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Sep 12, 2019
Food preparation games have been popular for a very long time, with a new Cooking Mama game coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch this fall, there doesn’t seem to be an end to the trend in sight. Food Fantasy aims capture the hearts of those who look for something more than just food preparation.
Food Fantasy is a mobile game currently available for iOS and Android and features an extensive food menu inspired by dishes from all around the world. Choose from hundreds of recipes and prepare delicious meals.
In addition to creating yummy meals, you will also have the option to run your very own restaurant. Food Fantasy includes a full restaurant simulator game where you can cook and serve your meals. Decorating and managing your establishment is also a big part of your success story, so make sure you put your creativity to good work when building up your diner!
Food Fantasy also features some light RPG elements where you explore the surrounding world in order to gather ingredients for your meals. Engage in light combat to earn food souls that will further enrich your recipe book!
Food Fantasy is inspired by games like Fantasy Life and its sequel Fantasy Life Online. If you want to give it a try, it is currently available to download for free on iOS and Android. Check out the introduction trailer for the game below!
- Sep 6, 2019
With the recent wave of news for a brand new Cooking Mama Game coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 this fall, we have gotten hungry for more. Food Truck Pup: Cooking Chef combines the deliciousness of Cooking Mama and adorable pups from To The Rescue: Dog Shelter.
In Food Truck Pop you are running your own tiny pixel food truck and serve delicious crepes to all the pups in the town. Cook up some delicious treats and make everyones tummies feel yummy! Of course ingredients needed to make the food doesn’t just fall from the sky. You will have to explore and gather ingredients from the environment around you. Collect a wide variety of fruit and other ingredients needed for the perfect crepe!
Once you have the perfect ingredients and mastered the perfect crepe using the in-depth cooking mode, you will need to work on getting all the doggies in the town to come to your food truck and enjoy some of your prepared meals. You can hand out flyers to animals passing by and create a buzz around your own food truck.
Your food truck can also be customized, place any furniture you like or buy new ones from the nearby cat shop. A cozier interior makes for a happier chef! And if your place gets to busy, you can hire a part time puppy who will work on your behalf!
Food Truck Pup is an adorable game where you gather ingredients, cook delicious crepes, decorate and customize your food truck and meet cute doggies to interact with! The game is now available on iOS and Android – with thousands of 5 star reviews we recommend checking out this adorable mobile game! Take a look at the gameplay trailer below.
For more pixel fun, check out the latest tease for the next major Stardew Valley Update! Fish ponds and more are on the way!
- Sep 4, 2019
The latest mobile game from the creators Golf Peak is an adorable puzzler with cats and sushi!
Games that revolve around cats doing anything are sure to be just about as cute as it gets. Throw in a little bento box preparation and you have the recipe for an absolutely darling mobile game. Inbento is a little puzzle game about kitty-cats packing lunches, bento style. The object of the game is to match your lunch with the example given, the ultimate goal being to provide your family with wholesome nutrition.
The soft color scheme and the wordless storytelling make this mobile game a more heartfelt and relaxing approach to puzzlers. However, do expect there to be some not-so-relaxing moments, as the game has launched with over 100 levels. There are even bonus stages for those that master the basics. Inbento is currently out on iOS, and will be releasing on Android shortly. The game costs only $2.99, and offers a completely ad-free experience. For more information on Inbento and other titles by Afterburn, you can check out their official website. For more adorable cat games, don’t forget to check out Calico.
Inbento Launch Trailer
- Aug 11, 2019
Those who are already addicted to mobile gaming need no urging to try all the great games available on their smartphone or tablet. Those of us who find it physically awkward, or who don’t like the format, might need a little encouragement. But games of every type, from casual card or arcade games to story-rich adventures and RPGs, are all available on mobile. And mobile gaming can be adjusted to your comfort, too. Did you know that mobile controllers exist?
Mobile gaming, YOUR way
You can make any mobile device feel like a dedicated gaming device. There are many different controllers designed to fit to your mobile device (phone or tablet), giving it a comfortable grip and buttons and control sticks to take charge of the action. Have you tried a mobile controller like this?
Most Popular Mobile Games
As for games, the selection is nearly endless. There are so many farming games available on mobile that it’s hard to sort through them all. FarmVille, Family Farm, Hay Day, oh my. But to start you off with a familiar face, don’t forget that Stardew Valley is available on mobile!
You can even get a farming or gardening theme in game genres you might not expect. Gardenscapes is a surprisingly tricky and addictive match-3 game. It allows you to repair and rebuild a mansion’s beautiful garden in whichever style you choose. You can even go back later and change the fountains, paving, shrubs, flowerbeds…anything in any area you have unlocked.
If you like to build and have even more control over design, Minecraft is also very popular on mobile! You can get the Pocket Edition on both iOS and Android.
More interested in games that feel a little more social? Why not try the mobile game that took the world by storm in 2016? Pokemon Go is still popular and still alive with players and content.
