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    April 01, 2022

    Android Gaming Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 04/01

    Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 04/01

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 06:00 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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    The only game i wish was avaible on android (zuma's revenge.)

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 05:18 AM PDT

    5 Quick Tl;Dr Android Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 212)

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 04:44 AM PDT

    Happy Friday, everyone! :) Here are my latest weekly tl;dr game recommendations based on the most interesting games I played and that were covered on MiniReview this week. Hope you'll enjoy it :)

    Support these posts (and YouTube content + development of MiniReview) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NimbleThor <3

    This episode includes a neat action RPG that used to be full of gacha but that has now become a premium game, a huge battle royale shooter, a 3D hack'n'slash action RPG, a unique story-driven card game, and a physics-based platform puzzler.

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

    New to these posts? Check out the first one from 211 weeks ago here.

    Let's get to the games:

    DragonSpear-EX [Game Size: 645 MB] ($4.99)

    Genre: RPG / Action / Side-scrolling - Online + Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by NimbleThor:

    DragonSpear-EX is an offline-playable 2D side-scrolling action RPG with fluid combat, online co-op raid bosses, and no energy systems, ads, or iAPs.

    The core gameplay is split into chapters of eight levels and a boss fight. During these levels, enemies storm us from all sides while we move around and use normal attacks to charge up mana for over-the-top skills that deal a ton of damage.

    Achieving S-rank in every level of a chapter lets us access its raid boss and fight it alone or with up to three other players. These co-op raids are great fun with friends, although I have a feeling we're matched with bots if no random players are around.

    Equipping and upgrading loot is a big part of the game, and unlike some mobile RPGs, our gear is visually shown on our character. Furthermore, bosses provide us with materials used to add set bonuses, and if we equip multiple set bonus pieces, we unlock huge benefits, such as stun resistance. As we level up, we also unlock skills that we can customize by fusing them with runes.

    The combat effects and animations are great, and the rock music perfectly fits the fast-paced gameplay. Unfortunately, the characters are overly sexualized, and although the touch controls are alright, there's no controller support.

    The storyline isn't exactly thrilling, and the English translation is so-so. Thankfully, the gameplay and nicely paced progression help make up for that. It takes only a few days to reach cap, after which it's a bit unclear what we're supposed to do, but with six fun characters that each have unique weapons and skills, there's quite a bit of replayability.

    In many ways, DragonSpear-EX feels like the type of game that would be full of gacha mechanics, and their absence is honestly refreshing. In fact, after paying the $4.99 premium price, there are no additional iAPs.

    Check it out on Google Play: Here

    Check it out on MiniReview:: Here

    circloO [Total Game Size: 50 MB] (Free)

    Genre: Puzzle / Physics-based / Platformer - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by AlexSem:

    CircloO is a relaxing physics-based puzzle platformer about a circle rolling around a circular world to collect other circles.

    Playing as a ball placed inside a hollow circle, we touch the left part of the screen to roll left, and the right part to roll right. Our goal is to collect rings placed in various hard-to-reach parts of the level by using the surroundings to our advantage.

    Each time we collect another ring, the world expands and grows wider to reveal additional parts of the level. The obstacles stay exactly where they are, however, forcing us to reuse the same objects within the new context, which demonstrates a clever game design.

    The key to winning a level in the shortest possible time is to skillfully utilize the physics to gain and reduce velocity, change rolling direction at the correct moments, and effectively use our momentum to reach seemingly inaccessible places. While some players may get stuck and frustrated, most of the game's 50 levels are built as casual gameplay experiences, which is emphasized by the minimalistic visual design and relaxing music playing in the background.

    CircloO monetizes by occasionally showing skippable ads between levels, which can be disabled via a one-time $1.99 iAP. Despite its simplicity and the small number of levels, it will easily appeal to anyone fond of relaxing yet challenging physics-based puzzles.

