Anon checks out mobile gaming

For once, anon is not fake. May still be gay

Mobile gaming is awful these days. The vast majority are just cash grabs.

That said I look forward to Balatro being released

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This really upsets me and periodically bums me out. I used to like trawling through the top lists to see the various games that were on mobile. This is back in like 2011-2013. Typically monetization was either a free/premium version split, or an energy system. Now it's beyond 99% garbage with 99% of the last 1% being ports. The 1 of 1? Slice and Dice, that game rocks.

The only computer most huamns have ever used is a smart phone.

Good mobile game = ports from PC games and emulators

miHoYo games could be so much more if they are PC/Console games instead of mobile.

The only truly mobile game that I can think of that I can say is good is Pokemon GO, and I don't even like it but is the only game that truly uses the uniqueness of the mobile platform as a game feature.

Don’t Starve. Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Bam, there goes the next year of your life.

I was early into mobile gaming, and it used to be AWESOME! It was a platform oozing with potential. Every game that came out on mobile was excellently crafted...until Candy Crush came out. It literally ruined the whole genre.

The best game I've played on Android is the Kotor port.

The second best game I've played is the Into the Breach port.

Every good game on mobile is a port of something made for another platform.

Terraria, but it's a lot better on PC. You can transfer your character files and maps with a little effort though.

DevilutionX is pretty good if you liked Diablo 1.

And then there are the insane lists of ROMs/emulators.

At least there is Stardew Valley.

Old-school RuneScape being on mobile makes it the best mobile game of all time

Slay the Spire.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is fun

There's an insane number of PC ports. You can play Myst or GTA SA.

On the multiplayer side, genshin is very much your traditional MMO, if you like that. You can also play Eve or Hades star.

In terms of a competitive scene for years we had vainglory (forever in our hearts), and now we have LoL wild rift.

The mobile games industry was killed by ports and low-effort cash grabs. Seems like nobody makes good games that are specifically designed for mobile anymore, and almost all ports suffer from poor controls and/or just not being as good as the original versions.

A year ago or so I would have said Clash Royale. But now... nah.

You'll find plenty of videos that explain this better than I can, but at this point the devs clearly hate the community, the game is more pay to win than ever, evolutions are completely broken and the devs barely care to balance the game anymore.

It's pretty obvious that right now they just want to squeeze as much money as possible from the game before it completely dies out.

PPSSPP but its too hard to use the touchscreen controls for most titles.

Are we going to act like Plants vs Zombies doesn’t exist?

I've been wanting to make a mobile game out of spite because if this

Game development is super hard tho and I've only done like 3 game jams

you get the problem PC has (zillions of devices of different hardware/os configs) but at an even lower performance minimum. heavily limits what developers actually can do with it.

also doesnt help that more than half your userbase doesnt want to actually pay for the game.

Gotta plug one of my favorite mobile game studios: Afterburn. They only have 3 puzzle games. All are relatively short and 100%-able. Every single one is fun and full of heart. Golf Peaks, Inbento (bought by Crunchyroll), and Railbound.

i remember polytopia used to be good

I got mini metro on my PC. Felt like that would have been a great game to have on a phone

Minecraft is on mobile, and alot if other platforms...

• DATA WING was short & sweet.
• Transmission is full of pretty and interesting puzzles
• Simon Tatham's Puzzles is a godsend
• I found Mindustry through the play store

I don't know, anon, I had fun.

I have been enjoying Slice and Dice. Roguelikes scratch a certain itch for me.

the only good mobile game was MCPE, now it's minecraft bedrock

Dicey Dungeons is an example of a game that I think is actually BETTER on mobile (cheaper too). Awesome game, and the touch controls really streamline it.

It's really bizarre how phone gaming's golden age was before the smartphone era, having buttons helped a lot. Later java ME games and symbian everything were very cool, I still listen to the songs of Asphalt 4 to this day.

Don't get me wrong there are cool games too after mihoyo started getting ambitious, but they also ported their games to PC and consoles where it's better to play.

Back when PUBG first came out, I did not have a powerful PC yet. However, I could enjoy the mobile version of the game and, by the time I built my first PC, I had gained extensive knowledge that equated to a good head start. At its height, PUBG mobile was awesome. Moreover, when with friends, we could all just decide to play it together on our phones, to matter where we were.

Old school RuneScape is on mobile.

Flow Free is easily the best mobile game of all time, maybe the best video game of all time /hj

I like Genshin Impact tho 😭

I replayed Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 on mobile. It's a surprisingly good port.

Among us

The best mobile games are ports like Terraria and Slay the Spire, or old fashioned emulated games, but you need a controller to make it feel okay.

I think netflix has some half decent games these days, like Storyteller, Gamedev Tycoon and Terra Nil

Rollercoaster tycoon classic -RCT 1+2 in one -Touch interface + port by original rct1+2 dev -100 or so scenarios -No added mxt or pay to skip anything, --gameplay is exactly like PC release -Original soundtrack

If you have android you can run some pc games on it but not everything runs

Professor Layton is on iOS does that count

I still remember stuff like dead space mobile, those where true, actual games that showed you the potential phones COULD have

now the gaming industry (conventions and everything else to), is now utterly dominated and muddled by the likes of candy crush and genshin impact, its actually sad

I enjoy Magic: the Gathering Arena. And there are a few decent rogue likes

I can't believe nobody mentioned Vampire Survivors yet? I know it's a port, but it's amazing on mobile.

Rocket League side swipes is undisputed best mobile game on the shitter

Duskwood

Some indie mobile games are great (Nameless cat, Zombie catchers (before being aquired by DECA), Simon Tatham's puzzles, foss fdroid games (Simple Solitare), Cookie clicker, etc.

You can play Half-Life (Xash3d) or Half-Life 2 (native port) on it, that's something.

Or, even use box86 and box64 to run Steam and/or PC games in a Wine environment