I remember that games from around 2010 to 2015 had a lot of unique and experimental titles. Heck I also still have an old Ipad 2 from over a decade ago that still works with the IOS software of the time

But to say the least, mobile games have been capitalized now and have become much more streamlined for larger audiences, but that doesn't mean you still can't find any hidden gems if you just use the search function in google play or the appstore

99.99% recuring of all mobile games are absolute scum trash that exists purely to scam you out of money and provide no enjoyment only addiction and lies of what they are.

The exceptionally few games that are actually games and actually playable and actually fun are good, but goodluck finding them. Personally I will never try to look for them as I don't want to force myself to wade through that quagmire of leeches lest I risk myself getting caught by any.

people made them.

people woke up and said "im gonna um.. yeah, ima do it >:-)"

and they did it.

thats all i got

Mobile gaming can be cool, but monetization models are too aggressive most of the time.

Stuff like this doesn’t feel right, it’s like…it’s Fruit Ninja. It should just exist as-is and not be so rizzed about makin’ ad rev. And as for game preservation, the early Angry Birds games got taken down for a bit, though they have said they’ll bring them back, not sure if they have yet or not. Alas, such is the way of the App Store.

At 6/14/23 12:54 PM, Dungeonation wrote:

: Mobile gaming can be cool, but monetization models are too aggressive most of the time.

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: Stuff like this doesn’t feel right, it’s like…it’s Fruit Ninja. It should just exist as-is and not be so rizzed about makin’ ad rev. And as for game preservation, the early Angry Birds games got taken down for a bit, though they have said they’ll bring them back, not sure if they have yet or not. Alas, such is the way of the App Store.

They did remake the original Angry Birds and brought it back for a small period of time but now Rovio's planning to delist it on the playstore and is changing its name to "Red's First Flight" on IOS because they think too many people are playing it :(

Maaaaan. So yeah, I don’t dislike mobile gaming, it’s App Stores and amoral capitalism I don’t like.

We should keep making web gaming so good that App Stores pee themselves.

At 6/14/23 01:47 PM, Dungeonation wrote:

: Maaaaan. So yeah, I don’t dislike mobile gaming, it’s App Stores and amoral capitalism I don’t like.

: We should keep making web gaming so good that App Stores pee themselves.

Real. Apple forces app devs to pay 100$ a month to keep their apps on their store and take 30% of all revenue they make.

A lot of them were just money grabbing tools with ads and in-app purchases, but for the casual gamer there is still some good stuff on there. I personally enjoy the beat-em-up genre and there's also a couple of good rpgs on there. There's still a lot of room to grow for mobile games, but with the screen being so small and the controls having to be equally small I think it can be a barrier for a lot of people to enjoy it, especially for long amounts of times. I'd rather sit in the sofa and play games than have to crane my neck and strain my eyes whilst playing. Also since games on mobile also live with social media, and calls and all that. It can be very annoying to be playing and then get a message from whatsapp or have someone call you and distract you altogether, and sure the option could be to turn it on do not disturb mode, but it's not the same like putting my phone to the side and pausing my game real quick to see who's calling and if I want to answer now or call them back later. Less intrusive.

they were good until this one game about taking people in a city came out, then it all went down, now it's hard to find games you can consider iconic nowadays. games like Mr. Autofire look iconic, but nobody knows that dude except for me

theres this game called "Mr.autofire", I consider it iconic for its gameplay

what about the low quality games with an eraser or a pencil where you gotta draw or erase things, these ones are trash enough

i think it came out on PC and DS

it used to be fun, now its problems are too bad, it makes you go to CONSOLE or PC (the chick-fil-a of videogames)

20% are classics and olds, the 10% is actually good games

or the ones in the ads where the person playing the game terrible for no reason

Beside Enchanted Cave 2 and Stardew Valley.

Nothing is good on mobile games..

They have too much "Pay to win" money loop holes..

these ones burn me to the bone, I hate these ads

They can be good as long as they aren't shit in my opinion.

Like the ones inspired by gardenscapes

no

I personally don't play video games at all, but my boyfriend doesn't play mobile games and prefers to pay for a PC game and get the most out of it.

They are only good for killing time for like when your waiting in line or something. Don't be playing a mobile game expecting a full cinematic experience.

Geometry dash is the best mobile game tbh

When smartphones were just new, I was more excited for the future of mobile gaming, hell I was even obsessed with Angry Birds for a while when I was younger to the point where even seeing bootleg toys of that franchise at markets used to excite just-became-a-teenager me. While much more limited compared to the PC, mobile seemed like a good place for independent devs to experiment and express themselves at the time.

Post-Flappy Bird though, honestly, it feels like the modern mobile gaming industry is full of some of the worst kinds of shovelware right now, whether that's games with predatory or invasive monetization schemes, games that have no real value outside of being as addictive as possible, games that for some reason require unnecessarily giving away all kinds of personal info just to play a single level, or just simply the laziest form of pure content imaginable, which will probably soon enough be entirely generated by AI and shoved onto Google Play for a quick buck. There may be hidden gems I'm missing out on though, but I'll only ever be able to find out about those from word of mouth at this rate.

I use Android at the moment, have no clue if the situation is any better on the Apple side of the fence. In any case, I hope the situation improves eventually, as I would've enjoyed mobile gaming existing more as a portable, complimentary experience to PC or console gaming, like handhelds used to be.

Somewhat agree, I have a nostalgia bias from these due to owning some particularly good models from Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Dare I say, J2ME era of mobile games was really a wild west much like the microcomputers era of PC gaming: a lot of notable titles, some notable failures, tons of porn games, cheap mods and bootlegs, and great ton of it is lost due to negligent preservation.

Even since then, phone games were always digital only outside of select outliers like Palm OS-piwered Treo Handspring that had various add-ons plugged to the device including the game cartridges essentially and, infamously, Nokia N-Gage with an identity crisis.

As for modern titles, I mostly play Azur Lane. The gacha system of that one is one of most lenient ones. Though yea, as for late, it's rare to see a popular phone game that works offline and/or doesn't have microtransactions.

I don't begrudge mobile games; I used to play Geometry Dash on my tablet. But I don't think these are proper devices with any sort of infrastructure. Like there's no way of categorizing the games like with the trophy and medal systems, for instance.

I used to play some mobile-like games on my Vita for the trophies, such as Treasures of Montezuma Blitz, which is like Bejewled, and Run! Sackboy! Run!

It's just a fun switch-your-brain-off way to spend time.

They aren’t too bad. I usually play Transformers Forged to Fight, Plants Vs Zombies, Gacha Life, and Baldi’s Basics

I just wished that mobile games would have stayed as cool as flash games were, back the good ol' early internet dayz of the ninetees and noughties.

Y'all kno wut I'm sayin?

Mobile games can be pretty damn bad, but the adverts… Dear god…

I’m so confused about how some of those ads are allowed to exist?? Something about them just feels..illegal

As long as they're playable, somewhat enjoyable, and don't give me ads up the arse, I don't mind them.

Speaking of ads, mobile game ads in general are a whole new level of WTF. Especially the ones that are over-the-top shitty but are nothing like the actual game. Like do you want people to download your game or not?