Ah, the wonders of FOSS gaming :)
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Have any of you been on the PlayStore recently? It's a fucking dumpster fire. I recently had to get a new phone, and when I try to search for and install an app I had installed before the results are, "try tiktok, or Whatsapp" which are listed at the top of the search results even though they're completely unrelated to what I searched for.
I very much enjoy IdleFantasy lately.
It is available on F-Droid.
I've been playing this too. Seems like every time I open it there has been an update with new features added!
thank you for letting me discover f-droid and some of it possibilities.
hyperrogue is quite interesting one
Let me guess... Mindustry, breakout, pixel dungeon, unciv?
EDIT: Close! 4/5. Never even heard of aaaaxy
Mindustry is amazing. Really fun to start over with the community mods.
Honestly it is way better on PC. I don't think the controls translate very well to touch screen. It gets pretty damn hard, and I don't think I've ever been able to get very far on phone or tablet. That could be a me thing, though. The game is amazing nonetheless.
That's on the playstore but Good game
How in the $@-# are you sposed to change the direction of a conveyor belt?
Tap this arrow.
Double tap and drag Or click the arrow to rotate it in the first place
Thanks!
Just build over it in the proper direction or look in your game settings for the controls?
When you build and drag in any directionele the belt direction is adjusted automatically.
You know what I've noticed? I have a pixel pro 9, like a quarter of the apps I look for on the app store say "this app is not available for your device"
In my experience, 100% of the time the app works perfectly fine anyway. Google is just lying.You can install them using the alternative Play Store frontend called Aurora Store. Aurora is available in the F-droid repository.
On LineageOS I think F-droid is not installed by default but you can get it from https://f-droid.org/
Are you grapheneos? I've noticed similar for my Pixel Fold 10 but assumed it was an odd combination of the two.
lineage, but yeah, you think rom might be the cause?
Yeah the rom is most likely the reason. Give aurora store a try
I have a bunch of games I bought a while ago that are now no longer available ...
Some fuckin' conspiracy, I swear
Great picks, love Breakout 71. My extra pick is ChipDefense, a short tower defense game with some cool science/tech history
And simon tatham's puzzles is excellent.
Oooh, yes! I have all three too. But Breakout 71 is really where I spend most of my free time on my phone. Every game is different!
They are constantly adding levels too.
Edit: maps to levels
I love your posts/articles/reports 🤗
Thank you very much!
Most of the mentioned games actually ARE on play store.
Finding a decent game on the play store is nearly impossible. They will be buried under a mountain of ad and microtransaction infested crap.
I just realized -__-
Worst reflection of my lack of research there. I did just add a callout in the intro reflecting my own idiocy on that front (there's no excuses)
You're right!
Ricochlime and Tensy are also pretty fun.