The best new mobile sports games of 2020 | Articles

Retro Bowl is a pixel-version of American football, complete with roster management, interacting with the press, keeping your team motivated and planning out strategy in the field. You’ll be looking to become the best football team of all time, winning the Retro Bowl itself. There are prizes to be won, situations you will need to deal with, and even egos that will be shattered in the time it takes to play the game.

If becoming a colourful wrestler is your dream, Rowdy City Wrestling is the game for you. Starting off in Rowdy City, where you start as a nobody, training in a gym, before fighting your way towards the RCW World Championships to make a name for yourself! Fights happen in 1v1 matches, 6 person brawls and royal rumble events – you will need to invest in yourself, possibly get a part-time job, and watch out when walking through the streets…

Football Manager 2021 allows you to create a team and bring them to the top – choosing football players that actually play within the Premier League. You will need to be tactical, making sure your team is playing in the best way possible and ensuring that the players you have work well together. If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a manager, this is the game to test out your skills.

Crux is a game about rock climbing, where you have to plan your route and then execute it, to dominate the wall you are trying to get up. You are able to swipe on the screen to move your hands or feet to a new hold, but these holds only let you hang on for so long, meaning you have to keep on moving! There are plenty of challenges in this game, and it’s a great version of rock climbing – quite serious as well – for mobile devices.

A less realistic game then the previous ones on the list, Rumble Hockey is a physics-based, action game where you are, in fact, playing hockey as wild animal characters! As you build up combos and create strategies to score a goal in the game, you will need to take on real time, action PVP rounds, to make sure that your plans actually happen and you become the best Hockey team out there.