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Have you ever played what you genuinely considered to be a “good” game on Mobile?
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chilichote
Member
I really liked the first Angry Birds games, but I rarely play mobile games beyond that, most of them are kind of shit^^
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Chaos Rings 2 is one of the greatest RPGs I have ever played. Square outdid themselves with that one.
Vainglory was the best MOBA at the time it released, and still holds up today.
Hearthstone was an incredible card game until they made it fully pay-to-win.
DanielG165
Member
Sonic Dream Team is a really good one.
mayham2199
Member
I enjoyed Angry bird for a while. If Genshin Impact counts then that as well. I mostly played it on PC/Console though.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
This. I have ~456 hours in it.
TwiztidElf
Gold Member
I installed a GBA emulator and played GBA Fire Emblems and Advance Wars seamlessly. Excellent games.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Game dev story.
I liked that dota autochess game as well but they stopped supporting it.
I liked that dota autochess game as well but they stopped supporting it.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Show me a phone emulating PS3 please (with good results).
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Rifts seemed good but I don't know if you would consider it a mobile game? It was a physical cartridge that you plug into the N-Gage. The big problem with that game was the repetitive graphics.
I can't believe we never got a console or PC game based off of Rifts.
I can't believe we never got a console or PC game based off of Rifts.
Bernardougf
Member
Tinder.
CityHunter1981
Member
I gave up on mobile a long time ago. The only games which were fun was the room series.
In all other games I can initially see their shortcomings and can only wonder how they would have turned out on PC or console.
However, for retrogamimg mobile is a good choice these days.
In all other games I can initially see their shortcomings and can only wonder how they would have turned out on PC or console.
However, for retrogamimg mobile is a good choice these days.
The Infectious Paradox
Member
Minsc
Gold Member
Guess I was wrong about PS3, my bad. You at least can swap in Switch for it. That should keep the game count roughly the same. Plus there's always streaming, that adds a ton of games to the device too, if your environment allows it.
Strange since Switch runs and is significantly more powerful than PS3, but I guess the hardware is just too different and the interest in PS3 emulation hasn't progressed enough to where they can sell it and expedite it further.
With the progress on EmuDeck / Emulation Station on Android recently, sooner or later it'll happen, I'm sure. Probably not for today's phones, but I don't see it being a problem forever.
wondermega
Member
There used to be tons of great little mobile games, it's been a very long time since I payed any attention to the scene (like 10 years) but for a time there was a lot of fun to be had. The zenith for me was Drop7, I had to uninstall the game without looking back as it was literally too addictive for me. I'd get completely sucked back into it right now if I reinstalled it.
There were some of those match-3 breakers (Zuma and such) that were also really well done. And of course things like Robot Unicorn Attack and Flight Control, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Damn wish I could actually play Flight Control right now, it was pretty perfect.
I put out a few mobile things myself which I was pretty proud of - once you started to design focusing on the strengths of the touchscreen, rather than in spite of it ("here's pictures of traditional buttons") then it started to get pretty interesting. There's honestly still a lot of potential there, I'd like to get back to it for many reasons (but impossible to make money off of that, so basically just for fun really). I'd actually like to see a pretty well-curated list of worthwhile mobile gaming in 2024.
Otherwise, Wordle is basically all I will play anymore (and even then, I go in and out)..
There were some of those match-3 breakers (Zuma and such) that were also really well done. And of course things like Robot Unicorn Attack and Flight Control, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Damn wish I could actually play Flight Control right now, it was pretty perfect.
I put out a few mobile things myself which I was pretty proud of - once you started to design focusing on the strengths of the touchscreen, rather than in spite of it ("here's pictures of traditional buttons") then it started to get pretty interesting. There's honestly still a lot of potential there, I'd like to get back to it for many reasons (but impossible to make money off of that, so basically just for fun really). I'd actually like to see a pretty well-curated list of worthwhile mobile gaming in 2024.
Otherwise, Wordle is basically all I will play anymore (and even then, I go in and out)..
REMAINSILLY
Member
I remember absolutely loving Infinity Blade back in the day.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
The Switch really isn't significantly more powerful than the PS3 or 360. It's better than them in some ways, but worse in others (mainly CPU). Overall it's rather comparable to them though, just more modern. Very much in that same generation in terms of overall power.
But yeah, the PS3 is very weird and difficult to emulate, the Cell in particular.
dottme
Member
Too much micro and macro transaction for me.
Bernardougf
Member
Just like dark souls you have to git gud.
Lambogenie
Member
I think there was even a GAF thread, but Teeny Titans was fun and funny. Worth a bash. It's a figure battle game where Robin is obsessed to become the very best.
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tomato shrub
Member
i got hooked on this for like 500 hours. It's bad.
Shut0wen
Banned
Robbery rob, a kids mgs game is goty, id also say hearthstone is still a good game even today
Minsc
Gold Member
I really couldn't imagine playing something like Kingdom Rush properly on a console w/ gamepad.
Game needs KB+M or touch screen controls.
And the game is legit. "Overwhelmingly Positive" is an understatement, it's up there if not as the best of genre, right with them.
Minsc
Gold Member
You could just as easily say this about any gaming system/platform. Pick a handful of shitty games, ignore the good ones, and say the platform should be removed from existence.
Robb
Gold Member
I haven’t played it so I can’t really comment on it. But my guess is that it’d work just fine with gyro controls + buttons in that case.
Orenji Neko
Member
terra battle。
Puzzle and dragon。伊藤さん music
fantasian 坂口さん he say FFVI inspired。great
rest i play are classic dq and ff release on mobile。
Puzzle and dragon。伊藤さん music
fantasian 坂口さん he say FFVI inspired。great
rest i play are classic dq and ff release on mobile。
Shadowstar39
Member
- Heroes of might and magic 3.... Yeah that legendary game... It was a port, that didn't have expansions and crashed a lot but was amazing having it a tablet. Of course ubisoft never updated it and it's gone... Grrrr
- Any of the spiderweb software games like avernum(no longer on android because dev is lazy and an apple fanboys grrrrrre..
- Doom rpg (gone)
- cardinal quest 1 and 2 (both not update and gone)
-The quest.. 3d grid based open world old school rpg with no micros. And 2 expansions
- waz hack
-pathos
- shattered pixel dungeon
- brotato
- baldurs gate /ice wind dale
- pocket rogue
- caves
- gems of war
- galaxy on fire 2
- ancient empires
- block fortress
- age of strategy
- wesnoth
- quest for dungeons
- hoplite
- nimble quest (not updated.)
- dungeon crawl stone soup
There are a bunch more. If you like rogue likes there some good ones... What sucks is that if an app isn't updated it gets taken off the store and if it's from Android 24 or earlier you can't even side load it anymore. It's bs as the app will work, Google just blocks it for "security".
- Any of the spiderweb software games like avernum(no longer on android because dev is lazy and an apple fanboys grrrrrre..
- Doom rpg (gone)
- cardinal quest 1 and 2 (both not update and gone)
-The quest.. 3d grid based open world old school rpg with no micros. And 2 expansions
- waz hack
-pathos
- shattered pixel dungeon
- brotato
- baldurs gate /ice wind dale
- pocket rogue
- caves
- gems of war
- galaxy on fire 2
- ancient empires
- block fortress
- age of strategy
- wesnoth
- quest for dungeons
- hoplite
- nimble quest (not updated.)
- dungeon crawl stone soup
There are a bunch more. If you like rogue likes there some good ones... What sucks is that if an app isn't updated it gets taken off the store and if it's from Android 24 or earlier you can't even side load it anymore. It's bs as the app will work, Google just blocks it for "security".
