• yukichigai@lemmy.world
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    A lot of really good older games have been ported to mobile and work fantastically. Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur’s Gate just to name a few. Hell, you can play Baldur’s Gate multiplayer, cross-platform with PC players even! There’s also fo2.exe on the Play Store, which lets you play Fallout 1 & 2 on mobile provided you have access to the files from the PC versions. Oh, and Doom ports galore, of course.

    As far as mobile-only or mobile-specific games, my favorite is probably Caves, a surprisingly well done and completely free roguelike.

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      Seconding this, it’s one of the very very few mobile games that hold up to the standards of other platforms (probably because it’s on those other platforms as well). It’s not just a good mobile game, it’s an incredible game period.

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    Might not be the answer you expect, but I have an iPhone and I got myself an Apple Arcade subscription without expecting much (I didn’t play mobile games at all before that, because they tend to feel either unoriginal, or scammy, or both), and I was surprised at how most games (not all games, but still) were truly original, and none of them were scammy since I was technically paying for them with the subscription. It’s been a surprisingly nice exploration.

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    Marvel Snap is a really fun lightweight TCG kinda thingy. I never liked Hearth stone or Runeterra, however I thoroughly enjoy Snap

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      Hate to break it to you, but Rayark replaced it’s art department with AI, so I wouldn’t support them.

      Arcaea is good though from what I know, and if not that, there’s also opsu! and the osu! lazer port for android.

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    On iOS, there’s an AltStore app called PojavLauncher. It’s a launcher for Minecraft Java Edition, which is pretty awesome.

    I also quite like the original Angry Birds (now called “Red’s First Flight”), but that’s £0.99.

    On Android, have a look at the games category on F-Droid.

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    N.O.V.A 3 (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance). It is a mobile FPS with a pretty good campaign. Bonus points if you can find it without ads.

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    RCT classic is pretty good. Not as good as OpenRCT but still quite good.

    Slay The Spire is also very good, though the mobile version is a bit bigger than the PC game

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      I work at a gaming company - Candy crush is known for employing the same tactics that keep people sitting at slot machines for 8 hours a day, and every damn PM wants to copy those patterns.