    Check it out on Google Play: Here

    Check it out on MiniReview:: Here

    Apex Legends Mobile [Game Size: 4.8 GB] (Free)

    Genre: Battle Royale / Shooter - Requires Online Access

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by Erich Zann: [REGIONAL RELEASE VERSION]

    Apex Legends Mobile is a fast-paced shooter heavily focused on its hero-based battle royale mode where legends fight for glory, fame, and fortune in a futuristic outland setting.

    Before entering any of the game modes, such as battle royale or team deathmatch, we must pick one of several legends to play as. Legends are unique characters with different skills that are each useful in certain situations, and we can slowly upgrade them by using them in action.

    During a battle royale match, the game has us play in squads of three, skydiving into maps to fight off 20 other squads in an attempt to be the last team standing. These matches typically take 20 minutes to finish. The other game modes, on the other hand, are typically much shorter, creating a great alternative for players looking for a quick experience.

    As a movement shooter, Apex Legends is fairly unrivaled on mobile, and its fast-paced, fluid, and oddly satisfying movement mechanics help create a great movement and combat flow. Meanwhile, the controls are extremely tight, responsive, highly customizable, and even innovative.

    The art-style is well-ported from PC, with colorful maps, accurate and detailed character animations and visual effects, and a sound design that complements the graphics decently well.

    Apex Legends Mobile monetizes through iAPs for cosmetics and a battle pass subscription that allows us to unlock legends faster. Legends do take a while to unlock for free, but they're all well-balanced and the game can easily be enjoyed as a free player.

    Although Apex Legends is very late to the battle royale race on mobile, its hectic gameplay, detailed art-style, and tight controls easily make it one of the best shooters we have on mobile.

    Check it out on Google Play: Here

    Check it out on MiniReview:: Here

    Vengeance RPG [Game Size: 921 MB] ($3.49)

    Genre: RPG / Action - Offline Playable

    Orientation: Landscape

    Required Attention: Full

    tl;dr review by AlexSem:

    Vengeance RPG is a 3D hack-and-slash action RPG. Heavily inspired by the famous Diablo series, it consists of exploring enemy-infested dungeons, fighting powerful monsters, collecting loot, and gaining experience to level up.

    The game offers dozens of hours of non-stop grinding with lots of distinct locations to visit, various regular monsters and bosses to slay, tons of equipment to wear, and an immense skill tree to master. As we progress, we can focus on one of three character-development paths to become a melee warrior, an archer, or a wizard wielding powerful spells, but these can also be combined and mixed with numerous equipment enchantments to perfectly fit any preferred play-style.

    We control our character using a left-side virtual joystick and execute various customizable actions with the buttons on the right. Meanwhile, loot is picked by the press of a single button, which is very convenient since there is a lot of it. Throughout our travels, we also gather ingredients used to craft potions that greatly help with survivability.

    Amid all the action, there is even some kind of story going on, but it never receives enough focus and is only there to guide us through the game. Unfortunately, all the levels are static instead of procedurally generated, which hurts the replayability a bit.

    Vengeance RPG is sold for $3.49, and, as opposed to the majority of similar mobile games, never bothers us with ads or any types of microtransactions. It's a very well-made game, especially considering that it's maintained by a single developer, and despite its insignificant flaws, it will definitely appeal to fans of the action RPG genre.

    Check it out on Google Play: Here

    Check it out on MiniReview:: Here

    Hyde and Seek [Game Size: 265 MB] (Free)

    Genre: Card / Story-Driven - Requires Online Access

    Orientation: Portrait

    Required Attention: Some

    tl;dr review by Pete McD:

    Hyde and Seek is a card game that mixes in some storytelling and board-game elements to create a unique experience. Set in London's Victorian era, our objective is to guide our character, Kate, on her journey from being Dr. Jeckell's lab assistant to being a wanted criminal on the run.

    Stages of the game alternate between passive levels where the humorous story unfolds, and actual gameplay levels. During these adventures, we also occasionally run into the mysterious and insane Mr. Hyde and several other colorful characters that help build and expand the story.

    Each stage is structured as a long path that we use cards to move across while trying to land on tiles with bonuses and avoid traps. If we pass a square with an enemy on it, we move into a combat mode where we use a different selection of cards to attack and defend.

