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This month’s mobile must-downloads
1 A Park and Pigeons
£1.99 / Android, iOS
In this score-chaser, you too can
be a pigeon, desperate for whatever
scraps the humans have dropped...
including, for some reason, entire
bagels. Get munching, chase your
foes away and watch feathers fly.
4 Mindkeeper:
The Lurking Fear
£1.99 / watchOS
Doom on Apple Watch? Not quite,
but you do get tidy 3D visuals
on your wrist in this auto-runner
where you stomp along, turning
whenever you twiddle the crown.
7 Flick Launcher
£free or £3.29 / Android
Another launcher! This one has a
dock search bar, custom gestures,
and the means to get at Google
Now with a swipe. But also, its AI
wants to give you the app you want
before you realised you wanted it.
2 Mario Kart Tour
£free (IAPs) / Android, iOS
Remember all your fun times with
Mario Kart? Well, forget them here,
because this stripped-down slice
of loot boxes and IAP even has a
subscription that costs as much
as Apple Arcade.5 Apollo: Immersive
Illumination
£2.99 / iOS
Apple gives you all kinds of new
portrait photo trickery in iOS 13.
But Apollo lets you map on lighting
effects that weren’t originally
there – you massive cheat, you.8 Pocket Casts
£free / Android, iOS
This one’s not new, but it has a new
business model: Pocket Casts is
now free, which is a big deal for such
a well-regarded podcast player.
Check it out with some of our
faves – you’ll find them on Stuff.tv.3 Dear Esther
£4.99 / iOS
Florence created a market for
narrative sort-of-games, and
this one sees you explore a gloomy
island, piecing together a story
from letter fragments read by an
anonymous man.6 Pixelmator Photo
£4.99 / iPad
Most famous for letting you
enhance any snap with a single
tap (powered by machine learning),
Pixelmator Photo now ramps up
productivity with batch edits and
full Files/Photos integration.9 Codea
£14.99 / iOS
Want to get own work in the App
Store? Codea is a sharp way to
craft apps and games that utilise
your device’s abilities. And yes,
people have released apps made
in this app. It’s like appception.SNEAKY
SASQUATCH
Apple Arcade
People were
never against
mobile games,
just exploitative
freemium
awfulness. So
while Nintendo
blazes the latter
trail, the new
Apple Arcade
subscription
service goes
fully premium,
meaning things
like Sneaky
Sasquatch can
exist. Like Yogi
Bear meets
Metal Gear, it
has you play as
the titular hairy
chap, who steals
grub, hides from
rangers and
acquires kit from
a kleptomaniac
raccoon. You
might narrow
your eyes at
‘Apple does
games’, but you
have to love a
title where a
cartoon beast
steals a golf cart,
drives into a tree
and is the next
day chastised by
the raccoon,
who had to hire
a wheelbarrow
to get him
home safely.