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I’m 59 and on level 22,000-something in Candy Crush… (lemmy.world)
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[–] 145 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (59 children)

I’m a middle-aged woman with a phone full of premium games that feels like a steam deck.

I have never understood why people buy a thousand dollar phone and then balk at paying for quality games, and instead play ad-supported, manipulative, dark pattern trash.

Then again, I phone too hard. I have a controller attached to mine most of the time.

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  • [+] [S] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I’m on the road a lot, and often times away from home. Long rides on transit, long times in the back seat of a car heading to photo shoots, lots of downtime and a small purse. I do what I can.

    I’m glad that being at home with a computer works for you, but it doesn’t work for me.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Perhaps you're a good person to ask then!

    Besides the FF series on there, any games I can casually play (no controller) that you recommend? It can be complex, just not input heavy

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Also while we’re at it, The World Ends With You is built for touchscreens, and is one of the best RPGs in the world. It’s input-heavy, but it’s not trying to mimic a controller. TWEWY came out on the DS back in like ‘08 or so, and eventually got a Switch/ios/android remake that changes and enhances a lot of stuff.

    It’s also a kickass game that celebrates Shibuya’s culture, which is an incredibly refreshing setting even twenty years later.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    See this past comment and the whole thread. The topic of Android games is brought up repeatedly here.

    If you have a tablet, that's a whole another world: I've played OpenTTD and a port of ‘Master of Orion’ on mine. You can also run a whole bunch of DOS games with Magic Dosbox, or graphic adventures with ScummVM.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You've got an awesome collection! My time at Portia seems so cozy. What's it about?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Far past an apocalypse, some ruins are settled and the town of Portia is settled. It’s a bright and happy ideal sort of place that still exposes what it used to be back in the before times. But that’s all window dressing for a deep and involved resource collecting and crafting affair, with a bunch of slice of life shenanigans.

    I would put it right next to Stardew Valley in terms of expectations.

    oh god my english is shit when I’m tired, help

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I like you. You've got great taste in games! Also, is that second photo what the controller looks like folded up? If so, that's awesome! What's the name of that controller, if you don't mind my asking?

    Some other games in the same vein that I didn't see in your screenshots:

    Icewind Dale

    Knight of the Old Republic

    Titan Quest

    Hitman: Sniper

    Siralim Ultimate

    Streets of Rage 4

    Andor's Trail

    Caves of Lore

    And some that are in between a console and premium phone experience:

    Idle Fantasy (free)

    Dawncaster

    Indies Lies

    Rogue Adventure

    Doom & Destiny Advanced

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Put an extra newline between your entries. They appear as just one long sting.

    Some other games in the same vein that I didn't see in your screenshots:

    Icewind Dale

    Knight of the Old Republic

    Titan Quest

    Hitman: Sniper

    Siralim Ultimate

    Streets of Rage 4

    Andor's Trail

    Caves of Lore

    And some that are in between a console and premium phone experience:

    Idle Fantasy (free)

    Dawncaster

    Indies Lies

    Rogue Adventure

    Doom & Destiny Advanced

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Sweet selection.

    Try as I might. I could never get into hyper light drifter.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Hyper Light Drifter’s a tough one—I still haven’t finished it yet.

    are we still allowed to use em dashes? I use em dashes in English.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How do you manage to pull out the em dash? I'd have to go looking for it if I wanted to use one. I've memorized a few alt-codes but you can't even use them on keyboards without a numpad.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's really funny that I started to make a habit of using em-dashes right as LLMs started becoming an issue, and them being a sign of LLM generated content. I just bailed on them sadly, but I may try to make a habit of using them again. LLMs are now trained to avoid them and semicolons now I think, so they should be back to being available for humans to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    For those who want to replicate this please check out GameNative. It lets you play your Steam, GOG, EGS and Amazon game libraries on mobile for free :D

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Steam Link does it too! I just prefer to have my stuff locally installed. Never know when I’m going somewhere with no internet.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Based

    Have you got EXAPUNKS?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Cluj is great, that and the classic Sawayama are my most played. Fortune's Foundation is also incredibly satisfying to win, with how impossible it feels half the time

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I’m pretty good at Fortune’s Foundation. Just make moves that meaningfully improve the layout, and try to leave one column clear!

    Also sometimes I deal Sawayama with actual cards on a table cause I’m about that. I’ve got a little stone paper notebook and a deck of cards that rides in my purse, and I’ve handwritten my favorite solitaire games on it, in case I wanna play something tactile.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    ..., that feels like a steam deck

    Also has a steam deck :D

    What are you emulating?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    On my Steam Deck, generally things up to PS2, and on my phone, generally things up to PSP. I’m lately enamored with aftermarket NES games!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, I thought Shattered Pixel Dungeon WAS the fork with all the extra stuff. This is interesting

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    DeRanged Pixel Dungeon is another Shattered fork with some new characters, 5 more scifi themed levels, loads of new weapons and a bunch of cool alchemy weapon recipes. It's not anywhere near as vast as Magic Ling, but the extra characters and weapons are a lot of fun.

    Summoning PD is another fork that's pretty cool too, but I can only do it in small doses every so often as the constantly flickering minions you can summon to fight alongside you, get visually stressful for me quite quickly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, I don’t have any kind of side loading shenanigans available to me in iOS, and I only speak Japanese and English, but thanks for the recommendation!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's mostly all translated, i'd say like 90% at this point, and getting better with every (pretty regular) update.

    I've got an android so I didn't know it wasn't possible to download it on other phones, that really sucks. If you get a chance though, look it up -this game really is freaking amazing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    What can you say about CaravanSandWitch? I've seen it in epic for free recently and am unsure about it. (Yes it's free but I want to avoid claiming games just for the sake of adding them to the hoard.)

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