Dr Mario World: New Nintendo game to arrive on iOS and Android

There are a host of beloved characters as well as some twists to classic game

Nintendo has announced a new Dr Mario game – and it will be coming to your phone.

Dr Mario World will arrive on iOS and Android on 10 July and is yet another of Nintendo's big titles to arrive on mobile handsets.

It had first been announced in January but Nintendo has offered a new look at how the game will work as well as announcing release details.

A new trailer shows players dragging capsules onto the screen to stop them taking over the entire screen. It works something like Tetris – though, unlike previous Dr Mario games, players now drag the medicine onto the screen rather than moving them down as they fall.

"In Dr. Mario World, meddlesome viruses have the world in a panic and Dr. Mario and friends are tasked with eliminating them by matching capsules with viruses of the same colour," Nintendo said. "Players should keep calm, take their time and plan their approach carefully, as each puzzling combination of viruses in each stage must be cleared using a limited number of capsules."

Other updates will arrive over time, with Nintendo promising "Dr. Peach, Dr. Bowser, Dr. Toad and many others". There will be over 200 levels available at launch, it said, and more will be added regularly.

The game can be played multiplayer with other people across the world, either by teaming up to take on viruses or competing to see who can destroy the most.

The game is "free-to-start", meaning that players will be able to download the game but might have to pay to progress through the game. The new trailer shows a variety of the ways players will be encouraged to do that, with timers that tick down and money to pay for them.

Players can pre-register to get the game now by heading to the relevant app store. That won't allow them to get the game any sooner, but will mean they'll be notified as soon as it arrives.

The ability to pre-register for iPhone apps first came with Super Mario Run, when Nintendo was just arriving on iPhones and Android.