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Best new mobile games on iOS and Android - June 2025 round-up
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 and enjoy the delightful Follow The Meaning or Rusty Lake's genuine freebie, The Mr Rabbit Magic Show. iOS & Android, free – remove ads £9.99, unlimited stamina £9.99 (GungHo Online Entertainment) Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Puzzle & Dragons featured a compelling blend of match-three puzzling and combat, your match-ups and the resulting combos triggering damage to colourful assailants. Puzzle & Dragons 0 retains most of the original's look, feel, and mechanics but removes its gacha elements. Now you add new monsters to your team using the crystals you win by completing dungeons. It's just as monumentally complex though, the interlocking sets of skills and team buffs taking a great deal of time and instruction to even start getting the hang of. You'll also need to watch a fair number of ads to stay competitive, although none are forced on you. It's not easy reviewing games designed to be played for literal years, because they tend to change qualitatively as you master skills and inch your way up their mountains of content, but in this case the intricacy, level of polish, and only two options for in-app purchases are promising signs. Score: 7/10 iOS & Android, £2.99 (Second Maze) With a charming art style slightly reminiscent of Machinarium, Follow the Meaning is a partially animated point 'n' click adventure with a lovely handmade feel about it. Both its plot and limited amount of text-only dialogue are deeply surreal, centring on your investigation of a small town's problem with three-eyed mutants who mostly come out at night, and whom most people are scared of. You'll need to solve a range of simple puzzles using light deduction, a bit of trial and error, and a touch of dragging items from your inventory. A few of its puzzles are a bit abstruse, but there are walkthroughs online if you get horribly stuck and the whole thing has such a unique atmosphere it's worth a look for that alone. Score: 7/10 iOS & Android, free – remove ads £11.99 (SayGames) Build a fruit juice empire in this amusingly unserious business simulator, that begins with just you, a chainsaw, and a gaggle of panicking, wide-eyed fruit doing their best to avoid being traumatically juiced. Hire staff, upgrade your blenders, raise prices, and gradually ratchet up the orders of magnitude in your juicing operation – which diversifies into jam and, for some reason, gem mining. Unlike many incremental games this is emphatically not idle, requiring plenty of active management of your operation, including chasing down those pesky fruits. If it weren't so riddled with advertising it would initially be quite addictive. As it is, you're regularly forced to watch ads and strongly incentivised to sit through a lot more. The real issue is how dystopian those ads are. Often 90 seconds long and with deliberate pauses you need to click through to continue watching, they actively prevent you from just leaving them on in the background. You can, of course, pay to remove them, but the more Juice King you play the more its gameplay feels like skill-free busy work, which is fine for a bit but eventually boring. Score: 5/10 iOS & Android, free (Yannis Benattia) Kumome's turn-based puzzles get you to move your hero one space in any direction on the board, then add a new piece in an attempt to block your opponent. If they can't move their hero, you win. From those simple beginnings, Kumome layers on teleport tiles, multiple opponents, single-use power-ups, and online PvP combat. Clearly a labour of love from a lone developer, its interface may be slightly rough around the edges but its gameplay is solidly designed, providing a varying challenge throughout its 200-level single player campaign and online multiplayer, once you're confident enough to try it. Score: 7/10 iOS & Android, free – full game unlock £4.99 (Afterburn) Pub Champs is a football themed puzzle game that despite its content requires neither a love of the sport nor dexterity. Instead, you'll be greeted by an escalating series of turn-based tactical challenges in which you direct a set of animal footballers to kick a ball into the back of the net. Initially, that's a case of getting in front of the goal mouth and tapping but soon enough you'll find your path occluded by road cones, piles of leaves, muddy puddles, and more. You'll also discover that different players interact with the ball in their own distinct ways, some kicking it straight, others curling it through the air to clear obstacles. Each also has a limited number of turns, so you'll need to combine their skills to complete puzzles. Highly polished, Pup Champs' 170 levels also get pretty taxing, belying the cozy setting and menagerie of young animal protagonists. Score: 7/10 iOS & Android, free (Rusty Lake) Indie developer Rusty Lake has a wonderfully offbeat signature style that blends the sinister, dreamlike, and mundane into some of the most idiosyncratic and enjoyable games on mobile. To celebrate the studio's tenth birthday, they've released this mysterious interactive magic show, whose 20 acts are punctuated by an interlude in the Rusty Lake offices where you need to make everyone a drink, solve some puzzles, and debug The Mr Rabbit Magic Show game ready to be published. Its puzzles are mostly straightforward, although one demands such an extreme level of trial and error that you'll need a pen and paper – or a spare iPad – to discover its lengthy and highly specific sequence of taps. Still, for a freebie its hour of pleasing, self-referential puzzle solving can scarcely be faulted and if you're new to Rusty Lake's delights this could well act as a gateway to their superb back catalogue. Score: 8/10 iOS, included with Apple Arcade subscription (What the Games) Made by the developer of the award-winning What The Car?, What the Clash? has a similar visual design, but instead of surrealist driving escapades it features a series of mini-games that you can play solo or against a fellow human. Starting with table tennis and soon adding racing, target shooting, and others, each of its games can be modified using a growing set of special cards that unlock as you play. That means if you and an opponent choose Archery, adding the barrel and giraffe cards gives you high winds that affect the flight of each arrow, while barrel and rotate give