X live 5 new mobile games to try this week – October 31st, 2024

Why collect cards that take up space and are precariously susceptible to the elements when you can digitise it all and be done with it? Pokemon TCG Pocket lets you experience the thrill of collecting Pokemon cards right from your phone, so you can complete your album, show it off to your mates, or simply marvel at the artwork with each new card the RNG gods add to your list.

Featuring both old-school illustrations and game-exclusive designs, the cards you collect can also be used to dive into casual battles against AI or other players. Packs even have that lovely foil-tearing animation that’ll simulate the exhilaration of opening a physical pack – now, if only it could replicate that new-card smell too…

Just in time for Halloween, Forgotten Memories launches this week to haunt you with a more terrifying experience thanks to its remastered visuals. As police detective Rose Hawkins, you’ll explore the darkness across this survival horror adventure armed only with your trusty flashlight – and boy, will you need it to uncover the eerie mysteries that lie ahead.

Psychological puzzlers and suspenseful oddities abound, harking back to the most chilling elements fans of the genre know and love from the 90s. Guy Cihi and David Schaufele from Silent Hill also lend their vocal chops to the game to give it even more street cred.

The spooky season is upon us, but who says it needs to be dominated by ghastly ghouls and hordes of the undead? Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice is adding its own icy twist to the Halloween season, tasking you with honing your survival instincts to brave the cold. After all, when it comes to freezing to death, there’s plenty of fear to go around.

Com2uS’ mobile survival sim will have you facing life-threatening situations while trying to keep your human dignity intact, set across the late 19th century in a smoky steampunk city. Trade resources with other survivors to keep your settlement afloat – you can even rescue endangered animals, because nobody deserves to be left out in the cold.

Why does physics always have to work against us in games like this? Professor Doctor Jetpack is a pixel-art platformer where you try your hardest to gain control of your own jetpack across a world filled with danger.

There are more than 85 levels to take on, each one with increasing difficulty to put your precision jetpacking to the test. You’ll face everything from spear-wielding lizardmen to random bats out to get you for some reason – all that on top of laser beams, fiery hot lava, and your own worst enemy that’s strapped to your back.

It’s time to get back to monkey business once more with Bloons Card Storm, a frantic and fun new spin-off to the popular tower defence franchise that’s now in card form. Take on your foes using more than 130 cards, with four Heroes you can choose from depending on the Hero Ability that suits your playstyle best.

As you build your decks across both single-player romps and PvP battles, you can strategise the best moves to unleash to emerge as the ultimate victor. Can you find the right balance between offence and defence to win?