5 new mobile games to try this week – June 5th, 2025

Crystal of Atlan is a stunning new MMORPG that offers a fast-paced world for you to dive into, and it has, in fact, taken over the PG editorial team over the weekend thanks to its combo-heavy combat and gorgeous visuals. What makes it stand out is its roster of classes to choose from, featuring a so-called “magicpunk” style where you can play as an unhinged Warlock or a Scytheguard with a giant Marionette among others.

The multiplayer elements aren’t falling behind either, as you can team up with your best buds to take on co-op dungeons or go head-to-head with them across 3v3 and 1v1 modes as well. Plenty of launch events are still underway, so you’d best kickstart your adventure across Magic and Machinery today!

From adrenaline-pumping matches and endless button-mashing, we pivot to something a little more idle but no less fun with Summoners War: Rush, Com2uS’ latest foray into the AFK genre. Featuring iconic Monsters from the popular Summoners War franchise, this idle RPG will have you auto-battling your way through foes with quick progression and bountiful loot you can score with every stage cleared, all without the hardcore grind.

Spicing up the standard idle fare is its tower defence mode, where you position your summoned Monsters to defend Sky Island while waves of enemies come at you relentlessly. It lets you go more hands-on should you so wish, but if you’re happy with just idling away and watching your heroes do all the work for you, the main campaign should help you do just that. Leave it on to clear missions while you clear the dishes in real life – it’s a win-win.

GungHo Online Entertainment is going old-school with its OG match-3 puzzler in Puzzle & Dragons 0, offering no-frills match-3 goodness on iOS and Android the way it’s meant to be played. As you match three Orbs of a kind to clear the board, you can also create your own creatures to buff up your team and switch up how you enjoy the game.

Best of all is that you can go at it either in portrait or in landscape mode, however you feel like playing. There’s nothing quite like a simple match-3 game to really maximise mobile’s pick-up-and-play nature, is there?

Speaking of going old-school, this dark fantasy RPG will have you exploring its grim world filled with creatures of the night. Fret not, though – you yourself have been turned into a powerful vampire, so you won’t have to fight through the darkness unarmed.

The 2D environment seems like it’s meant to bring back plenty of old-school feels but without pesky loading screens, offering realistically programmed NPCs and a fully customisable character to tinker around with. Combat is a tactical affair with a PvP mode thrown into the mix too, just in case you’re itching to prove you’re the biggest bloodsucking baddie around.

Explore a lost civilisation filled with everything from giant slugs to murderous mushrooms in Patch Quest, now available via Crunchyroll Game Vault. As you battle beasts of all shapes and sizes, you’ll also be able to tame them with your trusty lasso and add them to your collection, taking advantage of their special skills to help you survive the wild world of Patchlantis.

With your spunky moustachioed protagonist, you’ll get to lasso over 50 kinds of monsters, gather fruits to use as ammo, and unlock gates to uncover the truth about this hidden civilisation that’s been lost to time. Now, who says Lara Croft is the only tomb raider in town?