GAMES OF THE WEEK - The 5 best new mobile games for iOS and Android - September 17th 2020.

The latest hardware, the biggest hard drives, the fastest processors.

Its exciting, but in many ways, its the antithesis of what Pocket Gamer is usually about.

Many of these are touchscreen-friendly for tablets, and most are undemanding enough to run on a netbook.

There are some classic first-person shooters dating from before the days when the genre became all about cut-scenes.

But it managed to keep with with a diverse selection of interesting and amusing weaponry that encouraged tactical play.

But on Steam, many of these have been enhanced or revamped to a level where they wont run on modest hardware.

With a compelling plot and a diverse selection of logic and hidden item puzzles, it should keep you occupied for hours.

It eschews niceties like narrative in favour of a vast range of maps and game types to play against real people online or skilled AI bots off it.

You might want to give up during the opening sequence with its ponderous tutorial and dated graphics.

But keep at it and youll be rewarded with one of the most horrifying action games ever made.

All the limitations of the ancient video engine wont matter a jot when youre lifted out of your seat by a jump scare.

But heres a modern game thats undemanding on hardware, but very demanding on the player.

The story is different every time you play, although it commonly ends with the horrible death of your entire crew.

And its old enough now both to run on weak hardware and to be unfamiliar to younger gamers.

So theres no excuse not to have experienced this genre-changer for yourself.

However, if you cant run either of those, Civilization 3 still lets you easily connect to network games.

This was the inspiration behind the much more recent XCOM: Enemy Unknown and will be instantly familiar to fans.

But it is much more challenging, offering enormous amounts of play hours for a tiny investment.

Its got a special netbook mode which helps it run like a dream on older machines.

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