not sure what ugh is doing there. some kind of phone typo.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
it's so hard to find anything good in the store apps (ios or android). all of the lists are freemium crap.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
pocket tactics used to be a reliably good source of info on strategy/rpg/puzzle/war games, written by like 3 dudes, but then they got bought out and became a terrible website
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
I suspect starting 868 with the expansion would be an exercise in frustration
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 13 July 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
This needs to happen
http://toucharcade.com/2017/06/21/darkest-dungeon-ios-release-chance-extremely-high/
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
might finally get around to playing it
on the leaderboards for the 868 hack expansion! i am just way more attuned to this than imbroglio i guess
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 16 July 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Also it looks like toucharcade is about to go out of business? So basically nowhere left doing independent reviews of App Store games as far as I know.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 16 July 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
I got Lowerlander yesterday. It's pretty fun so far. The save mechanism is kind of annoying in 2017 but it's no game breaker.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
I can actually see this causing me to blow a subway stop on my commute which no game has done for a good while (usually it's work email)
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
^^ loving this, it is totally making me late for meetings
― stet, Monday, 24 July 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
started playing at your suggestion tombo, really scratching that ultima itch
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 24 July 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
Fucking Flappy Dunk. I hate myself.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
Galaxy of Pen and Paper, the sequel to Knights of Pen and Paper, is out today for iOS (and steam and android) at $4.99. i haven't played it yet but the kotaku review says it's similar but better than the original, which i enjoyed. given the lack of good iOS games recently i'm inclined to give it a shot
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 July 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
another pen and paper game already? god dammit that's my beer money
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
(all the pen and paper games are worth it btw)
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 04:12 (six years ago) link
(they do get silly towards the end, not in a great way, but then what RPG doesn't)
Terraria for mobile might be getting a major update soon, praise moonlord
Target Timing for release of Mobile 1.3 remains a few months after Console, so you can expect this in the second half of 2017; hopefully sooner rather than later!
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 04:14 (six years ago) link
http://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/review-miracle-merchant/
Agree with this review, solid game.
― Jeff, Thursday, 10 August 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
Layton Brothers Mystery Room, which is like a terrible version of Phoenix Wright, and Layton's Mystery Journey, which is a lot more like the original.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
On the shame and loathing front: i feel like seriously, after 4-5 years, I've finally broken free of the psychological grip that Puzzle and Dragons and Marvel Puzzle Quest had on me. Basically barely want to even login daily any more. Feel like this is progress.
― Nhex, Friday, 11 August 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
find someone who looks at you the way Nhex looks at MPQ
glad you escaped! :)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 August 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
Tsuro is the free app of the week in the US app store and I highly recommend it. We just spent a couple of hours on it in a very device-heavy "family board game night"
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Sunday, 20 August 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
My daughter is now playing Tiny Tower! I had no idea they kept updating that thing. It's been 6 years! Last update was in January though so maybe they're finally done? There are like, so many new elevators, you guys.
I pulled Ticket To Earth back out and for some reason I feel way better at it than I was before.
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Sunday, 20 August 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
also lol, as soon as I blow away all the ep1 content it turns out Episode 2 is coming out this week as a free update. Hooray!
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
1. I thought I broke my save on Lowerlander but I emailed the dev and he fixed it for me - on a Saturday.
2. Ticket to Earth episode 2 is so far all my favorite stuff about the first one but might be too easy
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 August 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
Lowerlander update: once you get the ship that has long-range cannons, bombarding mobs from the sea is truly satisfying
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Saturday, July 15, 2017 (one month ago)
It totally happened - I think yesterday actually
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
I have a backlog of ipad games I need to work through now
and meanwhile, remember this post? aw man
iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)
I loaded up TT again on Tuesday because my wife and daughter twisted my arm since they started last weekend - I was starting from scratch but then when I went to enable cloud sync, the Nimblebit server goes HEY LOOK WHAT WE FOUND and here it is, all 194 floors, lightspeed elevator, and now a "historic landmark" sign on the roof.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
would like a list of that backlog plz
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
I bought darkest dungeon & sunless sea this week, adding to my ridic backlog (because I'm playing assassin's creed 3, so at least I'm in the right decade now)
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
I feel like this is almost everything but I'm sure I've forgotten one or two:
A. to give a real playthrough / get started on:
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
C. The ones I forgot
_* Broken Age (start)_* Death Road to Canada (DR2C) (get anywhere)_* Out There Omega (finish? Or see DR2C)_* Penny Arcade Adventures 3: The oh I should just fucking delete this _* Pixel Heroes (i can't really figure out why this one is so hard tbf)_* Terraria (waiting on a major update before i spend much more time on this)
There's other stuff too but it's all super casual like pocket planes, realm grinder, mini metro, and uh tiny goddamn towerrrrrrr
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 September 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
Nabbed oldies but good rep'd Beat Sneak Bandit and Device 6 for $0.99
― Nhex, Friday, 1 September 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
thanks for the list tom; will give many of those a try
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 1 September 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
If you like Rubik's cubes you might like my friend justin's game Shift'd.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shiftd/id1219537563
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Finished everything in Ticket to Earth. Good but game is half done since they are releasing it just an episode at the time. Like I got all these nitrium shards but there aren't enough of them in the game yet to refine to good stuff.
