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

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September has provided a bumper harvest of interesting new mobile games, including Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus and another Netflix hit.

With the current, inescapable sense of general societal meltdown, there’s rarely been a better time to hunker down with the smallest screen in the house for some good old fashioned escapism. While the haunting melancholy of Hindsight may not be the balm your soul craves, the ingeniously taxing puzzles of Railbound and the benign addiction of Poinpy definitely fit the bill.

iOS, Apple Arcade subscription (Alike Studios)

Much in the style of Samorost, Love You to Bits+ is a graphically beautiful, darkly witty puzzle adventure. In it, you’ll be reassembling your traumatically dismantled robot girlfriend, whose body parts are hidden in each level.

Tapping to direct your chunky little spacefarer around the screen, you’ll need to collect items and trigger actions in the right order to unpick each charmingly designed puzzle.

The Apple Arcade version appears to be identical to the 2016 original, which is still available for £3.49, and remains just as enchanting.

Score: 8/10

iOS, Netflix subscription (Netflix)

Like an inverted Downwell, and in fact from the same developer, Poinpy has you hopping up an endless vertical tube, dragging downwards and releasing to catapult your tiny avatar into the air. As you climb you need to avoid enemies and collect pieces of fruit that loiter conveniently in mid-air.

You’re also pursued by a large, hungry monster that needs to be fed different combinations of fruit. Fail to feed it in time and it’ll breathe fire up the tube, immolating your diminutive hero.

Each foray earns experience, in turn supplying power-ups to improve your chances of