    Hyde and Seek uses an energy system where each stage costs one ticket to play, including the stages where all we do is read the story. Our six tickets refresh every six hours unless we pay to instantly acquire more, and they don't provide a substantial amount of gameplay time. There are also forced ads and constant reminders that we can pay for more health and coins – not to mention that all cards outside of the small basic deck take a very long time to earn through gameplay unless they're unlocked via iAPs.

    The game itself is quite good. The balance of story and casual gameplay is definitely enjoyable, and having a decent story attached to a card game is unusual in a good way. However, the gameplay becomes repetitive after a while unless you start spending money on it and I personally did not find it gripping enough to invest in.

    Check it out on Google Play: Here

    Check it out on MiniReview:: Here

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    Special thanks to the Patreon Producers "Lost Vault", "FarmRPG", and "Mohaimen" who help make these posts possible through their Patreon support <3

    Outdated (replaced by MiniReview): Sheet of all games I've played so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing

    TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's games: https://youtu.be/HaSHeSsp0uY

    Episode 200 Episode 201 Episode 202 Episode 203 Episode 204 Episode 205 Episode 206 Episode 207 Episode 208 Episode 209 Episode 210 Episode 211

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    sparklite is now available on the google pass!

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 04:20 AM PDT

    Leaf

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 09:31 AM PDT

    Spent the past few months making a competitive word search game - let me know what you think!

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 07:00 AM PDT

    Honest Review: Gamesir X2 Type-C (My Worst Purchase in recent Memory)

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 02:57 AM PDT

    Angry Birds Classic (2012) is now back on Google Play as a paid title

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:42 AM PDT

    Are there Android exclusive games that would convince an iPhone owner to get an Android device?

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 04:35 PM PDT

    Hello there!

    I've started to play a lot of mobile games since I have a lot of commuting these days :D
    The other day I was thinking about how consoles like PlayStation or Xbox have exclusive games that are so good that would make a game enthusiast make a purchase. Is there something similar to this concept in the Android ecosystem?

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    [REQUEST] Very challenging puzzle game (without ads)

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 06:28 AM PDT

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    Request Criteria

    Single/Multiplayer: Singleplayer

    Genre: Puzzle

    Online/Offline: Offline

    Monetization/Cost: Free (or buy to play if it's worth it)

    Portrait/Landscape: Any

    Key Features: Very challenging

    Any additional info/details/similar games:

    Similar games that I've loved:

    Pudding Monsters - perfect, but I finished it (100%) after a few days.Slitherlink - perfect, but I've learned all the tricks after a few days and now I just play it on autopilot.

    It's important that the challenging part lies not in precision, but in logical thinking. So I'm not looking for something like Angry Birds or Cut the Rope.

    I have very little experience in mobile gaming, so there might be something famous that I've missed.

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    MergeGirls

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 06:17 AM PDT

    Saw yesterday an add about MergeGirls, in the german appstore its only for pre registering available, so i just downloaded the apk and have a few questions, about where to spent ressources, what chars are good or bad and so on, but i cant find any guide on the game anywhere. can anyone link me some sort of asian beginner guide so i can read through it with google translate? Pretty stuck on stage 6-20 and i dont have any clue if the units i am using are good at all or not, and if i should change some stuff out.

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    Review: MiniReview

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 04:40 AM PDT

    God Of War II PS2 on Xioami Pad 5 (Snapdragon 860)

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 02:04 AM PDT

    Help finding a game

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 10:02 PM PDT

    I have like an old memory of me , playing this like zombie game where it was like top down , and you have like 4 characters and you have to like move furniture around to barricade and help them survive against zombies

    The most distinct memory I have was like moving boxes and fridges against the walls and you could like place the characters in different location.

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    I've been looking for a game for a few years

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:29 PM PDT

    It was a kind of octopus or spider that lived inside the mind of a scientist (who was a dolphin by the way), your goal was to destroy (by eating his eyes) his "temore", the game had a 3D look. Does anyone know his name...

