Summary
The bottom line is some games come and go without so much as a cheer, and gamers are left being shown adverts for the same set of titles on a loop. If you’re sick of the same games being recommended to oblivion, these ridiculously underrated mobile games would like to meet you.
7Dentures And Demons
Dentures and Demons is an 8-bit point-and-click adventure game packed full of puzzles and arcade games. The plot unfolds in a town called Varedze, and your character, Detective Junior Peexalated, is on a mission to investigate a series of murders linked to a dangerous sect. So, together with your childhood friends, Timmy, Tony, and Tommy (who you will role-play as well), you set off to unravel the mysteries and riddles.
The story begins in The Haunted Mansion and involves rescuing your friends from a Satan-worshipping geezer wielding a butcher knife. As you’ll see, the game’s most notable features are its horror storyline and edgy sense of humor. But it also has you using creative puzzle solutions such as shaking your phone or changing your time setting to speed things up within the game. Between the fourth wall breaks, nostalgic graphics, and seamlessly integrated puzzles, Dentures and Demons is definitely worth trying.
6Brawlhalla
Brawlhallais a 2D platform brawler that you’re practically guaranteed to enjoy, regardless of your fighting experience. Based on the Norse mythological Valhalla, Brawlhalla is an afterlife battle where warriors who have died in combat battle each other for eternal bragging rights. So, naturally, your goal is to knock out opponents as much as possible.
Brawlhalla is free and only cosmetic items cost money, which makes it easy to get into. There’s also a good number of modes for you to play with your friends to prevent it from getting stale, and you can level up your characters and unlock new colors, so there is some degree of progression. If you’re looking for a fluid, custom combo-esque platform fighter, Brawlhalla is it.
5Retro Abyss
Retro Abyss is a casual shooter that embodies the retro aesthetic. In a true ’80s arcade style, your 2D flying fighter, who can be a knight or archer, plays by attacking enemies in a drag-and-shoot fashion. And, like a casual bullet hell, you must avoid enemy hits by floating away while avoiding the overhead border.
With little to no lore, Retro Abyss will seem aimless for the first few levels, which feels like you are being led down a rabbit hole of adventure. The game won’t give much of a hint about its hidden content, so you’ll need to trust the process and play for the promise of a surprise. But as you progress, you unlock a new level of hardcore, more intense content with lots of hard bosses.
4Don’t Starve
Don’t Starveis an action-adventure game in the survival genre. It follows Wilson, a scientist who finds himself in a dark world called the Constant, where survival is a crucial task. So, you must keep him alive and mentally stable as he avoids the monsters and predators in this wilderness.
Ignoring the game’s beautiful art style and extremely polished settings, it is also pretty hard, not from the combat, but from your knowledge of the game. Each death equates to starting the world over, which makes it hard to get comfortable. That said, if you enjoy random, difficult exploration, then you just might love Don’t Starve.
3This War Of Mine
This War of Mineis a rogue-like survival game focusing on the civilian war experience. Your goal is to assign each person in your group various tasks and stay alive with the resources you can gather until foreign peacekeepers intervene. Essentially, this game forces you into a situation where you are blindly driven to make life-and-death decisions to survive.
From a side-scrolling point of view, you’ll helplessly watch as your team carves out a meager existence in war-besieged Pogoren. Raiding people’s houses andlooting everythingthat isn’t nailed down is pretty commonplace here, and it has a time counter for a day and night cycle. The game is easily replayable without getting tedious, and each playthrough will have you thinking of what you could have done better.
2Escapists 2
The Escapists 2 is a prison breakout simulator. Set in a maximum security prison, you are tasked with learning the daily routine, boosting your character’s intelligence and fitness, and ultimately making an escape. That said, The Escapists 2 is better than the original as far as combat and gameplay are concerned.
With zero to minimal handholding, the game throws you in without telling you anything, which is a fun challenge for some but frustrating for others, so you will either love or hate it from the get-go. You can dig a tunnel with a spoon or steal a uniform to impersonate and fool the guards, who, by the way, can beat you up for looking at them. If prison life and shady business sound good to you, we’d say go for it.
1Flash Party
Flash Party is a modern platform fighter modeled heavily after Smash Bros both in gameplay and combat. Your aim is to do enough damage to knock all your opponents from the stage and into the stratosphere. But you can also complete party missions to unlock skins, outfits, and party rewards.
As a positive, you don’t need to unlock every character to enjoy the game, and like most platform fighters, people tend to stick with two to three characters. However, you will level up against bots for a while before unlocking alternate game modes, where you will start to fight real players. That said, you can beat a level 10 hero with a level 1 hero, only, of course, if you grind and level up your fighters.
