It’s New Years Eve. Hooray! As we gently close the lid on the 2020 dumpster fire, we thought this might be a good time to reflect on the past 12 months.
And what better way to do that than by simply rounding up the ten most popular news of the year on Droid Gamers.
If you’ve ever looked down, you might be wondering why there isn’t a Genshin Impact or League of Legends: Wild Rift in the list below. These stories would definitely be included if we wrote a year of review.
But you haven’t read these stories in the same numbers that you read, so you’re to blame.
Happy New Year!
The Nether Update is the biggest update to arrive in Mojang’s virtual multiverse this year, adding new blocks, monsters, and more. Among the new mobs were the Piglins, a brutal breed from the Netherlands, and the Hoglins, an equally brutal species that you can at least eat. Finally released in June, the Nether update significantly expanded the possibilities for Minecraft game players, and the beta helped them get through the first lockdown.
It’s funny how games come and go. Magic: ManaStrike is a fairly popular real-time deckbuilding strategy game from Netmarble, but its performance over the past year does not reflect the impact that story has on our readers in January. Your overwhelming enthusiasm for Magic: ManaStrike made it the second most read news item of the year. What’s the matter with you?
Beware of the word “rumor” in a headline. It’s basically a license to write anything. However, Droid Gamers would never have looked into posting a faint rumor, and it had enough substance to merit a story. As is often the case, the source was a job posting. Rocket League developer Psyonix has been advertising mobile testers. Additionally, the studio was acquired by Epic Games, which is launching a mobile Epic Games Store. The story has turned quiet, but we still believe the port is likely to happen.
Rick and Morty: Clone Rumble is the sequel to Rick and Morty: Pocket Mortys, and it sees you playing again as Rick Sanchez, Morty’s unacceptable grandfather. This time you are in Rickmania, one of the countless parallel universes that have been colonized by versions of Rick, and your goal is to upgrade, evolve, mutate, and clone DNA to create an army. of unstoppable clones. Sounds great, but it’s still not out yet – and reviews from regions where the beta is available are mixed at best.
And it was indeed the case. Available on multiple platforms, Atom RPG is set in an alternate universe where nuclear war broke out between the Western powers and the Soviet Union in 1986, duly resulting in the apocalypse. You play as a survivor, learn skills, meet other survivors, explore a military bunker, venture into the wild, and more. You know, apocalypse stuff. The mobile port didn’t set the world on fire, but it’s worth playing.
There’s a name we haven’t heard in a while. World of Dragon Nest is still only available in certain territories, and we think it will likely remain so given its decidedly lukewarm reviews on the Play Store. In case you’re curious, it’s an MMORPG, and the sequel to Dragon Nest M. And you’ll almost certainly never play it, though a lot of you apparently wanted to in January.
We are talking now. It is absolutely no surprise to us that this Fruit Ninja 2 story, the sequel to one of the most famous and iconic mobile titles of the past decade, has secured a place in the Top 10. The game itself doesn It’s not surprising either, picking up the fruit-cutting action of the first game but with a selection of new modes, characters, power-ups and real-time multiplayer.
You have good taste. Stardew Valley is an absolute gem, as you well know, and you’ve shown an appropriate level of interest in the upcoming 1.5 Beach Farm update, which has already rolled out to big screen platforms. The update adds split-screen co-op, new characters, new objectives, new farm layouts, and more. It’s the biggest update to ever arrive in Stardew Valley, and we can expect to see it on Android next year.
It was also one of our most commented stories of the year, which suggests that you really know your mobile gaming story. We expect nothing less. The Gameloft Classics compilation is a really interesting idea for those of us who were around when mobile games were encoded in Java and looked 16 bit at best. We were pleasantly surprised by the pleasure of playing some of these primitive titles again.
Another evidence. We had the chance to write at length about the Danganronpa series this year, as two Danganronpa games have arrived on the Google Play Store. It’s the second of them, and it sees you heading to a luxury resort called Jabberwock Island, where you can perform interrogations, Phoenix Wright-esque trials, and general teenage shenanigans in the sun.
