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    Android Gaming BEWARE: Pokemon Masters is using predatory tactics. You may go for a small top up, but certain options require ONLY currency you have paid for.

    Android Gaming BEWARE: Pokemon Masters is using predatory tactics. You may go for a small top up, but certain options require ONLY currency you have paid for.


    BEWARE: Pokemon Masters is using predatory tactics. You may go for a small top up, but certain options require ONLY currency you have paid for.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 07:42 AM PDT

    So I finally finished Grand Theft Auto III. Took me 2 weeks.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 07:25 PM PDT

    Automaton, an Android programming game

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 11:53 AM PDT

    4 Quick Tl;Dr Android Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 117)

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:30 AM PDT

    Welcome back, my fellow mobile gamers. Excited to bring you 4 neat games this week in my weekly mobile game recommendation roundup. Enjoy :)

    This week, I cover a solitaire-like RPG game with roguelike gameplay elements, a fun strategy RPG with no auto-combat, energy systems or the like, a high-quality 2D platform shooter that reminded me of Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers, and a turn-based gacha RPG with a huge community of loyal fans.

    Disagree with my opinion? Let's have a friendly discussion below.

    New to these posts? Check out the first one from 117 weeks ago here.

    The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

    Let's get to this week's 4 games:

    Solitairica [Game Size: 259 MB] (free)

    Genre: Solitaire-like / Casual / RPG / Roguelike - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Portrait

    Required Attention: Little

    tl;dr review:

    Solitairica is a solitaire-like RPG card game with roguelike elements where we clear piles of face-up cards to defeat enemies and use spell cards to protect ourselves and strategize our next move.

    As we attempt to get through the game's many rounds of enemies without dying, we earn gold, which can be spent on buying items and spells that last until next time we die, and diamonds, which can be used to permanently upgrade our deck or buy new decks when we die.

    The game's casual and fun, yet hardcore and challenging, and the roguelike progression, procedurally generated enemies, and many spells and items cards that can be combined in various ways, keeps the game fresh.

    The game's free to try, with a $4 iAP unlocking the full game (more cards and decks).

    Google Play: Here

    YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here


    First Summoner [Game Size: 1.03 GB] (free)

    Genre: RPG / Strategy / Action - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Portrait

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review:

    First Summoner is a strategy RPG that plays a bit like a PvE-focused fantasy Clash Royale game where we control a main hero and deploy units as we run through level after level. Oh, and there's no auto-play, no energy system, and no "wait for lootboxes to unlock"-mechanic either.

    I enjoy the gameplay's focus on tactic rather than action and speed, which has us gather a perfect team of units with an appropriate average mana cost, and equip the proper items on our main hero before heading into PvE levels and PvP matches.

    The game looks great, the controls work well, and because of its focus on PvE, the in-app purchases that provide paying users to get a pay-to-progress-faster advantage don't impact the rest of us too much, as we're not forced to engage with other players.

    Google Play: Here

    YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here


    Bombastic Brothers [Total Game Size: 304 MB] (free)

    Genre: Action / Platformer / Shooter / 2D - Requires Online Access

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review:

    Bombastic Brothers is an awesome high-quality hero-based 2D platform shooter (Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers, anyone?) with no energy system (yay!).

    The core gameplay has us jump and shoot our way through a bunch of story campaign levels and daily missions to unlock new heroes and gear (and boring bot-controlled PvP matches), while upgrading our spaceship-base in-between levels to unlock new gameplay features and increase our max. hero level.

    As for monetization, we have to wait for our home base to upgrade, and being developed by My.com, there are of course a few pay/grind-walls throughout the game too. Despite this less-than-ideal monetization, I'm confident many will still enjoy the game for its fantastic run'n'gun gameplay.

    Google Play: Here

    YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here


    Epic Seven [Total Game Size: 2.04 GB] (free)

    Genre: RPG / Turn-based / Strategy / Gacha - Requires Online Access

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Little

    tl;dr review:

    Epic Seven is a Korean team-based (gacha) RPG with a huge Reddit community of loyal fans, over-the-top skill animations, and English-voiced cut-scenes that tell a decently interesting story.

    As with any gacha RPG, we setup a team of heroes and head into the game's many turn-based levels, where each hero has 3 different abilities they can use - or you can use the auto system and just let the game play itself...

    The game is of high quality and has interesting heroes, but there's a ton of in-app purchases going up to $100, which gives paying users a huge pay-to-progress-faster advantage, and since we're not told how much damage each of our heroes' skills deal, the combat feels more random than tactical.

    Google Play: Here

    YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here


    Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing

    TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 4 games: https://youtu.be/v4OCV0ALFVE


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    [DEV] Grey's War : Justification is Officially Relaunched on Android, to celebrate, 50% off Weekend sale (full game for $1.99 as opposed to $3.99)

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 09:52 PM PDT

    [DEV] Grey's War : Justification is Officially Relaunched on Android, to celebrate, 50% off Weekend sale (full game for $1.99 as opposed to $3.99)

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    Hi friends,
    First of all, a big thank you to this community. I wouldn't still be building games if it wasn't for your support, so I very much appreciate all of you.

