there are a lot of non-predatory mobile games with no marketing budget, no front-page presence on the google play, and no way for your average gamer to pick them out from the ocean of trash

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Looking at the front page of the iOS app store games category page I see (excluding ones that say they're "for you"):

Age of Empires mobile pre-order (idk what this is, maybe it's got a bunch of in-game currencies)
MONOPOLY GO!
Roblox
Subway Surfers
Pokemon GO
Fallout Shelter
Genshin Impact
Monster Train (deckbuilding roguelike battles)
NYT Games: Word Games & Sodoku
Call of Duty: Mobile
Minion Rush: Running game
My Talking Tom 2 (some kind of game where you talk to a cat?)
Smash Hit

idk it feels like this site is stuck in the mid-2010s perception that everything on the app store is a Zynga clicker Clash of Clans clone with a yelling man as the icon

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

here's a review from Monopoly GO!

From someone who has been playing for a year, it's going down hill big time. It was never this bad before. It's near impossible to complete any events, ANY of them without spending hundreds of dollars on dice.

are you actually personally vouching for any of these games, or are you just assuming they're not skinner box pay to win cash grabs?

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I'm not vouching for them, they certainly aren't all skinner boxes though. You could find a few but the skinner box rate is way above zero for PC and console games these days too.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what most of those games are but if you say they are just regular games where you play them and can't use your wallet as an extra controller i admit to being stuck in the past like a big ol' silly billy

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that person literally copied a list of games from the iOS app store games, did not investigate if any were pay-to-win, did absolutely no fact checking, made no actual claims about the games, but has successfully convinced you that you are stuck in the past.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't say convinced, but i did assume they had actually looked into them

[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a game called Subway Surfers? While teenagers are killing themselves "subway surfing" in real life? Jeez lol

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Subway surfers is an "ancient" mobile game by today's standards, basically a temple run clone, endless running game. Similar format to minion rush. I remember playing it over a decade ago on my first smartphone.

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

All the good ones like Monument Valley and Alto's Journey get ported because they actually transcend the extremely low bar of entertainment for being stuck somewhere with a phone and 7 minutes to kill.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

A number of my co-workers play mobile games and they all have like 2+ ingame currencies and "optional" ad boosts and shit.

I will admit I don't have many friends into mobile games though. I'm old and crotchety so I can accept that my view of the entire platform is biased