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O Vida Celular has listed 10 of the best mobile games of 2021 for you, our readers, to start this year with some good inspiration. Choose your favorite and get ready for hours of fun: Diablo Immortal, Pokémon and League of Legends are among the most anticipated.

2021 promises to be an excellent year for smartphones. Thanks to hardware advances, experience of playing on mobile phones is getting better and better, so the old stigma that the platform would only be for casual gamers no longer matches reality. Other factors that can boost mobile gaming, whether on Android or iOS, is the 5G arrival and the popularization of services such as xCloud Gaming e Google Stadia.

Diablo Immortal

The classic RPG franchise is back in an exclusive adventure for smartphones. Diablo Immortal promises to bring all the intensity and exploration of the mortal realm of Sanctuary to mobile games in an open-world environment that can be enjoyed in solo or team adventures.

The game adapts the series' mechanics to touch controls and will feature an original story that takes place between the games Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and Diablo III.

Diablo Immortal is coming soon to Android e iOS. O Technical Alpha is now available to players who pre-registered on Blizzard official website.

League of Legends Wild Rift

The phenomenon League of Legends will finally gain a version for consoles and smartphones in 2021. The franchise that already has other mobile games such as Autochess TeamFight Tactics and the card game Legends of Runeterra gets a port of the company's main game adapted for the cell phone interface.

The MOBA promises to offer the same experience as matches played on computers, but will not feature cross-platform matches. Riot, the game's developer, has already announced that it also intends to create a competitive scenario for Wild Rift.

For a while, Wild Rift is now open for pre-registration available for Android devices only. Despite this, the game will also be released for iOS and should be released soon for iPhone.

The Witcher: Monster Slayer

Following the wave of AR games , the Pokémon GO e Harry Potter Wizards: Unite, The Witcher: Monster Slayer will bring the universe of the witcher Geralt of Rivia to mobile games. Through the your smartphone camera It will be possible to identify clues, follow trails and hunt monsters in the open world.

Additionally, it is also possible to interact with NPCs and battle with other players in an augmented reality environment.

The Witcher: Monster Slayer was supposed to be released in 2020, but the title developed by Cool, CD Projekt's mobile subsidiary, has been delayed and is expected to arrive on smartphones sometime in 2021.

In the meantime, fans of the franchise can enjoy playing Gwent, spin-off of the card game of The Witcher 3.

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened

Magic Awakened is the result of a partnership between Warner Bros and developer NetEase Games and promises to bring an RPG adventure exclusively for smartphones that takes place at Hogwarts School of Magic a few years after Harry Potter's victory over the wizard Voldemort. However, players will not control the hero, but will be able to create their own avatars.

The game will have an animated aesthetic with mechanics that mix the turn-based battle system with card games. In the past, Harry Potter had games in this style for Nintendo's Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance handhelds. If the game follows any of these predecessors, we can expect something interesting out of it.

The game Magic Awakened has already been made available in Asia and does not yet have a release date in the West.

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Project Cars GO

If you are a fan of racing games like Asphalt 9, you can expect hours of fun with the mobile version of Project Cars. The franchise Slightlymad Studios It should arrive in the first half of 2021 with incredible graphics and soundtrack.

Racing games are often synonymous with power because they demand a lot from the hardware of smartphones. Recently, companies like Qualcomm and Samsung have announced that they intend to provide driver updates for their chipsets to further optimize the player experience and Project Cars Go will likely be one of the titles that will benefit from these improvements.

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Path of Exiles Mobile

Another classic franchise coming to smartphones in 2021 is Path of Exiles, the game promises to bring back the open-world experience of Path of Exile I with graphics and battles exclusive to mobile phones. Best of all, the developers have guaranteed: there will be no pay-to-win system in this RPG.

Path of Exiles Mobile is still in development and will be released for Android and iOS.

APEX Legends Mobile

The Battle Royale from Respawn Entertainment, the same developer of games like Titanfall and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, promises to arrive on smartphones in the first half of 2021 to confront other titles of the genre such as PUBG, Fortnite e Call of Duty.

The game is in closed Beta phase and will be released for Android and iOS.

APEX Legends Mobile arrives on smartphones in 2021. Disclosure: Respawn Entertainment/EA Brasil

Disclosure: Respawn Entertainment/EA Brazil

Dawn Awakening

Dawn Awakening is a survival shooter developed by one of the subsidiary studios of Tencent, a company that also owns Riot, League of Legends and Valuing. The game's announcement trailer caused excitement by mixing RPG elements with tactical shooter gameplay.

The game is already available in Beta in Asia and there is no release date for the West.

Nier: Reincarnation

The J-RPG franchise Drakengard is unknown to most Brazilian gamers and most of its titles, released on the PS2, were not very successful in the West. However, the story changed with the release of the spin-off Nier Automata for PS4, Xbox One and PCs, in 2017.

The title published by Square Enix renewed the brand and brought new players to the universe. Now, with Nier: Reincarnation, the producer officially continues the events of the last title in an adventure that mixes anime aesthetics with 3D graphics. The game will be available for Android and iOS in Japan in the first half of 2021.

Pokemon Unite

after the Pokémon GO success, Nintendo and Tencent have joined forces to bring the League of Legends MOBA genre phenomenon to the Pokémon universe. The system will allow for the integration of matches between the Nintendo Switch with Android and iOS devices in online matches.

Pokémon Unite was supposed to hit smartphones in 2020, but it was delayed. Its release should happen soon.

And you, what is your most anticipated game for 2021? Answer in the comments.