Android Gaming Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 05/20 |
- Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 05/20
- My Game "Double IT!" is a small, sometimes a bit thinky puzzle game. It has no ads and is free :). Hope you'll love it.
- 5 Quick Tl;Dr Android Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 219)
- Let's be honest. Thoughts on Raid: Shadow Legends?
- Where can I find Gurk II?
- I got terraria based on the comments on my past posts, can someone help me
- My game "Tiny Robo Puzzles" Is now Available on Android! I made 4 small browser games and ported them to mobile. It's free and has no ads!
- [REQUEST] looking for chinese game i saw a girl playing in public and didnt have the courage to ask her the name of
- Silent Castle game crash
- Name for mobile adventure mystery game about a sentient robot who's creator gets killed
- Our hybrid puzzler Color Surge is coming soon to Google Play!
- would I be able to download it?
- My game Just Jumping Forever is available on Android.
- [REQUEST] Multiplayer with no Google Play Services
| Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 05/20 Posted: 20 May 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:
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| 5 Quick Tl;Dr Android Game Reviews / Recommendations (Episode 219) Posted: 20 May 2022 04:13 AM PDT Happy Friday morning, and welcome to episode 219 of my weekly mobile gaming recommendations based on the most interesting games I played and that were covered on MiniReview this week :) Support these posts (and YouTube content + development of MiniReview) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NimbleThor <3 This episode includes a neat souls-like 2D action platformer, a turn-based strategy roguelike, a high-quality stealth action game, a fun deck-builder gacha game, and an indie 3D action RPG. Disagree with my opinion? Let's have a friendly discussion below. New to these posts? Check out the first one from 219 weeks ago here. Let's get to the games:Watcher Chronicles [Game Size: 1.1 GB] (Free Trial)Genre: RPG / Platform / Souls-like / Action - Offline Orientation: Landscape Required Attention: Full tl;dr review by NimbleThor: Watcher Chronicles is a self-proclaimed 2D Soulslike action RPG with over 20 challenging bosses, a large open world, and even same-device local co-op multiplayer. Combat consists of using melee and ranged attacks to deal damage while avoiding incoming hits by blocking at just the right time or dashing to become invulnerable for a split second. Interestingly, we need stamina to both block and perform combo attacks, and although it replenishes in just a few seconds, this ensures we can't just mindlessly spam the attack button. This is especially true during the difficult boss fights, where planning and learning the enemy's attack pattern is everything. Oh, and you better be prepared to die. A lot. But thankfully, there are plenty of checkpoints throughout the game that we can teleport between, which ensures we don't have to run far every time we die. Killed enemies drop crystals that we use at town to buy or upgrade our equipment and customize our character through stat upgrades. And there are lots of fun weapon types to pick from, such as huge hammers, deadly spears, dual swords, and much more. The non-linear open world is full of monsters, chests, and secret areas to discover, which makes it a joy to explore. It almost has a slight Metroidvania feel to it, although new areas are unlocked by finding keys instead of acquiring abilities. The cartoony dark fantasy art-style is perfect for mobile and reminds me of the old Adventure Quest game. The music is great too, and the customizable touch controls are solid, although the game is best enjoyed with a Bluetooth controller. Watcher Chronicles is free to try for the first area, after which a $7.99 iAP unlocks the rest. The game is close to perfect for anyone looking for a challenging souls-like 2D combat experience. Check it out on Google Play: Here Check it out on MiniReview:: Here ENYO [Total Game Size: 108 MB] (Free Trial)Genre: Strategy / Roguelike / Indie - Offline Playable Orientation: Portrait Required Attention: Some tl;dr review by Erich Zann: ENYO is a turn-based roguelike strategy game where we attempt to get as far as possible into a dungeon full of enemies using only a hook and a shield. After every turn, all enemies on the 10x10 grid playing field get to move around or attempt to attack us. Our options consist of throwing our hook, performing a shield bash, or jumping between the tiles of the battlefield. The twist, however, is that we cannot directly damage the enemies. Instead, we're forced to use the environment to pull or push our opponents into spikes and lava pits. The enemies, on the other hand, all have unique abilities - and some of them can even directly damage us. This might seem unfair, but it pushes us to invent new strategies and utilize the fact that almost everything is interactable. For example, after throwing our shield, we can use our hook to retrieve it, or we can throw our hook at a wall to move closer to it. The gameplay is solid and fun, but its primary downside is that it never introduces new elements. Even when playing different game modes, the gameplay feels all too similar, which means it eventually grows repetitive. ENYO's simple art-style is inspired by old Greek vase paintings, which