Well The Elder Scrolls: Legends came out last week. It's a card game set in the super famous Western RPG universe. There are cards, monsters, and it's all wrapped up with some pleasing strategy that reveals itself as you play.
But that got me thinking about big console games that have made the transition to mobile. Not ports, but games that have taken some part of their experience and transcribed that onto touchscreen.
So in today's Monday Musing that's what we're going to have a look at. You can click on the emboldened names of the games to download them. And if you can think of any more, stick them in the comments all the way down there.
To be honest I could have just put the whole GO franchise on this here list. But that would have been lazy and I'm a good boy. So I plumped for Deus Ex, because it's the most instantly recognisable of the three.
Not only does the game get the look of its console inspiration just right, it also manages to take a good chunk of the mechanics and change them in ways that just work on mobile. And at its heart it's still a really smart puzzler.
Read the Pocket Gamer review here
Uncharted: Fortune Hunter - Free
I'll be brutally honest here, I'm not a huge fan of the Uncharted games. Too much shooty, not enough climby. Sure, they look nice, but eh, murder gets a bit boring after a while, don't you think?
This mobile version has literally no murder in it though. It's similar to the GO games, but wears it's puzzling heart more clearly on its sleeve. Slick, clever, and with levels perfectly designed for mobile play. And it's free.
Read the Pocket Gamer review here
The Witcher Adventure Game - £5.99 / $5.99
Okay so this is a bit of a strange one. It's an adaptation of a boardgame that's an adaptation of a videogame that's an adaptation of some books. But it's still well worth a look if any of that sounds interesting to you.
Plus you can pick this up for a lot less than the boardgame, and you won't have to clear anything up when you've finished. It's more strategic than the AAA game it's inspired by, and takes a while to get going. But once it does it's smart, slick, and entertaining.