If Pokemon is not your thing, then how about Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp? New features are always being added to the mobile extension of our beloved Animal Crossing. The animals are still all their lovable (or annoying!) selves, whether you meet them on your 3DS, your Switch, or your smartphone.
RPGs and Adventure
If there’s anyone left still sitting there, looking bored…how about some RPGs? Mobile gaming has those, too! There’s Nintendo’s own Dragalia Lost. It’s set in a world where the royal family has the ability to transform into dragons, if they have a pact with them. You begin the story as the seventh prince, who has yet to make a pact with any dragon, but must set out to do so immediately when the protection around his city begins to fail.
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is also a popular, large-scale RPG available on mobile. The story was written by Masato Kato (who also wrote Xenogears and Chrono Trigger). If that’s not enough, the game’s beautiful soundtrack is by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also worked on Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. That’s some good stuff! Another Eden has 26 main story chapters focusing on the protagonist, Aldo, and his sister, Fienne, and involves time-travelling through both the past and the future, as well as dealing with the present.
If you want something cute, colourful, and inspired by a classic, how about Egglia: Legend of the Redcap? Strongly influenced by Legend of Mana, you must revive your world by finding precious eggs. Each has had a part of the world sealed into it, and can be restored by hatching it on the map. Explore and gather resources with movement based on a roll of the dice, like a cross between a board game and a strategy RPG.
Story-driven games
But maybe what you like are story-driven games, which the mobile platform is often criticized for not having. But the market is growing all the time, and if you have a look, you’ll find some very special story-driven games waiting for you on your phone and tablet. Like the beautiful GRIS, which will be coming to iOS this month! A game about dealing with grief using light platforming and puzzles, it’s hard to know if this is a game, a storybook or a piece of art.
GRIS – iOS coming August 22! Forgotton Anne is also an iOS exclusive, and takes place in a world of “Forgotlings”. Personified socks and toys and scraps of paper…items that have been lost or forgotten in our own world. With hand-painted backgrounds, Forgotton Anne has a charm reminiscent of a Ghibli movie. It’s a game by Square Enix. We had to look it up to make sure Miyazaki really had nothing to do with it!
Forgotton Anne – iOS And lastly…only because soon this list will be too long…is To the Moon. An emotional tale of an old man’s dying wish to go to the moon. This is another game that, like Gris, feels like it may be as much ‘artistic expression’ as ‘game’. It was born of Canadian game-designer Kan Gao’s response to his grandfather’s struggle with his failing health. You must explore old Johnny’s memories to understand his life’s dream, and help him see it come true.
Still not convinced to make mobile gaming your own? As always, we want you to enjoy games in your own way. Especially if you are here for farming games in particular, please check out our list of farming games on console.
- Aug 5, 2019
Dr. Mario has been out on iOS and Android for a couple weeks now and fans of the game have been eagerly fighting those nifty little viruses! Today Nintendo announced that Dr. Mario World will receive a huge new update including new characters and brand new stages to explore.
In Dr. Mario World the player will need to fight those tiny little gems by matching capsules with the viruses in order to make them disappear. Once you match three capsules of the same color vertically or horizontally they will be cleared. Sounds easy, but quickly becomes a challenging brain twister!
The new update will add a whooping 20 new stages to the game. By the first look that Nintendo revealed today, we see that Dr. Mario World is slowly gearing up for this years Halloween season most likely in anticipation of a Luigis Mansion 3 cross over event, with purple slime and an overall darker look.
Next to the new stages, the mobile game will also receive a total of three new doctors, including the much beloved Daisy in a yellow lab coat, how cute!
A new update for Dr. Mario World is out now, you can download version 1.0.4 from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store now. While the patch notes only mention bug fixes and other improvements, it sure is laying the groundwork for the new additions to be available sometime this week!
For more Nintendo related news, check out the free game Nintendo will be giving out to its Nintendo Switch Online Subscribers each month going forward!
- Aug 2, 2019
Jenny LeClue is a thrilling crime-solving game created by indie developer Mografi (Joe Russ), based in Florida. You can download a free playable demo on iOS here and PC here (Gumroad, itch.io). The game is set to release this Fall 2019 on Steam, Humble, iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, Linux, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch. Become a detective and make hard choices along the way while trying to find the real killer behind this murder mystery.
About Jenny LeClue
Jenny LeClue is a handcrafted adventure with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and a unique aesthetic. It’s also a coming-of-age story about the blurred lines between right and wrong. This is a game about your choices and how they affect Jenny and the author’s story. It’s a rich metanarrative with delightful surprises and interactions. Jenny LeClue also explores mature themes, complex characters, and an epic tangled mystery.
You play as Jenny, a brilliant young detective, living in the idyllic college town of Arthurton. Jenny is a sharp-eyed, relentless pursuer of the truth. But nothing exciting happens in Arthurton, and Jenny longs for real adventure.
Jenny gets more than she bargains for when her mother is accused of murder, and begins an unexpected journey to find the truth. She soon discovers every cloud has a dark lining, and nothing in Arthurton is what it seems. Unseen forces will stop at nothing to keep Jenny from the truth. And she will have to use all her skills of deduction to find the real killer.
