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Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by moritonal »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #16

The impossibility of finding good mobile games is why I develop desktop and console games. I have no idea how to get discovered in the soup of the mobile app stores and I don't want to build the kind of skinner's box it would take to compete alongside most of those games. There are great mobile games out there, but I have no idea to find them except by accident. It's so bad that something like 0.01% of mobile apps ma…

I looked up Sorcerry! and it says I can't play it because my phone is too new. This is absurd that the game is already considered out of date, and kind of highlights your point about the difficult market.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by moritonal »

BoppreH wrote: post #28

Netflix Games[1] have higher quality than usual and no ads, no in-app purchases, and no predatory tactics (in the games I tried). Bonus points for being all free if you already have a Netflix account. I can vouch for Poinpy[2], Laya's Horizon[3], Lucky Luna[4], and Skies of Chaos[5]. I haven't tried the mobile ports, but the desktop versions were very good: Into the Breach[6], World of Good[7], and Kentucky Route Zer…

Whilst true, you askari HAVE to have a Netflix account. You cannot just buy the game.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by yyyk »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #16

The impossibility of finding good mobile games is why I develop desktop and console games. I have no idea how to get discovered in the soup of the mobile app stores and I don't want to build the kind of skinner's box it would take to compete alongside most of those games. There are great mobile games out there, but I have no idea to find them except by accident. It's so bad that something like 0.01% of mobile apps ma…

I'd like 80 days except for one impossibly annoying thing (on desktop at least): It doesn't let me skip the overly long opening intro/credits/animation which plays on every game start.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by chomp »

redmerchant2 wrote: post #15

You’d have to pay money. Monetization heavily favors mictrotransactions and are built around the most abusive Skinner box concepts. The Asian market is well known to spend high rates on IAP letting terrible games earn 100s of millions. Subreddits like r/iosgaming should be a good starting point.

Agree with all of this except /r/iosgaming, have seen more than a few requests for quality games get drowned out with “there’s nothing wrong with mtx, just don’t buy it”

People get weirdly defensive when you mention that you don’t even want the option for mtx in the games you play.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by usbakimbo »

WASDx wrote: post #3

Emulators can be used to play old console games.

This is the correct answer honestly

There's a handful of games that are good on mobile - Bloons Tower Defense 6 comes to mind (does have micro transactions but they can be easily avoided to be honest)

But the fact that you can get Retro Arch and play any game from like the PS2 and older is amazing

If you get a controller like the Razer Kishi for example you can have a Switch-like experience

I've yet to try it, but I was gonna play Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask using my phone and Retro Arch

Should work well

Re: Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

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Post by lylejantzi3rd »

Jabrov wrote: post #20
emehex wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious: what monetization strategies do you find most inoffensive?

Paying for the game

How much? Mobile games aren't any less expensive to develop than desktop or console games, but I doubt you'd be willing to pay $50 for one.
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