Lost all interest in Miracle Merchant since I became the best player in the world. So back to looking for something new. I don't care if it only leaves me with 10 games, if there was a no IAP filter in the App Store it would be so great.
― Jeff, Friday, 8 September 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
What is freeways? Can’t find it on the App Store.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/through-the-ages/id966245474?mt=8
terrific game, exceptionally well adapted
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 1 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Apple store removing the wishlist is literally “oh okay I guess you don’t want my money”
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
Think it’s a couple of years old but Citadel 1986 is enormous BBC Micro-esque fun
― stet, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Oh shit the iOS Animal Crossing game is out
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
iOS game pet peeve: when the game forces you to download a bunch of extra data after you’ve installed the game. Most recent example: Puzzle Fighter, which was a ~150 MB initial download, then needed to download an additional 100 MB update when I first launched it, and is now making me download a 330 MB update upon completing the tutorial.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 November 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
I think this ruse is to get around the limit on size of app you can download on mobile data
― stet, Friday, 24 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
kinda surprised that the only conversation about fire emblem heroes is KM's rage-delete due to the 700mb patch above... (which is totally granted!)
is nobody else playing this? it's lowkey replacing mpq in my brain after years of mpq dominance. it took me a few months to get really into it but it's safe to say i'm completely hooked now -- i've got ~30 gold heroes at level 40 (including all four of the brave heroes, who are badass), reinhardt, ryoma, some other good ones... version 2.0.0 just dropped with some all new story levels (which I slammed through in like an hour to get orbs for the new 8% gacha, earning me a 5* celica for my troubles). i love this game!
am i the only one?
― flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 08:58 (six years ago) link
Gave it a go but it just didn't grab me.
Hearthstone tends to be my goto mobile game though these days and tbf nothing else is going to match that level of polish.
― JimD, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
Bridge Constructer Portal. Controls are kind of finicky, but interesting enough.
― Jeff, Thursday, 21 December 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
It’s from last year but I just started Iron Fish and it seems all right.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 December 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
heavens to betsy I'm playing BLOCKY FARM
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
hahaha
i finally tried out Reigns (or at least the sequel, which just came out and is supposed to be pretty much the same as the first). it's decent fun, but every other time i open the app, it completely forgets that i've ever played before and puts me back at the very beginning. there's no option to manually save or load a saved game. sometimes, i open the app and it instantly remembers everything that i've done and i'm back in the game. and then other times, a few seconds after opening the app it offers me the option to load my saved game from some cloud, somewhere. so it's fun, sometimes, when it works. i fucking hate apple right now. using their products reminds me of being a windows user back in 2002
/iOS problems
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
yes. i mean cinco paus is just wonderful but i love imbroglio as well.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
I 100%ed Hidden Folks and now I’m sad
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
instead of developing speed run routes for hidden folks I just went on a little spree today and picked up the phoenix wright trilogy, black box, and soda dungeon 2.
is meteor fall any good?
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 19 September 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
Good Sudoku is good.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 20 September 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
I burned out on it after about a month, but yeah, it's good. I hate the mode that takes away all the improvements though (Classic?) but the others worked nicely
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Yeah I accidentally played a classic one today and I messed it up good
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 20 September 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Cosmic Express is a great little one-screen logic puzzle game. I even like the background music, which is usually the first thing I turn off.
― wasdnous (abanana), Monday, 21 September 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Any decent graphic adventure/visual novel/point & click games on phones recently? Feels like the high point was The Room and its sequels, and now developers are making gacha games instead.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 29 March 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
The Cube Escape games are great but probably not recent
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
i'm near the end of kentucky route zero, which is unfortunately not for iOS, i don't think. but maybe this will help?
https://www.50gameslike.com/games-like/kentucky-route-zero/ios
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
is it my imagination or is apple shifting any game that looks good or interesting at all to apple arcade
― na (NA), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
cupe escape / rusty lake games are great yes
I found the first chapter of KRZ too slow but that list has some games I've liked and others I've added to my wishlist.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Ooh The Silent Age is good! Syberia II is not.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
Luck Be A Landlord is my new favorite iOS game. Addictive.
― Jeff, Thursday, 28 December 2023 13:25 (three months ago) link