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"But it's a mobile app..."
| If its a game that is popular on console that's free on mobile, expect a metric fuck ton of paywalls and microtransactions
| Also a game that's been boring-ed up to accommodate those microtransactions.
| People seem to have Stockholm syndrome when they talk about freemium games.
| I think it's a fair excuse because, personally, I think touch controls are stupid and you can't have a good game that relies only on touch controls. The only reasonable games you get with touch controls are the feemium gacha or card game stuff. I absolutely HATE games where you move your character with those silly circular direction pad that are transparent, but take up a big part of the screen.
| You can definitely make a fun touch screen games, but not many developers are interested in making anything other than gambling addicts.
| For example?
| what about gba and psp emulator on phone ?
| Gba emulator has shoddy response I feel. Could definitely be optimized. Havent given any psp emulator yet
| Eh, you have to compromise too for other platforms. Chopped up games sold as DLCs for PC. "But's it's only 5$ a month" for console online play. And general "it's nintendo games, I grown up with them" for nintendo general bullshitness.
| *I grew up with them
| >>54879
Not all good PC games have DLC.
>>54854
Even if they worked great I would count those because they're not originally phone games.
| *wouldn't
| I never saw a good phonegame, besides fallout shelter and angry birds
| >>54882 all right, what about pre-ordering culture that leads to a broken release? Then we get "don't play on toaster" people who would defend poor optimization. Not to mention abandonware buggy early access games.
| Mobile games are trash. It doesnt matter how well you decorate it, it's still fucking trash
| >>54957
REEEEEE, not all mobile games are cancerous garbage, littered with ads, energy timers and microtransactions. Tbh, even some (but only some) that are just that can be kinda manageable of a little while.
| Although TBH, most of the good stuff on mobile is a port of sorts.
| Honkai impact 3
| I rather enjoyed jumpfinity when I had an iPhone. The controls were easy enough. It was just fun to jump about endlessly. No in app purchases, no ads, free.
| Puzzle or any non-active game can work with touchscreen only controls
| Space Team is a pretty fun game to play with a bunch of people, works good on a phone.
| Shattered Pixel Dungeon on F-Droid is a pretty good NetHack-inspired roguelike.
| But it makes money, so the quality doesn't matter! As long as people are stupid enough to play it and make it mainstream
| "Mobile games are alright"
I don't trust like that
| Mobile touch-controls are very good for turn-based games. It's sad that we don't see as many good games in that style in the platform as there should be, they're mostly up to the same quality as other mobile crap.
| Mobile games that may be good:
Magink
Fisherman's Horizon
Tomb of the Mask
Hoplite
Uniwar
Bad Piggies
A Dark Dragon AD
Buriedbornes (>>55662 this is fir you)
Unity-chan's Action Shooter
Alto
Ancestors
Vikings: An Archer's Journey
Ankora
Undergrave (beta)
Soul Knight
Any Rayark games
Any Westernarc games (if you can run them)
| F2p Mobile games with Little to no paywalls.
Yu-Gi-Oh duel links. Konami is massively generous with events and stuff. It's fair for f2p and whales.
Iruna online. Grindey old school anime mmorpg.
Sonic forces. If you like Sonic dash you'll love this it's the same shit but with competitive multiplayer. Fun AF. NO PAYWALLS but you can whale.
Premium games/emulators.
Drastic ds emulator. My favorite emulator so far.
Deathroad to Canada. It's fucking awesome.
Witch spring 1-3.
Icey.
| I didn't mention this because I assume most knw of it already but for those who don't:
Plague Inc.
Hands down best mobile game imo.
| Isn't plague Inc p2w?
| The genes are just there to give you an edge. I've beaten all the normal pathogen in brutal. Heading onto the specials now.
| animal crossing: pocket camp is good shit despite some microtransactions tbh
| Magikarp Jump
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| That's a good excuse for every time a mobile app is terrible garbage compared to anything else. It can't REALLY be bad if your expectations are in the dumpster.
"Besides why are you complaining about a FREE GAME."
Fuck you.