We are coming from here.

I’m not gonna lie, guys, neither say the opposite: there are people who play in their phones, I bet you do, so do I. I’m curious to know what do you play in your phones, what kind of “phone gamer” are you. Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others. All those are games that perfectly use the touch capabilities of its device, but now, we have more process capacity, and we still have one touch screen (I know, you can touch many points of the screen at the same time). I’ve always seen the screen of my phone as a one big button, so, I can’t play any game that needs more than one touch to be played. I do limit my catalogue of games to those mentioned above, and I really like them. I love sudoku.

What do you play in your phone?

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    I waste my time on a website I found years ago on r/beermoney that pays pennies for installing and playing shitty games. Most of them are the garbage match 3 or dominoes or whatever. I figured out most of them still pay out even with my ad blocker on so I just dissociate with that instead of doom scrolling sometimes.

    It’s not the greatest thing ever and I know it’s bad for privacy and capitalism and for many other reasons, but I’ve made like $600 on it in the last 3 years so that’s been cool.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Tons of stuff:

    I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

    I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

    I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

    highlights:

    Collapsus

    Endless Sky

    Pixel Dungeon

    Luanti

    Gladiabots

    Mindustry

    PartyHardGO

    OpenTTD

    Oxenfree

    Revoltaire

    The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

    Terraria

    Underhand

    Space Chem

    A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

    Stardew Valley

    Tic-80

    A pile of games from itch.io

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Nothing, and it’s not because I don’t play mobile games. I have a GrapheneOS phone that is so insulated from modern technology that it can barely run Uber/Lyft… so I keep games on my computers and tablets. Me having a bunch of gadgets (I have a Steam Deck and a dedicated tablet for mobile games) helps too

    And… speaking of this topic. I am slightly competitive on a mobile gacha game at the moment; almost no serious players for these “mobile game” play on phone because screen too small, so they end up using the PC clients anyway…

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 hours ago

    Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

    I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.

    Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there’s Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D

  • OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

    It’s a fun little time waster, I like that I don’t have any ads on it either

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I’m an old bastard and mostly play patience, sudoku, and cryptic crosswords on my phone. And maybe Bloons TD 6 to get the dailies if I’m away from home without my laptop.

    On console I play mostly single-player RPGs but I also play PUBG. Tried that on mobile (how my kids play it) but fuck that shit!

    Also, what the hell is going on with that cloud? Isn’t it cold? What’s for pudding? Why do policemen look so young these days? Everything was better when I was a youngster!

  • Evotech@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Nothing, mobile games are either boring or littered with ads or pay to win

    The screen is also way too small