Thread for iOS games 2017-2023: shame, loathing and recommendations

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.

find someone who looks at you the way Nhex looks at MPQ

glad you escaped! :)

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"

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.

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!

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

Lowerlander update: once you get the ship that has long-range cannons, bombarding mobs from the sea is truly satisfying

This needs to happen

http://toucharcade.com/2017/06/21/darkest-dungeon-ios-release-chance-extremely-high/

― El Tomboto, Saturday, July 15, 2017 (one month ago)

It totally happened - I think yesterday actually

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.

would like a list of that backlog plz

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)

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:

• Sunless Sea
• Darkest Dungeon
• Galaxy of Pen and Paper
• Planescape: Torment (I never got to play this on a real computer!)
• Sorcery! 4
• Anno
• Lost Echo

• Incoboto (I slept on this forever)
• Sorcery! 3
• Love You to Bits
• ToF 2 (and then ToF 3)
• Human Resources Machine

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

Nabbed oldies but good rep'd Beat Sneak Bandit and Device 6 for $0.99

thanks for the list tom; will give many of those a try

If you like Rubik's cubes you might like my friend justin's game Shift'd.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shiftd/id1219537563

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.

What is freeways? Can’t find it on the App Store.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/through-the-ages/id966245474?mt=8

terrific game, exceptionally well adapted

Apple store removing the wishlist is literally “oh okay I guess you don’t want my money”

Think it’s a couple of years old but Citadel 1986 is enormous BBC Micro-esque fun

Oh shit the iOS Animal Crossing game is out

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.

I think this ruse is to get around the limit on size of app you can download on mobile data

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?

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.

Bridge Constructer Portal. Controls are kind of finicky, but interesting enough.

It’s from last year but I just started Iron Fish and it seems all right.

heavens to betsy I'm playing BLOCKY FARM

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

somehow i got back into clicker heroes, wtf is wrong with me

game idea: clicker heroes, but sometimes when you try to play it all your progress is reset

Life, Kid

uh, did Civ 6 just get released ON IPAD? dang.

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

I've only played the first one but never experienced this. Might be early days bugginess. But I don't really think of the game as something where you're loading a saved game. The content you unlock by playing seems more like a board game expansion than making progress, per se.

Yeah - that’s a better way of putting it. I’m not trying to “beat” it so much as just see everything that can be unlocked. But I keep getting forced to start back at the beginning with nothing unlocked, like a punishing roguelike.

I should probably just wait iOS gets another dozen updates and try again. One terrible night, about a month ago, I updated both my MacBook and iPhone to the latest OS, and ever since then everything has been awful.

i have been playing the digitized version of the card game 'sentinels of the multiverse', playing all of the hero decks myself, and i must say it is an alarmingly well-constructed skinner box

new michael brough rogue-like cinco paus in the app store. haven’t played it yet but imbroglio, 868-HACK and corrypt were flawless masterpieces so it’s an instant buy.

pic.twitter.com/tXKlQR0jkd

— Michael Brough (@smestorp) September 16, 2017

I’m digging that this game is purposefully in Portuguese, no English! Better than some fake language because I can make out some words, just not enough. This is how I imagine learning magic, tantalizing but beyond my immediate comprehension.

— Douglas Wilson (@doougle) December 25, 2017

Sproggiwood is sorta old by now but it’s been worth every penny so far

i am purchasing cinco paus right now, will report back later. but i'm sure it's great. i really loved both 864-HACK and Imbroglio

It's annoying the shit out of me right now but hopefully I'll get through it

age of rivals

cinco paus is annoying but more-ish. they let thing is to get through as many cycles as possible imo. i like the mystery.

find out what the paus do in the first zone. aim to get extras in tu second maybe third depending on health. race through four and five.

i’m shit at it and don’t fully understand the powers. fully understand at all.

I loved Imbroglio - would you go for Cinco Paus next, or is it 868 HACK better?

I really like cinco paus (it’s actually a love/hate kind of thing but I keep playing it, so that’s something) but 864-HACK is my favorite of his games.

rusty lake paradise came out this month. it's a step down from RL roots, which was the most ambitious and best game in the series. but if you like surreality and easy puzzles it's good enough.

Yeah, I agree - there was a free game in between, Cube Escape: The Cave, so going back to a larger game has been nice for me.

age of rivals is v good. mordy, have you tried the ios through the ages?

on the subject of czech games digital ports, galaxy truckers is tons of fun. a great conversion would've been enough but they put together a v good campaign mode too. highly recommended

it's called Through the Ages? i haven't. i'll check it out.