Key Features
- Beautiful Handmade Art Style – Sleek and gorgeous hand drawn style with vintage midcentury aesthetics.
- A Living World – The goal is for everything to be interactive, to reward players who poke and prod at every last item and object with insight, secrets, and humor.
- Choosiness On A Massive Scale – Players will make choices in their individual game, and some of those choices will be tallied to permanently influence subsequent chapters, essentially “writing” the story collaboratively. The choice players make about the cliffhanger ending of episode one determines the beginning of episode two.
- Female Protagonist – Jenny is a brilliant young detective, sharp eyed, intuitive and a ruthless pursuer of the truth.
- Dialogue With A Twist – Jenny is able to move the camera around during dialogue scenes and observe the subject for visible clues that might reveal their guilt or innocence that would otherwise go undetected.
- Story Within A Story – Jenny LeClue weaves a rich metanarrative. The “author” of Jenny’s adventures, Arthur K Finklestein, acts as narrator and guide, but his presence also allows you to change the way Jenny’s story is written. Players choices will also affect Finklestein’s own story.
- Not Just For Kids – Complex relationships will be explored with themes of family, loss, and identity influenced by horror, sci-fi, and mystery genres.
- A Diverse Cast Of Characters & Locations – Explore Arthurton’s expansive world including the abandoned mines, the forgotten graveyard, the misty mountains, the old observatory, the police station, the shops and eateries on Main Street, and Gumboldt University’s Library. You will meet many intriguing and suspicious characters, in a town whose population is representative of the US Census demographics.
More Information
To learn more about the game or to pre-order your copy, go to Jenny LeClue’s official website here. Furthermore, for more mystery games you can check out our articles here: The Good Life – Snap Photos, Solve a Murder, Turn Into a Cat/Dog and Top Ten Crime-Solving & Mystery Games.
- Jul 9, 2019
Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty and many more adorable characters, first started out in Japan 40 years ago during the “kawaii” craze. They created their first merchandise of Hello Kitty in the 70’s and introduced her internationally shortly after. She has since become a huge media and pop culture icon. Who doesn’t love an adorable anthropomorphic cat that brings joy and friendship to everyone?
Hello Kitty and some of her friends were added into Animal Crossing: New Leaf as part of the Welcome Amiibo update but Westerners had to purchase the cards needed online (now out of print). Thankfully, the official Twitter page of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has just announced the Sanrio Characters Collection! The event starts July 11th, 2019 at 2:00 a.m. and will be separated into 3 parts. See below for what we can look forward to in just a couple of days.
- Collection #1 will celebrate Hello Kitty and Cinnamoroll, with fortune cookies, wallpapers, backpacks, and more!
- The items in #2 and #3 will feature the characters in this image. Maybe you recognize them, campers? #2 will commence later in July, and #3 will start at the beginning of August.
- The fortune cookies and the Sanrio Characters Crafting Collection will come packed with cute rewards!
- Gyroidite Scavenger Hunt: Sanrio Characters Collection, you can gather Hello Kitty gyroidite to craft a bevy of delightful items, including 10 tees based on Sanrio Characters and even a Hello Kitty balloon!
- To mark the occasion, everyone will receive a Hello Kitty bow as a gift.
We want to know if our Potato family is as excited as we are for this limited-time event! We’ll definitely be playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp right away while we wait for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
- Jul 1, 2019
LEGO has been at the forefront of wholesome games for decades. Now, they have joined forces with mobile producer and developer Nimblebit LLC to create LEGO Tower. We can’t wait to dive into this virtual brick building experience!
About the Game:
LEGO Tower is very similar to Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower. Your main objective is to build the biggest and best tower you can. Each floor fits into a different category. These range from residential apartment floors to restaurants, gyms, and more.
Instead of Tiny Tower’s “bitizens”, you have LEGO minifigures. Your minifigures live and work in your creation. You can customize the appearance of your minifigure residents and assign them jobs.
The biggest difference seems to be the graphics. Instead of Nimblebit’s signature pixels, the graphics look like LEGO pieces. What is really neat about this is the potential customization. In Tiny Tower you had a forever growing gray skyscraper with an orange crane on the top. In LEGO Tower your tower can be green with a dinosaur on top or red, mimicking LEGO’s NINJAGO collection.
Like Tiny Tower, you can visit your friends’ towers. It seems friendship is important to the game, as you have the ability to gift friends materials to help them build.
There seems to be a focus on collection in LEGO Tower. You can supposedly collect “hundreds of unique minifigure pieces.” There are also hidden characters you can find, along with unlocking vehicles.
Watch the trailer:
LEGO Tower is out today for Android and iOS! Get it for free on the Google Play Store or the Apple Store.
Want more mobile games? Check out the myPotatoGames approved Forgotton Anne. Like running virtual businesses? Try The Sushi Spinnery and Little Dragons Cafe. We also suggest keeping an eye out for Creature Resort.
