grotesquely long tongue.

Blow up cars, send people flying, jump off tall structures, and do your best to combat the terrible controls just enough to fulfil each level’s litany of objectives.

Goat Simulator’s re-emergence on Apple Arcade is identical to the original release, offering its peculiar demolition-orientated delights to a new generation.

Score: 6/10

iOS & Android, Free

Flushed with success from its console and PC outings, Apex Legends gets a lot of things right in its transition to mobile.

Using Call of Duty Mobile’s trick of combining aiming and shooting under your right thumb, its clutter of other controls need to be navigated carefully on a touch screen, which is clumsy but manageable, especially since there’s no cross play with other platforms. Using a Bluetooth controller, those problems evaporate instantly.

It’s noticeably harder precision aiming sniper rifles, giving shorter range fully automatic guns an advantage, but its roster