Stuff - UK (2019-12)

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Data Wing

£free Android, iOS

This game starts off as if Asteroids had a baby with a top-down

racer: your triangular craft blasts around circuits, gaining speed

when its bum scrapes neon track edges. Soon you discover

you’re part of an OS ruled by a deranged AI. Story and game

quickly expand, as you glimpse the world beyond the screen and

battle gravity in cavern-based sections that recall 8-bit classic

Thrust. Rarely do mobile titles pack in so many hours of clever,

thoughtful narrative. Pretty much never are such games free.

Stuff says +++++

A mobile game we’d happily recommend if it cost a

fiver – for nowt, it’s an absurdly generous bargain

Amazon Fire HD 8

+++++ from £80 / stuff.tv/FireHD8

For the price, you get a stonkingly capable

tablet that doubles as an Echo Show.

Bring You Home

+++++£3.19 / Android O £2.99 / iOS

Make your own future with this imaginative,

brilliantly designed and devious puzzler.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S6

++++, from £619 / stuff.tv/TabS6

This is the Android tablet to get if you like

doodling or gaming.

Knight Brawl

+++++£free / Android, iOS

If Monty Python made a sword-fighting game

for mobile... it still wouldn’t be this silly.

Stuff says +++++

The best twitch arcade game on mobile

Stuff says +++++

A versatile tablet for both work and play

Stuff says +++++

Touchscreen platformers can be great after all

Jumpgrid

£2.99 / iOS

Pac-Man and Frogger meet Super Hexagon

and buckets of adrenaline in this superb

game, a twitch/arcade/punishment

crossover masterpiece. It’s a stunning

ride that will leave you a quivering wreck.

Apple iPad (2018)

from £319 / stuff.tv/iPad2018

Last year’s basic iPad is about to be bumped

off by the 2019 model (reviewed on p67);

but while it’s still here, this tablet’s low price

and subtle improvements over the previous

version make it a fine workaday tablet.

Oddmar

£free (IAPs) / Android O £4.99 / iOS

Oddmar looks like it could have breezed in

from a PS4. Now available on Android as well

as iOS, it’s packed full of superb level design

and lush animated visuals, as a beardy Viking

oaf sets out to save his tribe.

Stuff says +++++

An affordable, ultra-portable workmate

Microsoft Surface Go

from £379 / stuff.tv/SurfaceGo

Having this slinky Windows tab up your

sleeve (not quite literally) is like carrying

a mini PC on you at all times. The processor

is adequate for everyday tasks and the 10in

screen is lovely.

Apple iPad Pro

from £769 / stuff.tv/iPadPro

The iPad Pro isn’t cheap, but it’s a mobile powerhouse like no

other, with a diverse and rich app ecosystem, tons of power,

a gorgeous screen, and the kind of focus on creativity and

productivity that just doesn’t exist on other tablets. If you just

want to faff on Facebook or Netflix it’s massive overkill, so we’d

recommend going for the iPad Air (from £479) instead; but even

if you don’t actually need the new iPad Pro, you’re going to wa nt

one if you have it in your mitts for five minutes.

Stuff says +++++

Once again Apple blasts ahead of the pack, with

a stylish, powerful tablet full of creative potential