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Best mobile games with 0 microtransactions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I do like having games on my phone, but it's always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though.

I've played a lot of games that you can "have fun being f2p" but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds.

So do you guys have any?

If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD

EDIT: Oh selling like expansions is probably fine if it's legit like a full other game. I'm on android

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[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 months ago

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is great, it's an open-source dungeon crawler. Neither adds, nor transactions, micro or otherwise. If you want to pay tho, there's a donation link for the dev team.

And if you still want too play GBA games, check check out the Lemuroid emulator, it's also open source and has no adds. Works for nintendoDS too.

You can find both of these on F-Droid. They're also be on Google Play, but since I've only tried the F-Droid version idk if the other has adds.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the dev team

The team is one guy. His name's Evan.

I also highly recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I've been playing it for years.

[-] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

There's also a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on mobile. Although the UI is quite clunky with the control and shift commands imported from PC. But the gameplay is more elaborate than Shattered Pixel Dungeon, I'd say.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Great game. Been playing it for years.

However, the mobile UI has some serious issues since it was more of a secondary thought. It's really easy to accidentally tap to move somewhere and ruin an entire run that you were really enjoying. There's no undo or any way of editing the save to help recover the run. I've stopped playing for months because I was just so discouraged after shit like that constantly happening. In fact, I've hit that point just now.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some stuff like that's definitely happened to me. My dumbest defeat was after drinking a potion of levitation to get past some disintegration traps, accidentally tapped he wrong part of the screen, thought I might still have enough fuel to make it to the chest and I'd use my spirit chain on the way back... But nope, I fell right on a trap and died. I had an ankh, but not a blessed one, so even tho I could make it back to that room's entrance I had no way to recover my bag.

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