This month’s most interesting smartphone gaming apps includes a new Game Of Thrones adaptation and a gacha free version of Puzzle & Dragons.

Getting things for free is great. The trouble is that, as the old adage says, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, a concept mobile gamers will be more than familiar with. Games that are free to download tend to extract their pounds of flesh through ads, microtransactions, or an unholy union of the two.

That doesn’t mean all mobile publishers are equally tawdry in their pursuit of revenue. Where Game Of Thrones: Kingsroad and Chainsaw Juice King beat you around the head with tediously relentless sales pitches, long awaited prequel Puzzle & Dragons 0 shows there are more player-friendly routes to monetisation.

Then again you could just pay upfront

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