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Are almost all mobile games bad? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by belshamharoth@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Saw a game on Google Play that had great reviews (4.6k AVG with 77k reviews) so downloaded it thinking I finally might have found a good mobile game only to find it was trash like almost every mobile game I've ever tried.

Is it me, am I the problem, or are virtually all mobile games terrible?

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Thanks for everyone's feedback and suggestions, I've been trying out some of your recommendations as well as trying out Steam Link to play my steam PC games

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have rarely encountered a game made specifically for the mobile market to be good. There are some ports of, what I call, real games that work well on a phone. There are some open source versions of things that exist on PC that give the same experience on a phone (like OpenTTD being a nice "rip off" of roller coaster tycoon).

There are only two made for mobile games I can even really give praise to: Galaxy on Fire 2. It's as good as those kinds of quick play arcadey space games can be without going full on Elite or Star Citizen. Perfect for a phone. The other was Synapse and I don't even think you can find it anymore. It was, at the time, the only turn-based tactical game like Firaxis' X-Com games. But since both of the newer XCOM games are officially on the phone, it's not a genre devoid of good stuff.

Half the time I hear about a mobile game getting popular or is touted in these kinds of questions threads, it's something like Clash of Clans. Just crap that lets you play for like 15 minutes every 24 hours unless you start shelling out money. 😮‍💨

[-] Technofrood@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

like OpenTTD being a nice “rip off” of roller coaster tycoon

Sorry not sure if I'm reading that correctly, but how is OpenTTD a rip off of Roller Coster Tycoon, it's based on Transport tycoon a game made by the same developer as Roller Coaster Tycoon, released before Roller Coster Tycoon.