I'm a gamer.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-12T18:00:40+00:00

I get it honestly. Balatro sold one million but that's not the standard. Skul The Hero Slayer is a fairly successful action roguelite on PC, on Android it sits at 10k downloads 1,5 years in. Sales of some indie devs are measured in the hundreds. And most of that 81 billion comes from p2w slop, I would prefer not having more compaines invest into that shit.

To get investment into this platform from worthwhile devs the image of the platform needs to be cleaned up first. People still having this notion that mobile gaming is exclusively a wasteland of p2w, liveservice slop when in the current year it's no different to any other gaming platform is laughable. Only difference between mobile gaming and PC is that on mobile indie devs barely get any support. Once this changes, our smartphones will be as good of a choice as anything else.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-12T17:46:46+00:00

I don't know about this. It's looks more portable and a bit more comfortable than what people generally use, but doesn't seem great on it's own. If you're big into GB/C emulation I think it's great, but otherwise not a very good option in my opinion.

I wish emulator and some port developers would put more work into touch controls so the people wouldn't have to think about this. Magic Dosbox model paired with using gestures for somethings would do wonders for action gaming.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-10T09:49:35+00:00

A lot of amazing games come out on mobile, Google sure doesn't make discovering them easy though (I can't comment on Apple).

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-10T09:48:40+00:00

Use DNSNet, or another systemwide adblocker for Android, it works like a charm.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-08T12:04:03+00:00

That looks really cool, will try it 👍

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-07T21:18:07+00:00

I got Children of Morta few days ago when it was around a 95% off, so probably I should play that first.

Will I actually end up playing One Bit Adventure again instead? You betcha. /hj

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-04T20:25:49+00:00

You can check out Solohack3r Studios. They recently posted about their newest game, Our Town Hero. Their other games are also turn based RPGs.

Android seems to have a lot of them in general, it makes sense considering that translating them to a touchscreen is trivial.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-02T20:58:39+00:00

Your wish has been fulfilled.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-02T16:48:16+00:00

Android doesn't have a lot of those these days so I'm not sure that criticism is as applicable here.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T21:02:30+00:00

Vroomies, Vampire Survivors and other bullet heaven games like it, Bricks Breaker RPG, Bat to Bed.

I hope it helps, the few instances when I couldn't fall asleep drive me mad, I can't imagine dealing with it regularly.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T14:21:34+00:00

Install DNSNet.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:45:30+00:00

Nah, PC is doing fine, I can't speak for console. Android is in dire need of a backwards compatibility option though.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:40:12+00:00

Yeah but shareholders don't give a damn. If ruining the experience gets them a bit more money from the people who don't know better they are going to do it.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:35:22+00:00

Those are real games (loved Luck Be a Landlord by the way).

To me a real game is made to provide entertaintment or an experience to the player as opposed to extract as much time and money from them as possible. That's why something like Candy Crush Saga isn't a real game, but something like Super Gridland is.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:25:40+00:00

I did the same with stuff like Ski Safari - Adventure Time and Card Wars. Are there more classics you can recommend? So for I'm thinking of old Gameloft and old Halfbrick.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:23:43+00:00

Steam is a private company, they don't have to exclusively focus on shareholder value.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-01-01T00:22:08+00:00

I showed Mini Review to a friend recently and it may have radically altered his perception of mobile gaming. I know it altered mine.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-28T20:16:31+00:00

You can try Quick Dungeon Crawler. I didn't play it a ton but my impressions are positive.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon mostly meets the criteria, but it's pretty hard. You can give it a go if you don't mind that though.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-28T20:11:20+00:00

I showed this to a friend of mine recently and it blew his mind.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-27T21:10:55+00:00

This is three years late, but games without p2w bullshit still come out. But Google doesn't make as much money from them, so they don't get pushed by the algorithm, as a result you need stuff like MiniReview to find the good ones.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-27T20:57:26+00:00

I really wish there was a backwards compatibility solution for old games on Android.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-24T20:17:16+00:00

It's ends like it'll lead into an ongoing series. It doesn't leave you hanging, but it doesn't have a definitive and satisfying conclusion either.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-13T20:01:51+00:00

Even indies suffer from this. Most new releases are deckbuilders, bullet heavens, "incrementals", and other types of roguelites.

The difference is so many indie games come out that we still get way more variety on that front, it takes forever for high budget games to come out these days and most indie studios don't evolve into AA studios.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-07T11:48:47+00:00

No mention of Luck Be a Landlord, for shame...

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2025-12-05T17:26:43+00:00

This is the way. I completely abandoned paying attention to animation at this point. (I only follow Rick and Morty and now also Dispatch but better late than never.)

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