• Kraiden ( Kraiden@piefed.social ) English
    8·
    10 months ago

    pc ports mostly. Subnautica and Stardew Valley come to mind, but there’s plenty others

    eta: Looks like Balatro is available… that… will be detrimental to my health

  • Canonical_Warlock ( Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    4·
    10 months ago

    I have been playing Melvor Idle for years now and loving it. It’s like runescape without the gameplay. It brings back memories of the good old days of runescape botting. If you’re a fan of watching number go up then it’s worth a try.

    It does have a premium version and DLCs but it’s a good value and only a one time payment. I still haven’t bought any of the DLCs because I’m waiting until I 100% the base game so I’ve gotten over a year of entertainment for $10.

  • TrillianAstra ( TrillianAstra@piefed.blahaj.zone ) English
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’m legitimately addicted to Umamusume Pretty Derby, which is a gacha game but I’ve been playing for many months and while you can give them money they don’t really push it very hard. There’s a surprising amount of depth.

    I also like idlers, shout-out to Almost A Hero and the hilariously unhinged Crush Crush.

    For a more traditional timewaster I also play a lot of Downwell.

    • Naho_Zako ( Naho_Zako@piefed.zip ) English
      2·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen so much Umamusume Pretty Derby art and propaganda on my Tumblr, and now it just got best ongoing game award or smth at The Game Awards, so I’m slowly becoming convinced. I’m just nervous to add another gacha to my list 😅

      • TrillianAstra ( TrillianAstra@piefed.blahaj.zone ) English
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s a fun sports management game. The races are often very exciting, you can skip them for time but I almost never skip races that might be close and find myself shouting encouragement at my phone in public, lol.

        You could always watch the original anime or the absolutely phenomenal Cinderella Gray spinoff, see how it strikes you. Legitimately pretty great sports drama and the characters are a lot of fun.

        If you do play, send me your Trainer code!

  • dkppunk ( dkppunk@piefed.social ) English
    3·
    10 months ago

    One that I’ve played and occasionally go back to is Orna. It’s a location based RPG mobile game with lots of things to do. It’s a good way to get out and walk around for a while while gaming.

  • Albbi ( Albbi@lemmy.ca ) 
    3·
    10 months ago

    Slice & Dice is a great RPG strategy game where your heroes have their abilities on dice and you know your enemy’s actions so can plan which abilities you’ll need. I’ve been playing it off and on for a while now. The demo is good and I bought the full game pretty quickly. No additional costs or ads.

  • cloudless ( cloudless@piefed.social ) OPEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I have not played any mobile game recently, I play emulated games and streaming PC games on my mobile instead.

    But I used to love these games:

    • Bejeweled (technically a PC game first, but perfect for mobile)
    • Angry Bird OG
    • Plants vs Zombies OG
    • Egg, Inc
    • Rebuild
    • Plague Inc

    I probably missed some other gems because it has been a long time since I played true mobile games.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 
    2·
    10 months ago

    Roguelike and -lite:

    • Hoplite — deep movement-basef RL

    • micRogue — “chesslike” roguelite

    • Pixel Dungeon — a mobile homage to the ideas and mechanics of Brogue

    RPG:

    • the mobile port of Chrono Trigger — 'nuff said

    • Doom & Destiny — Italian RPG, very silly but still deep and satisfying. The free version is the same as the paid, don’t bother with the sequel.

    Strategy:

    • Battle for Polytopia — base game and four civs are free, pay to unlock new civs

    • unCiv — FOSS

    • Rebuild (and sequels) — everyone’s favorite zombie-themed browser game has a mobile port

    • Tinyfolks — very satisfying fantasy party management adventure

    Management / Plate Spinning:

    • Merchant — sell goods to finance adventurers to fight monsters for loot to give to crafters to make goods to sell

    • Universal Paperclips — surprisingly deep story from a game about a factory that makes paperclips

    • Pikmin Bloom — walk around in real life to visit public art to grow Pikmin sprouts in-game that you send on missions to get materials to grow and buffs more Pikmin sprouts

    Some of these cost money, most are free but with limited microtransactions, only Pikmin Bloom is freemium (but the in-game currency is easy to earn through normal gameplay and it’s not PvP, so the users who put money in only cheat themselves).

  • Coelacanth ( Coelacanth@feddit.nu ) 
    2·
    10 months ago

    I got Eastern Exorcist for free on Epic a while back and it’s a pretty good side-scroller action RPG. Good combat, fun bosses, no real complaints except for the fact that the game shows you the same tutorial message for the same mechanics like 4 separate times. But apart from that it’s great.

    I played a bit of Chaos Zero Nightmare recently, which if you can overlook the gacha monetisation and some gooner-bait designs is a pretty good roguelike deckbuilder.