Crunchyroll brings console games to mobile with new subscription service

The mobile gaming market has been an increasing focus for many companies in recent years, in particular when it comes to bringing full-blown console titles to smartphones. Following the likes of Netflix Games, Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has now announced the ‘Crunchyroll Game Vault’.

Making the announcement on their blog, the Crunchyroll team said “Your Crunchyroll membership just leveled up! Announced today, Crunchyroll is officially opening its Crunchyroll Game Vault for Mega and Ultimate Fan members, delivery (sic) unlimited access to a constantly growing library of mobile games, kicking off today with River City Girls, inbento, Wolfstride and more.”

Currently, the service is only live for Android devices, though iOS support is said to be coming “very soon”. As expected, one of the core issues with mobile games (i.e. their overabundance of ads and in-app purchases) won’t be a problem here, with all included titles being feature-complete and free of advertising.

As we have seen with Netflix, Crunchyroll is actually bringing full-blown console games to the service, with a mobile port of the popular side-scrolling arcade-styled beat ‘em up River City Girls being included from launch.

With that, the full list of tiles available currently is as follows:

• River City Girls
• One Punch Man: World
• Street Fighter: Duel
• Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden
• Bloodline: The Last Royal Vampire
• My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero
• Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump Dimensions
• Wolfstride
• Behind the Frame
• Inbento

While a small list of titles, it is exciting to see that more console games are finding their way onto mobile platforms – even if it is through a subscription service.

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