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You know full well Steam's library is not at all comparable to what's available on mobile. There are thousands of quality games on Steam. How many mobile games are out there that are quality crafted experiences, and not just endless grinding to squeeze as much money as possible out of the user? I recall seeing a handful come out ~10 years ago, like The Room and Monument Valley. These days the best ones to come out ar…
Anyone know if there's a curated list of non-exploitative games on android? The only one I've been seriously thinking about buying is Slay the Spire.
Android Games on PC
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#142If Windows can run Android apps, they can bring back Windows Phone. The only issue with that platform is nobody made apps for it.
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How will I know the bad games without wasting time playing them? Should I trust those reviews on the Play Store?
How will you know the bad games on *any* platform without having some kind of trust in the creator or reviewers?
It's a lot easier to trust reviews on a platform that doesn't allow solicited reviews, than one where that is standard practice.
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#144Oh boy, millions of ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC. Gotta get me one of those beta invites!
Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
Steam has thousands of good games and hundreds of excellent games. Android has, what, less than dozen good games?
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#145Quite off topic, but some PC games are now on Android. See for example Space Cadet: https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android/releases Once you get to enjoy a proper straightforward PC game on your phone, most every other ad-filled Android game feels insulting.
Also SuperTux! Great mario-like game that I played on linux before it was available on android.
Agreed, SuperTux is indeed great. Also Super Tux Kart is remarkably good, and fully FOSS and available for PC (Linux, Windows) and Android[1]
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#146What’s the over under on how many months from now this will get the axe?
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There might be a wealth of emulators on PC, but they've seemed pretty sketchy for the ones I've seen.
The purpose of this release, from Google's point of view, is to displace BlueStacks. For as long as I remember, BlueStacks would sell developers all sorts of ecosystem toxic services, like triggering the emulators to download Google Play games to boost download counts.
The automation in bulestack and sorts are pretty great for time saving and farming rewards in Android games. It helps to skip the grinding and let u play the interesting bit. Not sure if google supports that
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Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
Steam has thousands of good games and hundreds of excellent games. Android has, what, less than dozen good games?
I firmly believe they exist, Google Play is just designed to make everything nongarbage impossible to find.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
You know full well Steam's library is not at all comparable to what's available on mobile. There are thousands of quality games on Steam. How many mobile games are out there that are quality crafted experiences, and not just endless grinding to squeeze as much money as possible out of the user? I recall seeing a handful come out ~10 years ago, like The Room and Monument Valley. These days the best ones to come out ar…
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#150Oh boy, millions of ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC. Gotta get me one of those beta invites!
Or, you know, you could just pay a dollar or more for an ad free version or even get a Play Pass. Of course, if you enjoy playing ad-ridden, pay-to-win, copy-pasted virtual casinos, right from the convenience of my PC then it's totally on you.
Most games don’t give you that option because they make a lot more money on ads and loot boxes than a single payment.