gives it an extremely stylish and memorable look. Unfortunately, it lacks variety and visual effects. On the bright side, the simple touch controls are straightforward, making the game perfect for mobile. ENYO monetizes through ads and a $1.99 iAP to unlock all game modes and removes the ads. Overall, its casual yet tactical gameplay makes it appealing for anyone interested in strategy games that can be played in short sessions. Check it out on Google Play: Here Check it out on MiniReview:: Here El Hijo [Game Size: 1.3 GB] ($9.99)Genre: Action / Stealth - Offline Playable Orientation: Landscape Required Attention: Some tl;dr review by AlexSem: El Hijo is a high-quality spaghetti western stealth action game with lots of interesting gameplay mechanics despite its slightly incomprehensible story. As a resident of an orphanage located within the walls of a large monastery, our goal is to make a witty escape so we can reunite with our distressed mother. To do so, we must travel across several different locations while avoiding being seen by the adults. This involves performing various interactions with the environment, such as sneaking in the shadows, ducking behind covers, hiding in jars and boxes, scaling ladders, operating switches, and so on. One of the great things about El Hijo is that there are so many interesting ways to sneak past the guards. We can carefully study their lines of sight and movement patterns to plan our escape, utilize various inventory items for timely distractions, or even run for it when things get messy. Each level even offers achievements for finishing without ever being noticed, or visiting all the optional places – both of which are tedious tasks to accomplish. The game is not very hard, and it constantly introduces new mechanics to keep us entertained, but certain levels require a lot of retries, which eventually becomes frustrating – especially due to the occasional lags. The touch controls aren't very responsive either, so the game is much better enjoyed with a controller. I also disliked the somewhat bleak environment designs and limited color palette, which, despite giving the game a unique visual style, blends everything together and makes it hard to discern the surroundings. El Hijo is a $9.99 premium game without ads or iAPs. If you enjoy console-quality titles and are particularly fond of stealth action games, of which there are very few on mobile, be sure not to miss this game. Check it out on Google Play: Here Check it out on MiniReview:: Here Jobmania - Eternal Dungeon [Game Size: 323 MB] (Free)Genre: Deck-building / RPG / Roguelike / Gacha - Offline Playable Orientation: Portrait Required Attention: Some tl;dr review by JBMessin: Jobmania - Eternal Dungeon is a neat mash-up of RPG, deck-building, gacha, and roguelite elements that perfectly blend to create a deep and exciting experience. The core gameplay has us delve into a dungeon with over a thousand floors that each contain different random events and enemies. We fight these enemies in turn-based fashion using our hero's ability and cards from a deck that is based on our job. And this is where it starts to get interesting, because we can bring three jobs into battle and strategically switch between them at any time to receive significant boosts and trigger their unique abilities. As we progress, we get to add new abilities to our deck, and with over 400 heroes, 200 jobs, and more than a thousand abilities, the complex deck-building and character development systems create a ton of depth. It takes a few runs to fully understand it all, but there are thankfully plenty of "?" tooltips to help us get introduced. The UI and art is bright and colorful, but the screen is often cluttered with info - especially during battles. While this makes the game a bit daunting at first, it eventually works out nicely as every piece of information is relevant for developing a proper tactic. Although I'm not a fan of gachas, I was drawn to Jobmania's unique fusion of genres I love - and once I got the hang of it, I started thoroughly enjoying it. Jobmania monetizes through a $4.99 iAP to remove the infrequent incentivized ads, and a range of the usual iAPs for currencies that allow us to craft new jobs and unlock and upgrade heroes faster. Thankfully, they are all unnecessary for casual play, which is how I think the game is best enjoyed. Check it out on Google Play: Here Check it out on MiniReview:: Here Naroth (Game Size: 82 MB] (Free)Genre: RPG / Adventure / Action / 3D - Offline Playable Orientation: Landscape Required Attention: Full tl;dr review by AlexSem: Naroth is a first-person 3D action-adventure RPG with an open world, offline play functionality, and about 15 hours of gameplay. Using a d-pad to move and a button to slash or shoot, the game has us explore the lands, talk to people around town, complete quests, kill monsters to gain experience, and increase our stats to gradually grow stronger. It's basically most of what you'd expect from the genre, but it unfortunately doesn't provide anything extraordinary. Having good weapons and equipment is essential for survival, and since high-level enemies can easily kill us in a single blow, we have to proceed with caution and make sure we're well-prepared before facing a new enemy. This limits how far and how soon we can explore the world, making it feel like we're guided along a predefined path despite there