    After a month of working on rebranding, improving, and polishing my content, I'm proud to announce that Grey's War : Justification is relaunched.

    Lite Version : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xksoftware.johnonfire

    Full Version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xksoftware.johnonfirefull

    https://reddit.com/link/cxrwby/video/tdg1wfufrpj31/player

    What does that mean?

    Grey's War : Justification was originally called John On Fire : A Man's Cat Taken. I rebranded the game for a few reasons.

    1) The assets originally used in John On Fire weren't unique (in the sense that I used a particular asset pack that was starting to get pretty popular in building the game, I started seeing quite a few games using similar characters)

    2) John On Fire was a little too similar to other IP that has recently come out with bigger budgets, I wanted to avoid the similar connotations to make sure my game looked and felt unique.

    3) I want to build this into a long term brand. The "John Grey" look and feel will match up better with my future ideas for the series and the character specifically. A sequel (which will be completely reinvented in terms of gameplay mechanics) is already in the works. Follow my discord for details : https://discord.gg/3w3uUR

    4) John On Fire, while it broke even financially, started performing pretty poorly on the play store (1-2 downloads per day). Rather than trailing off into oblivion, I wanted to reinvent the game to give it a fresh feel and hopefully a fighting chance of being rediscovered. I also wanted to take player feedback seriously, and one of the biggest complaints was the look and feel of the game.

    Overall I tried to keep all of the good, and improve on the weaknesses, while making the game feel a little more unique.

    What Changed?

    - All character models were updated to feel more unique

    - Shaders were completely overhauled to give the game a more toon look while retaining 3D details (think the GTA loading screen art style but through the whole gameplay experience)

    - Nearly fully destructible environments (just about everything can be shot and everything explodes now, essentially everything but the floor and walls in levels)
    - Updated feedback on weapons and hit feedback to make it more apparent where and when bullets land on target

    - Blood effects added when hit and when shooting

    - Enemy bodies remain on screen after being killed for a few seconds

    - Updated lighting and rendering techniques to give the game a more beautiful look
    - Added ability to disable higher definition rendered graphics for better performance on lower end devices
    - Updated combat animations on characters to feel smoother

    - Major UI updates and polish

    - Minor Bug fixes

    What's the same:

    - Deployed with the same package as John on Fire, meaning if you purchased the game (either through the full version or IAP in the lite version) you get all the updates for free as promised

    - The game still uses the same save system, so you won't lose progress or anything by updating

    - The full version, which was recently taken down in one of the play store automated purges, has been updated and is live again

    - The game is still a premium game, the lite version has limited access to the first few missions, the full version gives you everything the game offers. As always, no whales, no microtransactions, ever.

    - The story is mostly the same with slight dialog updates, but has a totally different look and feel.

    - The game still has full blue tooth controller support. There was also a bug fix where controllers weren't working in the survival mode for a specific menu interaction, that's been fixed.

    - The gameplay has been the same, I considered really refactoring everything and changing the game to be a third person shooter, but I would have been building a new game to do this, so I'm going to give that a try in the sequel (stay tuned :D).

    What's still to come?

    - Eventually, cloud save storage

    - Longer term, integration with a centralized XK Games Account (creating an XK Games account will allow you to get bonuses in future games, if you played current XK Games. For example, John Grey will be a playable character in the future game I'm building "Defenders of the Universe", if you bought Grey's War : Justification)

    - Experimenting with Android TV support

    - Contemplating porting to PC / MacOS / Steam / Itch.io

    - Potentially cross play functionality as well (nothing promised here, but still doing R&D on how this would work)

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    Best paid/free games for a long haul flight?

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 04:47 PM PDT

    Going to be on a plane for a long time. I wan to find a game that will keep me busy for hours. RPGs, indie and strategy

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    Foosball Arcade 3D World Tour, a simple Foosball arcade game.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 05:32 PM PDT

    Is there an easy way of seeing what games in the game store are currently on sale?

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 07:55 PM PDT

    Any other bilinguals noticed a sharp increase of bad and unavoidable app translations as of late?

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 05:07 PM PDT

    For a bit of context: I'm a native Spanish speaker and a fluent English speaker (currently working as an English teacher half-time). Since my grand-aunt lives alone I've been buying her the same phone as mine every time I've upgraded for the last decade or so, and keep it set to Spanish so I can have an easier time giving her tech support (it's often enough that I'd rather not change the language every time).

    By this point in my life I'm used to horrible translations. But way back when most apps were only available on English this wasn't even a problem. Then, at some point most apps started getting translated but would generally default to English and/or let you pick a language when first opening them.

    Now however, half of the time I'm either met with an unskippable tutorial I have to go through before being finally allowed to access the settings menu and be able to change away from the horrible translation, or a worse-than-Google-translated app that has no "change language" option whatsoever.

    At first I thought I could be smart and change my phone's language to English, uninstall all Google Play Store updates, re-update and then change back to Spanish. Unfortunately this only lasts until an automatic Play Store update brings me back to Spanish (instead of, y'know...Atleast asking).