you rocket launchers. It means almost every game is different – often in quite surprising ways – and that you're continually unlocking new and frequently outlandish add-ons almost every time you play. Some of the games are a lot more fun than others but its high production values, zany humour, and continual sense of progression are a winning combination. Score: 8/10 iOS & Android, free (Netmarble) Game Of Thrones' foray into mobile entertainment delivers excellent first impressions. A graphically intensive third person action role-player, it features the visual likeness of plenty of familiar characters, and while it doesn't boast the original cast, voice-acting is first rate. You also don't need to be an aficionado of the books or TV show to get it, with everything conveniently explained. Starting as a knight, sell sword or assassin, you're unleashed into an open world infested with white walkers, their world's take on zombies. More Trending Problems start to creep in with combat that's instantly superficial, and even on an iPad Pro tends to drop numerous frames when the action gets frantic. Its real issue though, is your character's Momentum Score; the total average level of every piece of gear you have equipped. If it's too low, missions are deliberately impossible until you've met its requirement, and the enormous range of different currencies you need to progress makes it a shamelessly extended grind, which naturally you can circumvent with microtransactions. Inventory space is limited until you pay actual money to expand it, forcing you to sell each piece of unneeded equipment individually, and that's just the start of a seemingly endless parade of different methods of fleecing you. Even if you're a massive fan of the show, this is best avoided. Score: 3/10 Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. 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15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gravity Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRVY) stock most popular amongst public companies who own 59%, while individual investors hold 26%
Significant control over Gravity by public companies implies that the general public has more power to influence management and governance-related decisions GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. owns 59% of the company 15% of Gravity is held by Institutions AI is about to change healthcare. These 20 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10bn in marketcap - there is still time to get in early. Every investor in Gravity Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRVY) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. We can see that public companies own the lion's share in the company with 59% ownership. That is, the group stands to benefit the most if the stock rises (or lose the most if there is a downturn). Individual investors, on the other hand, account for 26% of the company's stockholders. Let's delve deeper into each type of owner of Gravity, beginning with the chart below. See our latest analysis for Gravity Institutional investors commonly compare their own returns to the returns of a commonly followed index. So they generally do consider buying larger companies that are included in the relevant benchmark index. We can see that Gravity does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. This can indicate that the company has a certain degree of credibility in the investment community. However, it is best to be wary of relying on the supposed validation that comes with institutional investors. They too, get it wrong sometimes. If multiple institutions change their view on a stock at the same time, you could see the share price drop fast. It's therefore worth looking at Gravity's earnings history below. Of course, the future is what really matters. Hedge funds don't have many shares in Gravity. GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. is currently the company's largest shareholder with 59% of shares outstanding. This implies that they have majority interest control of the future of the company. For context, the second largest shareholder holds about 3.1% of the shares outstanding, followed by an ownership of 2.9% by the third-largest shareholder. Researching institutional ownership is a good way to gauge and filter a stock's expected performance. The same can be achieved by studying analyst sentiments. As far as we can tell there isn't analyst coverage of the company, so it is probably flying under the radar. While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. Management ultimately answers to the board. However, it is not uncommon for managers to be executive board members, especially if they are a founder or the CEO. I generally consider insider ownership to be a good thing. However, on some occasions it makes it more difficult for other shareholders to hold the board accountable for decisions. We note our data does not show any board members holding shares, personally. Not all jurisdictions have the same rules around disclosing insider ownership, and it is possible we have missed something, here. So you can click here learn more about the CEO. The general public-- including retail investors -- own 26% stake in the company, and hence can't easily be ignored. While this size of ownership may not be enough to sway a policy decision in their favour, they can still make a collective impact on company policies. We can see that public companies hold 59% of the Gravity shares on issue. It's hard to say for sure but this suggests they have entwined business interests. This might be a strategic stake, so it's worth watching this space for changes in ownership. I find it very interesting to look at who exactly owns a company. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. I like to dive deeper into how a company has performed in the past. You can find historic revenue and earnings in this detailed graph. If you would prefer check out another company -- one with potentially superior financials -- then do not miss this free list of interesting companies, backed by strong financial data. NB: Figures in this article are calculated using data from the last twelve months, which refer to the 12-month period ending on the last date of the month the financial statement is dated. This may not be consistent with full year annual report figures. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. 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