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

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GameCentral’s regular look at the best in smartphone gaming includes a Cthulhu themed take on FTL and the excellent open world RPG Dysmantle.

This month App Store legend Phillip Stollenmayer has updated Bacon, his silly and uproariously entertaining physics-based meat throwing game, with a real-life prize for anyone finishing all its levels. New releases include Dysmantle, a PC port with the kind of scale and openness rarely seen in mobile; Guns & Dungeons, a brazen Archero knock-off; and polished puzzler Loco Looper.

Apple Arcade (Office Create)

The seemingly endless Cooking Mama franchise arrives on Apple Arcade in all its mildly surreal glory, which as usual has you preparing authentic meals from raw ingredients.

All the chopping, stirring, sieving, and rolling is ideally suited to touchscreen play, its frenetic action reminiscent of the brevity and insanity of the WarioWare games, even if this isn’t anywhere near as inventive.

There does come a point where frustration sets in, the randomly assigned ingredients making it hard to predict exactly what you’re cooking, which makes filling in the last few pages of the game’s cookery book an unnecessary chore, but for a bit of knockabout kitchen-centric fun, its first few hours remain highly entertaining.

Score: 7/10

iOS & Android, Free (Miniclip)

In Gun & Dungeons you steer your hero around enclosed rooms, avoiding enemies and incoming ordnance, releasing your thumb to return fire. At the end of each room you collect gold and power-ups before moving on to the next wave.

If that sounds almost identical to Archero, that’s because this is in fact a slightly second rate rip-off of that game, substituting a gun for Archero’s bow and arrow, but keeping