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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?

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[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Solitaire. That's it.

[-] euAppleHater@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] psilotop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

When keeping it real goes wrong.....

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Chess, mostly

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago
[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Almonds@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week 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

[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
  • Blendoku (Color Puzzle)
  • Nonograms Katana (Pictograms puzzle)

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

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Breakout 71

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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 1 points 1 week ago

ISEPS and Balatro.

[-] Lorax@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

My son and I just started playing COD Mobile again. It’s fun to grind. It’s absolutely a cash grab, but we don’t get involved with that part of it. It’s really the only game that I play these days, as I’m not really a gamer.

He plays a few other games on his phone and Xbox.

[-] rothaine@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Eternal Card Game

[-] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] reef@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online

There are weekly trading threads

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Threes

Lyne

[-] psilotop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Honkai Star Rail. Typical gacha hero collector. The gameplay is fun, the story is engaging, and you don't have to spend any money if you don't want to. I like the option of a phone game during my commute or at night in bed.

[-] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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)

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

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

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