actually being a couple of non-linear options. Due to its edgy graphics and lack of details, the game's age is already starting to show. In addition, the open world is simply not large enough to contain all the events that take place in the game, which means a lot of the action ends up happening in underground dungeons that quickly become repetitive. The alchemy system implementation is also somewhat questionable. It is presented as a big deal in-game, but basically boils down to repeatedly gathering the same plants to brew healing potions that are much easier to just buy from NPCs. Naroth is completely free without ads or iAP. It's not the best 3D RPG ever made, but despite its downsides, its gameplay is decently captivating, and the game is worth checking out if you like first-person RPGs. Check it out on Google Play: Here Check it out on MiniReview:: Here NEW REVIEW APP: You can search and filter reviews and games I've played (and more) in my app MiniReview: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=minireview.best.android.games.reviews Special thanks to the Patreon Producers "marquisdan", "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/gsnUgdXZ2fk Episode 208 Episode 209 Episode 210 Episode 211 Episode 212 Episode 213 Episode 214 Episode 215 Episode 216 Episode 217 Episode 218 [link] [comments] | ||
| Let's be honest. Thoughts on Raid: Shadow Legends? Posted: 20 May 2022 02:40 AM PDT This post is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends, just kidding! And no I don't work for Plarium. Do you guys actually like the game or no? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2022 06:34 PM PDT I'm absolutely in love with Gurk III. It's the 8-bit retro RPG I've been looking for on Android for what feels like forever. I want more but it looks like Gurk II isn't available on the Play store anymore. What happens to these games? Are they just gone forever? How can I play Gurk II in 2022?? [link] [comments] | ||
| I got terraria based on the comments on my past posts, can someone help me Posted: 20 May 2022 06:58 AM PDT I recently posted about getting Minecraft or Terraria, I got Terraria because it seems much cooler. Can you tell me the basics of game and what should I play? Multiplayer, journey online? Its kind of confusing for me [link] [comments] | ||
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| Posted: 20 May 2022 05:05 PM PDT im looking for a chinese game. i dont believe the game reauires you to have an internet connection to play. it is a game where you have to hold your phone horizontally. it has a cartoon/pixel style. it appears to have different levels that you have to beat. as u are loading a level, a little television appears in the middle of your screen counting down: 3, 2, 1 then the level starts. the background is green and kinda looks like grass and there are brown tiles that appear that kinda look like dirt. the tiles could come together and make a word in all-caps like "FET" or they will create a unique pattern like two big squares with X's in the middle of them. it seems like you have to tap on little creatures that travel across the tiles. it reminds me of Bloons TD. as you play the level there are lots of flashing colors which im assuming are abiltiies that you use. as you are playing the level there is a brown bar at the top and multiple different color squares towards the bottom left. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2022 04:39 PM PDT Using a LG v60 and i can launch the game and start the match but right as it starts the game crashes. I am not super tech savy but does anyone have any ideas as to why its crashing? [link] [comments] | ||
| Name for mobile adventure mystery game about a sentient robot who's creator gets killed Posted: 20 May 2022 04:20 PM PDT | ||
| Our hybrid puzzler Color Surge is coming soon to Google Play! Posted: 20 May 2022 12:17 PM PDT | ||
| would I be able to download it? Posted: 20 May 2022 11:53 AM PDT Would I be able to download poppy playtime on a new Samsung tablet from 2019 or an android 10 tablet? [link] [comments] | ||
| My game Just Jumping Forever is available on Android. Posted: 20 May 2022 04:32 AM PDT
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| [REQUEST] Multiplayer with no Google Play Services Posted: 20 May 2022 07:32 AM PDT TL;DR : Looking for multiplayer preferably co-op games that doesn't need Google Play and Google Play Services Hi there, My brother is hospitalised for a few days and we like to spend some time playing multiplayer co-op games usually on PC. His smartphone is running a Chinese Android ROM thus can't use Google Play nor Google Play Services (I know there are some workarounds to get those running but it's not the subject of today's post so please give us games recommendations only, thank you) So we're looking for multiplayer games, preferably co-op that doesn't need Google Play Services or Google Play, I guess like Fortnite, we like shooters (FPS / TPS) puzzle games, story driven games and are open to suggestions if it meets technical criteria (no Google Play and Google Play Services) Thank you, have a good weekend. Edit : I can't visit him so no LAN only (same WiFi network) games please Please don't link external sources (APK download links) as it is against this sub's rules, just give the name or the Google Play link [link] [comments] |
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