    I'm starting to wonder if the quality of the average Play Store app has really dropped this much or I'm just picking really shitty apps. Anyone else been noticing this trend? It's so bloody annoying (and honestly, also insulting to a certain degree, you really can't find someone who will do a decent translation of your app to the 3rd/4th most spoken language in the world?) I've started giving bad reviews to all apps with shitty translations at this point, regardless of change language option and how good are the other features of the app.

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    Looking for a game like Hyper Heros

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 07:03 PM PDT

    I played a game a year or so ago that was a lot like hyper heroes but instead of full body models it had tokens that you launched around the arena representing your characters/party. Basically it was just their head and hands. Really want to give the game another try but I don't remember the name and my googlefu isnweak today.

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    Top 5 Android Games Worth A Play (August 2019)

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:45 PM PDT

    Stranger Things 3: The Game released

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 05:04 AM PDT

    Help,I need to find this game

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:18 PM PDT

    I'm looking for a game that can only be described as a mafia/gangster game with turn based fight.i also think it had the character set as card and I think there were 5 factions.please help me find this game.

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    Quick question.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:06 PM PDT

    Family got me a Samsung galaxy A20 as a surprise gift two weeks ago and after having it sit on my table since then cause I've had no idea what to do with it( my only cellphone before this one was a little flip phone for emergency calls) I decided to come here and ask if anyone with knowledge could tell me if it can play games like ES blades, Neverwinter nights EE or the upcoming black desert mobile? If it can't it's just going to be a glorified paper weight that can browse the internet when I'm at work or on long road trips.

    Thank you for your time.

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    [REQUEST] Games like Wilmot's Warehouse for Android.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 09:16 PM PDT

    I'm looking for games where you sort things. I just discovered Wilmot's Warehouse on switch and was disappointed it wasn't available on Android. It seems like the sort of concept that would work well on a phone.

    Happy to pay for the game. (In fact, paid games are preferred since they're more likely to be good.)

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    Curious question about Android gamers and Switch players

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT

    I've been subbed here for awhile and am pretty used to the cynicism about the state of mobile games around this sub - I feel it too. It's hard for me to consistently find mobile games I not only enjoy, but come back to regularly.

    I got a Nintendo Switch several weeks ago and am wondering how people in this sub feel they compare, or if they've checked them out at all? I ask this because I feel like so many of the requests I see in this sub ('What's a good game like this? Best games that aren't pay to win? Etc etc") that I'm coming to find can be answered with a Switch alternative.

    To me, the Switch is an incredible mobile gaming alternative, largely because it has this "Sleep Mode" where I can suspend the game in its current state and come back to it later. It's also a really helpful feature for me, as a busy guy and parent. I'll actually grab it on my way to the toilet sometimes and bust out a little 5 minutes of something.

    So my question, in short, is how do you feel the Switch matches your gaming needs and preferences, compared to mobile games?

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    OVERDOX - Last Player Standing MOBA

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 08:28 PM PDT

    Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 08/30

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:14 AM PDT

    This weekly thread is for discussing the games we are playing this week! List any games you are playing and include any extra information like what the game is about and why you are enjoying playing it.

    Make sure you provide a link to the Google Play Store page when suggesting games. Play Store Links Bot can be used to make this easier. To use the Play Store Links Bot simply put the following in your comment:

    linkme: nameOfGame, nameOfSecondGame, nameOfThirdGame. 

    Click here to see the previous weekly threads.

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    REQUEST What is my next game?

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 01:38 PM PDT

    I am looking for a game which has really good controls that can enhance my experience by not getting in the way of each other

    Can you find a game that has really nice visuals, like a sunset or some other shit

    Gotta have nice music so I don't get bored and put on my rock playlist and slightly ruin my entrancement

    Long quests that take a long time to complete and short quests around every other corner

    Game that doesn't force me to continue but explore freely

    Balanced game play

    Sorry for all this but I just can't find any games right now for my Android Phone. Budget unlimited but be reasonable cuz I'm not rich.

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    Anyway to change the color of the bar on the right? I'm using Nova and it's in dark mode, but this white bar is way too bright.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:03 AM PDT

    Help me find this game.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:58 AM PDT

    So back in the days I used to play a game with a bird and green pipes, and you needed to tap on the screen to make the bird fly. Anyone knows the name?

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    (Request) Games that don't make you feel lonely.

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 04:09 AM PDT

    I'm looking for games like that. By not feeling lonely I mean having AI Buddies or at least some form of ally that helps in anyway. I hate feeling alone in games, it just ruins it most of the times.

    An example of what I mean is the mercenary system or the way you can recruit someone in exiled kingdoms, or the way you can band a party or team in mystery of fortune.

    Of course I'm mainly looking for action games, but other genres can be fine. The games I'm REALLY looking for with the 'not lonely' type are horde shooters and or looter shooters. I absolutely go fucking nuts when I find a game like this, example of which is a non mobile game called Warframe (you can have a companion and summon specters, which is basically another companion)

    I prefer a free game, but if its paid as long as it's good I'll gladly pay for it. That's pretty much it. Anything will do, thanks!

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    Survival games in the portrait orientation

    Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:32 AM PDT

    Thank you very much in advance!

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