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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?

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Same, it's a nice little game to pickup!

[–] Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Seconded, can be quite hard to pick up at first, but developing strategies and learning is soooo rewarding

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Chess, mostly

[–] euAppleHater@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm like, "Hold up, how did, that's not even me
Like, I don't jerk off mobily"

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Solitaire. That's it.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] psilotop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When keeping it real goes wrong.....

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day 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!

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never really have more than one game at a time. Right now it's Pokemon TCG Pocket.

[–] reef@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online

There are weekly trading threads

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

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

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I play Stardew Valley sometimes, but it's not as fun as the pc version.

I've had Backpack Brawl for a while, and Balatro too. Most other games I don't play for longer than a month or so. I did play Super Snail for a long time because I liked my clubmates, but the bird update killed it for me lol

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Up until recently, I played Hearthstone every day for ten years. Some seasons were more fun than others, but ever since around November, I really haven't played it at all.

So, I downloaded Balatro around November. I really did not expect to get addicted to that game.

Right now, I'm kind of in between games, so I'm checking this list for ideas.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

The screen is also way too small

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 4 points 19 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

[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

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

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

Eternal Card Game

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Stuff made by Yiotro is pretty good
Also got some jigsaw game but for a high privacy rating there are no premade images so i end up puzzling memes out of my library (for checking app security ratings i suggest using exodus)

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

Basically just 2048. I have actually had a single 7x7 game going for literally months.

Right now, not much.

I used to play Stardew Valley on my phone until I got bored of it. I was fun while it lasted.

Into The Breach is also good (get a modded apk so you don't need a subscription)

Slay the Spire, still have no idea what strategies work.

That's pretty much it, everything else is not really fun.

Unciv is an Honorable mention, but after a few turns and it gets dragged on for over a day, it just gets boring and I have no interest in continuing.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

ISEPS and Balatro.

[–] Lorax@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Once human. By far the best phone game by such a long way

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Twenty and Balatro Sometimes Rummy or Blokus

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Solitaire and chess. Istg, I'm not a boomer. 24 here

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
  • Blendoku (Color Puzzle)
  • Nonograms Katana (Pictograms puzzle)

I can also recommend the Cube Escape series (point and click escape)

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago
  • Pinball Deluxe Reloaded: so good
  • lichess: so addicted
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have 378 hours on..

Calculator, Doom Scroll Edition

[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'll admit it, I play a lot of Gardenscapes and those Diner Dash games before that. But if you're looking for more of an action game feel, try Vampire Survivors. It's free and pretty well done for what it is. You just survive as long as you can as hordes of monsters come at you. You upgrade weapons as it gets harder and harder.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I've got mini metro, something called shapez that I've not played, functional ear trainer which I'm classifying as a game cause it kinda is, and NYT games which is the only one I play regularly.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Mostly Pikmin Bloom right now. I like how it keeps me active, gets me out of the house, highlights public art in my city... and the pikmin are cute, of course. I appreciate that, while there are microtransactions, you can earn the coins easily through gameplay.

But previous favorites included:

  • Hoplite

  • Pixel Dungeon

  • Chrono Trigger mobile port

  • Battle for Polytopia

  • Merchant RPG

  • micRogue

[–] karasu_sue@pf.korako.me 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went to the page, I watched a few videos, and I still have no idea what this game is. (Besides a boob physics engine)

[–] karasu_sue@pf.korako.me 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here's the global site, sorry I posted the Japanese one earlier
https://umamusume.com/

By the way, all of the characters in Umamusume are anthropomorphized versions of real racehorses.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago
[–] proti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I was playing Jedi Knight up to some time ago, now Eternal Darkness on the emulator (both with a cheap BT controller)

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

I uninstalled the only one I had because it skirted my ad skirting.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I haven't had games on my phone for closer to a decade.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Threes

Lyne

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Nothing for about the last two years - before that? All sorts of different things. But finally realized pretty much every game was either just trying to get me to cough up more money, was a subpar experience because of interface/hardware limitations, and/or weren't actually fun beyond giving me a brief distraction when I was bored.

If I get to the point where I want a mobile gaming option, I'll just get a Steam Deck. Honestly the less time I spend attached to my phone, the better.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When I ever play on my phone it's emulated stuff

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I played Star Wars heroes or how it’s called for some time. Otherwise I’ve played a fair bit of fps stuff on iPods in the past. I don’t know if anyone remembers modern combat 2 and the rainbow six shooter on iOS ~early 2010s. arguably mobile games were in a better state than now. I vividly remember a tintin game which released with the animated movie or the one before, which was really really good not just for a mobile game but in general. All those games eventually got taken from the App Store either because of licensing or a successors release. And zhey got replaced with gacha games one way or another in the long run. Nowadays I merely have some -„no internet pass time“-games like a skater game and stuff don’t really game a lot in general and if I do I play on pc. I looked back into some games but after you discover the game loop it’s just the same. Grind to get you to spend money and I don’t have the patience and I don’t see the fun in it.

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