    I don't know if I made myself understood

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    KOTOR This app is blocked message trying to sign into Google Play Games. Any ideas?

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 03:58 AM PDT

    Looking for RPG with monsters, materials and item crafting

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:06 PM PDT

    I am trying to find anything thats close to a classic RPG experience, preferably:

    -Real time battles

    -Monsters like rats, wolfs, dragons - fantasy?

    -Looting items, farming, crafting

    -Open or semi open world

    -Something fairly new in the playstore

    I tried games like genshin, kings raid, idle wasteland, most mmorpgs.

    Just want to dive in, explore, kill some monsters, develop my character, farm some materials, gold and exp.

    Can be offline or online.

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    looking for the name of a game I played

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 08:39 PM PDT

    It was like brick breaker, but with a twist.

    There's heaps of games similar to it in the playstore, think like "bricks breaker glow".

    Instead of a paddle you are a miner, and you throw pickaxes. At the end of your turn all the pickaxes fall to the bottom and the blocks move down a row. You start with one pickaxe and collect more as you progress through the game.

    The blocks all have numbers in them that indicates how many times you need to hit them and it goes on infinitely until the blocks hit the bottom.

    Thank you for helping.

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    I created a little golf game

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 09:21 AM PDT

    Hi guys! I have created a little android casual game, I would be so glad if you can try it. It is free and it doesn't have any interstitial ads, only rewarded optional ads.

    Compete with others to reach the Top 1 on the World Leaderboard

    Thank you in advance.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aitordsgn.GolfInOne

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    The fact that Fortnite is still not providing 60/above fps for non Samsung phones is insane

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 07:01 PM PDT

    There are like couples of non Samsung phones that has either high end chips such as Snapdragon 800 series and Dimensity 1200 to 9000 that supports 60 to 144hz screen refresh rate.

    The huge problem with fortnite is that none of this phone are getting 60 or above fps support. Your only option is either 25 or 30 fps.

    It's horribly looking bleak and choppy when playing something in 30 fps on a 120/144hz screen.

    Epic Games should've restrict this option to Samsung phones only (They got certain One+ phones to run above 60fps).

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    BattleMechs on Android. Earn Gemz while playing the game

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 02:08 AM PDT

    BattleMechs on Android. Earn Gemz while playing the game. It is based on the Zilliqa blockchain r/Zilliqa

    BattleMechs is a revolutionary play-to-earn blockchain game bridging the gap between mobile gaming and crypto.

    🔩 Play-for-free, no deposit required
    🔩 Earn rare NFT loot and $GEMZ by mining

    Powered by Zilliqa and BLOX-SDK

    It's on Google play store currently, not available on iOS as of yet.

    If you use my code: memz you get free GEMZ in-game and so do i, here it is: https://battlemechs.co/referral?code=memz

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    Best matching / RPG game?

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:40 AM PDT

    I haven't played one in years and tried one out last night (Call of Antia) and had fun with it. However it's time gated and drives me nuts. So I was curious if there are any RPG / matching games that are similar, yet high quality that anyone can recommend? Free or paid

    Thanks!

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    A prime example of false advertising by mobile game devs.

    Posted: 30 Mar 2022 09:38 AM PDT

    I want to find a game!

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:20 PM PDT

    Hi, I'm looking for an older fishing game in which I had a kind of story with a guy who lost his father and had to complete some quests, psna when he finally found his hat on the sea, the game had a slightly retro theme .I can't remember the name, can you help me?

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    Jump.trade presents you an exclusive platform for authenticated digital cricket collectibles. Buy ultra-rare cricket NFTs at Jump.trade now!

    Posted: 01 Apr 2022 04:13 AM PDT

    Mobile ads...countdowns to countdown for the X???

    Posted: 31 Mar 2022 12:48 AM PDT

    What's up with new ads having 30 second timers for the ad, then a countdown for the privelage of seeing the arrow that gets you to the X, and then ANOTHER countdown after that for hitting the X? What the hell is this dystopia even? I can't remember when it got this bad but here we are.

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