Mobile games usually get a bad rep as they’re usually asset flips and/or MTX-ridden and/or ad-filled, etc., and I’m sure this is actually the case for most games on the app/play store. But are there any ones that are actually good, maybe just something to pass the time with?
Plenty of bots to get my buttons kicked in chess.
I prefer lichess.org
- Free game analysis.
Any reason why you prefer bots when there’s always a random human available?
It’s easier to justify when I lose.
Martin is a fuckin cheater
Slice and dice, infinitnode
I lost a full day to that free demo
Recently I really enjoyed Acecraft which is a gatcha bullet hell with cuphead art style. Its really charming and very much skill based to a point. The only negative is this constant clicking on shit to collect all of the coin garbage which eventually made me quit it but it was fun for a while.
I really, really liked it, but the gatcha mechanics became too much for me. I just want to shoot cartoons in a plane, god damn it.
A while ago, I came across a curated list of no-BS games for Android and iOS.
BS consists of ads or barriers to progress that can’t be removed with a one-time payment. It has user ratings, and the highly-rated games are nearly certain to be good examples of their category.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is quite a timekiller on the phone
- Into the Breach (Netflix subscription)
- Shogun Showdown (Crunchyroll subscription)
- Balatro
- Slice & Dice
Old school RuneScape
Puzzles by Simon whatshisface
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzlesBunch of puzzle games, no monetisation
Hey, a little respect for the developer of PuTTY. (yes, it’s the same guy)
Wow I didn’t know that, super cool.
CMV: Towers and Unequal are literally impossible to beat at their harder/hardest difficulty levels without any cheating or guessing.
Also available from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles
Uhhhh BALATRO!!!
10€ for card game?! Are you real??
Not €10 10 $
I’m just giving you shit but yes, how have you not heard about this game yet, watch some Youtubers play it and see why it’s so fucking great holy shit do you like ads in your face every three minutes and micro transactions and no free updates, you do you hon I pay for quality. The soundtrack the visual design the fucking game itself, there’s so much good going on in this game. I support it 1,000,000%.
I payed for most of my games but 10€ is to much for a game like this. Im from Europe so my prices are in € not $. Often for 1€ higher than $ prices. Like its not enough that 10€ is more than 10$ alredy…
What did you decide? Watching videos of people playing (for the first time) would give you an idea of value for yourself.
There is no way i would pay that amount, am not even into card games… And also salery in my country is like 10 times less than in US so dont even judge me…
You can find copies online with some mild searching.
Tap for spoiler
Mobilism is one such website where one can procure such items for Android
To try things out before buying of course.
If they are using iPhone, their chances of being able to find a pirated copy and getting it to work are practically zero without deep technical knowledge
I have iphone
Belatro won all sorts of awards, including GDC game of the year. $10 for an award winning game is nothing. Probably the most addicting game I’d played in years, and I’m not even into that type of game.
It’s highly regarded for a reason. If you’re on iPhone you can get a one month trial for Apple Arcade and play it for free, but it’s worth 10€ imo. It’s a good game in it’s own right, but it’s also one of very few mobile games that are not monetised beyond the initial purchase, well suited to touch controls and short play sessions and are actually fun.
I’m sorry but I just don’t see the fun in what basically looks like glorified video poker. I could see the appeal if there were other people to play against, but if it’s just single player I might as well just go to the casino and play the slots instead. It looks that boring to me.
I wish there was a free time limited demo I could play cause I’d love to be proven wrong…
It’s not poker. It’s a deckbuilding game based on poker hands.
Pirate it if you want. You will probably want to pay for it after a few hours.
I tried pirating, but I couldn’t find an APK that isn’t sketchy as fuck, and I don’t want the PC version because this is the kind of game I’d rather play on mobile to kill time at work.
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Monument valley
One of the most charming games I’ve ever played and I play a shitload of games
Mindustry: an automation tower defense game
Shattered pixel dungeon: a classic Roguelike dungeon crawler
Slay the spire: a deck builder Roguelike. Probably one of the most popular in the whole Roguelike genre
Peglin: a lot like slay the spire, but plinko instead of cards
Slay the spire, balatro, Ascension, melvor, plague inc, terraforming Mars, unciv, shapez…
Vampire survivor is good too
There were, back in the day.
Tap tap revenge and Paper toss were great.
Now everything is just shit for morons.
