The latest batch of notable new smartphone apps includes a Fire Emblem spin-off and a game you control with a pair of AirPods.

As Microsoft’s Xbox juggernaut lurches through the games industry, destroying much loved studios and promising unreleased games, along with decades of good reputation and shareholder value, it’s reassuring to note that the studiedly independent world of mobile gaming continues as if this inadvertent corporate apocalypse wasn’t even happening.

This month’s releases include the genre-bending Maze Mice, the mobile port of the wonderful Chants Of Sennaar, a genuine – and mildly peculiar – innovation in RidePods – Race With Head, and a game based on a much-loved Nintendo IP.

Although given how the new Fire Emblem spin-off slipped out without any marketing at all, you

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