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Why are todays pc and mobile games so bad?
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Ah, I see you have never picked up a "1000 best games for Windows" CD.
There are a lot of low quality games to complain about. There are also a lot of high quality, new games to experience. 10 years from now, the low quality games will be forgotten, while the high quality games will be looked back on, fondly. Posts will be made comparing the "high effort, high quality games from 10 years ago" to the modern slop, and the cycle will repeat..
They still sell them in stores. I used to have seen so many crappy bundled games crammed into discs. A lot of them will just be carbon copies of one another.
It is like those listings online, of people selling 300 in 1 games for consoles and they're all NES or SNES that make you think you've got a deal. It just makes you feel dirty.
Fascinating. As much shit as I talk, I did discover a lot of good games via those discs. The Blades of Exile franchise, for example, really stands out as a series of underrated early windows RPGs.
Dont even have to be 10, tell me some good games today..
Hades 2, Silksong, and the FFTactics remake, all of which came out in the last like 3 weeks.
I'd genuinely call the first two 10/10s, and the only thing stopping me saying that about all three is FFTactics' commitment to staying true to the original, as they kept some features, qualities and even bugs moving forward that are jank in the modern era, but keep the game feeling more authentic.
Deltarune, Tears of the Kingdom, Silksong, Hades I and II, Satisfactory, Mario Odyssey, Project Zomboid, Repo, Slime Rancher 1 and 2 There's a fuck ton of awesome Minecraft mods that change the game. Pokemon fangames have been really awesome lately.
Ok if that is so tell me just 10 good quality mobile games today.
Balatro, Loop Hero, all three of the noteworthy Mihoyo games, Sword of Convallaria - I'm going to get flak for including gacha games, but these ones are surprisingly well designed and written games, despite predatory monetization practices - Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Vampire Survivors...
I think we're kidding ourselves if we ignore that Among Us was a genuinely good game, despite being notorious brainrot zoomer bait.
I'm not sure why we shifted the goal post to mobile games, but the point stands.
Edit: I had to come back because I remembered how much I enjoyed Monster Hunter Stories on mobile, and the mobile version is actually the most complete version.
I don't mobile game much, but balatro's mobile port is awesome